Kingdom of Aragon

Coordinates: 41°39′N 0°54′W / 41.650°N 0.900°W / 41.650; -0.900
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Not to be confused with the larger Crown of Aragon.
This article is about the history of Aragón as a separate political entity. For the history of Aragón during Middle Ages, see
Aragón § Middle Ages
.
Kingdom of Aragon
Reino d'Aragón (
Latin)
Reino de Aragón (Spanish
)
1035–1707
StatusKingdom of the Crown of Aragon (since 1162)
Capital
Common languages
Early Modern
• County of Aragon established as independent kingdom
1035
dissolved Aragonese institutions 1707
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
County of Aragon
Crown of Aragon
Bourbon Spain
Today part ofSpain

The Kingdom of Aragon (

King of Aragon
, but were administered separately from the Kingdom of Aragon.

In 1479, upon

Corts. The arrangement remained until the Nueva Planta decrees, promulgated between 1707 and 1715 by Philip V of Spain in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession, centralised power in Spain.[2][3]

History

Independent kingdom

Aragon was originally a

river Aragón, which flows by Jaca. It might derive from the Basque Aragona/Haragona meaning "good upper valley" (haran+goi+ona, where haran = "valley", goi = "upper, high", and ona = good). Alternatively, the name may be derived from the earlier Roman province of Hispania Tarraconensis.[citation needed
]

On the death of

Sancho III of Navarre in 1035, the Kingdom of Navarre was divided into three parts: (1) Pamplona and its hinterland along with western and coastal Basque districts, (2) Castile, and (3) Sobrarbe, Ribagorza and Aragon. Sancho's son Gonzalo inherited Sobrarbe and Ribargorza. His illegitimate son Ramiro received Aragon. Gonzalo was killed soon after and all the land he owned went to his brother Ramiro, thus becoming the first de facto king of Aragon,[4]
although he never used that title.

By defeating his brother,

Al Andalus, the capital city moved from Jaca to Huesca (1096), and later to Zaragoza (1118).[6] After Alfonso the Battler died childless in 1134, different rulers were chosen for Navarre and Aragon, and the two kingdoms ceased to have the same ruler. By 1285 the southernmost areas of what is now Aragon had been taken from the Moors
.

Dynastic union with the County of Barcelona

See also: Crown of Aragon

The Kingdom of Aragon gave the name to the

Sardinia
.

The King of Aragón was the direct ruler of the Aragonese region, and held the titles of

Neopatria. Each of these titles gave him sovereignty over a certain region, and these titles changed as he won and lost territories. In the 14th century, his power was greatly restricted by the Union of Aragon
.

Union of the Crowns of Aragon and Castile and afterwards

The

John II of Aragon (1458–1479), countered residual Catalan resistance by arranging for his heir, Ferdinand, to marry Isabella, the heir presumptive of Henry IV of Castile.[7]

In 1479, upon John II's death, the crowns of Aragon and Castile were united to form the nucleus of modern Spain. Aragonese territories retained their autonomous parliamentary and administrative institutions, such as the

Corts, until the Nueva Planta decrees, which were promulgated between 1707 and 1715 by Philip V of Spain in the aftermath of the War of the Spanish Succession.[7] The decrees de jure ended the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia and Mallorca, and the Principality of Catalonia, and merged them with Castile to officially form the Spanish kingdom.[8] A new Nueva Planta decree in 1711 restored some rights in Aragon, such as the Aragonese Civil Rights, but upheld the end of the political independence of the kingdom.[8]

The previous Kingdom of Aragon remained as an administrative unit until 1833, when it was divided into the three existing provinces. In the aftermath of Francisco Franco's death, Aragon became one of the autonomous communities of Spain in 1982.

Image gallery

The historical Coat of arms of Aragon

See also

References

  1. ISBN 978-1610695664
    .
  2. ^ I. Ruiz Rodríguez, Apuntes de historia del derecho y de las instituciones españolas, Dykinson, Madrid, 2005, p. 179. (In Spanish)
  3. ISBN 978-0-520-37926-8
    .
  4. ^ CAI Tourism of Aragon. Retrieved 2010-03-05
  5. ISBN 84-7013-227-X
  6. ^ Joseph F. O’Callaghan A History of Medieval Spain. Cornell University Press 1975, p. 219.
  7. ^ a b I. Ruiz Rodríguez, Apuntes de historia del derecho y de las instituciones españolas, Dykinson, Madrid, 2005, p. 179. (In Spanish)
  8. ^
    ISBN 978-84-9892-060-4
    .

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