Isabella I Of Castile - History's GREATEST Queen?
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- Isabella I of Castile - History’s GREATEST Queen?
Throughout the centuries there were many amazing monarchs who did great things for their country, and some of the most remarkable Queens did huge things for their countries. For example during the Tudor Period, Elizabeth I defeated the Spanish Armada and in her England, Shakespeare was writing and there was a huge boom in culture. Elizabeth’s reign is also considered an age of exploration, but there were many other incredible Queens who ruled over their lands with defiance, popularity and decisiveness. But there was one Spanish Queen who managed along with her husband to unify Spain and rule over the country, something which was considered different in the country. Isabella I of Spain and Ferdinand II of Aragon are known for being the first monarchs referred to as the Queen and King of Spain, and with this Isabella I is often talked about as one of the greatest Queens in History, but what made her so great?
Fun Trivia: Queen Isabel I of Spain inspired the game of chess major change. If not for her, the "queen" piece remained the "vizier" with moves like the "king" minus the one step back move.
That is fascinating! I play chess, not well.
And I love Blessed Queen Isabella!
Es cierto y muy pocos lo saben
Take the question mark away, Answer, Yes, History's GREATEST Queen!!! There, see how easy that was!!!
A lot of ignorant people in the comments speaking about a history they clearly do not know or understand. Kind of sad to be honest.
She is indeed the greatest Queen ever. Thank you my Queen
Tell that to the Jews and Muslims she persecuted!
00:00:18 Elisabeth I of England did do things for her country? Like burning or prosecuting english catholics to assure her power over England
Why call her Isabel of Castillo, she was queen of CASTILLA.
This is the kind of magnanimity Isabella displayed, this about the Muslims in Spain after the reconquista ended.
The capitulation of 1492 contained sixty-seven articles among which were the following:
That both great and small should be perfectly secure in their persons, families and properties.
That they should be allowed to continue in their dwellings and residences, whether in the city, the suburbs or any other part of the country.
That their laws should be preserved as they were before, and that no none should judge them except by those same laws.
That their mosques and the religious endowments appertaining to them should remain as they were in the times of Islam.
That no Christian should enter the house of a Muslim or insult him in any way.
That no Christian or Jew holding public offices by the appointment of the late Sultan should be allowed to exercise his functions or rule over them.
That all Muslim captives taken during the siege of Granada, from whatever part of the country they might have come, but especially the nobles and chiefs mentioned in the agreement should be liberated.
That such Muslim captives as might have escaped from their Christians masters and taken refuge in Granada should not be surrendered, but the Sultan should be bound to pay the price of such captives to their owners.
That all those who might choose to cross over to Africa should be allowed to take their departure within a certain time and be conveyed thither in the king's ships, and without any pecuniary tax being imposed on them beyond the mere charge for passage, and
That after the expiration of that time no Muslim should be hindered from departing provided he paid, in addition to the price of his passage, the tithe of whatever property he might carry along with him.
That no one should be prosecuted and punished for the crime of another man.
That the Christians who had embraced Islam should not be compelled to relinquish it and adopt their former creed.
That any Muslim wishing to become a Christian should be allowed some days to consider the step he was about to take, after which he was to be questioned by both a Muslim and a Christian judge concerning his intended change and if, after that examination, he still refused to return to Islam, he should be permitted to follow his own inclination.
That no Muslim should be prosecuted for the death of a Christian slain during the siege and that no restitution of property taken during the war should be enforced.
That no Muslim should be subject to have Christian soldiers billeted upon him or be transported to provinces of this kingdom against his will.
That no increase should be made to the usual imposts but that on the contrary all oppressive taxes lately imposed should be immediately suppressed.
That no Christian should be allowed to peep over the wall or into the house of a Muslim or enter a mosque.
That any Muslim choosing to travel or reside among the Christians should be perfectly secure in his person and property.
That no badge or distinctive mark be put upon them, as was done with the Jews and Mudejares.
That no muezzin should be interrupted in the act of calling the people to prayer and no Muslim molested either in the performance of his daily devotions or in the observance of his fast or in any other religious ceremony, but if a Christian should be found laughing at them, he should be punished for it.
That the Muslims should be exempted from all taxation for a certain number of years.
That the Lord of Rome, the Pope, should be requested to give his assent to the above conditions, and sign the treaty himself. [This request by the Moorish side was not carried out.]
Thank you for sharing about her. She's one of the greatest queens the world has ever seen.
Muslim Europe, Mexico & Latin America? …
Count your blessings! … If not for Queen Isabel we - most of Europe, and definitely all the Americas - would be Muslim; decked out in burkas, hijabs, thawabs, and Sharia Law! ... And I'm Sephardic!
