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See also:FERDINAND V . of See also:Castile and See also:Leon, and II. of See also:Aragon (1452-1516), was the son of See also:John I. of Aragon by his second See also:marriage with See also:Joanna Henriquez, of the See also:family of the hereditary See also:grand admirals of Castile, and was See also:born at Sos in Aragon on the 16th of See also:March 1452. Under the name of "the See also:Catholic" and as the See also:husband of See also:Isabella, See also:queen of Castile, he played a See also:great See also:part in See also:Europe. His See also:share in establishing the royal authority in all parts of See also:Spain, in expelling the See also:Moors from See also:Granada, in the See also:conquest of See also:Navarre, in forwarding the voyages of See also:Columbus, and in contending with See also:France for the supremacy in See also:Italy, is dealt with elsewhere (see SPAIN: See also:History). In See also:personal See also:character he had none of the attractive qualities of his wife. It may fairly be said of him that he was purely a politician. His marriage in 1469 to his See also:cousin Isabella of Castile was dictated by the See also:desire to unite his own claims to the See also:crown, as the See also:head of the younger See also:branch of the same family, with hers, in See also:case See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry IV. should See also:die childless. When the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king died in 1474 he made an ungenerous See also:attempt to procure his own See also:proclamation as king without recognition of the rights of his wife. Isabella asserted her claims firmly, and at all times insisted on a See also:voice in the See also:government of Castile. But though Ferdinand had sought a selfish See also:political See also:advantage at his wife's expense, he was well aware of her ability and high character. Their married See also:life was dignified and harmonious; for Ferdinand had no See also:common vices, and their views in government were identical. The king cared for nothing but dominion and political See also:power. His character explains the most ungracious acts of his life, such as his See also:breach of his promises to Columbus, his distrust of Ximenez and of the Great See also:Captain. He had given wide privileges to Columbus on the supposition that the discoverer would reach powerful kingdoms. When islands inhabited by feeble savages were discovered, Ferdinand appreciated the See also:risk that they might become the seat of a power too strong to be controlled, and took See also:measures to avert the danger. He feared that Ximinez and the
Great Captain would become too See also:independent, and watched them in the See also:interest of the royal authority. Whether he ever boasted, as he is said to have boasted, that he had deceived See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XII. of France twelve times, is very doubtful; but it is certain that when Ferdinand made a treaty, or came to an understanding with any one, the See also:contract was generally found to contain implied meanings favourable to himself which the other contracting party had not expected. The worst of his character was prominently shown after the See also:death of Isabella in 1504. He endeavoured to See also:lay hands on the regency of Castile in the name of his insane daughter Joanna, and without regard to the claims of her husband See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip of See also:Habsburg. The hostility of the Castilian nobles, by whom he was disliked, baffled him for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but on Philip's See also:early death he reasserted his authority. His second marriage with Germaine of See also:Foix in 1505 was apparently contracted in the See also:hope that by securing an See also:heir male he might punish his Habsburg son-in-See also:law. Aragon did not recognize the right of See also:women to reign, and would have been detached together with See also:Catalonia, See also:Valencia and the See also:Italian states if he had had a son. This was the only occasion on which Ferdinand allowed See also:passion to obscure his political sense, and See also:lead him into acts which tended to undo his See also:work of See also:national unification. As king of Aragon he abstained from inroads on the liberties of his subjects which might have provoked See also:rebellion. A few acts of illegal violence are recorded of him—as whenheinvitedanotorious See also:demagogue of See also:Saragossa to visit him in the See also:palace, and caused the See also:man to be executed without See also:form of trial. Once when presiding over the Aragonese See also:cortes he found himself sitting in a thorough See also:draught and ordered the window to be shut, adding in a See also:lower voice, " If it is not against the fueros." But his See also:ill-will did not go beyond such sneers. He was too See also:intent on See also:building up a great See also:state to complicate his difficulties by See also:internal troubles. His arrangement of the See also:convention of Guadalupe, which ended the fierce Agrarian conflicts of Catalonia, was See also:wise and profitable to the See also:country, though it was probably dictated mainly by a wish to weaken the landowners by taking away their feudal rights. Ferdinand died at Madrigalejo in See also:Estremadura on the 23rd of See also:February 1516.
The lives of the See also:kings of this name before Ferdinand V. are contained in the See also:chronicles, and in the Anales de Aragon of Zurita, and the History of Spain by See also:Mariana. Both See also:deal at length with the life of Ferdinand V. See also:Prescott's History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, in any of its numerous See also:editions, gives a full life of him with copious references to authorities.
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