Ferdinand II of Aragon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ferdinand II of Aragon

King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1452

Place of Birth: Sos del Rey Católico, Aragon, Spain

Date of Death: 23-Jan-1516

Profession: ruler

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Ferdinand II of Aragon

  • Ferdinand II (Aragonese: Ferrando II; Catalan: Ferran II; Basque: Errando II; Spanish: Fernando II; 10 March 1452 – 23 January 1516), called the Catholic (Spanish: el Católico), was King of Aragon from 1479 until his death.
  • In 1469, he married Infanta Isabella, the future queen of Castile, which was regarded as the marital and political "cornerstone in the foundation of the Spanish monarchy".
  • As a consequence of the marriage, in 1474 he became de jure uxoris King of Castile as Ferdinand V, when Isabella held the crown of Castile, until her death in 1504.
  • At Isabella's death the crown of Castile passed to their daughter Joanna, by the terms of their prenuptial agreement and Isabella‘s last will and testament, and Ferdinand lost his monarchical status in Castile.
  • Joanna's husband Philip became de jure uxoris King of Castile, but died in 1506, and Joanna ruled in her own right.
  • In 1504, after a war with France, he became King of Naples as Ferdinand III, reuniting Naples with Sicily permanently and for the first time since 1458.
  • In 1506, as part of a treaty with a France, Ferdinand married Germaine of Foix of France, but Ferdinand's only son and child of that marriage died soon after birth.
  • (Had the child survived, the personal union of the crowns of Aragon and Castile would have ceased.) In 1508, Ferdinand was recognized as regent of Castile, following Joanna's alleged mental illness, until his own death in 1516.
  • In 1512, he became King of Navarre by conquest.
  • Ferdinand had a role in inaugurating the first European encounters in the future Americas, since he and Isabella sponsored the first voyage of Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), in 1492.
  • That year was the final victory in the war with Granada which defeated the last Muslim state in Iberia and all of Western Europe.
  • This brought to a close the centuries-long Christian reconquest of Iberia.
  • For that Christian victory, Pope Alexander VI, born in the Kingdom of Valencia, awarded the royal couple the title of Catholic Monarchs.
  • At Ferdinand's death Joanna's son, Ferdinand's grandson, Charles I, who was co-ruler in name over all the several Iberian kingdoms except for Portugal, succeeded him, making Charles the first King of Spain.
  • However, during the regency of Ferdinand, many called him the King of Spain as distinct from his daughter Joanna, "queen of Castile".

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