Vol 7 Chapter 175: Queen's death

January 4, 1502, was a heavy day for the Kingdom of Castile.
Isabela A Soderpe de Astamara, Queen of Castile, fell into surrender on this day.
The Queen ’s personal pastor Thomas Tongomada and the Archbishop of Castile from Toledo performed a short deep sleep prayer for the Queen.
This early ritual, which has long been abandoned in many parts of Europe, is actually a supplementary ritual to prevent patients from missing their final confession due to the coma falling into lingering.
Many years ago, this kind of ritual was interpreted as unnecessary by the church, because according to the church ’s later interpretations of various sacramental ceremonies, as long as a priest is present, even if the deceased person cannot confess in person due to coma, he is still considered to have passed The angel of God was redeemed.
However, according to Isabella's request, Tongomada and the Archbishop still prayed for her in a deep sleep.
The door of the Queen's bedroom that had been closed was opened, and all the doors in the living palace were also opened.
The nobles who are qualified to enter the living palace have already waited in the rooms and corridors outside the bedroom, and a large number of nobles who are not enough have to wait for the news in the yard.
The queen ’s husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon, has put on a black robe at the suggestion of the archbishop and the court director. Although there are some patterns on the robe, people have been aware of the deep colors. Some terrible things have inevitably come.
Ferdinand saw Gonzalo standing under a window in the outside room when he walked into the living room. Unlike in the past, as long as he appeared, he always shone like a dazzling sun. Today's Gonzalo is the same. Changed to plain clothes.
Gonzalo, also in a dark robe and dark top, looked out at the window and looked out at the withered garden in winter, looking calm and deep.
Ferdinand didn't say hello to Gonzalo, he walked through the long room to the bedroom door in the attention and whispers, and stood down after the queen's personal maid came out and reported to him with a low voice , Ferdinand also whispered a word, and then walked in quietly.
At this time, Gonzalo, who had been looking out of the window, turned his head to look at the door of the bedroom, but he still didn't make a noise, and ignored the people who seemed to want to say something to him, but continued to look out of the window. .
In the bedroom, Tongo Madama and the Archbishop respectively kneeled on the kneeling couches on both sides of the Queen ’s bed, and Tango Madama leaned forward, listening closely to the Queen ’s mouth, and the Archbishop touched the next one The holy water in the basin carried by the priest gently wiped the queen's hands outside.
Looking at Tang Gemada from time to time, he slightly tapped his head to hear what he heard. Ferdinand frowned secretly, but he knew it was inappropriate to say anything at this time, but he was also wondering how to prepare for the soup. Gomadah used his privilege as a private priest to pretend to be Isabella's will.
The female officers and servants standing in the room suppressed the grief of the heart as much as possible, and some of them immediately cried with a soft cry, except for the Queen who sometimes murmured and uttered some groans that could not distinguish its meaning Outside, the room was very quiet.
Ferdinand waited patiently, the expression on his face was very calm, and besides the clothes on his body foreshadowed the terrible moment coming, he looked very calm.
In fact, Ferdinand's mood at that time was not calm at all, and he was completely shocked by the bad news from Sicily in the morning.
The fiasco of 6,000 Aragonese expeditionary forces in Sicily became the biggest military disaster since Ferdinand's reign.
Whether it was the Castilian War against the Portuguese, or the abolition of the Moors afterwards, or even the battle for the Italian territory, he had never suffered such a disastrous defeat.
6000 expeditionary forces fell in Sicily, and one of his most trusted generals, Count de Sanchurd, was missing on the battlefield. Such a defeat has made Aragon ’s position in Sicily shaky. What is expected is that the Aragonese fleet return in time and then blockade the coalition forces remaining in Sicily.
In fact, even if Sicily was blocked, the huge losses caused by this battle could not be recovered in a short period of time. At least Aragon was unable to repatriate Sicily in a short period of time.
So Ferdinand at this time is far less calm than he looks on the surface, but what he has to face is the inevitable chaos that is coming with Isabella's death.
Thomas Tangoma finally straightened up. He drew a cross on his chest and looked at the archbishop across the bed. When he saw the archbishop nodded silently, he stood up and walked around the bed to Ferdinand whispered: " Your Majesty, we are ready to confess your Queen ’s death. If you have anything else, please speak to your Majesty now, and then we will wait quietly for the Queen ’s call.

Ferdinand nodded. At this time, he did not want to clash with Tongomad. He walked to the bed and looked at his wife who had been completely comatose. At this moment, an uncoverable grief suddenly came to his heart.
Ferdinand quickly blocked his mouth with his hands and eased the nearly crying cry before he began to sigh the grief under his breath.
"Excuse me, I want to stay alone with my wife."
Tango Madama and the Archbishop quickly looked at each other and looked like the doctors on the side. When they nodded silently, a few people walked quietly towards the other room.
