Charles of Valois
Charlotte of Albret
chastity, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 17.1
Chaytor, John Henry
chess, Isabella memorialized in
childbirth, 9.1, 11.1, 13.1, 18.1
court ritual of, 2.1, 7.1, 11.1
dangers of, 7.1, 7.2, 13.1
children:
gender bias toward, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 7.1
Jewish, Portuguese mistreatment of
as pawns, 3.1, 9.1, 11.1, 12.1, 13.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 18.5, 20.1, 20.2
royal role of, 18.1, 18.2
sexual abuse of, 3.1, 3.2, 19.1, aft.1
as slaves, 1.1, 1.2, 19.1, 19.2
threats to
as wives
China, 4.1, 17.1
Chinchilla, fortress of
Chintila, Visigoth king
Christianity, Christians:
Eastern-Western schism in, 1.1, 1.2
fanaticism in
forgiveness as value of
foundations and history of
global growth of, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 17.6, 21.1
Islam and
manual of rules and rituals for
Muslim attitudes toward
Nasrid threat to
as official religion of Spain
Ottoman threat to, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 19.5, 19.6, 22.1, 24.1, aft.1
persecution of, 1.1, 1.2, 11.1
religious intolerance of
as threat to Nasrids
in today’s world
in two periods of threat from Islam
Visigoths as
warriors for, 8.1, 11.1
see also Roman Catholic Church
“Christians of Israel,”
Chronicle of 754
Chronicle of Spain (Crónica; Diego de Valera), 1.1, 1.2
churches:
converso attack on
desecration and destruction of, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 12.1, 13.1
sanctuary of
temples converted to, 14.1, 14.2
church and state
Cifuentes, Count of
circumnavigation
Cisneros, Francisco Jiménez de, 16.1, 20.1, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Clarissa order
class system
Clement VII, Pope
Coín
College of Cardinals, 16.1, 16.2
Collins, Roger
Collioure
Colmenares, Diego de
colonization:
of Africa, 15.1, 15.2
onset in New World of, 15.1, 16.1, 17.1
Colonna, Prospero, 22.1, 22.2
Columbian Exchange
Columbus, Bartholomew
Columbus, Christopher (Cristóbal Colon), 11.1, 15.1, 18.1
affinity between Isabella and, 15.1, 15.2
ambition of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
appearance of
brutality of, 17.1, 17.2
celebrity of, 15.1, 17.1
declining reputation of
family of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
imprisonment of
limited education of
logbooks and journals of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
navigational skills of, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
old age and death of
paradoxical character of, 15.1, 17.1
poor administrative judgment of, 13.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5, 19.1, 21.1
poverty of, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3
religious devotion of, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
as self-seeking, 15.1, 15.2
voyages of, 21.1, aft.1
conflicts in, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1
crew in, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
expenses and funding for, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1
first, 15.1, 15.2, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1
follow-up
fourth, 15.1, 17.1, 24.1, aft.1
homeward-bound
honors and rewards of, 15.1, 15.2
Indians mistreated under
Isabella’s backing sought for, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Isabella’s support of, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2
land sighted in
legacy of
risks of, 15.1, 15.2
second, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2, 21.1
settlers left behind on, 15.1, 17.1, 17.2
ships of, 15.1, 15.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3
skepticism about, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
tensions between Isabella and, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
third, 15.1, 17.1
written accounts of
Columbus, Diego (Columbus’s brother)
Columbus, Diego (Columbus’s son), 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1, 17.2, 18.1, 24.1
Columbus, Ferdinand (Columbus’s son), 11.1, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 18.1, 21.1, 24.1
