#Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra

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I was rewatching Isabella tv series and I was thinking that just like Isabella and Ferdinand united their kingdoms with their marriage, Daenerys and Jon could unite the South and the North once again by marrying ( that's in case Jon is King in the North when they meet)

Yes, it could happen, Jon might be crowned as KITN by the Northern lords because of Robb's will at some point in TWOW and probably by the end of TWOW Jon and Dany will meet, and they're are teens, around 17 and 16, close to the age of Isabella I and Ferdinand II were when they married, Isabella was 18 and Ferdinand, 17 (Ferdinand was older in the show because Rodolfo Sancho played Ferdinand since the beginning and he was around 37 years old in the first season, Michelle Jenner was 26 by that time, but it can be given a pass)

Ferdinand was only king of Sicily when he married Isabella, but eventually Isabella became queen regnant of Castile and queen consort of Aragon and Ferdinand king of Aragon and co-regnant of Castile, uniting the eastern and western (except Portugal) part of the Iberian peninsula.

And maybe for Dany and Jon it could be something similar, Dany in her case could decide if Jon is her king consort or co-regnant, for example Ferdinand was named king regnant because Isabella allowed him to be, although Ferdinand also had a claim in the sucession line of Castilian crown due to his grandfather Ferdinand I, and Jon could also had a claim because he's Rhaegar's son, although we don't knoe if legitimate or bastard (although maybe it doesn't matter if Jon is legitimised as a Targaryen by Dany, but maybe it doesn't matter because Jon has been legitimased by Robb as a Stark, so idk) and Jon and Dany's marriage is the way to re-integrate the North into the Seven Kingdoms.

Also, Dany is the first of her name as Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, and Jon probably would be the second of his name as KITN (because one of the kings of Winter was Jon Stark)

Although in Castile and Aragon case have both its own courts and governments and in some occasions there were circumstances that were chances that they were separated again, by the Aragonese part, for example after Isabella died, Ferdinand married later Germana of Foix and one part of the pacts with Louis XII of France is that if Ferdinand and Germana had a son, John, that son would be king of Aragon although the baby died.

Some decades before, when by that time Isabella and Ferdinand only had their first daughter Isabella, there was a time when John II of Aragon apart from appointing him as archbishop of Zaragoza, he considred Alonso of Aragon (bastard son of Ferdinand and Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra) as a candidate for the Aragonese crown, because Alonso/Alfonso was Ferdinand's firstborn son despite he was a bastard, it's known that being a bastard and becoming king at this point isn't very strange for the family, all of the founders of the current ruling dinasties of the kingdoms in the Iberian Peninsula in Isabel show were bastards, John I (Portugal, House of Avis, bastard line of the House of Burgundy), Ramiro I (Aragon, House of Aragon, from the Jimena dinasty), Henry II (Crowns of Castile, Aragon and Navarra, House of Trastamara, bastard line from the Castilian House of Burgundy), but Isabella was already here and she was only months younger than Alonso and the heiress by that time of both Castile and Aragon. Alonso was raised at the Aragonese court, so John II kind of had a favourite grandkid, at least prince till John was born in 1478🙄 . Well years later was also appointed in some more positions of power like Archbishop of Valencia, lieutenant of Naples and viceroy of Aragon under the reigns of his father and Charles I.

And talking about Henry II of Castile, the House of Burgundy and House of Trastamara, I think that the story of the Blackfyre family in Asoiaf have some elements of the Trastamara family, although the Blackfyres didn't succed to get the crown. The main historical inspo for the Blackfyres I have read people talking about are the Beauforts, a line of legitimised bastards of John of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford, who weren't allowed to get the crown and one of their descendants by maternal line, Henry VII became king, and could be an inspo for Aegon VI if the fAegon theory is true.

