List of Aragonese monarchs

Here 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 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:Aureolus (attested 807-809 but probably was ruling before 802)
809–820: Aznar I Galíndez. c. 820 the Frankish influence is eliminated.
820–833: García I Galíndez of Pamplona (married to Matrona, daughter of Aznar I)
833–844: Galindo Garcés, son of García I Galindez
844–867: Galindo I Aznárez, son of Aznar I
867–893: Aznar II Galíndez, son of Galindo I
893–922: Galindo II Aznárez, son of Aznar II
922–???: Andregota Galíndez (married García Sánchez of Navarre)

NOTE: Names and order of rulers is extremely uncertain. Other persons cited as counts of Aragon include, among others, Jimeno Aznar, Galindo García and Fortun Jiménez, that seems to be from the kingdom of Sobrarbe.

Counts of Aragon and Kings of Navarre

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

926–970 García III 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 (Afonso 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 during the War Against John 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 (I of Portugal)
1598–1621 Philip III of Spain (II of Portugal)
1621–1665 Philip IV of Spain (III of Portugal) → note that 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 1649.
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)

During the war (officially in 1707) Philip d'Anjou, the first of the Bourbon dinasty in Spain, disbanded the Crown of Aragon. After this time, there are no more Aragonese monarchs. Nevertheless, Spanish monarchs up to Isabel 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.

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