From the first moment they met, is liked. Isabel was before the prince had thrown bold and dragged the greatest difficulties, and not a few risks, to be in that appointment. An attractive young man of medium height, slightly higher than her, black hair, broad shoulders, muscled, looking lively and happy, that forehead covered with hair combed forward, full beard, clever and intelligent, affable and people skills. Fernando looked to turn a beautiful princess of eighteen, a year older than himself, of medium height, blond and very white, blue-green eyes, good size, even majestic, strong and courageous. In this secret meeting, which lasted over two hours, attended as witnesses four knights of Aragon, by Ferdinand, and two from Isabel.
As Paul II, maintaining excellent relations with Henry IV of Castile, refused to grant the desired dispensation of marriage to the young couple, and as the urgency was the wedding before the people, it must be a trick. Some authors say that the clergy who surrounded Isabella was convinced that the acquiescence of the legacy enough so he could marry without concerns of conscience and the Archbishop Carrillo began to make a bull signed by the late Pope Pius II, who died five years ago, for inclusion in the record and avoid a possible scandal. Isabel wrote that he had "sound conscience."
as quickly as possible were arranged betrothal ceremonies, which began on 18 October at the Palacio de los Vivero, with the reading of the alleged papal bull by the Archbishop Carrillo to the couple. Fernando vowed the laws, charters, charters and privileges of Castile and immediately uttered the words that make this marriage. And they parted. Fernando slept that night at home of the archbishop.
The religious ceremony took place the next day at the Hall of the Palace Rica Nursery, officiated by Pedro Lopez de Alcalá, chaplain of the church of San Justo. Acted as godfathers Fadrique Enriquez, Admiral of Castile and Maria, wife of Juan Vivero. The atmosphere was charged with emotion and ritual are developed with extraordinary solemnity, without being pompous. The tears of joy and the cheers of the crowd, typical of the time, at the sight of so beautiful and so important betrothed. They were, for the moment, the kings of Sicily. After the ceremony there were celebrations, dances and fair. Everything was held very poorly, since they had to borrow money. Ferdinand and Isabella arrived penniless lacked it.
At night the couple retired to the bridal chamber, where they consummated their marriage. In the waiting room door witnesses, until at last able to collect the blood-stained wedding sheet that showed the loss of virginity of Elizabeth, which played to remove all the trumpets and drums and minstrels high and showed everyone in the room full of people were waiting. The subsequent festivities lasted seven days, as was customary. The city was full of spies of Henry IV and the Marquis de Villena, but this did not prevent the expansions happy most of the event involved.
Reactions to this wedding did not take long, Isabel was disinherited and would defend itself against attacks, accusations and threats made by his brother Henry IV in Valdelozoya, in a long letter of more than ten pages. The Castilian monarch denounce the falsity of the papal bull used by the young princes, who ran the risk of being excommunicated by the Church for its boldness. Isabel and Fernando had to wait three years for their marriage was legally canon. John II of Aragon played obsessively to get Paul II's bull matrimonial dispensation, which won the next pope Sixtus IV in 1472 and was almost certainly brought in person by the legacy of Cardinal Rodrigo de Borja. By then I was born the first child of the royal couple, a princess named Elizabeth.
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
Tarcisio de Azcona, Isabel la Católica : The Life and Reign . The sphere of Books Ltd., 2002
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