... After Jesus Christ, Isabel may be the MOST Consequential Figure in History. .. By expelling Muslims from Spain, and thus erasing Islam's key foothold in Europe - AND any future claim! - she saved Christian Europe from being swallowed up by Islam. Charles Martel of France repelled Muslim advance deep into Europe at Tours in 732, and Isabel in 1492 expelled the entire, and main, European Muslim civilization of consequence! One entrenched in Spain for nearly 700 years; with cities such as Granada & Sevilla as the largest and most advanced in Europe.
... Also, her successful Vision of Spain not just as a World Empire (with her Columbus Expeditions), but much more importantly as 'Defender of the Faith' - Ensured that ALL of Latin America (and the Philippines) became and remained Christian, and never Muslim; … This CREED also saved Europe from Islam by stopping the Ottoman Empire’s takeover of the Mediterranean with victory at the Naval Battle of Lepanto in 1571.
… Not bad for one resented by the MAJORITY of the Nobility, AND the Church (who forced her to cut her ties with her Jewish financiers and advisors), for usurping her brother Enrique’s plan for the throne - instead of becoming a nun! ... She did bow to the Church by instituting the Inquisition - a 'pack with the Devil' if you wish, to maintain her grip on power, but, more importantly, to save her dream of a Spanish Empire & 'Protector of the Faith' (imagine a Muslim Mexico!) .. (Great biography - 'Isabella: The Warrior Queen' by Kirstin Downey.)
One of my heroes!!!!
But the Greatest Queen: The Mother of God, Blessed Virgin Mary
No matter the morality of the Spanish Inquisition, Isabella is one of the greatest Queens whoever sat upon a throne. She was a trailblazer for redefining the capability of women in society of the time, proving they could have been much more than just wives and baby making machines. She was feared by many, respected by even more and undoubtedly still casts a long, ever reaching legacy upon history.
Wow! I listened to this channel's glorification of Gloriana where Thomas Seymore is raked over the coals, repeatedly as a pedophile and terrible person for a bit of slap and tickle 400 years ago that affects exactly nobody today, but Isabella is given a free pass for that little ol' Inqisition mess that brutally murdered and tortured more than 30 thousand innocent people, expelled hundreds of thousands more Jews while confiscating their property and condemned millions of native americans to hundreds of years cultural extinction, slavery, forced conversion, misery, shame, disease and death all in the name of Spain and Jesus.
She was a murderous power hungry tyrant whose disregard for the very Christian values she forced down the throats and up the various other orifices of "heathens, witches and heretics" still profoundly distorts the world down to this day. This is revisionist historyography of the worst possible kind. If Stalin had had a vagina should we disregard his little peccadillos with the gulags and purges and holodamor?
That's like saying no matter the morality of Nazism, Hitler was an excellent leader. Like tf
It is only called the Spanish Inquisition because that's where it ended, it started in France (irc) and took place over different parts of Europe.
@@viperswhip Xactly. In fact it could be called the Jewish Inquisition as they were it's primary targets originally.
@@hanz3470 Not really. The Spanish Inquisition accepted Jews and Muslims who converted. The Nazis predestined you for death if you had a drop of Jewish blood.
I wish queen Isabella live long enough to see her children have a family... especially when Catherine need her help ..
Fascinating informative and interesting video on the life and reign of Isabella I who was Queen of Spain 🇪🇸 she grew up in a dark and tumultuous time.
Not if you’re a Jew or a Muslim.
or mexican
Who gives a f***
@@BeanerMoney Nunca pusieron un pie en al actual territorio mexicano hasta 1519, Isabel murió en 1505. México solo empezó a existir hasta 1821 con su independencia.
Or the descendant of enslaved west Africans.
@@loisclark-johnston3337 Isabel never condoned slavery
She was such a formidable woman. Thank you for this wonderful video!
The mother of MISCEGENATION.
Elizabeth the First of England was not a great monarch.
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"Were it not better to forget, than to remember and regret." Author unknown
Yes. For many reasons.
She said : Spaniards , marry Indians !!
Battle of Olmedo was 1467, not 97. I do wish you had used the Spanish versions of the names of Juan II of Castile and Enrique IV, and his daughter Juana, named "La Beltraneja" because it is possible that her father was actually Beltran de la Cueva.
Isabel was the one who proposed ending the conflict with Enrique by recognizing him as king and having herself proclaimed as his heir over Juana, due to the questions about her legitimacy. The distressed and painful life of Enrique IV deserves attention in and of itself - he is a complex and often sympathetic character.
The death of Enrique prompted a characteristic boldness of action from Isabel: she had to act quickly so that forces didn't mount against her. She had herself crowned and included the sword of justice in the ceremony. Fernando was in Aragon at the time, and he returned furious at the repercussions to his own standing in Castile. It was because of this that a system of equality was drawn up between them, and their famous motto was composed: "Tanto Monta, Monta Tanto, Isabel como Fernando".
