Jose mota e isabel la catolica biography

(1451/04/22 - 1504/11/26)
Isabella I of Castile
Isabel la Católica
Queen of Castile (1474-1504)

He was born April 22, 1451 in Madrigal de las Altas Torres.
Daughter of John II and his second wife Isabella of Portugal.
At the death of his father, in 1454, her half-brother Henry IV (nicknamed the impotent) occupied the throne.
Princess Isabel was sent with his mother, Isabella of Portugal, to Arévalo, near Medina del Campo, to which castillo de la Mota was closely linked.
His early years therefore passed in the company of his brother Alfonso, two years younger, and his mother, a depressive, almost insane woman no more consolation than religion.
He received a careful education since childhood and lived surrounded by an excellent group of ladies-in-waiting and tutors included Lope de Barrientos, Gonzalo de Illescas, Juan de Padilla, Gutierre de Cardenas and fray Martín de Córdoba.

Of them received a humanistic education based on grammar, rhetoric, painting, philos