Aragon

Isabella of Castile takes the crown, in more way than one….

Apr 22, 2022

anniversaries, travel

“Perkin”, Aragon, artificial insemination, Castile, Catherine of Aragon, Catherine of Lancaster, Catherine the Great, Christopher Columbus, Elizabeth I, Empress Elizabeth, exploration, expulsion of jews, Ferdinand of Aragon, Giles Tremlett, Isabel of Castile, John of Gaunt, Maria Theresa, Moors, Pedro I, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, usurpation, Victoria

This article lists the top five great European queens as Elizabeth I, Maria Theresa of Austria, the Empress Elizabeth, Catherine the Great and Queen Victoria. Ah, but that’s the top five after Isabella of Castile, who reigned from 1474 until she died in 1504. Isabella snatches this particular crown right under the other ladies’…
THE THREE HUNDRED YEARS WAR – Part 1: the Devil’s brood

Sep 16, 2020

anniversaries, battles, religion

Angevin Empire, Aquitaine, Aragon, Arthur of Brittany, Barons’ War, Berengaria, Brittany, Capetians, Cathars, Crusades, Edward I, Eleanor of Aquitaine, excommunication, France, Frederick VI, Gascony, Geoffrey Plantagenet, Henry I, Henry II, Henry III, Henry the Young King, Henry V, Holy Roman Empire, John, Louis VII, Magna Carta, Matilda, Napoleon, Norman conquest, Normandy, Phillip I, Phillip II, Plantagenets, Richard I, Stephen, Thomas Becket, Three Hundred Years’ War, Treaty of Bretigny, Treaty of Paris, Treaty of Troyes, William I, William II, William Marshall, William the Lion

Preface I conceived this article as a defence of King Henry V against the accusation that he was a war criminal. It became apparent, however, that my research was drawing me away from Henry’s campaigns towards a broader study of the origin and causes of the Hundred Years War. Soon, I was reading material going…
Richard III and Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar aka ‘El Cid’

May 13, 2018

battles, Science

Andalucia, Aragon, Berbers, Burgos, Charlton Heston, chivalry, El Cid, Ferdinand I, films, genealogy, Jimena, Moors, Ramiro I, Richard III, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, Sancho, Spain, Valencia

To continue my series of posts about Richard’s notable genealogical connections, my latest discovery is that he was directly descended from Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar – El Cid! This time the connection is through his mother’s line and you can see the tree below (in two parts) with red dots showing the direct line of…

Aragon

Isabella of Castile takes the crown, in more way than one….

THE THREE HUNDRED YEARS WAR – Part 1: the Devil’s brood

Richard III and Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar aka ‘El Cid’