Isabella of Aragon, Princess of Asturias

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Isabella of Asturias (1470–15 August 1498) was the Queen Consort of Portugal and the eldest daughter and heiress presumptive of King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile.

In 1490 Isabella married Afonso, Crown Prince of Portugal, the heir of John II of Portugal, who died afterwards in a hunting accident in 1495. Though it was an arranged marriage, Isabella and Alfonso quickly fell in love, for she said, when she returned to Spain, that she would never marry again and enter a convent. But her parents would not have any of this, and in 1497 she married King Manuel I of Portugal (who was Afonso's uncle and John II's successor to that throne). At the 1497 death of her only brother, John, she became Princess of Asturias as she was recognized as the heir of Castilian kingdom. In 1498 while giving birth to Miguel da Paz, heir to the kingdoms of Spain and Portugal, she died (Miguel died two years later). Manuel's chance to become king-consort of Spain vanished with Isabella's death, and main hope of uniting all Iberian kingdoms vanished at Miguel's death.

Castilian and Leonese royalty
House of Trastámara

Henry II (I of Leon) Children include    Prince John (future John I)    Eleanor, Queen of Navarre John I Children include    Henry, Prince of Asturias (future Henry III of Castile and II of Leon)    Ferdinand I of Aragon, Valencia and Sicily Henry III (II of Leon) Children include    John, Prince of Asturias (future John II)    Maria, Queen of Aragon, Valencia, Sicily and Naples John II Children include    Henry, Prince of Asturias (future Henry IV of Castile and III of Leon)    Infanta Isabella (future Isabella I)    Alfonso, Prince of Asturias Henry IV (III of Leon) Children    Joan, Queen of Portugal Isabella I with Ferdinand IV (V of Leon) Children    Isabella, Queen of Portugal    Juan, Prince of Asturias    Joan, Princess of Asturias (future Joan I)    Maria, Queen of Portugal    Catherine, Queen of England Grandchildren include    Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal and Spain Joan with Philip I Children    Eleanor, Queen of Portugal and France    Charles, Prince of Asturias (future Charles I of Spain and V of the Holy Roman Empire)    Isabella, Queen of Denmark and Norway    Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire    Mary, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia    Catherine, Queen of Portugal

After 1500, Joanna of Castile (Isabella's next sister and Miguel's aunt) became the heiress of Spain, eventually bringing those kingdoms to the Habsburgs. However, the Iberian Union took place about a hundred years later, in 1580, when the Habsburg king, Philip II of Spain, grandson of Joan the Mad and of Manuel of Portugal, acquired Portugal and its dominions.

Isabella's sister, Maria of Aragon, then married Isabella's widowed husband and gave birth to eight children. Isabella's youngest sister, Catalina, would later become Queen consort of England, as the first wife of Henry VIII.

House of Trastámara Born: 1470 Died: 1498
Preceded by Prince Juan	Princess of Asturias 1497-1498	Succeeded by Infante Miguel of Portugal
Preceded by Leonor of Viseu	Queen Consort of Portugal 1497 - 1498	Succeeded by Maria of Aragon