Commynes, Philippe de, 3.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 23.1
Comnenus, David
Comnenus, George and Anna
Concepcionistas (religious order), 2.1, 11.1, 18.1
Concordat of Segovia
confiscation, in Inquisition
Constance of Castile
Constantine, emperor of Rome
Constantine XI, Byzantine emperor, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1, 12.2
daughter and nephews of
Constantinople
Crusaders’ sacking of
fall to Turks of, 1.1, 2.1, 8.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 13.1, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 20.1
renamed Istanbul
as seat of eastern Christianity, 1.1, 1.2
conversions, 8.1, 12.1, 13.1
advantages of, 14.1, 20.1
feigned, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
forced, 1.1, 1.2, 12.1, 13.1, 13.2, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 16.1, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3
as goal of Isabella
of Muslims
punishment for, 13.1, 14.1
reversal of
conversos, 8.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 20.1, 21.1
allegedly insincere, 1.1, 3.1, 9.1, 12.1, 12.2, 14.1, 14.2
in Church hierarchy of, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
in Córdoba riots
Ferdinand’s connection to
Isabella’s dependence on
scholarly debate over
self-imposed isolation of
as targets of Inquisition, 14.1, 14.2, 24.1
tensions between Christians and, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3
in Toledo riots, 3.1, 4.1
Córdoba, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 7.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1
converso riots in, 9.1, 14.1
Inquisition in
Jewish cultural zenith in
mosque of
in Reconquest, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 18.1
Corfu
Coron
Cortes of Castile (administrative council), 2.1, 10.1, 14.1, 24.1
Cortés, Hernán, 17.1, 24.1, 24.2
Costa, Jorge da
Counter-Reformation
courtly love, 3.1, 3.2, 15.1
crime, criminals:
Isabella’s planned combat of, 10.1, 14.1, 19.1
in New World, 15.1, 21.1
as rampant in Spain, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 13.1
in Rome
Croatia, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Crónica, see Chronicle of Spain
Crotone
Crusades, 1.1, 1.2, 15.1, 19.1
Cuéllar
Cueva, Beltrán de la, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Cuneo, Michele de, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4, 17.5
Cyprus
Dalmatia, 19.1, 19.2
de la Chau, Monsieur
deli (madmen)
della Rovere, Francesco, see Sixtus IV, Pope
demons, 11.1, 15.1
denunciation, anonymous, 14.1, 14.2
De Puebla, Ambassador, 18.1, 19.1
Descola, Jean
des Prats, Francisco
devsirme system (child slavery), 19.1, 20.1
Diego de Deza
Diego de Lepe, 17.1, 17.2
Diego de Marchena
Diego de Valera, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 11.1, 14.1, 15.1
diptychs
divorces, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1
targeted by Inquisition
Djem (Mehmed’s son), 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 24.1
dogs
Dominican Republic
Dominicans, 2.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1, 14.1, 24.1
don, as term
dowries, 6.1, 16.1, 18.1, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 23.1, 24.1
Dracula, Count
Duarte (son of Jaoa I)
Duenas, 7.1, 24.1
dukes, dukedoms, 16.1, 18.1
Dürer, Albrecht, 11.1, 24.1
Earenfight, Theresa, 10.1, ack.1
“edict of grace,”
education:
for boys vs. girls
in Ferdinand and Isabella’s court, 11.1, 15.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 24.1
Isabella’s support of
Edward III, king of England
Edward IV, king of England, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 10.1
Edwards, John
effigies, 3.1, 14.1
Egypt
ancient
Ottoman threat to, 12.1, 24.1
Eleanor (daughter of Juana and Philip)
Eleanor, princess of Aragon
El Greco
Elizabeth of York
El Zagal, Abdalah, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
coup against
England, 18.1, 18.2, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1, 24.2
Columbus’s pitch to
and France, 3.1, 3.2, 19.1, 24.1
Jews in
in New World
in Reconquest
and Spain, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 14.1, 18.1, 18.2, 21.1, 24.1
