Today in 1485 Isabella of Castile was in labor with her daughter, Katherine of Aragon, who was born overnight. Throughout her pregnancy, Isabella was traveling around in Andalucia fighting the Moors. This was in the height of the Granada War, which ended in 1492 when Granada fell, and during 1485 much of Andalucia fell, including the town I live in, Ronda.
Katalina de Aragon was the last of Ferdinand and Isabella’s children, and she was betrothed to Prince Arthur of England when she was just three years old and the Treaty of Medina del Campo was negotiated. She spent most of her childhood at the Alhambra palace in Granda after it fell in 1492, and left for England about a decade later to marry Arthur and become Queen eventually.
That’s your Tudor Minute for today. Remember you can dive deeper into life in 16th-century England through the Renaissance English History Podcast at englandcast.com where there is an episode on Katherine of Aragon.
Suggested links:
Episode 69: Supplemental; Chat with James Boulton on Katherine of Aragon
Tudor Times talks about Catherine of Aragon
Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
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Heather Teysko is the creator, writer, and producer of The Renaissance English History Podcast,  the original Tudor history podcast, started in 2009. She's been writing about history online for over 25 years, since her first site on Colonial American history became number one in history on Yahoo in 1998. In 2019 she created Tudorcon, which is now a yearly event, in addition to writing books, and running TudorFair.com - a whimsical Tudor Merch shop.
She has been passionate about Tudor England since she first read Alison Weir's The Six Wives of Henry VIII 30 years ago, and subsequently moved to London after college to spend her time immersed in Tudor history (how exciting when she got to interview Alison for the first time!). In addition to history, she is passionate about travel, and has lived in 3 countries and 4 states (not counting her perpetual state of confusion), and her family (who help her host her YouTube channel occasionally).
