The Crown of Aragon (UK: /ˈærəɡən/, US: /-ɡɒn/) was a composite monarchy ruled by one king, originated by the dynastic union of the Kingdom of Aragon and...
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community of Aragon, in Spain. It should not be confused with the larger Crown of Aragon, which also included other territories—the Principality of Catalonia...
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personal union in 1469 of the crowns of Castile and Aragon with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs up to the promulgation of the Nueva Planta decrees...
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issued between 1707 and 1716. The Crown of Aragon that Ferdinand inherited in 1479 included the kingdoms of Aragon, Valencia, Majorca, Sardinia, and Sicily...
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the Kingdom of Aragon, and eventually the Crown of Aragon. The area of Aragon is 47720 km2 of which 15636 km2 belong to the province of Huesca, 17275 km2...
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The coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon bears four red pallets on a gold background, and it depicts the familiar coat of the Kings of Aragon. It differs...
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epithet, "the Catholic"). He was the first king of Aragon to be crowned by the pope. In the first decade of the thirteenth century Peter commissioned the...
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Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica. The Crown of Aragon continued to exist until 1713 when its separate constitutional systems (Catalan Constitutions, Aragon Fueros...
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ruler of the Crown of Aragon. Ferdinand was born 27 November 1380 in Medina del Campo, the younger son of King John I of Castile and Eleanor of Aragon. On...
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whom he had marry Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona, unifying Aragon and Barcelona into the Crown of Aragon. He withdrew to a monastery in 1137, leaving...
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Almogavars (section Presence in the Crown of Aragon)
romanized: al-mughā́wir) is the name of a class of light infantry soldier originated in the Crown of Aragon used in the later phases of the Reconquista, during the...
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27 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from...
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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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the lands of the Crown of Aragon were divided amongst his two sons. The Kingdom of Aragon, the Kingdom of Valencia and the Principality of Catalonia went...
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County of Barcelona entered a personal union with the Kingdom of Aragon. Thenceforward, the history of the county is subsumed within that of the Crown of Aragon...
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of Aragon, Petronilla, establishing the dynastic union of the County of Barcelona with Aragon, resulting in a composite monarchy later known as Crown...
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Senyera (redirect from Bars of Aragon)
the coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon, which consists of four red stripes on a yellow field. This coat of arms, often called bars of Aragon, or simply...
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The General Archive of the Crown of Aragon (Catalan: Arxiu General de la Corona d'Aragó), originally Royal Archives of Barcelona (Catalan: Arxiu Reial...
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Habeas corpus (redirect from Writ of Habeas Corpus)
Furs de les Corts of the Crown of Aragon and some references to this term in the Law of the Lordship of Biscay (1527). The writ of habeas corpus as a...
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expanded to the Crown of Aragon from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period. They were an illegitimate cadet line of the House of Burgundy who acceded...
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Catalonia (redirect from Culture of Catalonia)
composite monarchy known as the Crown of Aragon. Within the Crown, the Catalan counties merged in to a polity, the Principality of Catalonia, developing its...
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rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (for León); third quarter Or, four pallets Gules (for the former Crown of Aragon), fourth quarter...
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Balearic Islands into the Crown of Aragon, which had been lost due to the division of the realm by his grandfather, James I of Aragon. Thus in 1285 he declared...
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the beginning of the 17th century out of a total population of 8.5 million. A significant proportion resided in the former Crown of Aragon, where it is...
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was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death. The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and...
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of Athens, and Duchy of Neopatria into the Crown of Aragon. Alfonso was born in Naples, the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou. In 1314, aged...
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Barcelona (redirect from City of Barcelona)
became the capital of the County of Barcelona. After joining with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the confederation of the Crown of Aragon, Barcelona, which...
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Composite monarchy (section Crown of Aragon)
Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Crowns of Castile and Aragon, the Kingdom of France, and the early modern predecessors of the United Kingdom (England and...
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dynastic union of the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile, the conquest of the Kingdom of Granada and later the Kingdom of Navarre. However, it is important...
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the Crown of Aragon. In his will of 1261, King James I of Aragon stipulated that the Counties of Roussillon and Cerdanya were to become part of the Kingdom...
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