Kingdom of Aragon

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Kingdom of Aragon

The Kingdom of Aragon was an old kingdom

Monarchy

A monarchy is a form of government in which supreme power is absolutely or nominally lodged in an individual, who is the head of state, often for Life tenure or until abdication, and "is wholly set apart from all other members of the state." The person who heads a monarchy is called a monarch....
in the Iberian Peninsula

Iberian Peninsula

The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France....
, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community

Autonomous communities of Spain

The Autonomous Community is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
of Aragon

Aragon

Aragon is an autonomous communities of Spain of Spain. Located in northeastern Spain, the region comprises three provinces of Spain from north to south: Huesca , Zaragoza , and Teruel ....
(Aragón), in Spain

Spain

Spain or the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in Southern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though Espa?a , Estado espa?ol and Naci?n espa?ola are used interchangeably....
. It should not be confused with the larger Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon was a permanent union of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of Aragon.At the height of its power by the 14th and 15th centuries, the Crown of Aragon was a thalassocracy controlling a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain, Northern Catalonia, as well as some of the major islands and mainland...
, of which the Kingdom of Aragon was a member along with other territories such as the Kingdom of Valencia

Kingdom of Valencia

The Christian Kingdom of Valencia , located in the Eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon....
or the Principality of Catalonia

Principality of Catalonia

The Principality of Catalonia , from the latin language Principatus Cathaloniae, is a historic territory in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula, mostly in Spain and with an adjoining portion in southern France....
, all of them sharing the same king

King

King is a title for a head of state.King may also refer to:...
.

This kingdom was originally a Frankish feudal county around the city of Jaca

Jaca

Jaca is a city of northeastern Spain near the border with France, in the midst of the Pyrenees in the province of Huesca . Jaca, a ford on the Arag?n River at the crossing of two great early medieval routes, one from Pau, Pyr?n?es-Atlantiques to Zaragoza, was the fortified city out of which the County of Aragon and Kingdom of Aragon develop...
, which in the first half of the 8th century became a vassal state of the kingdom of Pamplona

Pamplona

Pamplona is the capital city of Navarre, Spain and of the former kingdom of Navarre.The city is famous worldwide for the San Ferm?n festival, from July 6 to 14, in which the running of the bulls or encierro is one of the main attractions....
(later Navarre

Kingdom of Navarre

The Kingdom of Navarre , originally the Kingdom of Pamplona, was a European kingdom which occupied lands on either side of the Pyrenees alongside the Atlantic Ocean....
), its own dynasty of counts ending without male heir in 922.

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The Kingdom of Aragon was an old kingdom

Monarchy

Iberian Peninsula

Autonomous communities of Spain

The Autonomous Community is the first-level political division of the Kingdom of Spain, established in accordance with the Spanish Constitution of 1978....
of Aragon

Aragon

Spain

Crown of Aragon

Kingdom of Valencia

The Christian Kingdom of Valencia , located in the Eastern shore of the Iberian Peninsula, was one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon....
or the Principality of Catalonia

Principality of Catalonia

King

King is a title for a head of state.King may also refer to:...
.

This kingdom was originally a Frankish feudal county around the city of Jaca

Jaca

Pamplona

Kingdom of Navarre

County of Aragon

The County of Aragon or Jaca was a small Franks Marches in the central Pyrenean valley of the Aragon river, comprising Ans?, Echo, Arag?n, Spain, and Canfranc and centred on the small town of Jaca ....
were given by Sancho III of Navarre

Sancho III of Navarre

Sancho III Garc?s , called the Great , was King of Navarre from 1004 until his death and claimed the overlordship of the List of Castilian monarchs from 1017 to his death, appearing in a charter as "king in Castile"....
to his son Ramiro I

Ramiro I of Aragon

Ramiro I was de facto the first King of Aragon from 1035 until his death. Apparently born before 1007, he was the natural son of Sancho III of Navarre by his mistress Sancha de Aybar....
, who also acquired the counties of Ribagorza

County of Ribagorza

Ribagorza is one of the historical Aragon county, which also comprised the counties of Sobrarbe and Pallars.Its territory was the valleys of the rivers Esera, Isabena, and Noguera Ribagorzana....
and Sobrarbe

Sobrarbe

Sobrarbe is one of the Comarcas of Spain in the northern part of the province of Huesca , part of the autonomous community of Aragon in Spain. Many of its people speak the Aragonese language locally known as fabla....
following the death of this brother Gonzalo

Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza

Gonzalo S?nchez was made Count of Sobrarbe and Count of Ribagorza, two small Pyrenean counties, before 1035 by his father, Sancho III of Navarre....
in 1043. By defeating his brother, García Sánchez III of Navarre, he achieved virtual independence (although the royal title was not used until the next generation). As the kingdom expanded to the south, conquering land from Al Andalus, the capital city moved from Jaca to Huesca

Huesca

Huesca is a city in Aragon, Spain. Huesca is the capital of the Spanish Huesca . In 2006 it had a population of 49,312....
(1096), and later to Zaragoza

Zaragoza

Zaragoza, also called Saragossa in English language, is the capital city of the Zaragoza and of the Autonomous communities of Spain and former Kingdom of Aragon of Aragon, Spain....
(1118). By 1285 the southernmost areas of Aragon

Aragon

Moors

In the Spanish language, the term for Moors is Moro; in Portuguese language the word is mouro. There seems to have been some confusion about the relationship of the word moro/mouro to the word moreno , both from Greek language ma?ros, i.e....
.

