Queen Isabella of Castille and King Ferdinand of Aragon.
Although, admittedly, the Muslims were ruling very little area in Iberia by that point. Additionally, up to 1480, the Nasrid Emirate of Granada was an ally of Castille that Isabella chose to betray.
Isabel (Isabella I) was queen of Castile and León prior to her marriage to Ferdinand II of Aragon, which made her queen of the combined kingdoms.
The armies of Isabel I of Castille and Ferdinand V of Aragon. They drove out the last Moorish King of Granada in 1492
Ferdinand and Isabella.
Isabella I Queen of Castile and Leon helped unite Spain with her husband Ferdinand, King of Aragon. Together they defeated and expelled the Moors, and united Spain in 1492.
Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon through the Reconquista.
Muslims and Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 unless they converted to Catholicism. The Kings of Aragon and the Queen of Castille (at the time these two countries represented practically the whole of the current Spain) want their countries to be Catholic.
Isabell and her Husband King Ferdinand inflicted the final military defeat on the Moors in 1492. Various Spanish kingdoms fought to evict the Moors over seven centuries.
Isabel and Ferdinand led the coalition that finally defeated the Moors in 1492.
After the King and Queen of Spain got rid of the Moors from Spain, they were interested in a western route to India because it was difficult going through the Middle East with the Muslims.
After the King and Queen of Spain got rid of the Moors from Spain, they were interested in a western route to India because it was difficult going through the Middle East with the Muslims.
Christopher Columbus was paid by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain to make the voyage to the New World. They had hoped to make money by trading with China or India. They had recently kicked the Moors out of Spain.
Isabella I Queen of Castile and Leon helped unite Spain with her husband Ferdinand, King of Aragon. Together they defeated and expelled the Moors, and united Spain in 1492.
Queen Isabella of Castile and King Ferdinand of Aragon through the Reconquista.
Muslims and Jews were expelled from Spain in 1492 unless they converted to Catholicism. The Kings of Aragon and the Queen of Castille (at the time these two countries represented practically the whole of the current Spain) want their countries to be Catholic.
Isabell and her Husband King Ferdinand inflicted the final military defeat on the Moors in 1492. Various Spanish kingdoms fought to evict the Moors over seven centuries.
Queen Isabella and King Ferninad were king and queen at the time of Columbus, they gave him permission to explore the new world. Isabel was Queen of Castile and Leon, two kingdoms in Spain. Ferdinand was the King of Aragon, a third kingdom in Spain. They married in 1469 and ruled all three kingdoms together. Eventually they defeated the last of the Moors that had invaded Spain 700 years earlier and drove them from Spain.
Isabel and Ferdinand led the coalition that finally defeated the Moors in 1492.
Spain did not exist until 24 years after the Moors were expelled. In 1469 Queen Isabel I of Castile and Leon married King Ferdinand II of Aragon. These 2 monarchs co-ruled the 3 kingdoms after the Moors were expelled in 1492. The 3 kingdoms were not united to form, what we know as Spain today, until all three were inherited by their grandson, Carlos I. Carlos I of Spain was also Carlos V, Holy Roman Emperor.
Moors
the king and queen of Spain