Afonso actually married Juana in 1475 and was fighting in her name to claim the crown. As he was one of Isabel's former suitors, there is an element of irony in this new conflict.
Pronounced "Ast-OOR-ee-ass", it is an area in the northwest of Spain; similar to calling the heir to the English throne the prince of Wales, in Spain, the Prince or Princess of Asturias is the heir apparent.
I wish you had mentioned her support of education and cultural growth in Spain, and her employment of scholars from Italy and elsewhere to educate her daughters in languages and other skills useful in politics; and that one of the people she employed was a woman, Beatriz Galindo, known as "La Latina".
Bravo! I’m glad that you spoke up about these interesting facts! They are important for all to know!
There was no "Tanto Monta, Monta Tanto, Isabel como Fernando" during their time. It was an invention of the Francoist Regime.
During their time, it "Tanto Monta" which roughly translates to "it amounts to the same [cutting as untying]". This was a reference to Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian knot when asked to untie it. And this motto applied solely to Ferdinand and had nothing to do with Isabella.
@@princepscivitatis4083It did have a lot to do with queen Isabel. In addition to the saying there is the yoke in his emblem, represented by the letter Y for both "yugo" (yoke) and Ysabel, the ancient spelling of her name. There are additional symbols in king Fernando's motto emblem but that's the gist
@@gf3011
The Yugo (Ferdinand's symbol that also compliments 'Y'sabel) and the Flechas (Ysabel's symbol that also compliments 'F'erdinand) is a different thing altogether.
I'm talking about Ferdinand's personal motto "Tanto Monta" which predates his marriage to Isabel itself and simply represents Alexander and the Gordian Knot. It also represents Ferdinand's machiavellian approach to politics which was basically "ends justify the means."
@@princepscivitatis4083 I'm sorry, that's not quite accurate. They did use the motto together as well, inscribed as "Tanto monta, monta tanto." Using it twice, meant that each was tantamount to the other (monta means to matter or amount, and tanto means as much). That their names were added later in popular refrain doesn't mean that they did not use it jointly. That Fernando may, according to Ridao, have borrowed it from Alexander, doesn't tell the whole story.
I thought Elton John was history's greatest Queen? Instead, it's Bella I of Castile. Who knew?
It's very cute - and vague - to say that colonized natives were treated justly and fairly, according to her standards; the real question might be, after getting all that gold and claiming all those resources, "Don't these things already belong to somebody?" Makes me chuckle every time...
The natives didn't give two shits about the gold. The guns, however, were more valuable.
In 100 years , Neolithic societies of cannibalism became christian societies of the Renaissance . Study the historical facts first and then chuckle.. also only in xvii century, 700 cities were built.. now you can see where the gold ended up.
when spanish colonized the Philippines many filipinos were killed and many women being raped.
They weren't!
I can't forgive her for driving the Moors out of Spain. Spain, as we know it (architecture), would not exist without the Moors.
The Moors were skilled in medicine and science ahead of their time. Much could have been learned from them but I would not have wanted Spain to be a Muslin country in this day and age.
@Shanti Andía "Spanish" architecture is absolute shite. The only thing that's eye catching when it comes to Spanish architecture is El Escorial. Even that is mostly Italian.
The lifeblood of Spain; tourists, come to bask in the glory of the moorish architecture in Andalusia. Nobody wants to look at sheepherder houses in Extremadura.
Spain is nothing without Moorish architecture.
@Shanti Andía //The Spanish architecture and the Italian architecture are just the same thing.//
Lol no. That's like saying enlightenment age British architecture and Greek architecture of antiquity are the same thing. Ones a classic, the other a cheap, subpar knockoff.
@Shanti Andía The Alhambra, the Alcazar--both quintessential Spanish architecture and Moorish.
@Shanti Andía That's my exact point--what most people think of as Spanish architecture is Moorish.
I love her and her daughter Katherine of Aragon ❤
Isabella: I’m going to establish the Spanish Inquisition.
Ferdinand: I didn’t expect that.
And so forth….
Great video. Sounds like grist for an interesting historical novel.
Nice, let's dispose of the whole auto da fe and expulsion of the Jews with a single sentnence. Yikes.
No one expects the Spanish Inquisition xxx
Who is better: Elizabeth I or Isabella of Castile ?
Isabella in my opinion, she was who she was and didn’t pretend otherwise.
Both.
Elizabeth. Had a really bad childhood, was made of sterner stuff. Was her own person.
@@dixiecyrus8136 Ironically, her bad childhood turned her into A effective ruler.
