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Ferdinand II of Aragon, nicknamed the Catholic ( March 10, 1452 – June 23, 1516) was king of Aragon, Castile, Sicily, Naples and Navarre and Count of BarcelonaHe became Ferdinand V of Castile when he married Isabella I of Castile. They united their two kingdoms, running them as one country though they remained officially separate. He was also the king of Sicily (as Ferdinand II) from 1468 to 1516 and Naples (as Ferdinand III) from 1504 to 1516.
In November 1511 Ferdinand and Henry VIII of EnglandHans Holbein the Younger Henry VIII ( 28 June 1491 28 January 1547) was King of England and Lord of Ireland (later King of Ireland) from 22 April 1509 until his death. He was the second monarch of the Tudor dynasty, succeeding his father, Henry VII. He is signed the Treaty of WestminsterThe Treaty of Westminster was signed in November 1511 by Henry VIII of England and Ferdinand II of Aragon. It was a pledge of mutual aid between the two against France during the Valois Dynasty. Earlier that year, Thomas Cardinal Wolsey had convinced Henr, pledging mutual aid between the two against FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.. Earlier that year, Ferdinand had conquered the southern half of the Kingdom of NavarreThe Kingdom of Navarre traditionally evolved from the county of Pamplona, its traditional capital, when the Basque leader Inigo Arista was chosen King in Pamplona, traditionally in 824, and led a local revolt against the Franks. The kingdom of Navarre for and annexed it to Spain. Since he was a widower by then, he married Germana of Foix .
After Isabella left her kingdom to her daughter JoannaJoanna (Spanish: Juana ( November 6, 1479 April 11, 1555), called the Mad la Loca , queen of Castile and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, was the second daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, king and queen of Spain, and was born at Toledo on Nove, Ferdinand served as her regent during her insanity. Though rebuffed by the Castilian nobility and replaced with Joanna's husband Philip I of CastilePhilip I ( July 22, 1478 — September 25, 1506), sometimes called Philip the Handsome was king of Castile, son of the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and husband of Joanna the Mad, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella, was the founder of the Habsburg dynast, he resumed his regency after Philip's death. Joanna's son, the Holy Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Empire ( German: Heiliges Romisches Reich was a political conglomeration of lands in western and central Europe in the Middle Ages. Emerging from the eastern part of the Frankish realm after its division in the Treaty of Verdun ( 843), it l Charles V, succeeded her on the throne of Castile; and he also succeeded Ferdinand on the Aragonese throne when Ferdinand died in 1516. Thereafter the thrones were united; see List of Spanish monarchs.
Some authors think that he was the inspiration for Niccolo Machiavelli's The Prince.
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