Isabella Crowned Queen of Castile
December 11, 1474
On the death of her half-brother Henry IV, the twenty-three-year-old princess had herself proclaimed queen in Segovia's main square before her rivals could organize. A civil war with her niece Juana followed. Isabella won through alliance, siege, and patient letter-writing. Spain's modern political geography begins on that December afternoon. A civil war with her niece Juana followed, settled as much by diplomacy as by arms. Spain's modern geography begins that December afternoon.
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Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.