Isabella I of Castile
Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
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She unified Spain, bankrolled Columbus, and set the Inquisition loose. Isabella I turned Castile from a debt-ridden backwater into the engine of an empire that would dominate Europe for a century — and signed the decree expelling every Jew from Spanish soil.
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Born in 1451, Isabella married Ferdinand of Aragon in 1469, stitching two kingdoms into what would become Spain. She fought a succession war to secure Castile's throne, then set about dismantling the chaos her half-brother Henry IV had left: reorganized the government, crushed the crime rate, cleared the debt. With Ferdinand she finished the Reconquista in 1492, the same year she issued the Alhambra Decree ordering mass Jewish expulsion and funded a Genoese sailor named Columbus. The Spanish Inquisition followed. Pope Alexander VI named them the Catholic Monarchs; Spain became the pole around…
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