House of Aragon
The (Royal) House of Aragon is the name given several royal houses that ruled the County, the Kingdom or the Crown of Aragon.1
Some historiansnote 1 use the term for the house that started with Ramiro I, a member of the Jiménez dynasty who established an autonomous state in Aragon that would become the Kingdom of Aragon.1 The end of this dynasty is variously given, somenote 2 It was ruled by the House of Aragon giving rise to the Crown of Aragon. While others call the later holders of this crown members of the House of Barcelona, considering it to have been extinguished the House of Aragón when Ramiro II of Aragon died without male descent.However, the marriage provisions of his daughter Petronila and their descendants call themselves, and are known in the following centuries "de Aragon". A separate branch of the latter house governed the Kingdom of Sicily from the crowning of Frederick III of Sicily in 1285 until the death of Martin the Younger in 1407 without descendents, with the kingdom returning then to the main branch.2 Another separate branch reigned from the crowning of the bastard Ferdinand I of Naples in 1458 to the death of Frederick IV of Naples in 1504. This part of the house is sometimes called "House of Aragon and Sicily".
Related dinasties and houses
- Family of Aznar Galíndez I (809–820, 844–922 or later)
- Family of García the Bad (820–844), briefly displaced Aznar and his sons, detaching Aragon from Francia
- Jiménez dynasty (before 994–1162), established Aragonese kingdom (between 1035 and 1076)
- House of Barcelona (1137–1410), descended from previous through a female, established Crown of Aragon
- House of Trastámara (1412–1555), descended from previous through a female, established the Kingdom of Spain
- House of Habsburg (1516–1700), descended from previous through a female, ruled as part of the Spanish Crown
- House of Bourbon (1700–1715), dissolved Aragonese crown with the Nueva Planta decrees
Notes
- ^ Guillermo Fatás y Guillermo Redondo, Alberto Montaner Frutos, Faustino Menéndez Pidal de Navascués.
- ^ Armand de Fluvià, Josep Serrano Daura.
References
- ^ a b Charles William Previté-Orton (1975). The shorter Cambridge medieval history. Twelfth Century to the Renaissance. 2 (reprinted, illustrated ed.). CUP Archive. pp. 767,825,903. ISBN 0-521-09977-3. http://books.google.es/books?id=53I5AAAAIAAJ.
- ^ Thomas Henry Dyer (1861). The history of modern Europe from the fall of Constantinople: in 1453, to the war in the Crimea, in 1857. 1. J. Murray. p. 58. http://books.google.es/books?id=fUA-AAAAYAAJ.