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  1. 2 days ago · Signature. Charles II of Spain [a] (6 November 1661 – 1 November 1700) was King of Spain from 1665 to 1700. The last monarch from the House of Habsburg, which had ruled Spain since 1516, neither of his marriages produced children, and he died without a direct heir. He is now best remembered for his physical disabilities, and the War of the ...

  2. 3 days ago · The Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition ( Spanish: Tribunal del Santo Oficio de la Inquisición ), commonly known as the Spanish Inquisition ( Inquisición española ), was established in 1478 by the Catholic Monarchs, King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile.

    • 15 July 1834
    • Grand Inquisitor and Suprema designated by the crown
    • 1 November 1478
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  4. 3 days ago · He is Abu Abdallah Muhammad XI, known to the Spanish as Boabdil – the 23rd and final sultan of Granada, the last ruler of Moorish Al-Andalus, who relinquished the keys to his city to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. It was reputedly near this spot on 2 January 1492 that Boabdil gave the Christian monarchs the “keys to ...

  5. 5 days ago · Spanish Identity in the Age of Nations Jose Álvarez-Junco Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780719075797; 432pp.;Price: £90.00

  6. 5 days ago · The death of Queen Isabella in 1504 prompted King Ferdinand II to personally appoint Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros (Ximenes) as Grand Inquisitor after Deza had fallen out of favor, himself being ...

  7. 3 days ago · Isabella was a moderately popular name in the US during the first half of the 20th century until its ranking plummeted in the 1940s. It was fairly rare until 1990 when it began to be used more ...

  8. 4 days ago · By Vincenzo De Meulenaere. On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a limp shuffled into the room to deliver a speech that would change the course of the land. The man was Emperor Charles V.

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