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Foreword
I wanted to write a timeline with a late 15th century POD, I changed the names of this timeline many times, I was even kicked because of it and recently I canceled it :(, I had a chance to reconsider and revive it when I was writing my other timeline, I read about the life of Isabella of Castile, I wanted to write an Alternate age of Exploration so here it is and revived.

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Isabella, Queen of Portugal and Castile

The Castilian Inheritance
Isabel was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Ávila to John II of Castile and Isabel of Portugal on April 22, 1451. She was the granddaughter of Henry III of Castile and Catherine of Lancaster. At the time of her birth, her older half brother Enrique (Henry) was in line for the throne before her. Enrique, was twenty-six years old at that time and he was married but he was childless. Her younger brother Alfonso was born two years later on 17 November 1453 and displaced her in the line of succession. When her father, Juan II, died in 1454, Henry became King Henry IV. He left his younger children, Isabel and Alfonso in the care of their half-brother Henry. Her brother Alfonso, mother, and she then moved to Arévalo.
These were times of turmoil for Isabel. Isabel lived with her brother and her mother in a castle in poor conditions where they also suffered from shortage of money. Although her father arranged in his will for his children to be financially well taken care of, her half-brother Henry did not comply with their father's wishes, either from a desire to keep his half-siblings restricted or ineptitude. Even though the living conditions were lackluster, under the careful eye of her mother, Isabel was instructed in lessons of practical piety and in the deep reverence for religion.
In 1460 Enrique had already offered the hand of Isabel to Carles, Prince of Viana, the eldest son of John II of Aragon, and heir, at the same time, to the Kingdom of Navarre. This Henry did in spite of the opposition of the King of Aragon, Isabel was married to Charles, Prince of Viana in Barcelona in June 5, 1460 as a young child, after a year, Charles, Prince of Viana dies a year after marrying Isabel of Castile, after the death of Carles, Prince of Viana, Isabel of Castile became less interested about marrying the son of Juana Enriquez, Isabel knew the problems of Carles of Viana and Juana Enriquez at her stay with the Prince of Viana, apparently Isabel and Carles of Viana were very close, after the death of the Prince of Viana, Isabel went to her brother and she agreed on who she will marry the one chosen by her brother, Enrique and she enjoyed luxury at their own and she also studied.
When King Henry's wife, Queen Joan of Portugal, was about to give birth,Alfonso, the brother of Isabel of Castile was summoned to court (Segovia) and taken away from his mother to be under more control and direct supervision by the king and finish their educations. Alfonso was put under the care of a tutor.
The noblemen who were anxious for power confronted the King, demanding that his younger half brother Infante Alfonso be named his successor. They even went as far as to ask Alfonso to seize the throne. The nobles, now in control of Alfonso and claiming him to be the true heir, clashed with Henry's forces at the Second Battle of Olmedo in 1467. The battle was a draw. Enrique agreed to make Alfonso his heir, provided Alfonso would marry his daughter, Joanna. Soon after Alfonso was created Prince of Asturias, the title given to the heir of Castile and Leon, he died, likely of the plague. The nobles who had supported him suspected poisoning. As she had been named in her brother's will as his successor, the nobles asked Isabel to take his place as champion of the rebellion. However, support for the rebels had begun to wane, and Isabel preferred a negotiated settlement to continuing the war. She met with Henry and, at Toros de Guisando, they reached a compromise: the war would stop, Henry would name Isabel his heir instead of Joanna, and Isabel would not marry without Enrique's consent but he would not be able to force her to marry against her will. Isabel's side came out with most of what they desired, though they did not go so far as to officially depose Enrique: they were not powerful enough to do so, and Isabel did not want to jeopardize the principle of fair inherited succession, since it was upon this idea that she had based her argument for legitimacy as heir.
In February 1469, Isabel was married to Prince Joao of Portugal, the future Joao II of Portugal because Isabel wanted someone near to her age, instantly, Isabel was pregnant and gave birth to a daughter named Isabel in February 6, 1470, Joanna felt that her claims are already weak, and she was very alone in her own fight in July 4, 1472, Isabel gave birth to a son named Afonso.
After the death of her father Enrique in 1475, Joanna decided to flee to France and decided to marry the Dauphin of France, the future Charles VIII, she decided to marry the Dauphin because she felt that she cannot fight against the claims of Isabel of Castile on her own and she has problems in her own parentage, she will fight on it on the future when she can gather more forces against her aunt and in October 5, 1482, Joanna of Castile was married to Dauphin Charles who became King on 1483 after his father's death and Joanna gave birth to a son, Charles Orlando in February 4, 1485.
In 1485, Colombo presented his plans to Joao II, King of Portugal. He proposed the king equip three sturdy ships and grant Colombo one year's time to sail out into the Atlantic, search for a western route to the Orient, and return.
Colombo also requested he be made "Great Admiral of the Ocean", appointed governor of any and all lands he discovered, and given one-tenth of all revenue from those lands.
The king submitted Colombo' proposal to his experts, who rejected it. It was their considered opinion that Columbus' estimation of a travel distance of 2,400 miles (3,860 km) was, in fact, far too short.
In 1488 Colombo appealed to the court of Portugal once again, and once again John II invited him to an audience. It also proved unsuccessful, in part because not long afterwards Bartolomeu Dias returned to Portugal following a successful rounding of the southern tip of Africa. Now that it looked like Portugal could soon have the eastern sea route to Asia under its control.
Colombo went to France and apealed to the King of France, Charles VIII to sponsor his own voyage, Joanna convinced Charles VIII to grab the proposal of Columbus, so Columbus boarded the ships Jeanne, Lorraine and Marie which would go to the indies and trade with the Chinese again because the trade was blocked by the Ottomans[1].


1.Ottomans had conquered Naples and the Southern part of the Balkans, I wanted to do an Ottoman Wank since I saw the Seas of the Sultan TL

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