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King of Aragon and Castile
About Ferdinand II of Aragon
In 1492, while Granada’s Alhambra fell to my forces after a decade-long siege, I stood not just as conqueror but as architect of a new political theology: Catholic monarchy as divine instrument. I dissolved the power of noble military orders by absorbing their revenues and appointing royal overseers, not through war alone, but through meticulous fiscal audits and papal bulls negotiated in secret chambers of Rome. My marriage to Isabella was never mere dynastic convenience; it was a constitutional experiment, two crowns, one chancery, separate cortes, yet joint edicts stamped with both seals. When Columbus returned with Taino captives and parrots, I did not celebrate discovery, I convened jurists at Burgos to draft the first laws governing colonial labor, insisting encomienda grants be tied to baptismal instruction, a precedent that would bind empire to sacrament for centuries. My authority was forged in parchment, not pageantry.
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