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What did a 'New Monarchy' mean?

What did a 'New Monarchy' mean?

Map-schematic of Iberia showing Castile and Aragon under Ferdinand and Isabella, with Granada, Navarre, Portugal, and notes that laws, taxes and Cortes remained separate

Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile eventually created a dynastic union, not a single Spanish state. Castile and Aragon shared monarchs, but they kept separate laws, taxes, Cortes and political traditions.

The establishment of a 'New Monarchy', 1469–1556 Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /History
  3. /The establishment of a 'New Monarchy', 1469–1556

Step-by-step lessons on AQA A Level History The establishment of a 'New Monarchy', 1469–1556. Each one builds up to exam-style questions. Build a secure grasp of the outline narrative for your breadth and depth periods first, since the source-evaluation and historical-interpretations questions that carry a large share of the marks depend on that contextual knowledge.

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