From 1230 until its fall to the Christians, the city was under the rule of the Nasrid dynasty .[4] Ferdinand III of Castile had conquered almost all Andalusia by 1251.[5] It was not until after the 1469 marriage between Prince Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile that Alhambra, the Nasrid palace of Granada, fell to Spanish forces.[6] Alhambra fell to the combined forces of Isabella and Ferdinand on January 2, 1492.[7]