Isabella the Catholic was the queen of Castile, consort queen of Sicília and Aragon. She was the daughter of Isabella of Portugal and John II from Castile, and although her destiny wasn’t holding the throne, as her brother Henry was who had to inherit the power, she got married with Ferdinand II of Aragon and they created the Catholic Kings, that united the Castile Kingdom and the Catalaragonesa Crown. It was all an absolute secret, as they were second cousins and they needed a special permission from the Pope. They were two really important characters for the Spain history, as they meant the unification between Castile and Aragon, the end of the Reconquest and the America’s discovery, even the adverse opinions of the Court and the cientifics about the projects of Cristobal Colon.

Although she was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres and she was baptised in its church, she spent the most part of her life with her mother in Arèvalo, near Medina del Campo, where she received an education according to what a princess was expected to learn during that age.

After the dead of her father, in 1451, she suffered from a mental alienation, a loss of reason, and after that she was closed in the Arvalo Castle with her children, where she died. She showed very little sympathy for the catalans and she showed as an inflexible catholic: during her reign the Inquisition board was created, she created the “Santa Hermandad” (police that persecuted the criminals), she destroyed the Granada Nasrid kingdom and transformed t into a Castile kingdom and reached the religious unification of the Hispanic Crown, from the obligatory conversion of the jews under sentence of expulsion, and later from the muslims.

Her daughter was known as Joanna the Mad, that wasn’t also destined to reign, but the legitimate heirs and she became the Castile and Aragon queen. A mental illness was attributed to her that, according to some historians, was because of the conspirations of some of her relatives for taking her throne. 

Isabel had little relation with the city of Girona. In spite of this, her husband informed the Girona court about the death of the queen, "our very dear and very beloved wife", and prayed that, as usual, they made sacrifices for her soul.