The Kingdom of Aragón gave the name to the Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon

Dynastic union

A dynastic union is the combination by which two different states are governed by the same monarch or dynasty, while their boundaries, their laws and their interests remain distinct....
in 1150 of a Count of Barcelona (Ramon Berenguer IV

Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona

Raymond Berengar IV or Ramon Berenguer IV , sometimes called the Holy, was the Count of Barcelona who effected the union between the Kingdom of Aragon and the Principality of Catalonia into the Crown of Aragon....
) with a Queen of Aragón (Petronila of Aragon

Petronila of Aragon

File:Petronila, reina de Arag?n y condesa de Barcelona, abdica en su hijo Alfonso-18 de julio de 1164.jpgPetronila Ram?rez , whose name is also spelled Petronilla or Petronella , was Queen of Aragon from 1137 until 1164....
), their son inheriting all their respective territories. The Kings of Aragón had also the title of Count of Barcelona and ruled territories that consisted of not only the present administrative region of Aragon

Aragon

Catalonia

Catalonia , is an Autonomous Community in northeast Spain.Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km? and has an official population of 7,210,508. It borders France and Andorra to the north, Aragon to the west, the Valencian Community to the south, and the Mediterranean Sea to the east ....
, and later the Balearic Islands

Balearic Islands

The Balearic Islands are an archipelago in the western Mediterranean Sea, near the eastern coast of the Iberian Peninsula.The four largest islands are Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza, and Formentera....
, Valencia, Sicily

Sicily

Sicily is an Autonomous regions with special statute of Italy. Of all the regions of Italy, Sicily covers the largest land area at 25,708 km? and currently has just over five million inhabitants....
, Naples

Naples

Naples is a city in southern Italy, the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old....
and Sardinia

Sardinia

Sardinia is the Mediterranean islands#By area island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The island is surrounded by the France island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia and the Balearic Islands....
(see Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon was a permanent union of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of Aragon.At the height of its power by the 14th and 15th centuries, the Crown of Aragon was a thalassocracy controlling a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain, Northern Catalonia, as well as some of the major islands and mainland...
). The King of Aragón was the direct King of the Aragonese region, and held also the title of King of Valencia, King of Majorca (for a time), Count of Barcelona, Lord of Montpellier

Montpellier

Montpellier is a city in the south of France. It is the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon Regions of France, as well as the H?rault Departments of France....
, and, for a time, Duke of Athens and Neopatria

Duchy of Athens

The Duchy of Athens was one of the Crusader States set up in Greece after the conquest of the Byzantine Empire during the Fourth Crusade, encompassing the regions of Attica and Boeotia, and surviving until its conquest by the Ottoman Empire in the 15th century....
. Each of these titles gave him sovereignty over a certain region, and these titles changed as he lost and won territories. In the fourteenth century, his power was greatly restricted by the Union of Aragon

Union of Aragon

The Union of Aragon was an anti-royalist movement among the nobility and the townsmen of the lands of the Crown of Aragon during the last quarter of the thirteenth century....
.

The Crown of Aragon

Crown of Aragon

The Crown of Aragon was a permanent union of multiple titles and states in the hands of the King of Aragon.At the height of its power by the 14th and 15th centuries, the Crown of Aragon was a thalassocracy controlling a large portion of the present-day eastern Spain, Northern Catalonia, as well as some of the major islands and mainland...
was effectively disbanded after the dynastic union with Castile

Crown of Castile

The Crown of Castile, as a historic entity, is usually considered to have begun in 1230 with the third and definitive union of the two kingdoms of Kingdom of Le?n and Kingdom of Castile, or more concretely, with the union of their parliaments a few decades later....
which supposed the de jure unification of the Spanish Kingdom after some time of de facto unification under a common monarch. After this happened, Aragon kept some political institutions, until the Nueva Planta decrees

Nueva Planta decrees

The Nueva Planta decrees were a number of decrees signed between 1707 and 1716 by Philip V of Spain—the first House of Bourbon king of Spain—during and shortly after the end of the War of the Spanish Succession which he won....
, promulgated in 1707, finally put an end to it.