Viking invasion of
Enrique IV, King of Castile and León “El Impotente,” 3.1, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 10.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 22.1, 23.1
and Alvaro
birth of
burial of, 9.1, 10.1
in Catalan rebellion
in civil war over succession, 3.1, 4.1
court intrigues under, 2.1, 2.2
death of, itr.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 15.1, 18.1, 24.1
debated impotence and infertility of, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 11.1
declining health of, 9.1, 9.2
as despondent and depressed, 9.1, 9.2
funeral for
as homosexual, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 10.1
incompetent leadership of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 3.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1, 13.2, 18.1
Isabella’s attempts at reconciliation with, 4.1, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 23.1
magnanimity of, 2.1, 2.2
as manipulated, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1
marriages of, 2.1, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2
menagerie of, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1
mercurial temperament of, 2.1, 9.1
and Pacheco, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1, 9.1, 10.1
paradoxical character of, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 9.1, 10.1
rebellion against and symbolic dethroning of, 3.1, 8.1, 14.1
throne assumed by
in vacillating relationship with Isabella, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 3.1, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 8.1, 8.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 9.4, 10.1, 12.1
Enriquez de Luna, Maria
Enríquez, Fadrique
Enriquez, Juana, see Juana, queen of Aragon
Enrìquez, Teresa “loca de sacramento,”
Epiphany
Eqypt:
ancient
Muslims in, 1.1, 19.1
Erasmus
Erechtheum
Escorial, El
Esposito, John
Estouteville, Guillaume d’
eunuchs, 1.1, 12.1, 19.1
execution, by burning, 13.1, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 14.5, 14.6, 14.7, 24.1
exploration, age of, 15.1, 17.1, 21.1
growing enthusiasm for, 15.1, 17.1
lull in
monetary goal of
Portugal and Spain as rivals in
religious goal of, 15.1, 16.1, 16.2, 17.1, 17.2, 17.3, 17.4
Extremadura, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 15.1, 17.1
Extreme Unction (last rites), 14.1, 23.1
Fadrique, king of Naples
famine
Farnese, Alessandro
Farnese, Giulia, 16.1, 16.2
fashion, opulent:
Christian modesty vs, 18.1, 18.2
equated with sin
in promoting noble image, itr.1, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 10.1, 10.2, 10.3, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 21.1
Fatima (wife of Abu al-Hasan Ali), 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
Federico, king of Naples
female sovereignty, 10.1, 10.2, 24.1
Ferdinand, duke of Cambria
Ferdinand, prince (son of Juana and Philip), 24.1, 24.2
Ferdinand I, king of Aragon
Ferdinand and Isabella, joint monarchy of, 8.1, 10.1, 16.1, 16.2, 19.1, 22.1
as bridging Middle Ages and Renaissance
as “the Catholic Kings,”
as celebrities
in Columbus’s voyages, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3, 15.4
compared to Holy Family
contributions of each in
domestic life in
Isabella as actual source of power in, 5.1, 9.1, 10.1, 10.2, 18.1, 24.1
in Italian campaign, 19.1, 19.2
lobbying for power in
Muslim oppression by
name order in, 10.1, 17.1, 24.1
Naples taken by
in Ottoman threat, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
in Reconquest, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5, 13.6, 13.7
as “the Reyes,”
roles in war of, 7.1, 10.1, 10.2, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 18.1, 22.1
terms of, 5.1, 10.1
Ferdinand of Antequera
Ferdinand of Aragon, itr.1, 6.1, 9.1, 9.2, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 19.1, 21.1, 22.1, 24.1
and Alexander VI (Rodrigo Borgia), 8.1, 22.1
appearance and personal style of, 2.1, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 24.1
birth of, 6.1, 6.2
character of
charm of, 7.1, 7.2
as compatible with Isabella, 7.1, 11.1
