Ferdinand and Isabella

Cultural  

1. A king and queen of Spain in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. They united their country and sponsored the exploration of the New World by Christopher Columbus.

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Example Sentences

To what degree was this idea that his voyage would be a way to outflank Islam explicit in the way he lobbied Ferdinand and Isabella to support him—if we know?

From Slate • Oct. 12, 2020

To those ends, Ferdinand and Isabella sponsored extensive Atlantic exploration.

From Textbooks • Dec. 30, 2014

Columbus in his letter to Ferdinand and Isabella describes his crew as “weak and humbled in spirit” by the tempest, “many of them promising to lead a religious life.”

From Salon • Jun. 3, 2013

At the time, mercury was used as a remedy for skin disease, and both Ferdinand and Isabella had been treated accordingly — Ferdinand for syphilis, most likely.

From Scientific American • Nov. 19, 2012

But there was as yet no general crisis for the two-spheres theory: the geographers summoned by Ferdinand and Isabella to advise on Columbus’s plans had no hesitation in dismissing them out of hand.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton