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In a postscript added while he was idling in Lisbon, Columbus reports sending at least two copies of the letter to the Spanish court—one copy to the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile, and a second copy to the Aragonese official Luis de Santángel, the principal supporter and financial backer of Columbus's ...
Columbus had left for France when Ferdinand intervened, [b] first sending Talavera and Bishop Diego Deza to appeal to the queen. [29] Isabella was finally convinced by the king's clerk Luis de Santángel, who argued that Columbus would bring his ideas elsewhere, and offered to help arrange the funding.
The return of Christopher Columbus; his audience before King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella. Just three months after entering Granada, Queen Isabella agreed to sponsor Christopher Columbus on an expedition to reach the East Indies by sailing west (for a distance of 2,000 miles, according to Columbus). [ 91 ]
The letter, in which Columbus announced his discoveries on the American continent to Spain’s King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, has been repatriated after being stolen in the 1980s.
The court of Ferdinand and Isabella was constantly on the move, in order to bolster local support for the crown from local feudal lords. The title of "Catholic King and Queen" was officially bestowed on Ferdinand and Isabella by Pope Alexander VI in 1494, [4] in recognition of their defence of the Catholic faith within their realms.
When Columbus's proposal was initially rejected, Queen Isabella convoked another assembly, made up from sailors, philosophers, astrologers and others to reexamine the project. The experts considered absurd the distances between Spain and the Indies that Columbus calculated. The monarchs also became doubting, but a group of influential courtiers ...
[3] [7] Afterwards, Columbus experienced a number of dismissals from presenting his proposal to Venice, Genoa, France, and King Henry VII of England, before reaching Queen Isabella I and King Ferdinand II of Spain in January 1492. [6] [7] Columbus's first presentation of his expedition to the Spanish royalty resulted in denial. [6]
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