in conflict with Gonzalo, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
in conflict with Isabella over succession
in control of Naples, 16.1, 24.1
converso connection of, 14.1, 14.2
in corrupt sole sovereignty as regent of Castile
credit for New World given to
death and burial of
descendants of
domestic life of Isabella and
in exploration, 15.1, 17.1
financial hardships of
illegitimate children of, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 10.1, 11.1
injury of
Inquisition promoted and used by, 14.1, 14.2, 14.3, 14.4, 24.1
at Isabella’s death
after Isabella’s death
in Isabella’s will, 23.1, 24.1
as king of Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia, 11.1, 24.1
as king of Sicily, 4.1, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, 11.1, 19.1, 19.2, 24.1
kingship of Castile sought by, 7.1, 7.2
knife attack on
in marital crisis over Isabella’s coronation
marriage of Isabella and, 1.1, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 9.1, 10.1, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1, 13.1, 24.1
as marriage prospect for Isabella, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1
Mendoza family and
in military campaigns, 7.1, 9.1, 9.2, 11.1
as newlywed
oath of allegiance to
in power struggle for control of Castile, 24.1, 24.2
in Reconquest, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 13.4, 13.5
as religiously devout, 7.1, 16.1
remarriage of, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
remarriage prospects for
rift between Carrillo and, 7.1, 7.2
as self-seeking
sexual infidelity of, 7.1, 10.1, 11.1, 24.1
sexual prowess of
as successor to King Juan, 6.1, 6.2
symbol of
tensions within family of
threats to, 7.1, 7.2
Torquemada and
as unpopular, 24.1, 24.2
in war between France and Aragon
wedding of Isabella and, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 24.1
Ferdinand of Granada
Fernández-Armesto, Felipe
Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo “Great Captain,”
accolades for, 7.1, 24.1
in campaign against French, 19.1, 20.1, 22.1, 22.2
in campaign against Turks
Ferdinand’s conflict with, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
as friend and supporter of Isabella, 3.1, 9.1, 9.2, 24.1
in Isabella’s court, 7.1, 19.1, 24.1
in Italian campaign, 19.1, 19.2
old age and death of
in Reconquest, 13.1, 13.2
as viceroy of Naples, 19.1, 22.1, 22.2, 24.1, 24.2
Fernández-Morera, Dario
Fernandina Island, 15.1, 15.2
Fernando (son of João I)
Ferrandino (Ferdinand II), king of Naples, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3
Ferrante (Ferdinand I), king of Naples, 16.1, 19.1, 24.1
Fez, 2.1, 13.1, 14.1
Flanders, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4, 21.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3, 24.4
corrupt court of, 18.1, 18.2, 21.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
flechas (arrows), 7.1, 11.1
Florence, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1
Florida
Fodor, Pal
Fonseca, Antonio
Fonseca, Bishop
Fonseca, Juan de, 17.1, 17.2
Fonseca, Juan Rodriquez de
France, 8.1, 17.1, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 22.1, 23.1
Alexander IV and
Alfonso V in, 10.1, 10.2
Aragon’s war with, 7.1, 7.2, 9.1, 9.2, 9.3, 13.1
England and, 3.1, 3.2, 24.1
Flanders and, 18.1, 18.2, 18.3, 18.4
Italy and, 16.1, 19.1, 19.2, 19.3, 19.4, 22.1, 22.2
Jews in
in New World
Spain and, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 11.1, 11.2, 13.1, 16.1, 18.1, 19.1, 19.2, 22.1, 24.1, 24.2, 24.3
Viking invasion of
Francis of Assisi, Saint, 2.1, 8.1, 15.1
Franciscans, 2.1, 5.1, 10.1, 11.1, 23.1
Francisco de Toledo, 12.1, 12.2
Francis I, Pope
Franco, Francisco
Franco, Niccolò
Fuensalida, Gutierre Gomez de, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3, 24.1
Fusero, Clemente
Galicia, 1.1, 9.1, 10.1, 13.1, 13.2, 15.1
Galindo, Beatriz, 11.1, 18.1
Gama, Vasco da
Gandía
Garcilasso de la Vega, 22.1, 23.1, 24.1
Garden of Noblewomen (Martin de Córdoba),
Garignola, Battle of
gazâ (holy war)
Gazavat-I Hayreddin Pasa (Holy War of Hayredden Pasha; Barbarossa)
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