objects of interest, 88. Inde-
pendent conduct of, towards
Ferdinand I., 91. The consist-
ory of, established, 94; its influ-
ence, 95. University of, founded,
96. Besieged by John, and sur-
renders, 159, 217. Rejoicings at,
upon the recovery of Ferdinand,
ii. 157. The court at, 158. Re-
ception of Columbus there, 162.
The treaty of, between the Span-
ish sovereigns and Charles VIII.,
270. Suppression of the uni-
versity of, iii. 508, note.
Barleta, Gonsalvo retires to, iii. 44.
Distress of the Spaniards at,
50. Constancy of the Spaniards
there, 53. Arrival of supplies,
55. Gonsalvo prepares to leave,

60, 72.

Barons of Aragon, i. 61. Their
small number, 61. Their great
power, 63. Privileges of Union,
65. Reduced by Peter IV.,
67.
Battles, remarks on the mode of
conducting, in Italy, ii. 278.
Bayard, Pierre de, iii. 42. At the
siege of Barleta, 45. At a tour-
nament, 47. Duel between him
and Sotomayor, 48. Heroism
of, 136. His ardor at the bridge
of Mola, 143.

Baza, reconnoitred by Ferdinand,

ii. 45. Preparations for the
siege of, 49. The king takes
command of the army there, 49.
Position and strength of, 51.
Assault on the garden before,
52. Despondency of the Span-
ish chiefs before, 54. The

queen raises the spirits of her
troops, 55. Gardens there
cleared of their timber, 56.
Closely invested, 57. De-
spatches sent thither from the
sultan of Egypt, 58. Houses
erected there for the army, 60.
Effects of a heavy tempest, 61.
Resolution of the besieged in,
64. Isabella visits the camp
before, 64. Suspension of arms,
65. Its surrender, 66; the con-
ditions, 67. Occupation of, 67.
Treaty of surrender with El
Zagal, 69. Ferdinand's policy

in regard to, 82.
Beatriz, Doña, of Portugal, her
exertions to bring about a peace
with Castile, i. 268.
Beltraneja. See Joanna Beltra-
neja.

Benegas, Reduan, i. 456, 463.
Benemaquez, fate of the town of,
i. 482.
Bergenroth, G. A., asserts the le-
gitimacy of la Beltraneja, i. 192,
note. Conjectures that Ferdi-
nand and Isabella understood
no language but Spanish, ii. 183,
note. His views of the character
of Catharine of Aragon not
generally accepted, 350, note.
His absurd construction of a
clause in Isabella's will, iii. 215,
note. His groundless aspersions
on the character of Isabella,
208, note, 413, note. His theory
of Queen Juana's sanity and un-
just imprisonment, 242, note.
297-300, note. His remarks on
the death of Philip the Hand-

soine, 267, note. Cited, 284,
note, 285, note, 375, note.
Bernaldez, Andres, curate of Los
Palacios, notice of, and of his
writings, ii. 107,

Beyre, Sire de, agent of Philip the

Handsome in Spain, iii. 214.
Bible, Ximenes's edition of the,
ii. 199, note, 201, iii. 326. Ac-
count of it, 336.
Bigotry of Isabella, i. 341, ii. 151.
Respecting the heathen, 468.
Common to the age of Isabella,
iii. 192; and to later times, 193.
Blancas, Jerome, notice of, and
of his writings, i. 98.
Blanche, daughter of John II. of
Aragon, i. 130. Title to the
crown of Navarre left to, 142.
Her tragical story, 144.
Her
death, 146. Her repudiation
by Henry IV., 164.
Boabdil. See Abdallah.
Board of Indian affairs estab-
lished, ii. 166, 490.
Bobadilla, Francisco de, sent out
to Hispaniola with extraordi-
nary powers, ii. 471, 475. His
treatment of Columbus, 472.
Remarks respecting his appoint-
ment and his extraordinary
powers, 475. Ovando is or-

dered to send him home for
trial, 477. His fate, 484.
Bobadilla, Doña Beatriz Fernan-

dez de, the intimate friend of
Isabella, i. 182, note. The wife
of Andrez de Cabrera, 224. |
Mentioned in Isabella's testa-
ment, iii. 179. Present at her
death, 200, note. Expelled

from Segovia, 258. Re-estab-
lishes herself at Segovia, 284,
note.

Bologna, taken possession of by
the French, iii. 350. Relieved
by the duke of Nemours, 354.
Books, Isabella's collection of, ii.
184. Remarks on collections
of, before the introduction of
printing, 184, note. Destroyed
by Ximenes, 412.
Borgia, Cæsar, proposition to
transfer, from a sacred to a sec-
ular dignity, iii. 7. His con-
duct at Capua, 22.
Gonsalvo's
treatment of, 397.
Bourbon, Gilbert de. See Mont-
pensier.

Boyl, Bernaldo, sent to negotiate

a treaty with France, iii. 68, 69.
Braganza, duke of, anecdote re-

specting, i. 266, note.
Brazil, discovered and taken
possession of, ii. 505.

Brescia, captured by the French,
iii. 354.

