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Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal


The Birth of the Prince of Peace

On the 23rd of August 1498, a boy was born in Portugal, he is the son of Isabella of Aragon and King Manuel I of Portugal, the King and Queen of Portugal were both happy, he is sworn as the heir of the two crowns of Aragon and Castile, however the happiness of the country was cut short at the death of Isabella of Aragon on October due to the complications of pregnancy.

On the latter part of 1500, the newlywed and heavily pregnant Anne of Brittany visits Spain, she said that her daughter, Claude will be the one who will marry the future King of Spain, this marriage will tie France to the new united Iberia, the dowry for her would be the French claims to the Kingdom of Naples and Aragon which was the claims to Naples of Valois-Anjou and the claims of Yolanda of Aragon, on Lisbon, Anne of Brittany gave birth to the dauphin named Charles, the heir to Brittany and Dauphin of Viennois as the heir to France on November 2 1500 on Lisbon and she was able to return with the dauphin.

The dowry for Claude is the claims to Naples and the claims to Aragon of the Valois, due to this there was no war between Spain and France, the future marriage would mean that the future United Kingdom of Iberia has a claim to Navarre because she herself has claims to Navarre.

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