@@dixiecyrus8136 All true. I would say Isabel also had a difficult road. Among items that had to be left off of this video:
Her mother was mentally unbalanced and was a responsibility to Isabel.
Life at the court of Enrique was perilous; she was separated from her brother; at one point she was going to be forced into a marriage with Pedro Giron, brother of the powerful royal favorite Juan Pacheco. Isabel got on her knees praying for something to stop things; her friend Beatriz de Bobadilla offered to stab Giron. Miraculously, Giron died on his way to Isabel.
She was 16 when her brother Alfonso died suddenly (and possibly suspiciously) and had to start thinking like an experienced adult almost immediately after his death, hence the thoughtful solution to ending the civil war when she was approached to become the latest figurehead against Enrique.
Her only condition upon reconciliation with Enrique was not to be married against her will. Poor, weak Enrique was not able to withstand pressures from Juan Pacheco who wanted a Portuguese alliance. In order to marry Fernando, Isabel basically committed treason by escaping her residence and getting to Valladolid, where Fernando managed to arrive by means of stealth and with a forged dispensation, since the Pope refused one (they got a legal one later).
I would say both women were forged in fire and came through strong and determined.
She was a supporter of the Spanish Inquisition. My family was thrown out of Spain in 1492. May her name be eternally cursed.
amen 🙏🏻
K***
Not all the Jews left Spain, or my family wouldn't have been there
If you take away the religious fanaticism, she’s pretty badass
From today's point of view. I would say she was Authentically RELIGIOUS
Her accomplishments as Queen and the completion of the Reconquista is amazing; but we should not also forget what she did to the Moors, Jewish, and Native Americans. It's sad that they broke the Granada Treaty. They could have created a relatively tolerant society, but they chose to expell them instead.
The amount of ignorance and black legend this comment has is immeasurable lmao
What she did to those barbarian's is what made her worth remembering.
Actually the expulsion of the Moorish from Spain happened 117 years after 1492...
She didn’t do anything wrong to the Natives. They were recognized as subjects of Spain and was always against slavery.
That was not how the world fucking worked back then.
This women was a MONSTER......
A monster of a glorious queen
Better woman than you and the rest that think like you.
@@di3486 Amen!
Isabella I was a domestic tyrant, she’s the reason why her daughter Joan I suffered from mental illness because Joan was severely physically abused because Joan defied her injustices and corruption in the catholic faith she saw inflicted upon the people during the inquisition.
A very and powerful monster with her legacy and influence very much relevant today
It's boring this back and forth.
Would you consider it LESS boring if it were forth and back???
Most of what we know about Isabella was later invented by the Spanish Bourbons and the Francoist Regime, who primarily banked on Castilian nationalism. In reality most of Isabella's accomplishments must be rightfully credited to Ferdinand of Aragon. He was the king, according to Baltasar Gracian, "who dreamt up Spain and opened it to Europe".
From the 1484 agrarian reforms to sponsoring Columbus, it was all Ferdinand. For example, spaniards i.e. castilians incorrectly attribute the funding of Columbus to Isabella. The American even went a step too far and coughed up a theory about how Isabella pawned off her jeweleries to fund Columbus. In reality, of the 200,000 maravedis spent on Columbus' first voyage, 150,000 was put forward by a converso Jew called Luis de Santángel, who happened to be Ferdinand's personal accountant.
All in all, Isabella is highly overrated, not among academics but the gullible general public.
Woah you time traveled and all 😂
@@di3486 Wut?
I don't know where you got this from. King Fernando only ruled in his kingdom, Aragón. He absolutely had no say in the ruling of Queen Isabel's kingdom. She was the ruler of Castilla and León and he was only her consort. She even was coronated alone while he was away in his own kingdom, and he was against trusting Columbus but again, he had no say in what Castilla chose to do. Among other things
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I suggest you look up the 1475 Concord of Segovia and the accompanying addendum issued 28 April 1475 that not only recognizes Ferdinand as King of Castile & Leon as Ferdinand V of Castile but also gives him final say on Castile's military and foreign policy. He was NOT a king-consort by any measure.
As for Isabella's coronation, yes, she did coronate herself without Ferdinand present because he was fighting the French in Navarre at the time. But he came back to Castile just a month later and was given a formal royal entry into Segovia and invested as King (per the aforementioned document).
And as for Columbus...bro, the man who financed 50% of Columbus' voyage was a Valencian named Luis de Santangel; Ferdinand's personal accountant and head of the Santa Hermandad (quasi-Castilian Police Force). Ferdinand absolutely didn't oppose Columbus' voyage lol.
@@princepscivitatis4083 This is too much misinformation and factoids. I read a number of your comments and cannot understand where you got them from. Alas, it seems like bias. Have a good night, tío