“…Her religious piety and religious patronage, whether as alms or royal monuments, bound her subjects to her and created important bonds across rank and region (Carneiro de Sousa, ; Dockray‐Miller, ; Loconte, ). From the standpoint of her subjects, perhaps the most appreciated form of queenly influence was her intercession on behalf of her subjects who faced fiscal ruin or judicial execution (Brown, ; Brown, ; Christys, ; Dockray‐Miller, ; Gajewski, ; Keane, ; McKiernan‐González, ; Nolan, ).…”