In the Trastamara's case we have the following background:

Alfonso XI of Castile was married to Maria of Portugal, and they had a son together, Peter I, but Alfonso truly loved Eleanor of Guzmán and they had a long lasting relationship and 10 children, who were widely favored by his father in political power and noble titles, Henry II of Castile being the main representant, and started several revolts against their brother Peter, Henry II defeated and killed Peter I and he became the first Trastamara king of Castile.

Then in Asoiaf there's Aegon IV Targaryen who married Naerys and they had Daeron II and Daenerys, but also Aegon had relationships with several women and had several bastard children, who were later legitimised (The Great Bastards) and he mostly favored his son with Daena Targaryen, Daemon I Blackfyre, who the lead the first Blackfyre rebellion, but they were defeated and in the following generations other Blackfyre claimants started more rebellions to get the IT, but they never succed and Daeron II's lineage continues currently on Dany and Jon.

In the Castilian history, the twist is that the bastard lineage got the crown and the "legitimate" line of Peter I were the ones who had to fight to get it.

And I say "legitimate" because although Peter I married Blanche of Bourbon, they had no issue, and he had children with  Maria of Padilla and some other castilian noblewomen. He legitimased the children he had with Maria saying that they had  married in secret, although it happened when he was still married to Blanche.

The thing is that during the reigns of Henry II and his son John I, Peter I's daughters with Maria,  Constance and Isabella were claimants to the Castilian crown.

Both daughters of Peter I of Castile were married to Edward III of England's sons, John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and Edmund of Langley, duke of York.

Constance and her husband John of Gaunt arrived with their daughter Catherine of Lancaster to the Iberian peninsula in 1386 and started to attack the Northern part of the peninsula, allied with John I of Portugal (who married Philippa of Lancaster, eldest daughter of John of Gaunt with Blanche of Lancaster; John and Philipa were grandparents of Isabella, Beatriz, Joanna, Eleanor, Ferdinand and Alfonso V of Portugal and great-grandparents of Isabella I, Alfonso of Castile, Joanna of Castile, John II and Manuel I of Portugal), they didn't succed and Constance gave up her claim, but Catherine of Lancaster married John I of Castile's son, Henry III of Castile, and both branches of Alfonso XI's descendants were united. Henry III and Catherine's children were John II of Castile (father of Henry IV, Isabella I and Alfonso of Castile) and Maria of Castile (queen of Aragon, untie of Henry IV, Isabella I, Alfonso and Ferdinand II)

Apart from that, Constance's younger sister, Isabella, married Edmund of Langley, and they were great-grandparents of Richard III and Edward IV of England, leaders of the York side during the War of the Roses.

I would like to add that the double marriage of siblings of the ruling houses of Castile and England, one marriage having important descendants on the English lineage and the other in the Castilian lineage, reminds me a bit of the marriages between Daeron II with Myriah Martell and his sister Daenerys with Maron Martell, also both close in time to the Trastamara rebellions and the first Blackfyre rebellion.

This is a bit out of topic, but regarding some part of the HOTD fandom that complains that Rhaenyra's sons with Harwin shouldn't inherit or be in the sucession line, you know, there has been similar cases in real life history.

The following example is from the 19th century, but anyways. Isabella II of Spain was married to her cousin Francis of Asís of Bourbon, but Francis was gay and his partner was Antonio Ramos Meneses, meanwhile Isabella had several lovers who were the biological fathers of Alfonso XII an his siblings, it's said that probably Enrique Puigmoltó was Alfonso's father, although offically he was Francis' son. And like Rhaenyra, Isabella II position as heir and ruler was disputed by their male relatives (the Greens in Nyra's case, the Carlists in Isabella's one), firstly by Isabella's uncle, Carlos Maria Isidro and then by his descendants. These disputes caused the three Carlist wars that happened during the 19th century, although the Carlist line currently exist, Charles Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, although he hasn't any claims against the Isabelist line (Philip VI), his title is just honorary.

The answer has become a bit longer than I expected at first, but then I thought that it would be interesting to add more things.