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Castille
AD 1035 - 1516
Castille started as a march county of León, with local castellans as
governors. Fernan Gonzalez was a Count of Castille who gained autonomy.
After being part of Sancho the Great's Navarre,
Castille was detached by him and then willed to his son Ferdinand I as a
separate kingdom. Castille later absorbed León, Aragón,
and then, briefly, Portugal. The kingdom
comprised most of the central Spanish plateau. Reignal numbering was continued from León. |
712 - 755 |
The region
falls under the authority of the
Islamic Empire. |
755 - c.800 |
The Omayyid Caliphate
controls the area at Cordoba. |
c.850 - 910 |
The county
is ruled by
Asturias. |
910 - 1029 |
The county
is ruled by
Leon. It is administered by local counts at Burgos from at least 930. |
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County of Castille
AD 930 - 1029 |
930 - 970 |
Fernan Gonzalez |
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944 - 947 |
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Assur |
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970 - 995 |
Garcia I of the White Hands |
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995 - 1017 |
Sancho I of the Good Laws |
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1017 - 1029 |
Garcia II Sanchez |
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1029 - 1035 |
The
country is annexed and ruled by
Navarre. |
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Kingdom of Castille
AD 1035 - 1516 |
1035 - 1065 |
Ferdinand I the Great |
Also king of
Leon. |
1065 - 1072 |
Sancho II the Strong |
Forcibly gained
Galicia. |
1072 - 1157 |
Castille is ruled by
Leon. |
1157 - 1158 |
Sancho III the Desired |
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1158 - 1214 |
Alfonso VIII the Noble |
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1214 - 1217 |
Henry I |
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1217 - 1252 |
St Ferdinand III |
San Fernando Rey de Espana. Joined
Leon to Castille. |
1235 - 1248 |
Castille captures Cordova in
1235. Seville is taken from the
Omayyad caliphs in 1248. |
1252 - 1284 |
Alfonso X the Emperor |
Elected
HRE
(1257) but never acceded the throne. |
1284 - 1295 |
Sancho IV the Brave |
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1295 - 1312 |
Ferdinand IV the Summoned |
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1312 - 1350 |
Alfonso XI the Just |
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1350 - 1366 |
Pedro the Cruel |
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1366 - 1367 |
Henry II the Bastard |
Usurper. |
1367 - 1369 |
Pedro the Cruel |
Restored by Prince
Edward of
England. Later murdered. |
1369 - 1379 |
Henry II the Bastard |
Restored. |
1379 - 1390 |
John I |
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1390 - 1406 |
Henry III the Infirm |
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1399 |
Benefiting from the anarchy within the
Merinid kingdom, Henry III
invades Morocco, seizes Tetouan, massacres half of the population and reduces it to slavery. |
1406 - 1454 |
John II |
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1454 - 1474 |
Henry IV the Impotent |
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1462 |
Ferdinand IV of
Castille takes over Gibraltar from the Moroccan
Merinids. |
1474 - 1504 |
Isabella I |
Queen of
Sicily. |
1492 |
The
Islamic Nasrids of
Granada are finally
defeated, marking the end of the Reconquista. |
1504 - 1516 |
Juana / Joanna the Mad |
(d.1555) |
1504 - 1506 |
Philip I of Habsburg |
Son of
HRE Maximilian & Mary of
Burgundy. Count of
Holland. |
1506 - 1516 |
Ferdinand V |
King of
Navarre &
Sicily. Regent of Castille. |
1501 - 1509 |
Ferdinand's
daughter, Catherine, 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. |
1516 |
With the accession of
Ferdinand's son, Carlos of Castille, the kingdoms
of Castille, Navarre
& Aragon are merged, and
Spain is united. |
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