This is a list of the kings and queens of Aragon. The Kingdom of Aragon was created sometime between 950 and 1035 when the County of Aragon, which had been acquired by the Kingdom of Navarre in the tenth century, was separated from Navarre in accordance with the will of King Sancho III (1004–35). In 1164, the marriage of the Aragonese princess Petronila ( Kingdom of Aragon) and the Catalan count Ramon Berenguer IV (

County of Barcelona The County of Barcelona ( la, Comitatus Barcinonensis, ca, Comtat de Barcelona) was originally a frontier region under the rule of the Carolingian dynasty. In the 10th century, the Counts of Barcelona became progressively independent, here ...

) created a dynastic union from which what modern historians call ''the Crown of Aragon'' was born. In the thirteenth century the kingdoms of

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Majorca and

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were added to the Crown, and in the fourteenth the

Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica The Kingdom of Sardinia,The name of the state was originally Latin: , or when the kingdom was still considered to include Corsica. In Italian it is , in French , in Sardinian , and in Piedmontese . also referred to as the Kingdom of Savoy-S ...

. The Crown of Aragon continued to exist until 1713 when its separate constitutional systems ( Catalan Constitutions, Aragon ''Fueros'', and

Furs of Valencia '' Furs'' of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Furs de València, ) were the laws of the Kingdom of Valencia during most of the Middle Ages and early modern Europe. The laws were a series of charters which, altogether, worked similarly as a modern Consti ...

) were swept away in the ''Nueva Planta'' decrees at the end of the

War of the Spanish Succession The War of the Spanish Succession was a European great power conflict that took place from 1701 to 1714. The death of childless Charles II of Spain in November 1700 led to a struggle for control of the Spanish Empire between his heirs, Phil ...

Jiménez dynasty The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca,Alberto Cañada Juste, "¿Quién fue Sancho Abarca?, ''Príncipe de Viana'', 73: 79-132. was a medieval ruling family from the 9th c ...
, 1035–1164

With the death of

Sancho III of Pamplona Sancho Garcés III ( 992-996 – 18 October 1035), also known as Sancho the Great ( es, Sancho el Mayor, eu, Antso Gartzez Nagusia), was the King of Pamplona from 1004 until his death in 1035. He also ruled the County of Aragon and by marriage t ...

, Aragon was inherited by his son Ramiro as an autonomous state.

House of Barcelona The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 (as kings from 1162) until 1410. They descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy. Th ...
, 1164–1410

, Alfonso II
18 July 1164 – 25 April 1196, , Alfonso II de Aragón from Liber feudorum maior

, , 1157

Huesca Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...

son of

Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona Ramon Berenguer IV (; c. 1114 – 6 August 1162, Anglicized Raymond Berengar IV), sometimes called ''the Saint'', was the count of Barcelona who brought about the union of the County of Barcelona with the Kingdom of Aragon to form the Crown of Ar ...

and

Petronilla of Aragon Petronilla (29 June/11 August 1136 – 15 October 1173), whose name is also spelled Petronila or Petronella ( Aragonese: ''Peyronela'' or ''Payronella'', and ca, Peronella), was Queen of Aragon from the abdication of her father, Ramiro II, ...

, , Sancha of Castile
7 children, , 25 April 1196
Perpignan
aged 44 , - , Peter II
25 April 1196 – 13 September 1213, , , , 1178

Antonio Ubieto Arteta, ''Creación y desarrollo de la Corona de Aragón'', Zaragoza, Anubar (Historia de Aragón), 1987, págs. 187–188. .
son of Alfonso II and Sancha of Castile, ,

Maria of Montpellier Marie of Montpellier (adapted from Occitan: Maria de Montpelhièr) (1182 – 21 April 1213) was Lady of Montpellier and by her three marriages Viscountess of Marseille, Countess of Comminges and Queen of Aragon. She was the daughter of Willi ...

15 June 1204
2 children, , 12 September 1213
Battle of Muret
aged approximately 35 , - , James I
13 September 1213 – 27 July 1276, , Jaime I de Aragón

, , 2 February 1208
Montpellier
son of Peter II and Maria of Montpellier, , Eleanor of Castile
1221
1 child

Violant of Hungary Violant of Hungary ( hu, Jolán; ca, Iolanda or Violant d'Hongria; es, Yolanda or Violante de Hungría; c. 1215 – c. 1251) was the queen of Aragon from 1235 until 1251 as the second wife of King James I of Aragon. A member of the Hungarian H ...

1235
10 children

Teresa Gil de Vidaure
2 children, , 27 July 1276

aged 68 , - , Peter III
27 July 1276 – 2 November 1285, , Pedro III rey de Aragón

, , 1240

son of James I and Violant of Hungary, , Constance of Sicily
13 June 1262
6 children, , 2 November 1285
Vilafranca del Penedès
aged 45 , - , Alfonso III
2 November 1285 – 18 June 1291, , , , 1265

son of Peter III and Constance of Sicily, , Eleanor of England
15 August 1290
No children, , 18 June 1291

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

aged 27 , - , James II
18 June 1291 – 2 November 1327, , , , 10 August 1267

son of Peter III and Constance of Sicily, ,

Isabella of Castile Isabella I ( es, Isabel I; 22 April 1451 – 26 November 1504), also called Isabella the Catholic (Spanish: ''la Católica''), was Queen of Castile from 1474 until her death in 1504, as well as Queen consort of Aragon from 1479 until 1504 b ...

