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Ferdinand I, Italian Ferrante or Ferdinando, (born 1423, Valencia, Spain—died Jan. 25, 1494), king of Naples from 1458. He was the illegitimate son of Alfonso V of Aragon, who, after establishing himself as king of Naples in 1442, had Ferdinand legitimized and recognized as his heir.

Ferdinand II, byname Ferdinand the Catholic, Spanish Fernando el Católico, (born March 10, 1452, Sos, Aragon [Spain]—died January 23, 1516, Madrigalejo, Spain), king of Aragon and king of Castile (as Ferdinand V) from 1479, joint sovereign with Queen Isabella I.

In 1492, Christopher Columbus, an Italian explorer sponsored by Isabella and Ferdinand, stumbled upon the Americas for Europe and claimed the territory for Spain. Ferdinand and Isabella’s...

Ferdinando Trastámara d'Aragona, of the Naples branch, universally known as Ferrante and also called by his contemporaries Don Ferrando and Don Ferrante [1] (2 June 1424, in Valencia – 25 January 1494, in Naples ), was the only son, illegitimate, of Alfonso I of Naples. He was king of Naples from 1458 to 1494.

By 1480, the joint rule of Ferdinand and Isabella over a united Spain was an established fact. Ferdinand, through his father, became King of Aragon and Sicily, and Count of Barcelona. Isabella, through right of conquest from la Beltraneja and the Portuguese, was Queen of Castile and Leon.

Ferdinand I ( c. 1015 – 24 December [1] 1065), called the Great ( el Magno ), was the count of Castile from his uncle's death in 1029 and the king of León after defeating his brother-in-law in 1037. According to tradition, he was the first to have himself crowned Emperor of Spain (1056), and his heirs carried on the tradition.

t. e. The Catholic Monarchs [a] [b] were Queen Isabella I of Castile [1] and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, whose marriage and joint rule marked the de facto unification of Spain. [2] They were both from the House of Trastámara and were second cousins, being both descended from John I of Castile; to remove the obstacle that this consanguinity ...