On 14 October 1469, the formal betrothal between Isabella and Ferdinand had taken place and the marriage agreement and the papal dispensation had been read aloud by the archbishop. This papal dispensation was actually a fake – supposedly issued by an earlier pope, Pius II. The papal nuncio’s silence had been bought with Aragonese gold. [read more]
*Spoilers* Catherine Parr was the sixth and final wife of King Henry VIII of England. She had been married and widowed twice before marrying the King. Their wedding took place on 12 July 1543 at Hampton Court. Catherine gained two stepdaughters (and a stepson) by her marriage to Henry, but she and Mary were more [read more]
Read part one here. On 1 February 1516, Germaine and Ferdinand set out for Madrid and later settled at El Abrojo to await Charles’s arrival. It was a difficult time – Joanna was confined at Tordesillas, Charles was essentially a foreigner, and Germaine was a childless widow. There were rumours that many wished to see [read more]
Maria Manuela of Portugal was born on 15 October 1527 as the daughter of King John III of Portugal and his wife, Catherine of Austria. She was their second child but the first surviving one. Seven more siblings would follow, but just one brother would live long enough to father an heir. The archbishop of [read more]
Germaine of Foix was born in 1488 as the daughter of John of Foix, Viscount of Narbonne, a son of Eleanor, Queen of Navarre, and Marie of Orléans, a sister of King Louis XII of France. A younger brother named Gaston was born the following year. There were likely more siblings, who did not survive. [read more]
Sarah Margaret Ferguson was born on 15 October 1959 as the daughter of Ronald Ferguson and Susan Wright. She has an older sister named Jane. Embed from Getty Images Following her parents’ divorce in 1974, her father remarried to Susan Deptford and had further three children. Her mother remarried to Héctor Barrantes. The divorce was [read more]
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