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Kingdom of Aragon
AD 1035 -1516
Formerly part of the kingdom of Navarre, Aragon, on the
Mediterranean east
coast of Spain, comprised the Catalan-speaking portion of Iberia. |
1035 - 1063 |
Ramiro I |
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1063 - 1094 |
Sancho Ramirez |
Also king of
Navarre. |
1094 - 1104 |
Pedro I |
Also king of
Navarre. |
1104 - 1134 |
Alfonso I the Battler |
Also king of
Navarre. Co-ruled
Leon &
Castile
(1109-1126). |
1134 - 1137 |
Ramiro II the Monk |
(d.1147) |
1137 - 1162 |
Queen Petronilla |
(d.1173) |
1146 |
The
kingdom captures Saragossa. The new capital is established at Aragon. |
1162 |
Aragon achieves union with the County of
Barcelona, expanding the
kingdom of Aragon to encompass it. |
1162 - 1196 |
Alfonso II the Chaste |
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1174 |
The younger sister of Alfonso II, Dulce Berenguer, marries Sancho I of
Portugal,
thereby securing an alliance between the two kingdoms and recognition of
Portugal's right to exist as a kingdom. |
1196 - 1213 |
Pedro II |
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1213 - 1276 |
Jaime / James I the Conqueror |
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1276 - 1285 |
Pedro III the Great |
King of
Sicily (1282-1285). |
1285 - 1291 |
Alfonso III the Do-Gooder |
|
1291 - 1327 |
Jaime / James II the Just |
|
1326 |
Sardinia is ceded by Pisa. |
1327 - 1336 |
Alfonso IV the Good |
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1336 - 1387 |
Peter IV the Ceremonious |
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1369 |
The
death of Pedro of
Castile triggers a fight for the throne.
Peter IV is among the competitors, as are the kings of
Navarre and
Portugal,
and John of Gaunt,
English duke of Lancaster. In the end it is Pedro's illegitimate brother who gains
the throne, and all parties seek peace talks from
Pope Gregory XI. |
1387 - 1395 |
John I |
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1395 - 1410 |
Martin I the Humane |
Martin the Older of Aragon &
Sicily (1409-1410). |
1396 |
Aragon holds full control of the principality of
Andorra. |
1410 - 1412 |
Interregnum. |
1412 - 1416 |
Ferdinand I the Just |
King of
Sicily (1412-1416). |
1416 - 1458 |
Alfonso V the Magnanimous |
King of
Sicily (1416-1458), &
Naples (1442-1458). |
1438 |
Ferdinand's daughter, Eleanor, the widow of King Edward of
Portugal,
becomes regent to her six year-old son, Afonso V. |
1458 - 1479 |
John II |
John I of
Navarre (1425-1479), &
Sicily (1458-1479). |
1479 - 1516 |
Ferdinand II |
Ferdinand II of
Navarre, &
Sicily, & later Ferdinand V of
Castile. |
1469 |
The
marriage of Isabella, soon-to-be queen of
Castile
and
Leon, to Ferdinand II, heir to
the throne of Aragon, Navarre,
and
Sicily, on 19
October lays the foundation for the political unification of all of
Spain under their grandson,
Charles. |
1494 |
The
Treaty of Tordesillas of 7 June divides the New World between the joint
kingdom of
Castile
and Aragon and
Portugal, giving the
latter the opportunity to exploit
Brazil. |
1501 - 1509 |
The daughter
of Isabella and Ferdinand, Katherine, marries Arthur Tudor, elder son of Henry VII of
England.
Arthur dies in 1502, and in 1509 Catherine marries his brother, the
soon-to-be-crowned Henry VIII. |
1507 - 1516 |
Ferdinand waits patiently for matters regarding his daughter, Joanna, to
reach a head in
Castile.
In 1507, with the regency council there clearly unable to solve the
kingdom's problems, he returns to take control as Ferdinand V of Castile,
ruling as regent in his grandson's name. |
1512 - 1513 |
Aragon holds full control of the principality of
Andorra. |
1516 - 1517 |
With
Ferdinand's death, his kingdom is inherited by Charles I of
Castile
and Aragon is merged permanently with it, unifying
Spain. |
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