Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal
Elizabeth of Spain, in the historiography also called Isabella, in Spanish and Portuguese Isabel de Aragón y Castilla or Isabel de Trastámara y Trastámara (* October 2, 1470; † August 23, 1498 in Zaragoza ) was a princess of Spain and 1495 to her death Titularkönigin of Portugal.
Life
Elizabeth was the eldest daughter of the Catholic Kings, so by Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Elisabeth had four siblings, including Joan the Mad of Spain, and Catherine of Aragon, wife of King Henry VIII of England, whose not sanctioned by the Pope divorce was the separation of the Anglican Catholic Church of the result.
1490 she married Prince Alfonso of Portugal, son of King John II and heir to the throne. However, Alfons died a year after the wedding and before his father, so that he never ascended to the Portuguese throne. New heir to the throne was, as John II had no further children, Emanuel, Duke of Viseu and Beja, the nearest male relative John II
The marriage between Elizabeth and Alfons was closed primarily to create dynastic ties between Portugal and Spain, which could allow a unification of the two countries to an Iberian empire (analogous to the situation in Spain, and its existence so the union of Castile Aragon owed by the marriage of Elizabeth's parents). As this plan was shattered with the death of Alfonso, first, Elisabeth married in 1497 Emanuel, who had acceded after the death of John II in 1495 as Emmanuel I the lucky even to the Portuguese throne. By this marriage she has now but Queen of Portugal. However, she died only a year after the marriage of complications after the birth of their first son, Michael ( Miguel). This was designated heir of three kingdoms (Portugal, Castile and Aragon ), but died in his second year of life also.
After her death her husband Emanuel married her younger sister Maria of Spain.