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Ferdinand II of Aragon

1452–1516

Ferdinand II of Aragon ruled jointly with Isabella I of Castile and helped create the dynastic foundations of a united Spanish monarchy. Their reign completed the conquest of Granada, strengthened royal institutions, supported Columbus’s Atlantic voyage and established the Spanish Inquisition.

It also ordered the expulsion of Jews who refused conversion. After Isabella’s death Ferdinand continued to rule Aragon and sought to control Castile through regency and dynastic diplomacy. Ferdinand II of Aragon was born in Palacio de los Sada and died in Casa de Santa María.

Jean Plaidy’s Castile for Isabella follows the young Isabella’s determination to marry Ferdinand of Aragon and the political alliance from which their joint monarchy emerges. Robyn Young’s Court of Wolves places Ferdinand among the rulers whose diplomacy and intelligence networks shape Henry VII’s early European position. In Plaidy’s Daughters of Spain, Ferdinand’s dynastic ambitions are pursued through the marriages of his daughters, including Catherine of Aragon. Alison Weir’s Six Tudor Queens carries those decisions into Catherine’s English queenship and the consequences for Tudor succession. Elizabeth Drayson’s The Moor’s Last Stand examines Ferdinand directly as one of the Catholic Monarchs whose final campaign against Granada destroys the last Nasrid kingdom in Iberia.

Series

Historical novels and book series featuring Ferdinand II of Aragon (6 series)

Six Tudor Queens in Order

by Alison Weir 21 books 4.2(79,643)

The Six Tudor Queens sequence retells the lives of Henry VIII’s wives through six full-length novels. Twelve companion stories shift attention to relatives, servants, artists and courtiers affected by the same events, while Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story explains the project’s historical method. In the Shadow…

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0.1. Six Tudor Queens: Writing a New Story

First published 2016 · 2.5(5)

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0.5. Arthur

First published 2016 · 3.6(564)

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1. Katherine of Aragon

First published 2016 · 4.1(18,551)

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1.5. The Blackened Heart

First published 2017 · 3.5(482)

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2. Anne Boleyn

First published 2017 · 4.1(13,194)

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2.5. The Tower Is Full of Ghosts Today

First published 2017 · 3.6(631)

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2.6. The Chateau of Briis

First published 2018 · 3.5(296)

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3. Jane Seymour

First published 2018 · 4.3(14,178)

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3.5. The Grandmother’s Tale

First published 2018 · 3.6(344)

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3.6. The Unhappiest Lady in Christendom

First published 2018 · 3.6(328)

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4. Anna of Kleve

First published 2019 · 4.1(8,659)

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4.5. The King’s Painter

First published 2019 · 3.6(247)

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4.6. The Curse of the Hungerfords

First published 2019 · 3.7(286)

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5. Katheryn Howard

First published 2020 · 4.1(7,548)

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5.5. The Princess of Scotland

First published 2020 · 3.6(303)

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5.6. The Wicked Wife

First published 2021 · 3.8(255)

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6. Katharine Parr

First published 2021 · 4.2(6,468)

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6.5. The Queen’s Child

First published 2021 · 3.9(256)

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6.6. In This New Sepulchre

First published 2021 · 3.7(153)

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7. In the Shadow of Queens

First published 2021 · 4.0(942)

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12. Six Tudor Queens

First published 2016 · 4.4(5,953)

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Epic Historical Adventure in Order

by Colin Falconer 14 books 4.3(129,144)

Epic Historical Adventure is Colin Falconer's publisher-defined collection of stand-alone historical thrillers rather than a continuous narrative sequence. The novels range from Alexander the Great, Cleopatra and the Mongol Empire to the Ottoman court, the conquest of Mexico, colonial India, shipwreck and twentieth-century Palestine. Most volumes can be…

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1. A Vain and Indecent Woman

First published 2018 · 4.3(4,249)

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2. An Ambush of Tigers

First published 2025 · 4.4(4,472)

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3. Colossus

First published 2014 · 4.3(7,856)

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4. Converso

First published 2024 · 4.3(5,796)

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5. East India

First published 2000 · 4.1(8,743)

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6. Ends of the Earth

First published 2023 · 4.5(9,654)

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7. Feathered Serpent

First published 1996 · 4.1(6,373)

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8. Fever Coast

First published 2022 · 4.4(8,671)

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9. Fury: Book 2

First published 1993 · 4.4(3,212)

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10. Harem

First published 1992 · 4.1(15,560)

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11. Lord of the Atlas

First published 2021 · 4.4(11,149)

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12. Silk Road

First published 2000 · 4.3(30,011)

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13. Stigmata

First published 2004 · 4.2(8,117)

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14. Venom

First published 1990 · 4.4(5,281)

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Anne of Brittany in Order

by Rozsa Gaston 4 books 4.3(2,190)

Rozsa Gaston’s four-volume Anne of Brittany sequence follows the last independently ruling Duchess of Brittany from her contested inheritance to her final years as queen of France. The novels move through the French–Breton conflict, Anne’s compelled marriage to Charles VIII, her restoration to ducal authority after his death…

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1. Anne and Charles

First published 2018 · 4.2(976)

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2. Anne and Louis

First published 2018 · 4.1(483)

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3. Anne and Louis: Rulers and Lovers

First published 2019 · 4.3(292)

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4. Anne and Louis: Forever Bound

First published 2021 · 4.4(439)

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Isabella & Ferdinand Trilogy in Order

by Jean Plaidy 3 books 4.2(1,577)

This trilogy follows Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon as they secure their crowns, complete the conquest of Granada and establish a united Spanish monarchy. The final volume turns to their daughters, whose marriages carried Spanish power into Portugal, England and the Habsburg world.

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1. Castile for Isabella

4.2(686)

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2. Spain for the Sovereigns

4.1(396)

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3. Daughters of Spain

4.2(495)

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New World Rising in Order

by Robyn Young 2 books 4.2(1,852)

New World Rising follows the fictional half-brothers Jack Wynter and Harry Vaughan through the dynastic upheavals that ended Plantagenet rule and opened the early Tudor age. Sons of the Blood begins in 1483 with Edward IV’s death, the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower and Richard III’s…

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1. Sons of the Blood

First published 2016 · 4.2(1,094)

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2. Court of Wolves

First published 2018 · 4.1(758)

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The Islam Quintet in Order

by Tariq Ali 5 books 4.2(514)

The Islam Quintet is Tariq Ali’s cycle of five historical novels examining encounters between Islamic societies and the Christian West across more than five centuries. Moving from the fall of Muslim Granada and the Crusades to Norman Sicily, the late Ottoman Empire and the modern transnational world, the…