It is a replica of Auberge de Castile, a noted architectural landmark in Valletta Harbour. |
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Because of its mildness, Castile soap became the soap of choice for babies and those with sensitive skin. |
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Our soaps are made using a traditional Castile soap formula from the 19th century. |
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The distinctive Basque culture was recognized by the rulers of Castile until the nineteenth century, when the Basques ' privileges were removed by the Spanish court. |
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During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain. |
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The traditional tax system of Castile, with its reliance upon sales taxes and a direct tax on the tithe proved ill suited for the natural resource based economy of New Spain. |
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In the teaching of European history, it is the marchlands of Empire, Castile, France, Prussia, that have often fought their way to greatness and fame. |
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Often based on pure Castile soap, natural shampoos are usually combined with high-quality herbs and plant oils that leave your hair and scalp healthier. |
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Castile was already engaged in a race of exploration with Portugal to reach the Far East by sea when Columbus made his bold proposal to Isabella. |
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Joanna of Castile and Philip immediately added to their titles the kingdoms of Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea. |
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Castile provided the Spanish crown with most of its revenues and its best troops. |
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Castile was a much larger kingdom than Aragon, and it was inherited by Catherine's mentally unstable elder sister, Joanna. |
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The resulting vast expansion of territory and the flows of South American silver to Castile had profound long term effects on Spain. |
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The Kingdom of Navarre had been invaded by Ferdinand of Aragon jointly with Castile in 1512, but he pledged a formal oath to respect the kingdom. |
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Castile was an authoritarian kingdom, where the monarch's own will easily overrode law and the Cortes. |
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Variant of the Royal Bend of Castile used by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor. |
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The French army in Spain advanced, advancing in Catalonia while taking Bilbao and Vitoria and marching toward Castile. |
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Ferdinand, on the other hand, crossed Castile in secret disguised as a servant. |
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Bethencourt took the title of King of the Canary Islands, as vassal to Henry III of Castile. |
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Fighting was inconclusive before Gaunt agreed a treaty with King Juan of Castile. |
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Henry's daughter Eleanor was married to Alfonso VIII of Castile in 1170, enlisting an additional ally in the south. |
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By his first wife Eleanor of Castile, Edward had at least fourteen children, perhaps as many as sixteen. |
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Isabella's death in 1504, and the ensuing problems of succession in Castile, complicated matters. |
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Mary descended from the Duke of Lancaster by all three of his wives, Blanche of Lancaster, Constance of Castile, and Katherine Swynford. |
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During the 15th century, Castile and Portugal became territorial and commercial rivals in the western Atlantic. |
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These men were used as a judicial police force for Castile, as well as to attempt to keep Castilian nobles in check. |
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After the death of Alfonso I, the Aragonese nobility that campaigned close him feared being overwhelmed by the influence of Castile. |
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Alfonso II assured Valencia by renouncing the Aragonese rights of annexing Murcia in exchange for securing the Aragonese frontier with Castile. |
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Some Catalans associated their ancient privileges with their Generalitat and resistance to Castile. |
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The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile. |
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Castile gained lands including most of the Americas, which in 1494 had little proven wealth. |
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The islands were owned by Castile and so this was not a usual watering stop for the Portuguese India naus, except in emergencies. |
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From 1502, Ferdinand and later Phillip II forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert or be expelled. |
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Roger's first marriage was in 1117 to Elvira, a daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile. |
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Christopher Columbus ended the Americas' isolation in 1492 while sailing under the flag of Castile, Spain. |
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Nonetheless, Denis of Portugal carried out a short war with Castile for possession of the towns of Serpa and Moura. |
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Fueros remained as city charters until the 18th century in Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia and until the 19th century in Castile and Navarre. |
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Meanwhile, Navarre lost all importance under King Sancho IV, for he lost Rioja to Sancho II of Castile, and nearly became the vassal of Aragon. |
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He went to war with the kingdom of Castile in 1295, relinquishing the villages of Serpa and Moura. |
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Afonso then became king, whereupon he exiled his rival to Castile, and stripped him of all the lands and fiefdoms bestowed by their father. |
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From Castile, Afonso Sanches orchestrated a series of attempts to usurp the crown. |
