List of Aragonese monarchs

This is a list of the rulers of Aragon, now a region of north-eastern Spain. The Kingdom of Aragon included the present-day autonomous community of Aragon. The Aragonese kings of the House of Aragon also ruled 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).

Monarchs of Aragon

House of Aragon, 1035–1410

With the death of Sancho III of Navarre, Aragon fell to his son Ramiro, who quickly elevated it into an autonomous state.
Ramiro I
1035–1063||
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Sancho Ramírez
1063–1094||
aged 48
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Peter I
1094–1104||
aged 36
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Alfonso I
1104–1134||
aged 61
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Ramiro II
1134–1137||
aged 82
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Petronila
1137–1162||
aged 38
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Alfonso II
1162–1196 ||
aged 44
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Peter II
1196–1213||
aged 39
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James I
1213–1276||
aged 68
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Peter III
1276–1285 ||
aged 45
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Alfonso III
1285–1291 ||
aged 27
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James II
1291–1327||
aged 60
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Alfonso IV
1327–1336||
aged 37
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Peter IV
1336–1387 ||
aged 68
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John I
1387–1396||
aged 46
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Martin I
1396–1410 ||
aged 54
-Martin was last direct descendant of Wilfred I the Hairy, Count of Barcelona to rule; died without legitimate heirs, on occasion of the Compromise of Caspe
*"interregnum" 1410–1412

House of Trastámara, 1412–1516

While this dynasty is sometimes referred to as Aragonese in texts, in actually they were not part of the House of Aragon of the previous dynasty, but of the House of Trastámara, who had previously ruled the Crown of Castile.
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Ferdinand I
1412–1416 ||
aged 36
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Alfonso V
1416–1458||
aged 52
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John II
1458–1479||
aged 81
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Ferdinand II
1479–1516||
aged 54
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Joanna
1516–1555||
aged 75
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Claimants against John II, 1462–1472

During the War against John II, there were three who claimed his throne, though this never included the Kingdom of Valencia.
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Henry IV of Castile
House of Trastámara
1462–1463||
aged 49
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Peter V of Aragon
House of Aviz
1463–1466 || || 1429
son of Pedro, Duke of Coimbra and Isabel of Aragon|| never married || 1466
Granollers
aged 37
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René
House of Valois-Anjou
1466–1472 ||
aged 71
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House of Habsburg, 1516–1700

"see also|Kings of Castile"
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Charles I
1516–1554 ||
aged 58
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Philip I
1554–1598 ||
aged 71
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Philip II
1598–1621||
aged 42
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Philip III
1621–1665||
aged 60
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Charles II
1665–1700||
aged 38
-Aragon itself stayed loyal to Philip IV during the Reapers' War while Catalonia switched allegiance to Louis XIII and Louis XIV of France "the Sun-King", see List of Counts of Barcelona. Portugal seceded in 1640. Charles II died without heirs.

House of Bourbon, 1700–1705

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Philip IV
1700–1705||
aged 62
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House of Habsburg, 1705–1714

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Charles III
1705–1714 ||
aged 55
-During the war (officially in 1707) Philip d'Anjou, the first of the Bourbon empire in Spain, disbanded the Crown of Aragon. After this time, there are no more Aragonese monarchs. Nevertheless, Spanish monarchs up to Isabella II, while styling themselves "king/queen of Spain" on coins, still used some of the traditional nomenclature of the defunct Crown of Aragon in their official documents: "King/Queen of Castile, Leon, Aragon, both Sicilies, Jerusalem, Navarra, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarve, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, the Eastern & Western Indias, the Islands & Mainland of the Ocean sea; Archduke of Austria; Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan; Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Barcelona; Lord of Biscay, Molina".

ee also

*List of Asturian monarchs
*List of Castilian monarchs
*List of Galician monarchs
*List of Leonese monarchs
*List of Navarrese monarchs
*List of Spanish monarchs
*Kings of Spain family tree
*Catalan Countries

External links

* [http://www.geocities.com/eurprin/aragon.html List of Aragonese monarchs]