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    The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and...
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    then into Valencia. Despite being a tributary of Castile, emir Al-Mamun of Toledo led a force in support of his son-in-law, Emir Abd al-Malik. Mamun subsequently...
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    The Kingdom of Granada (/ɡrəˈnɑːdə/; Spanish: Reino de Granada) was a territorial jurisdiction of the Crown of Castile from the conclusion of the Reconquista...
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    of Castile from 1504 and queen of Aragon from 1516 to her death in 1555. She was the daughter of Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of...
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    of the Islamic principalities. The Kingdoms of Castile and of León, with their southern acquisitions, came to be known collectively as the Crown of Castile...
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    This is a list of kings regnant and queens regnant of the Kingdom and Crown of Castile. For their predecessors, see List of Castilian counts. The following...
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    eventually consolidated as a realm of the Crown of Castile, the Kingdom of Murcia. Subsequently, the Aragonese Crown focused on the Mediterranean, governing...
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    now known as Castile soap. Castile soap is so called because it was produced on a large scale in the territories of the Crown of Castile, from where it...
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    who claimed the crown of Castile by right of his wife Constance, the eldest daughter of Peter of Castile. In response, the king of Castile sent the ambassador...
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    during the early 16th century: the Crown of Castile in 1500–1502, followed by Navarre in 1515–1516, and lastly the Crown of Aragon in 1523–1526. After Christian...
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  • kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula, 1065–1230 Crown of Castile, a medieval state in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 Two regions of the Kingdom of Spain...
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  • Kingdom of Castile in 1210 The kingdoms of the Crown of Castile in 1400. Note how Old Castile was called Kingdom of Castile and New Castile was called...
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    Count of Aumale. Ferdinand III was one of the most successful kings of Castile, securing not only the permanent union of the crowns of Castile and León...
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    of two crowns rather than a unitary state, as Castile and Aragon remained separate kingdoms until the Nueva Planta decrees of 1707–16. The court of Ferdinand...
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    Católica), was Queen of Castile and León from 1474 until her death in 1504. She was also Queen of Aragon from 1479 until her death as the wife of King Ferdinand...
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    constituent realm of the Crown of Castile and then the Spanish Crown. The city of León was founded by the Legio VII Gemina ("twin seventh legion") of the Roman...
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    queen of the Crown of Castile. That year, after a war with France, Ferdinand conquered the Kingdom of Naples. In 1507 he became regent of Castile on behalf...
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    was complicated since Spain was a personal union between the Crown of Castile and Crown of Aragon, each with very distinct political cultures and traditions...
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    The House of Trastámara (Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan: Casa de Trastámara) was a royal dynasty which first ruled in the Crown of Castile and then expanded...
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    Henry IV of Castile (Castilian: Enrique IV; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Castile and León and the last of the weak...
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    first-born child of the recently crowned king John I of Castile and his wife Eleanor of Aragon. His younger brother Ferdinand grew up to become king of Aragon....
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    Maria of Castile (14 September 1401 – 4 September 1458) was Queen of Aragon and Naples as the spouse of Alfonso V of Aragon. Maria acted twice as the regent...
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    Crown of Castile, until today, when it has been incorporated to the set of titles historically linked to the crown prince of Spain as the main one of...
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    heir apparent to the Crown of Castile as the eldest son of Alfonso X and Violant of Aragon. His nickname, de la Cerda, means "of the bristle" in Spanish...
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    Kingdom of Aragon, the Principality of Catalonia, the Kingdom of Valencia, the Crown of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal. In the Crown of Castile, the...
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  • the Crown of Castile, the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada and later the Kingdom of Navarre. However, it is important to clarify the origin of the toponym...
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    Constance of Castile (1354 – 24 March 1394) was a claimant to the Crown of Castile. She was the daughter of King Peter, who was deposed and killed by...
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    occupied the outlying countryside and the poor suburbs of the cities. In the Crown of Castile, which included the Guadalquivir valley in present Andalusia...
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    was under the Crown of Castile. Then it started to be called New Castile in the 18th century. New Castile is separated from Old Castile to the north by...
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    the arms of León (the purple lion). It is topped with a royal crown. The lion design is attributed to Alfonso VII, who became king of Castile and León...
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