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However, with [[Isabella I of Castile|Isabella I]]'s death and [[Joanna of Spain|Joanna]]'s accession in 1504, this alliance between the national government and the budding middle class faltered.<ref name="Halp10" /> The Castilian government decayed with each successive administration, becoming rife with corruption.<ref>[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], p. 113.</ref> Joanna's husband, [[Philip I of Castile|Philip I]], reigned briefly; he was replaced by [[Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros|Archbishop Cisneros]] as regent for a short time, and then by Isabella's widower [[Ferdinand II of Aragon|Ferdinand]] who ruled from Aragon.<ref name="hal151">[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], p. 151.</ref> Ferdinand's claim to continue ruling Castile as regent was somewhat tenuous after Isabella's death, but no plausible alternatives existed as the sovereign, their widowed daughter [[Joanna of Castile|Joanna]], was mentally unfit to reign on her own.<ref name="hal151" /> The landed nobility of Castile took advantage of the weak and corrupt [[Council of Castile|Royal Council]] to illegally expand their territory and domain with private armies while the government did nothing.<ref>[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], p. 66.</ref> In response, the towns signed mutual defense pacts, relying on each other rather than the national government.<ref>[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], p. 93.</ref>
The budgets of both Castile and Aragon had been in poor condition for some time. The government had [[Alhambra Decree|expelled the Jews]] in 1492 and the [[Morisco|Muslims of Granada]] in 1502, moves that undercut lucrative trades and businesses.<ref>[[#Hal81|Haliczer 1981]], p. 147. The [[silk]] industry is held up as particularly relevant, as the Moors had been deeply involved in it; more generally, many Muslim converts to Christianity who had not been expelled still emigrated from 1500 onward.</ref> Ferdinand and Isabella had been forced to borrow money to pay troops during and after the [[Reconquista#Granada War and the end of Muslim rule
===Succession of Charles===
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