Navarre’s opposition to Castilian rule collapsed after 1512 while Aragon’s resistance survived

Evidence

Dr. Bernab´e, in addition to the correction he put forward to the way Bray’s name is vocalized (see n. 3 above), also proposed that we should read Cadreita (the name of a village in Navarre) where I had read Cadrete in Aragon. This emendation would have the merit of overcoming some problems with regard to the chronology of the activities of the Young Man of Ar´evalo (because Navarre was forcibly converted in 1515 and not in the 1520s). Nevertheless I am reluctant to adopt the proposed emendation because the manuscript reading Cadrete is so clear. The Martel family was well known and active in the fuerista movement of Aragonese resistance to Castilian centralizing policies, so a mansion (with a room set apart as a study) belonging to a family prepared to make a stand against the imposition of conversion fits entirely into such an Aragonese background, whereas we know of no such Martel family in Navarre, and moreover, Cadreita is indeed an unlikely location for a residence of such a kind. Navarre’s resistance to the Castilian takeover, after the duke of Alba made his display of Castilian military superiority in 1512, collapsed almost completely. — L. P. Harvey, Muslims in Spain, 1500 to 1614, 484

Categorization

• XREF: The distinction between Aragonese fuerista resistance surviving and Navarre’s collapse mirrors the broader Castile-vs-crowns tension from the book’s earlier chapters.