Bull-fights, Isabella's views of, iii.
201, note.
Burgundy, Charles the Bold, duke
of, visited by Alfonso of Portu-
gal, i. 264. His death followed
by a French invasion of the
Burgundian dominions, 264.
note.

C.

Cabra, Count of, i. 469. Honors
conferred on him, 486.

Cabrera, Andres de, the husband
of Beatriz de Bobadilla, his ex-

134. Urged to assert his title to
the throne, after the death of
Alfonso V., 135. His reception,
and manner of life in Sicily,
136.

His reconciliation with
his father, 137. Negotiation for
a union of, with Isabella, 138.
Imprisoned, 139; the conse-
quences thereof, 139. Re-
leased, 141. His reception by
the people, 141. His sudden
death, 142, 146. His character,
143.
Casa de Contratacion, powers in-
trusted to the, ii. 490.
Casas, Las, ii. 168. On the treat-
ment of the Indians, iii. 181,
note, 497, 498, note. His me-
morial on the best means of
arresting the destruction of the
aborigines, 500, note. His ap-
peal to Ferdinand in their be-
half, 501.

Castellaneta, expedition against,
by the duke of Nemours, iii.
56.

Castile, condition of, in the mid-

531

with especial favor in, 38. In-
fluence of the ecclesiastics in,
40. Sacrifices in, made to the
pope, 41. Effect of the long
minorities in, 48. Dilapidated
condition of the revenues, at
the beginning of the fourteenth
century, 51. Comparative power
of the sovereign and people in
52. State of, at the birth of
Isabella, 103. Accession of
Rise of Alvaro

John II., 104.
de Luna, 105. Jealousy of the
nobles; civil discord, 106. Op-
pression of the commons in,
108. Its consequences, III.
Early literature of, 112. En-
couragement of literature there,
under John II., 113. Henry,
marquis of Villena, 113. Iñigo
Lopez de Mendoza, marquis of
Santillana, 116. John de Mena,
118. Minor luminaries 120
Epistolary and historical com.
position at this period, 122
Decline of Alvaro de Luna, 123.
His fall, 124. His death, 125.
Accession of Henry IV., 161.
Oppression of the people in,
166. Debasement of the coin
there, 167. Sale of papal bulls
of crusade in, 167, note. Juan
Pacheco and Alfonso Carillo,
168. Interview of the king of,
with Louis XI., 171. The con-
sequences, 171. League of the
nobles, 172. Deposition of
Henry IV., 175, 188. Alfonso
publicly acknowledged and
crowned, 175. Consequent
division of parties, 176. Battle

532

of Olmedo, 183. Civil anarchy
in, 185. Death of Alfonso,
187. Crown of, offered to Isa-
bella, 189. Treaty between
Henry and the confederates in,
190. Isabella acknowledged
heir to the crown of, 190. Union
of, with Aragon, by the mar-
riage of Ferdinand and Isa-
bella, 199. Factions there, 211.
Civil anarchy, 215. War of
the succession; Joanna's and
Isabella's title to the crown of,
considered, 237. Accession of
Ferdinand and Isabella, 239.
Invasion of, by Alfonso of
Portugal, 246. Disorderly re-
treat of the Castilian army, 250.
Its reorganization, 252, 254.
Battle of Toro, 258. Submis-
sion of the whole kingdom of,
263. Termination of the War
of Succession, 269. Schemes
of reform there, introduced
after the accession of Isabella,
274. Administration of justice
in, 275, 284. Tumult at Se-
govia, 280. Reorganization of
tribunals in, 288. Codification
of the laws there, 293. Schemes
for reducing the nobility of,
295. Revocation of the royal
grants, 298. Military orders of,
305. Masterships annexed to
the crown of, 311. Ecclesiasti-
cal usurpations in, resisted, 314.
Regulation of trade in, 318.
Prosperity of the kingdom of,
320. Influence of the royal
authority in, 322. Organization
of the Inquisition in, 329, 340,

344. State of the Jews there
at the accession of Isabella, 337.
Their persecution, 340. Papal
bull authorizing the Inquisition
in, 344. Dreadful slaughter of
the troops of, in the Axarquia,
461.
Columbus's application

to the court of, ii. 119. Mental
progress of, till the end of Isa-
bella's reign, 182. Classical
literature in, 196. Edict against
the Moors of, 446. Philip's
pretensions to the supremacy
of, iii. 214. Concord of Sala-
manca for the government of,
227, 231. Sovereignty of, re-
signed to Philip and Joanna,
238. Provisional government
for, after the death of Philip,
271. Disorderly state of, 284.
Distress of the kingdom, 285.
Navarre united with, 376.
Maximilian's pretensions to the
regency of, 385. Administra-
tion of, intrusted to Ximenes,
403, 404. Charles V. pro-
claimed king of, 425. Public
discontents in, 432. Popula-
tion there, 510. Victims of the
Inquisition in, 518, note. See
Castilian literature, Ferdinand,
and Ferdinand and Isabeila.
Castilian literature, its early state,
i. 112. State of, during the
reign of Ferdinand and Isabella,
ii. 181. Isabella's collection of
books, 184; her care for the
education of her children, 185;
of Prince John, 186; of her
nobles, 188; Peter Martyr, 189.
Lucio Marineo Siculo, 190