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Maria became Queen of Castile in 1328 upon her marriage to Alfonso XI, who soon became involved publicly with a mistress. |
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Afonso subsequently started a war against Castile, peace arriving four years later, through the intervention of the Infanta Maria herself. |
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In the following century, Castile and Portugal were the primary contenders. |
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When the campaigns in Africa were over, Afonso V found new grounds for battle in neighboring Castile. |
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Letters of complaint and pleas to intervene were exchanged between the Duke of Braganza and Queen Isabella I of Castile. |
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According to one theory, some navigations were kept secret for fear of competition by neighbouring Castile. |
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It was gradually conquered by the Crown of Castile and dissolved with the 1491 Treaty of Granada, ending the Granada War. |
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Skirmishes along the border of Granada occurred frequently and territory was gradually lost to Castile. |
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With the union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, these kingdoms set their sights on annexing Granada. |
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Castile used this internal strife as an opportunity to push further into Granada. |
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The forging of a dynastic link between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile marked the beginning of Barcelona's decline. |
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The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 united the two royal lines. |
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The decision on the future of the islands belonged to the pious Queen of Castile and the Pope, the ultimate arbitrator of the legal claims. |
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He was recognised as regent of Castile for his daughter and heir, Joanna, from 1508 until his own death. |
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Ferdinand annexed Navarre first to the Crown of Aragon, but later, under the pressure of Castilian noblemen, to the Crown of Castile. |
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Ferdinand II died on 23 January 1516 in Madrigalejo, Extremadura, Kingdom of Castile and Leon. |
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Consequently, after Ferdinand II's funeral on 14 March 1516, Charles I was proclaimed King of Castile and of Aragon jointly with his mother. |
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Her younger brother Alfonso of Castile was born two years later on 17 November 1453, lowering her position to third in line. |
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Charles was constantly at odds with his father, and because of this, he secretly entered into an alliance with Henry IV of Castile. |
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A civil war broke out in Castile over King Henry's inability to act as sovereign. |
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In Henry's eyes, this alliance would cement the friendship of Castile and France as well as remove Isabella from Castilian affairs. |
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When Isabella came to the throne in 1474, Castile was in a state of despair thanks to her brother Henry's reign. |
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While 1476 was not the first time that Castile had seen the Hermandad, it was however the first time that the police force was used by the crown. |
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To fix this problem, during the Cortes of 1476, a general Hermandad was established for Castile, Leon, and Asturias. |
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Traditionally, the main advisory body to the rulers of Castile was the Royal Council. |
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Because of this, this second type of councillor, usually of the nobility, was only allowed to attend the council of Castile as an observer. |
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Pizarro was named governor and captain of all conquests in Peru, or New Castile, as the Spanish now called the land. |
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In 1476 he accompanied Prince John in wars against Castile, including the Battle of Toro. |
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Under Spain, Luzon also came to be known as the Nueva Castilla or the New Castile. |
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The king of Spain had awarded the Governorate of New Toledo to Almagro and the Governorate of New Castile to Pizarro. |
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In 1542, the Spanish created the Viceroyalty of New Castile, that shortly after would be called Viceroyalty of Peru. |
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Throughout the colonial era, most of the Spanish nobility based in Lima were originally from Castile. |
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In April 1528, when Philip was eleven months old, he received the oath of allegiance as heir to the crown from the Cortes of Castile. |
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In 1500, Juana of Castile gave birth to Charles V, who became Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. |
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In 1063, Ferdinand I of Castile divided his realm among his sons, and the Kingdom of Galicia was granted to Garcia II of Galicia. |
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In the 13th century Alfonso X of Castile standardized the Castilian language and made it the language of court and government. |
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Meanwhile, Castile was ravaged by a plague that had arrived by ship from the north, losing half a million people. |
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By the end of Charles II's reign, most of Castile was in the hands of a select few landowners, the largest of which by far was the Church. |
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Valladolid provides a kind of backdrop to exemplify the argument, but the author cites as well material from Galicia, New Castile, and Catalonia. |
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The French Queen Dowager Blanche of Castile convinced Joan to marry Thomas II of Savoy instead. |
