By Alan Ryder
aristocracy dedicated to unending feuding; and a monarchy thrown into disarray through the extinction of the Catalan line and its substitute by way of a Castilian dynasty. In 1462 , Catalonia degenerated right into a civil conflict which lasted ten years.
Part seeks to provide an explanation for how and why the king, Juan II, emerged positive. the industrial and army assets of the 2 camps, their strategies, and the traces alongside which Catalan society divided are tested. Alan Ryder examine the an important half performed via overseas powers within the clash, who intervened on either side until eventually Juan grew to become the tables together with his gamble on a Castilian crown for his inheritor, Fernando. The hand over of the insurgents in 1472 left Catalonia chaotic, devastated, and mired in
many extra years of warfare with France as Juan struggled to get well the territories he had rashly surrendered in go back for French reduction. Catalonia therefore lay helpless sooner than the may of Fernando, the Catholic King of Castile, whilst he grew to become its ruler in 1479. The measures he imposed to revive order and
subject the principality to the recent 'Spanish' country are the topic of the ultimate chapter.
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