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Kings of Aragon

Here is a list of the rulers of Aragon, now a region of north-eastern Spain. The Aragonese kingdom included the present-day autonomous community of Aragon. The Aragonese kings of the House of Barcelona ruled as well Catalonia (which included Roussillon, nowadays the département of Pyrenées-Orientales in France), the kingdom of Valencia, the kingdom of Majorca, the kingdom of Sicily, Sardinia and assorted territories in the South of France, including the city of Montpellier. This state is referred to as the Crown of Aragon, as opposed to the Kingdom of Aragon (i.e. Aragon proper)

Early counts of Aragon

• ?809 Galindo
• circa 809 839 Aznar I Galíndez
• 844 867 Galindo I Aznárez
• 867 893 Aznar II Galíndez
• 893 922 Galindo II Aznárez
• 922 ? Andregota Galíndez ==> married Navarre

(for kings of Navarre prior to the dynastic union with Aragon see: List of Navarrese monarchs)

• 926 970 García I Sánchez of Navarre, a.k.a. García Sánchez Abarca
• 970 994 Sancho II Garcés of Navarre, a.k.a. Sancho II Garcés Abarca
• 994 1000 García II of Navarre the Trembler or the Tremulous, a.k.a. García Sánchez II Abarca
• 1000 1035 Sancho III of Navarre the Great

Kings of Aragon and Navarre

• 1035 1063 Ramiro I of Aragon
• 1063 1094 Sancho I Ramirez (V of Navarre)
• 1094 1101 Peter I of Aragon, conquered Huesca
• 1104 1134 Alfonso I the Battler, conquered Zaragoza

Kings of Aragon

• 1134 1137 Ramiro II of Aragon the Monk
• 1137 1162 Petronila of Aragon ==> married Count Ramon Berenguer IV The Saint of Barcelona)

Kings of Aragon and Counts of Barcelona, of the House of Barcelona

(for counts of Barcelona prior to the dynastic union with Aragon see: List of Counts of Barcelona)

• 1162 1196 Alfonso II (I of Barcelona) the Chaste or the Troubadour, conquered Teruel
• 1196 1213 Peter II (I of Barcelona) the Catholic, died at the Battle of Muret

Kings of Aragon and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona, of the House of Barcelona

• 1213 1276 James I the Conqueror, conquered Valencia, Majorca and Ibiza, wrote the Libre dels feyts
• 1276 1285 Peter III (I of Valencia, II of Barcelona) the Great, conquered Sicily
• 1285 1291 Alfonso III (I of Valencia, II of Barcelona) the Generous or the Liberal, conquered Minorca
• 1291 1329 James II the Just
• 1327 1336 Alfonso IV (II of Valencia, III of Barcelona) the Good
• 1336 1387 Peter IV (II of Valencia, III of Barcelona) the Ceremonious. Deposed the Kings of Majorca, wrote the Chronicle
• 1387 1396 John I the Hunter
• 1396 1410 Martin I, the Humanist --> last direct descendant of Wilfred I the Hairy, Count of Barcelona to rule; died without legitimate heirs, occasion of the Compromise of Casp

interregnum 1410 - 1412

Kings of Aragon and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona, of the Trastámara dynasty

• 1412 1416 Ferdinand I of Aragon, a.k.a. Ferdinand of Antequera
• 1416 1458 Alfonso V (III of Valencia, IV of Barcelona), conquered Naples
• 1458 1479 John II ==> title disputed much of that time in the War Against John II (1462-1472)
• 1479 1516 Ferdinand II of Aragon and Sicily (III of Naples, V of Spain) the Catholic, married Isabella I of Castile, invaded Navarre

Kings of Aragon and Counts of Barcelona who occupied the throne during the War Against Joan II (none of these reigned in Valencia, which remained under the control of John II)

• 1462 1463 Henry IV of Castile
• 1463 1466 Peter V of Aragon (IV of Barcelona), Connêtable of Portugal, son of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and grand-son of John I of Portugal
• 1466 1472 Rene I the Good of Anjou, king of Naples

Kings of Aragon, Castile and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona, of the Habsburg dynasty (or House of Austria)

(for kings of Castile prior to the dynastic union with Aragon see: List of Castilian monarchs)

• 1516 1556 Charles I of Spain (Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor)
• 1556 1598 Philip II of Spain
• 1598 1621 Philip III of Spain
• 1621 1641 Philip IV of Spain (first time)

Kings of Aragon and Counts of Barcelona, of the Bourbon dynasty, during the Reapers' War (none of these reigned in Valencia, which remained under the control of Phillip IV of Spain)

• 1641 1643 Louis XIII of France
• 1643 1652 Louis XIV of France the Sun-King

Kings of Aragon, Castile and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona, of the Habsburg dynasty (or House of Austria)

• 1652 1665 Philip IV of Spain, second time
• 1665 1700 Charles II of Spain the Bewitched ==> died without heirs

Kings of Aragon, Castile and Valencia, Counts of Barcelona during the War of the Spanish Succession

• 1700 1705 Philip V of Spain, of the House of Bourbon
• 1705 1714 Archduke Charles of Austria, styling himself Charles III of Spain (not to be confused with Charles III of Spain)

==> the Catalan-Aragonese confederation was occupied and annexed by Spain: after this time, there are no more Aragonese monarchs.

See also

• Spanish monarchs
• Kings of Spain family tree