This prince, quite higher than Isabel, was a very cultured and polite. Came to speak five languages \u200b\u200bcorrectly. He was very fond of animals - of which came to have a real zoo where he had to camels and lions, music - he composed himself playing instruments including the vihuela and harp, and literature. It was also very fond of painting himself and liked to paint. He had been married to Princess Agnes of Cleves, who died very young, without having had an heir.
Appointed King of Navarre against the will of his ambitious father, who was forced to vacate the throne to take Aragon, remained a constant struggle against him, motivated by the desire to dominate it. All of this was pleasing to the Castilian king. Isabel, she still showed no interest or disappointment. The opposition of John II of Aragon prevented the marriage. The unfortunate prince of Viana died in 1461 in Barcelona, \u200b\u200bwhere he accompanied the popular fervor. Was suspected been poisoned by order of his stepmother. The tuberculous pleurisy might be cause of his death.
Dead Prince of Viana, his brother Fernando was sworn Crown of Aragon. At that time had ten years of age. Isabel, at that time was eleven. Shortly after trading began to marry the princess with Alfonso V of Portugal, called "The African" by his success on that continent. This king was also widowed but still relatively young. In 1464, the Portuguese king had traveled to Guadalupe to celebrate a ninth. To mark the journey of the monarch, the royal family met him and there he met Elizabeth, who was thirteen. Her beauty, enhanced by the freshness of her complexion and the pride of his bearing, it pleased the suitor. With a bit of malice Menéndez Pidal remember that Queen Juana had long sought to link his brother King Isabel Portuguese:
fixed was thought that Queen Juana, who always wanted to inculcate in the mind of Isabel when she had it in his court, was the thought of Beltran de la Cueva, he proposed visits Gibraltar. Tended this link to be taken out of Castile Isabella to make way for the girl Jane, sworn heir.
Isabel showed no appreciation for the wedding and said boldly that to arrange one had to first consult the Castile. He well knew that his brother Henry was playing with his back to the Council and even without talking to your ex applies the Marquis of Villena, which then opposed the project. The princess was extremely clever, despite his young age. It was his first "no", perfectly clear, based on a policy and especially to a man, but also an obstacle to their way to the throne of Castile.
Isabel felt a blow in anger and horror when he learned that King Henry wanted given in marriage to the brother of the Marquis de Villena, Pedro Giron, who was Master of the Order of Calatrava. He was one of the magnates who had stirred up over the kingdom against Henry IV, raising half Andalusia in favor of Prince Alfonso, but the possibility of marrying the princess, which added the lure of entering the order of succession to the Crown Castilla, surrendered with all his strength to the side of the king of Rome got a dispensation from the vow of chastity he had done as Master of the Order of Calatrava and started from the town of Almagro to consummate that marriage desired uneven, both in age range as he past forty and Isabel was not yet fifteen.
Elizabeth was beside herself. Paled with anger and despair. This time there was no subterfuge, because it was an act of force which is intended to undertake the Master of Calatrava, Isabel willing to steal the "yes" to the altar or a signature on paper, or perhaps dishonor him by force. I had nowhere to flee. If left in the domains of Henry IV, could not expect mercy, and if he could escape to the hosts of his brother Alfonso, was there with the Marquis de Villena, brother of Pedro Giron, and probably was in cahoots with him. To alienate Alfonso de Villena meant the ruin of the young. Isabel did not want to ask both her brother, she lived for his cause. He had never felt so helpless.
The master he had three thousand lances and was announcing his wedding which he passed. Isabel's friend, Beatriz de Bobadilla, tried in vain to comfort her. Finally she showed him a dagger out of his lap, which was ready to kill the master if you try to embrace Isabel. This did not ease much to the princess. Fasted on bread and water every day and spent nights in prayer. Galindez de Carvajal in Henry IV Chronicle account: The princess spent a day and a night without food or sleep, start devout contemplation, humbly beseeching the Lord that it pleased Hazer one of two things, either kill it or the master, that this marriage will not effect uviese . The master was traveling slowly because of coming ill, managed to reach Villarrubia de los Ojos and a few days died.
master is said that he regretted that his death had been delayed until after the wedding with Elizabeth. Before his death divided among some of his servants, many of the treasures that he had with him and left the care of their children and the administration of his property to his brother Juan Pacheco. There were suspicions that he had been poisoned by some great envy at that high marriage. You never know if a hand helped save the helpless princess with the use of poison, unless the remains of Pigs to be analyzed. Manuel Fernandez Alvarez says that the most likely to be seized with a bad saw sudden, perhaps an outbreak of pestilence, which left him out of action.
Sources:
Isabel La Católica. Urbión Ediciones SA 1983
Manuel Fernandez Alvarez, Isabel La Católica . Espasa Calpe SA, 2006
Teresa Martialay, Elizabeth I. Homo Legens 2009
Luis Suarez, Isabel I, Reina. Editorial Ariel, SA 2000 and 2005
http://www.gorgas.gob.pa/museoafc/loscriminales/magnicidios/carlos% 20principe% 20viana.html
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