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That Crazy Idea



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After continually lobbying at the Spanish court and two years of negotiations, he finally had success in January 1492. Ferdinand and Isabella had just conquered Granada, the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian Peninsula, and they received Columbus in Córdoba, in the Alcázar castle. Isabella turned him down on the advice of her confessor. Columbus was leaving town by mule in despair when Ferdinand intervened. Isabella then sent a royal guard to fetch him.


However, Columbus would contract Pneumonia after he was fetched so he died before coming back to Isabella I of Castile causing the navigation by Columbus to fail to materialize.


The idea of Columbus discovering sailing west to Asia was considered as a crazy idea and Colombus proposal was considered as “That Crazy Idea” and an impossible feat after the new continent west was discovered.


On the same time, Isabella would continue to pressure her daughter, Isabella to remarry to the Duke of Beja, however, the German Emperor Maximilian offered to have her hand after the dissolution of the proxy marriage between him and Anne of Brittany in exchange for the hand of Margaret of Austria for Juan, Prince of Asturias.


The Princess have been playing a game with her mother as Isabella did not want to remarry and wanted to stay in a convent after the death of her first husband.


Eventually, Isabella could convince her namesake eldest daughter Isabella to marry the Holy Roman Emperor, who was grief sickened by the death of her first husband, Alfonso.


Isabella of Aragon left Castile with a broken and heavy heart and headed to her future husband in Germany with her retinue.
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