Sovereignly Spanish Past

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King Enrique III of Castile imparting justice   
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In the same year as her marriage to King Manuel I of Portugal in 1497, Isabella of Aragon became Princess of Asturias and heir presumptive of the Crown of Castile following the demise of her only brother, Infante Juan, Prince of Asturias in September 1497.

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Elisabeth Farnese (1692-1766) was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. Upon her entrance to Spain, she refused to part with her Italian retinue in exchange with a Spanish one, as had originally been planned.

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Ramiro II was the ruler of the Kingdom of Aragon from 1134 until withdrawing from public life in 1137. Although a monk, he was elected king by the Aragonese nobility upon the demise of his childless brother, Alfonso I.

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The marriage of Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon was arranged when Isabella was just six years old. To legally marry Ferdinand, because he was her cousin, she needed to obtain a dispensation from the Pope.

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Alfonso de Borbon-Dos Sicilias was heir presumptive from October 1904 until May 1907, when Alfonso, eldest child of Alfonso XIII and Victoria Eugenie, was born.

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Philip, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy, (1478-1506) was the first Habsburg King of Castile as Philip I for a brief time in 1506.