Ferdinand knelt down beside the bed. He took Isabella's thin hands and rubbed them gently on his cheeks. At this moment, he was just a husband whose wife was about to leave forever. For most of his life, Ferdinand finally couldn't suppress the pain in his heart and let out a low cry.
Since the afternoon of January 4, Queen Isabella has been completely comatose. Doctors have used various methods, some of which are even cruel and bloody, but these efforts have not been able to wake her from the coma, which made the doctor We finally determined that the queen had truly reached the last moment of her life.
By this time, people already knew that the misfortune that had been feared was coming, and many people couldn't help worrying while waiting for the Queen's final news.
Although Juana has heard the news, it should be on the road not far from Barriado, but people know that with the death of Isabella, Castilla will inevitably usher in a chaos .
This confusion comes from the contradictions that emerged after Juana ’s succession to the throne and Ferdinand are bound to become Castilla ’s regency. At this time, some people even thought that for Castile, perhaps the beautiful Philip is also said to be almost out of business It's good news, otherwise there will be a battle for power between Weng and son-in-law.
But even so, as the only son of Maximian, Philip still has the same important legal influence as Ferdinand on Castilla, and whether the emperor will use this influence to intervene in Castilian affairs, It became a possibility for many people to speculate.
In the evening, the wind blowing under the dark sky early in the winter lifted a fallen leaf in the courtyard of the palace. Listening to the wind whispering outside the window, Gonzalo picked up a piece of meatloaf from the plate next to the Lakers. Into the mouth.
People have been waiting for a long time, and hunger has forced many nobles to find a way to solve the problem themselves, but Gonzalo called a familiar court servant to send him a patty.
Many people frowned slightly as he stood there eating the meatloaf in silence.
Although as a representative of the Castilian nobles, many people have high hopes, but not everyone likes him. Some nobles who are not appreciated by the Queen also have a deep sense of disgust towards Gonzalo. He is still so arrogant, and he thinks about his poor relationship with Ferdinand. Everyone can't help but secretly guess that with Isabella's death, Gonzalo's life may not be so good in the future. .
Several figures walked through the dark garden and out of the window. Gonzalo noticed that they were all dressed in black, and wrapped themselves tightly and indistinctly. He held the hand of the patty Can't help but take a slight pause, the mouth that was chewing stopped.
Gonzalo knew that these were night watchmen. According to Castile ’s custom for many years, when the deceased had just passed away, they needed to arrange several night watchmen in the room. These people were all working in the church. They The mission is to protect the souls of the dead from leaving this room until they are called to heaven.
This custom is inherited from the early Goths. The Goths who conquered Europe but were also conquered by religion brought some of their own customs to Iberia over the years, while the locals of the Iberian Peninsula took These customs that have long since disappeared in other places are preserved.
The wind was blowing outside, and the candles in the hall flickered brightly and suddenly. Suddenly, the candles on a wax table hanging on the wall not far away from Gonzalo were blown out, he All around immediately fell into a layer of bleakness.
Gonzalo's heart shrank suddenly, and he seemed to foresee something, and at the same time the bleak scene seemed to herald his future.
Gonzalo walked to the wax platform and picked up the flint placed on it and beat it on the wax platform a few times. The archbishop suddenly appeared when he was about to twist the buttered fire with the sparks coming out. To the door of the bedroom.
Everyone's eyes suddenly looked at the Archbishop. At this short moment, in addition to the wind that kept roaring outside the window, the room was terrible.
"Isabela A Sodepe de Astamara, Queen of Castile who is beloved by her subjects, devoted, and a high monarch of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, has been called. "
In an instant, a low whisper sounded in the room, and then the sound went toward the corridor and out of the palace.
Someone in the garden began to cry, and at the same time the dreadful night watchmen had walked in through the crowd.
Watching these guardians of the undead pass by them, people seem to encounter the plague and make way for them.
Gonzalo held the half-eaten meatloaf in one hand and the slightly hot flint in the other. He stared blankly at the door of the bedroom, even if someone had passed from him to the bedroom. Going, he stood there still and still.
A follower of a messenger ran past him because he panicked and hit him. At that time, Gonzalo seemed to be awake. He still held the two things in his hand, but walked to the door of the bedroom under his feet. .
According to their status, some nobles had entered the room. They were surrounded by the queen's bed. When they first saw Gonzalo walking in, they could not help looking at him one after another.
Only then did people notice the strange thing in his hand, and Gonzalo didn't seem to be fully awake until a nearby attendant carefully took it from him.
He knelt down with the nobles on one knee in a circle, and as the archbishop chanted the rest scriptures, everyone whispered in prayer together.
The death knell of the royal palace and the cathedral rang at about the same time, and then the whole church of Bariaridód remembered the bell.
