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Queen Isabella II of Spain (10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was barely three years of age when her father, King Ferdinand VII, died on 29 September 1833...

to Isabella is regarded as the "cornerstone in the foundation of the Spanish monarchy". They played a major role in the European colonization of the...

Isabella strongly advocated for her husband's cause. In 1524, she participated in the Imperial Diet in Nürnberg, where she campaigned on behalf of King...

The reign of Isabella II has been seen as being essential to the modern history of Spain. Isabella's reign spanned the death of Ferdinand VII in 1833...

daughter of Queen Isabella II of Spain and her husband Francisco de Asís, Duke of Cádiz. She was the heiress presumptive to the Spanish throne from 1851...

succeeded on his death by his young son Charles II as King of Spain and in 1640 (with the collapse of the Iberian Union) by John IV as King of Portugal...

Philip II (21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), sometimes known in Spain as Philip the Prudent (Spanish: Felipe el Prudente), was King of Spain from 1556...

1439–1440. Dorothea of Brandenburg During the Danish intermarium, 1448. Isabella of Austria, Regent on behalf of her husband Christian II while he was in...

Isabella of Urgell, Duchess of Coimbra (Spanish: Isabel) (12 March 1409 – 17 September 1459) was a Catalan noblewoman of the Urgell branch of the House...

October. On 25 November 1556, the Transylvanian Diet entrusted her with a five-year regency period on behalf of her 16-year-old son. Isabella set up her...

Cuba and Puerto Rico. The regency of Maria Christina and the reign of Isabella II brought reforms repealing the extremes of the absolutist Ominous Decade...

French throne as a grandson of Philip IV. In England, Isabella of France claimed the throne on behalf of her 15-year-old son. In contrast to France it was...

and definitively abolished in 1834 by the regency, acting on behalf of the four-year-old Isabella II. Isabella I had granted extensive authority to Christopher...

Ferdinand II of Aragon (the "Catholic Monarchs") united Spain in the 15th century. The Spanish Empire became one of the first global powers as Isabella and...

their infant son Charles II, she remained an influential figure until her death in 1696. Her regency was overshadowed by Spain's post-1648 decline and internal...

Sforza Francesco II Sforza (1497–1535); Isabella of Aragon (1501–1524); Bona Sforza (1524–1557); the duchy passed to the Crown of Spain Giovanni Carafa...

The Kingdom of Spain (Spanish: Reino de España) entered a new era with the death of Charles II, the last Spanish Habsburg monarch, who died childless in...

II, Duke of Mantua and Montferrat. From 1665 to 1671, she was Regent of the Duchies of Mantua and Montferrat on behalf of her minor son. Accused of marrying...

its own right within the Spanish crown and with its own law until the arrival of the Bourbon dynasty after the War of Spanish Succession. Wikimedia Commons...

29, 1833, the daughter of Fernando VII, Isabella II, inherited the crown before she was three years old, under the regency of her mother Maria Christina...