The 146-year-long Spanish House of Trastámara, 1369-1515, warred with England, ended Iberian Muslim rule, found the New World, and started the Inquisition.
The 146-year-long Spanish House of Trastámara, 1369-1515, warred with England, ended Iberian Muslim rule, found the New World, and started the Inquisition.
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And nobody used the denomination “Trastámara” until the 1840s. Enrique’s usurpation was not seen as a change of dynasty, just one son of Alfonso XI getting the throne from his other brother through a civil war.
And conquered Naples
Make Spain Trástamara Again
Iberian Muslim Rule ended in the 1250s. Granada was a vassal of Castile and hardly a ruler of Iberia.
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The Trastamaras didn’t find the new world, they merely financed the expeditions that discovered it for the “Old World”. America wasn’t lost, therefore it couldn’t be found, only discovered.
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During the times of the Trastamaras, Castile was a much more powerful Kingdom than England.
The suggestion that Castilians were somehow rivals of a backwater mudpie in the far north in the 1300s is fanciful thinking. They would, eventually, become bitter rivals for a few decades in the latter half of the 18th century when Spain had begun fading as the Queen of the Seas and England was very well placed to take over (which it did), but for the previous 3 centuries Spanish supremacy of the seas went largely uncontested, and for just under 2 centuries Europe bowed to the kings of Spain. Its main rival being, of course, France. Not England.
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The Inquisition was, by at large, and considering its time and context, a force for good in both peninsular Spain and its overseas viceroyalties.