Sentence examples for king ferdinand from inspiring English sources

By 1486 Columbus was firmly in Spain, asking for patronage from King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.

Through the abdications of Bayonne, the Spanish king Ferdinand VII was deposed and imprisoned and the Frenchman Joseph Bonaparte was appointed King of Spain by the French victors.

In 1619 the Bohemians, in defiance of their Habsburg king Ferdinand, offered the crown of Bohemia to Frederick.

His first quarrel with Portugal was settled by his marriage, in 1382, with Beatriz, daughter of the Portuguese king Ferdinand.

After the restoration of the Bourbon king Ferdinand I in 1815, however, he gradually became mentally ill and was insane at his death.

But for most of us, Aragon's heritage comes into focus with the marriage of its king, Ferdinand, to Isabella of Castile, thus uniting Spain.

Eleanor was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu.

After the absolutist Bourbon king Ferdinand VII was restored in 1814, Espoz y Mina led an unsuccessful Liberal coup at Pamplona and fled to France.

In this capacity he brought France into the war with Spain in 1823 to restore that country's Bourbon king Ferdinand VII.

For two years he served the Sevilla (Seville) junta that was conducting the war on behalf of the imprisoned Spanish king Ferdinand VII.

The outbreak of the Peninsular War in Spain and the capture of the Spanish king Ferdinand VII generated a political crisis in the Spanish colonies in the Americas.