Trastámara - History Lab https://historylab.es Fri, 20 May 2022 15:35:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://historylab.es/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-icono-historylab-32x32.jpg Trastámara - History Lab https://historylab.es 32 32 Details of the tomb of Joanna I and Philip I in the Royal Chapel of Granada https://historylab.es/details-of-the-tomb-of-joanna-i-and-philip-i-in-the-royal-chapel-of-granada/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=details-of-the-tomb-of-joanna-i-and-philip-i-in-the-royal-chapel-of-granada Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/detalles-del-sepulcro-de-juana-i-y-felipe-i-de-la-capilla-real-de-granada/ Sepulchre in the Royal Chapel of Granada, by the sculptor Bartolomé Ordóñez, in which Philip I and, later, in the mid-16th century, Joanna I of Castile were buried, together with their parents (the Catholic Monarchs).

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]]> Juana (daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella) married Philip (son of Emperor Maximilian) in Lier in 1496, thanks to the marriage policies of the Catholic Monarchs, whose aim was diplomatic and strategic. After the death of her brothers, John and Isabella, and that of her nephew, the Portuguese infant Michael, Joan became the heir to Castile and Aragon. Juana’s love for the foreign prince was matched only by Philip the Handsome’s lust for power, which was burdened by a reputation as a womaniser. This circumstance earned Juana the bad nickname of the madwoman because of the jealousy and love she felt for him. On the death of Queen Isabella in 1504, Philip was proclaimed King of Castile in 1506 until he died in September of the same year in the Palace of the Constables, supposedly poisoned. Juana decided to take Philip’s inert body to Granada (as she had arranged for it to be buried there). During the pilgrimage she sometimes stopped the retinue to pray and open the coffin, a fact that led her father to attribute to her the mental derangement with which she had always been associated and to remove her from power. After this, it was Ferdinand himself who assumed the Castilian throne while his daughter was imprisoned in Tordesillas. The fact that the burial was in Granada is not a trivial matter, since the end of the conquest against the Moors was in this city where the Catholic Monarchs were buried, thus commemorating one of the great feats of their reign.

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]]> Coin of 2 maravedíes of the Catholic Monarchs https://historylab.es/coin-of-2-maravedies-of-the-catholic-monarchs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=coin-of-2-maravedies-of-the-catholic-monarchs Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:30:09 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/moneda-de-2-maravedies-de-los-reyes-catolicos/ Fleece coin of 2 maravedíes of the Catholic Monarchs. Museum of Segovia.

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]]> The maravedí was a Spanish coin used between the 12th and 19th centuries, whose minting began during the reign of Alfonso VI after the conquest of Toledo in 1085. During the reign of the Catholic Monarchs, other types of coins appeared, such as the ducats. One of these, the “white” coin, had a value of half a maravedí. This small coin, of little value and small size, has survived to the present day through the expression “estar sin blanca” (to be penniless). The two maravedí coin of the Catholic Monarchs has inscriptions on the obverse and reverse. On the obverse we can read the direct allusion to the monarchs who minted the coin in Latin “FERNANDVS – ET – ELISA” (Ferdinand and Isabella). A castle with three towers appears on the reverse. The reverse reads ‘REX – ET – REGINA – KAS’, thus referring to their status as kings

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]]> The birth of the modern state https://historylab.es/the-birth-of-the-modern-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-birth-of-the-modern-state Sat, 19 Feb 2022 16:27:54 +0000 https://historylab.es/2022/02/19/el-nacimiento-del-estado-moderno/ Kairos website. The birth of the modern state.

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]]> Kairos is an educational project of the National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training of the Ministry of Education, directed by Dr. Antonio Rodríguez de las Heras. Along with methodological contributions aimed at reinforcing the teaching of history, it contains proposals for the development of History content taught in Secondary Education and Baccalaureate. This resource refers to the unit “The Birth of the Modern State” for Secondary Education (2006) in which the following contents are developed: Economic and social changes. Early capitalism. Authoritarian monarchies. The Catholic Monarchs: the foundations of the modern state. Foreign policy. The role of the Iberian peoples in European expansion. The Canary Islands. The Discovery of America.

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