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The nobles of France offered him the Regency of the kingdom, vacated by the death of Queen Blanche of Castile. |
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Edward II was the fourth son of Edward I and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. |
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The Kingdom of Castile, formed from Leonese territory, was its successor as strongest kingdom. |
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Various regional styles of folk music abound in Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Castile, the Basque Country, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias. |
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In 1206 John departed for Poitou himself, but was forced to divert south to counter a threat to Gascony from Alfonso VIII of Castile. |
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To seal the treaty, a marriage between Blanche of Castile, John's niece, and Louis the Lion, Philip's son, was contracted. |
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In 1506, he became King of Castile, and hence the period of the Spanish Netherlands began. |
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Some records report that Filipa died sometime around 1485, while Columbus was away in Castile. |
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In 1492 the joint rulers conquered the Moorish kingdom of Granada, which had been providing Castile with African goods through tribute. |
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In October 1499, he sent two ships to Spain, asking the Cortes Generales of Castile to appoint a royal commissioner to help him govern. |
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This unified the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile into the kingdom of Spain. |
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The Black Prince, seeing that the king would not reimburse his expenses, left Castile. |
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After the Compromise of Caspe in 1412, Ferdinand left Castile to become King of Aragon. |
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The consequence was a dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 when Ferdinand ascended to the Aragonese throne. |
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It is estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 people were expelled from Castile. |
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When he left Castile in 1520, the Castilian War of the Communities broke out. |
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In fact, since the reign of Charles I the financial burden of the empire had fallen mainly on Castile, but under Philip II the cost quadrupled. |
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Isabella was named heir to the throne of Castile by her half brother Henry IV of Castile in the Treaty of the Bulls of Guisando. |
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Charles was born in 1500 as the eldest son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna of Castile in the Flemish city of Ghent, which was part of the Habsburg Netherlands. |
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In 1501, Gibraltar passed back to the Spanish Crown, and Isabella I of Castile issued a Royal Warrant granting Gibraltar the coat of arms that it still uses today. |
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For example, the Introduction notes that the Constitution limits the power of the king while making reference to the Fuero Juzgo and the laws of Aragon, Navarra, and Castile. |
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Charles was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right, and as a result he is sometimes referred to as the first King of Spain. |
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On 7 January 1325, Afonso's father died and he became king, whereupon he exiled his rival to Castile, and stripped him of all the lands and fiefdom given by their father. |
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After that, the Canaries were incorporated into the Kingdom of Castile. |
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Thus, after the celebration of Ferdinand II's obsequies on 14 March 1516, Charles was proclaimed king of the crowns of Castile and Aragon jointly with his mother. |
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After the conquest, King Henry IV of Castile assumed the additional title of King of Gibraltar, establishing it as part of the comarca of the Campo Llano de Gibraltar. |
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The Archbishop and Marquis made plans to have the Infanta Joanna marry her uncle, King Alfonso V of Portugal and invade Castile to claim the throne for themselves. |
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His father refused to go to war again against Castile, hoping his heir's infatuation would end, and tried to arrange another dynastic marriage for Pedro. |
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Philip treated Castile as the foundation of his empire, but the population of Castile was never great enough to provide the soldiers needed to support the Empire. |
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Soon after, in the late 15th century, in the dynastic conflict between Isabella I of Castile and Joanna La Beltraneja, part of the Galician aristocracy supported Joanna. |
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This action caused some consternation in Aragon and Castile. |
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Given the amount of new lands and the resulting influx of wealth, the Kingdom of Portugal and the united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon began to compete openly. |
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Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands, which belonged to Castile. |
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Relations between Portugal and Castile were poor at the time. |
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They obtained logistical support from Count Sancho Garcia of Castile. |
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King Ferdinand II of Aragon married Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1469, uniting the two largest kingdoms into what would later be the Spanish Crown. |
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Isabella I of Castile, considered a usurper by many Galician nobles, eradicated all armed resistance and definitively established the royal power of the Castilian monarchy. |
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Admiral of Castile was a post with a long and important history in Spain. |
