We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of Ferdinand the Catholic in English
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)
See moreSynonyms
Examples for "Ferdinand"
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
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.
Usage of Ferdinand the Catholic in English
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.
6
In 1508, Pope Julius II., Louis XII., Emperor Maximilian, and Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Spain, form together against the Venetians the League of Cambrai.
7
He declared that the king of France had forfeited his claim on Naples, and invested Ferdinand the Catholic with the solo dominion of his realm.
8
On the 11th of April, 1512, it is against Pope Julius II., Ferdinand the Catholic, and the Venetians that he gains the battle of Ravenna.
9
Ferdinand the Catholic succeeds to the throne in Aragon; union of Castile and Aragon.
10
Ferdinand the Catholic had at this time, probably, a larger artillery train than any other European power.
11
Ferdinand the Catholic, King of Aragon, who, by marrying Isabella of Castile and taking Granada from the Moors, united Spain under one crown.