The dull and depressing bells enveloped the city of Barrialdod in the night sky, and many citizens who were also waiting for the last moment came out of their homes.
Regardless of the cold wind, they fell silently on their knees in the direction of the palace, and some places that had already been prepared began to raise black flags.
After 27 years of ruling her kingdom, Queen Isabela of Castile died in the royal palace of Bariaridód, just 50 years old, at the age of 50.
According to Isabella's will, her daughter Juana is about to inherit her throne, and her husband Ferdinand will become Juana's regent.
Although this decision can be imagined by everyone, it still caused a little commotion after the announcement.
It was noticed that in Isabel ’s political will, she did not leave a little legacy to her son-in-law Philip, which means that even if Philip is alive, he will only get a princehood as Huanna ’s husband.
This also sounds reasonable. After all, Castile was obtained with the help of her cousin and husband Ferdinand, and as a descendant of the Astamara family, Ferdinand Of course, it is more qualified to become the regent of Juana.
But even so, people still can't help but have a lot of associations, especially when some long-term people think that the future generations of Juana must inherit the two kingdoms, they can't help but think about the subtle situation now.
At this time, some people had already thought of Maximian ’s habit of always making waves, which is obviously unlikely to accept his grandson ’s long-term control by the Aragonese court, because this will undoubtedly greatly weaken his influence.
The result is that even if I heard that Philip is going to take a breath soon, Vienna is bound to do everything possible to intervene in Castilian affairs, not to mention that now the French have invaded Iberia, which gave Maximian More favorable reasons and excuses.
With this thought, it seems that Castile's future has suddenly become confused, which makes those nobles who have now begun to consider the situation in the "post-Isabella era" can not help but worry.
The arrival of Juana has brought such worries to a peak.
Juana came much later than people thought, and the reason why she arrived late was because she actually brought Philip together.
When they saw Philip lifted from the carriage, many people couldn't help but stunned. They didn't think that Juana would come back with Philip who had only one breath, watching a thick blanket lying on a door panel. For that body, many people can't help but flash the nickname "Crazy Juana" that has only been circulated in secret.
When Ferdinand saw Juana, he was also seeing Philip who was brought in together, which made him frown immediately. Whether as a king or a father, he could not tolerate such actions as Juana, but Looking at Juana's eyes that seemed to be completely gone, Ferdinand began to worry that if she was too irritating, she might be made to do something extraordinary.
In desperation, Ferdinand had to promise Juana that she would take care of Philip, and she had to calm down as soon as possible.
"Your mother is still in this room, you have to go and take a good look at her, so please be sensible for God's sake." Ferdinand said with a sigh, he suddenly felt that the difficulties he was facing were almost almost He crushed him, even after Isabella had just swallowed, he already felt the pressure from all around.
As for Emperor Maximian, at this time he could not care about how to deal with his relative.
Juana seemed very cute this time. She walked into the room carefully. When she saw her mother who had put on a gorgeous robe and lying peacefully on the bed, she seemed to twist her neck in curiosity before walking slowly. Kneel down to the bed.
"Your mother wants you to inherit her throne," Ferdinand standing behind Juana said softly. "She left you with the most precious thing in her life, and you are responsible for fulfilling all your obligations as a queen."
"But," Juana finally spoke, her eyes fixed on Isabella's unfamiliar face, and then hesitantly looked back at Ferdinand. "I don't want to be a queen. I just want to be with Philip. By my side, with him, I have everything. "
Ferdinand's cheeks twitched, and an irresistible anger burst into his eyes, watching Juana's eyes hardware become harsh and gloomy.
"Or let Philip be king, I will only be his queen."
Juana seemed to figure out something, and everyone in the room who heard her could not help but change her face instantly.
Ferdinand's face was so ugly that his anger made him stretch out his hand and firmly grasped Juana's wrist, lowering his voice and asked sternly: "Who made you say that, is it Philip, he made you say Does this humiliate your mother, or even the entire Astamara family? "
"Of course not. I don't allow you to say that to my husband!" Juana shouted loudly. "I shouldn't have come back. He is very sick now. I want to go to him."
After that, UU reads www. uukanshu. Under the stunned eyes of everyone, Juana shook off Ferdinand's hand and walked out the door desperately.
Looking at the back of Juana, who left the room angrily, Ferdinand was cold all over. At this moment, he suddenly felt like he had fallen into a beast in the swamp. Die.
Alexander learned that it was a few days after Isabella passed away, and at the same time the news came about the war in Sicily.
While listening to Alexander's excitement about the battle of Noto, Earl Modillo sat opposite him with a smile on his face.
Until he talked about the whole Sicilian war, Alexander said calmly: "Isabella is dead."
Count Modillo nodded slowly, and then asked him: "What should I do?"
Alexander laughed. He looked again at the report about Sicily in his hand, then stood up and looked at the count: "I think it's time for Mother Alft to play."
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