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Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.

Or is it St. Witch, Mommy, Sister, Party, and Luffy?

Let's talk about Catherine of Aragon.

Catherine was born in December 16th, 1485. Her parents were King Ferdinand of Aragon, and his wife Queen Isabella.

Wait, did he harder than before? They're best known for two things.

Ferdinand and Isabella are known for backing Columbus's voyage to the New World, and they're also known for the Spanish Inquisition.

But their story is actually kind of interesting. We'll just take a couple minutes before we get into the life of Catherine, because it kind of sets the stage for how she was raised.

Spain was kind of like we've talked before about Germany being a bunch of little countries that made up one country the way we think of it.

Spain was the same way at the time, and Ferdinand and his family were over one part, and Isabella and her family were over another part, which was larger, yes?

Mom's portion was a lot bigger, and a lot more full of money.

And she's basically controlled most of her life by her brother, who was the King.

And he wanted certain marriages for her political gain, as was the way of the time, and she kind of refused them.

And behind his back, they set up this arranged marriage between her and Ferdinand, and she snuck out of the castle. They got married in secret.

And it was her second cousin.

That's not so, I'm promised. That's a cousin. Hey, they're practically strangers at the other times.

That's true, that's true.

So now we have these two powers that have joined together, and they are joint rulers.

They're known as the Catholic monarchs. Isabella was over Castile, and Ferdinand was over Ergon.

They took their children on campaign everywhere. Now on campaign sounds lovely, but basically what they were trying to do is to expel the moors, M-O-O-R-S.

I-E, the Muslims, out of Spain. Southern Spain had been occupied by the moors for a long time.

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