The king of Castile and Aragon who ruled jointly with his wife Isabella; his marriage to Isabella I in 1469 marked the beginning of the modern state of Spain and their capture of Granada from the Moors in 1492 united Spain as one country; they instituted the Spanish Inquisition in 1478 and supported the expedition of Christopher Columbus in 1492 (1452-1516)
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Examples for "Ferdinand "
1 The succession of Ferdinand excited especial dismay and indignation in the Palatinate.
2 In court, Ferdinand was challenged over words he used with the gesture.
3 You leave the ground with a 2footTackle = red card, said Ferdinand .
4 The Prince of Peace was overthrown by a popular tumult; Ferdinand VII.
5 Cole or his representatives have yet to comment on Ferdinand 's latest tweet.
1 On the very eve of the day on which King Ferdinand II.
2 In 1810, our government laid a plan to liberate King Ferdinand VII.
3 And the tale tells how that afternoon Colombo stood before King Ferdinand .
4 Yet much had already shown what King Ferdinand was about to do.
5 I saw- Isaw-Isawthat there was some wisdom in King Ferdinand !
1 Death of Ferdinand the Catholic ; Charles, his eldest grandson, succeeds to the throne of Spain.
2 Five years later, when dispossessed by Ferdinand the Catholic , he took refuge in France, where Louis XII.
3 The aged King of Spain, Ferdinand the Catholic , adopting the views of his able minister, Cardinal Ximenes, alone showed distrust and anxiety.
4 So that evil be done, they care not who does it; the arbitrary Charles, or the liberal William, Ferdinand the Catholic , or Frederic the Protestant.
5 They take up the history of Aragon from its first rise after the Arabic conquest, and continue it to the death of Ferdinand the Catholic .
1 We have in our time Ferdinand of Aragon , the present King of Spain.
2 The best part of Navarre had been long since appropriated by Ferdinand of Aragon .
3 This king and queen were King Ferdinand of Aragon , and Queen Isabella of Castile.
4 Of Webster's despots, the finest in conception and the firmest in execution is Ferdinand of Aragon .
5 Similar to this, in our own days, was the conspiracy of Coppola against King Ferdinand of Aragon .
6 John de Medici was a Cardinal at fifteen, and, according to Guicciardini, baffled with his statecraft Ferdinand of Aragon himself.
7 Both her childhood and that of Ferdinand of Aragon , a year her junior, were passed amidst tumultuous scenes of civil war.
8 The investiture of Naples was granted to Ferdinand of Aragon , and the fairest region in Europe bound Spain irrevocably to the Popes.
9 His mother was the Infanta Joanna, daughter and heiress of Ferdinand of Aragon and Naples and Isabella of Castile and the Indies.
10 In his youth he took part under Ferdinand of Aragon in the wars against the Moors (1485-1492).
11 Her father is refusing to go to war in France again, and Henry's fury and disappointment with Ferdinand of Aragon overflows onto Ferdinand's daughter.
12 While she lived she worked in complete accord with her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon ; her name stands high among the ablest of European sovereigns.
13 As a result he was himself assailed, his army put to the rout, and himself taken prisoner by the forces of Ferdinand of Aragon .
14 Katherine is no longer the daughter of the monarchs of Spain, she is the daughter of mere Ferdinand of Aragon -a very different prospect.
15 Ferdinand of Aragon , in our own time, has become the foremost king in Christendom.
16 Ferdinand of Aragon was dead, and Naples passed to the King of undivided Spain.
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