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The Crown of Aragon (UK: / ˈ ær ə ɡ ən /, US: /-ɡ ɒ n /) [nb 2] was a composite monarchy [1] ruled by one king, originated by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and the County of Barcelona and ended as a consequence of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Coat of Arms of the Crown of Aragon. This is a list of the kings and queens of Aragon.The Kingdom of Aragon was created sometime between 950 and 1035 when the County of Aragon, which had been acquired by the Kingdom of Navarre in the tenth century, was separated from Navarre in accordance with the will of King Sancho III (1004–35).
The conquest of the island of Majorca on behalf of the Roman Catholic kingdoms was carried out by King James I of Aragon between 1229 and 1231. The pact to carry out the invasion, concluded between James I and the ecclesiastical and secular leaders, was ratified in Tarragona on 28 August 1229.
The crown of the Kingdom of Hungary was offered to him by John Hunyadi and other Hungarian magnates. [24] Admiral Bernat I de Vilamarí occupied and fortified Kastellorizo , [ 25 ] he operated at the mouth of the Nile and set fire to the enemy's ships there, launched himself on the coast of Syria and repeated the feat there.
The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain, which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, and of their respective colonial empires, that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra, as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas ...
The medieval Crown of Castile grew to encompass almost all of Spain outside the Crown of Aragon; even after the establishment of a joint monarchy in 1469 Castile remained distinct from Aragon up to the 18th century. Spanish was the language of the royal court and bureaucracy.
The Crown of Aragon began its expansion in the 13th century under James I of Aragon, and by the 14th-16th centuries, its territories included the Duchy of Neopatras (in actual Greece), Kingdom of Sicily, Isle of Sardinia, isle of Corsica, Kingdom of Mallorca, Kingdom of Valencia, Principality of Catalonia and Kingdom of Aragon. All these united ...
The Union of Aragon, Aragonese Union (Castilian and Aragonese: Unión Aragonesa, Catalan: Unió Aragonesa), or "Union of the Nobles" [1] was an anti-royalist movement [2] among the nobility and the townsmen of the lands of the Crown of Aragon during the last quarter of the thirteenth century.