Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon born 1485 died 1536
Catherine was born into a family of royalty, of Kings and Queens. She was destined to be a Queen herself but it wasn’t her choice that she got to marry that was up to her father King Ferdinand and her mother Queen Isabel of Aragon, Spain. They talked to King Henry VII of England. A treaty was made, despite the age being a faithless one and Ferdinand he never kept an oath an hour longer than it suited him; but mutual interests by kinship might hold sovereigns together against a common opponent. The children of Ferdinand and Isabel were all made political counters in their father’s great marriage league. The eldest daughter was married to the heir of Portugal; their only son married the daughter of Maximilian, King of the Romans. Their second daughter, Juana, was married to the Emperor’s son, Philip, sovereign, in the right of his mother of the richest inheritance of Burgundy, Flanders, Holland and the Franche Comté. The youngest of Ferdinand’s daughter’s Catherine, was destined almost from birth to secure the alliance of England. The problem was that Ferdinand of Aragon and Henry VII of England were well matched. Both were clever, unscrupulous, and greedy; each knew that they would cheat the other if they could, and try to get a better of every deal, utterly regardless not only of truth and honesty but of common decency. Though Ferdinand usually beat Henry at his shuffling game, fate finally beat Ferdinand, and a powerful modern England is the clearly traceable
Catherine was born into a family of royalty, of Kings and Queens. She was destined to be a Queen herself but it wasn’t her choice that she got to marry that was up to her father King Ferdinand and her mother Queen Isabel of Aragon, Spain. They talked to King Henry VII of England. A treaty was made, despite the age being a faithless one and Ferdinand he never kept an oath an hour longer than it suited him; but mutual interests by kinship might hold sovereigns together against a common opponent. The children of Ferdinand and Isabel were all made political counters in their father’s great marriage league. The eldest daughter was married to the heir of Portugal; their only son married the daughter of Maximilian, King of the Romans. Their second daughter, Juana, was married to the Emperor’s son, Philip, sovereign, in the right of his mother of the richest inheritance of Burgundy, Flanders, Holland and the Franche Comté. The youngest of Ferdinand’s daughter’s Catherine, was destined almost from birth to secure the alliance of England. The problem was that Ferdinand of Aragon and Henry VII of England were well matched. Both were clever, unscrupulous, and greedy; each knew that they would cheat the other if they could, and try to get a better of every deal, utterly regardless not only of truth and honesty but of common decency. Though Ferdinand usually beat Henry at his shuffling game, fate finally beat Ferdinand, and a powerful modern England is the clearly traceable