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The reign of Henry IV had left the kingdom of Castile in great debt. |
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Before Columbus even reached Isabella I of Castile, John II had already sent a letter to them threatening to send a fleet to claim it for Portugal. |
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If Ferdinand died without male heir, as was probable, Afonso would be the heir not only to the throne of Portugal, but also to those of Castile and Aragon. |
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Ferdinand's death led to the ascension of young Charles to the throne as Charles I of Castile and Aragon, effectively founding the monarchy of Spain. |
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Henry wanted to ally Castile with Portugal or France rather than Aragon. |
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Granada's peace with Castile broke down on various occasions. |
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Also in 1492, the Christopher Columbus maritime expedition claimed the newly found lands in the Americas for the Crown of Castile and began the New World conquests. |
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In 1497 Castile conquered Melilla on the north coast of North Africa. |
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Many Castilians favoured the king's younger brother Ferdinand, who grew up in Castile, and in fact the Council of Castile opposed the idea of Charles as King of Castile. |
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Charles was conscious of the fact that he had options to become emperor and needed to impose his authority over Castile to gain access to its riches for his imperial goals. |
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The riches from the Americas came through Castile which was one of the more dynamic, rich, and advanced territories in Europe in the 16th century. |
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It was this assertion of power from England onto France and from Aquitaine onto Castile which marked the difference from earlier in the Angevin period. |
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Philip II continued the politics of Charles I, but unlike his father he made Castile the core of the Spanish Empire, centralising all administration in Madrid. |
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This was a new form of personal justice that Castile had not seen before. |
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Other examples of joint sovereignty include Tsars Peter I and Ivan V of Russia, and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and Joanna of Castile of the Crown of Castile. |
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His son Philip the Fair married Joanna the Mad, the heiress of Castile and Aragon, thus acquired Spain and its Italian, African, and New World appendages for the Habsburgs. |
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Manuel and Isabella's young son Miguel was for a period the heir apparent of Castile and Aragon, but his death in 1500 at the age of two years, ended these ambitions. |
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Her niece, Joanna of Castile, attempted to gain the throne by bringing in the foreign help of Afonso V of Portugal, leading to the War of Castilian Succession. |
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Palos took advantage of the War of the Castilian Succession, which became a war between Castile and Portugal, to challenge Portuguese domination of the Atlantic trade. |
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He managed to return to Castile before Portuguese officers captured him. |
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Throughout the harsh interior of Castile grain and wool production grew. |
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At that point both the Castile and the Crown of Aragon remained distinct territories, each keeping its own traditional institutions, parliaments and laws. |
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Spanish nationalism, on the other hand, tends to place more importance on the later dynastic union with the Crown of Castile, considering it the origin of one Spanish nation. |
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At the edge of the Abbey, one of the three standing Eleanor crosses still remains, in memory of Eleanor of Castile, whose body rested here on its way to London. |
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When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile and the various territories of the Crown of Aragon were united in a personal union. |
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Ferdinand attempted to retain the regency permanently, but was rebuffed by the Castilian nobility and replaced with Joanna's husband, who became Philip I of Castile. |
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In these documents Ferdinand explained his general outlook on political power, and his true goals behind all his decisions during life as the King of Castile and Aragon. |
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After unifying Castile, Ferdinand introduced to Castile many laws, regulations and institutions such as the Inquisition, that were typical in Aragon. |
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Charles was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right and as a result he is often referred to as the first king of Spain. |
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The Crown of Castile organized the expedition of Christopher Columbus to compete with Portugal for the spice trade with Asia, but instead, landed in a New World. |
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Wintour met with the Constable of Castile, the exiled Welsh spy Hugh Owen, and Sir William Stanley, who said that Catesby would receive no support from Spain. |
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He is entombed at Capilla Real, Granada, Kingdom of Castile and Leon. |
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Castile became integrated into Charles's empire, and provided the bulk of the empire's financial resources as well as its most effective military units. |
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The last hospital I worked at had castile soap in a huge pump bottle from which we dispensed little cups for the parents to bath their children. |
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Combine baking soda and castile or liquid soap to form a frostinglike consistency to use as a soft scrub cleanser instead of a sink, tub, and tile cleaner. |
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