Hey friends, welcome to the Renaissance English History podcast.

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listening. And you can also, like I said, go over and join me on YouTube history and coffee

and search for Heather. And there I am. So let's get right into it. So today we are going to talk

about an event that happened when Catherine of Aragon was in her weird period where Arthur had died.

She was sort of betrothed to Henry, but it was like back and forth. And her sister, Hwana of Castile, was shipwrecked in England. So we're

going to talk about that. We're going to talk about the geopolitics of what it meant. There was a lot

happening in this visit. There was a treaty that came out of it. It was pretty much a big deal.

All right. Let's get started. So it was January 1506, the tumultuous waves of the Atlantic,

under a storm-darkened sky of fleet battles fiercely against the relentless tempest.

Aboard one of these struggling ships is Hwana of Castile and her husband, Philip the handsome,

Duke of Burgundy, and the, I don't know what that was, and the titular king of Castile.

Their journey from Brussels to Spain has taken a perilous turn, thrusting them into an unexpected

chapter that would reshape the course of European

history. Hwana is the daughter of the legendary monarchs, Ferdinand, and Isabella. So she was the sister

of Catherine Varagon. She's not just a queen, but she is a pivotal figure in a Europe rife with

complex alliances and power struggles. Her marriage to Philip

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