1 December 1291
No children

Blanche of Anjou
29 October 1295
10 children

Marie de Lusignan
15 June 1315
No children

Elisenda de Montcada
25 December 1322
No children, , 5 November 1327

aged 60 , - , Alfonso IV
2 November 1327 – 24 January 1336, , , , 1299

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

son of James II and Blanche of Anjou, , Teresa d'Entença
1314
7 children

Eleanor of Castile
2 children, , 27 January 1336

aged 37 , - , Peter IV
24 January 1336 – 5 January 1387, , , , 5 October 1319

Balaguer Balaguer () is the capital of the ''comarca'' of Noguera, in the province of Lleida, Catalonia, Spain. It is located by the river Segre, a tributary to the Ebre. The municipality includes an exclave to the east. Balaguer also has a sister city i ...

son of Alfonso IV and Teresa d'Entença, , Maria of Navarre
1338
2 children

Eleanor of Portugal
1347
No children

Eleanor of Sicily
4 children, , 5 January 1387

aged 68 , - , John I
5 January 1387 – 19 May 1396, , , , 27 December 1350
Perpignan
son of Peter IV and Eleanor of Sicily, , Martha of Armagnac
1 child

Yolande of Bar
3 children, , 19 May 1396

Foixà Foixà is a village and municipality in the comarca (county) of the Baix Empordà. Geography The rural village of Foixà stretches from the right bank to the lower basin of the Ter (river). It is divided into two main sections: la Vila (the villa ...

aged 46 , - , Martin
19 May 1396 – 31 May 1410, , , , 1356

Girona Girona (officially and in Catalan , Spanish: ''Gerona'' ) is a city in northern Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 103,369 in 2020. Girona is the capital ...

son of Peter IV and Eleanor of Sicily, , Maria de Luna
13 June 1372
4 children

Margaret of Prades
1409
No children, , 31 May 1410

aged 54 , -

House of Trastámara, 1412–1555

, - , Ferdinand I the Honest
24 June 1412 – 2 April 1416, , , , 27 November 1380

Medina del Campo Medina del Campo is a town and municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. Part of the Province of Valladolid, it is the centre of a farming area. History Medina del Campo grew in importance thanks to its fairs ...

son of

John I of Castile John I ( es, Juan I; 24 August 1358 – 9 October 1390) was King of Castile and León from 1379 until 1390. He was the son of Henry II and of his wife Juana Manuel of Castile. Biography His first marriage, to Eleanor of Aragon on 18 June 137 ...

and Eleanor of Aragon, , Eleanor of Alburquerque
1394
8 children, , 2 April 1416

Igualada Igualada () is a municipality in the province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Anoia River and at the western end of the Igualada-Martorell-Barcelona Railway. Igualada is the capital and central market of th ...

aged 36 , - , Alfonso V the Magnanimous
2 April 1416 – 27 June 1458, , , , 1396

son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque, ,

Maria of Castile Maria of Castile (14 November 1401 – 4 September 1458) was Queen of Aragon and Naples as the spouse of Alfonso V of Aragon. Maria acted as the regent of Aragon during the reign of her spouse, as he was absent during most of his reign; her reg ...

1415
No children, , 27 June 1458

aged 52 , - , John II the Great
27 June 1458 – 19 January 1479, , , , 29 June 1398

son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque, , Blanche I of Navarre
6 November 1419
4 children

Juana Enríquez Juana Enriquez, 5th Lady of Casarrubios del Monte (1425 – 13 February 1468) was Queen of Aragon and de facto Queen of Navarre as the wife of King John II. Juana Enríquez was the Regent of Navarre during the absence of her husband in the N ...

2 children, , 20 January 1479

aged 81 , - , Ferdinand II the Catholic
19 January 1479 – 23 January 1516, , , , 10 March 1452
son of John II and Juana Enríquez, , Isabella I of Castile
19 October 1469
5 children

Germaine of Foix Ursula Germaine of Foix (french: Ursule-Germaine de Foix; ca, Úrsula Germana de Foix; ; c. 1488 – 15 October 1536) was an early modern French noblewoman from the House of Foix. By marriage to King Ferdinand II of Aragon, she was Queen of Ar ...

1505
No children, , 23 January 1516

Madrigalejo Madrigalejo is a municipality located in the province of Cáceres, Extremadura, Spain. According to the 2006 census ( INE), the municipality has a population of 2075 inhabitants. In this village, Ferdinand II of Aragon Ferdinand II ( an, Fe ...

aged 63 , - ,

Joanna of Castile Joanna (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555), historically known as Joanna the Mad ( es, link=no, Juana la Loca), was the nominal Queen of Castile from 1504 and Queen of Aragon from 1516 to her death in 1555. She was married by arrangement to P ...

23 January 1516 – 12 April 1555, , , , 6 November 1479
daughter of Ferdinand II and Isabella I, , Philip of Austria
20 October 1496
6 children, , 12 April 1555

Tordesillas Tordesillas () is a town and municipality in the province of Valladolid, Castile and León, central Spain. It is located southwest of the provincial capital, Valladolid at an elevation of . The population was c. 9,000 . The town is located ...

aged 75 , - Nominally co-monarch of her son Charles I, Joanna I was confined for alleged insanity during her whole reign.

Claimants against John II, 1462–1472

During the

Catalan Civil War The Catalan Civil War, also called the Catalonian Civil War or the War against John II, was a civil war in the Principality of Catalonia, then part of the Crown of Aragon, between 1462 and 1472. The two factions, the royalists who supported John ...

, there were three who claimed his throne, though this never included the Kingdom of Valencia. , - , '' Henry IV of Castile
(claimant)

House of Trastámara The House of Trastámara ( Spanish, Aragonese and Catalan: Casa de Trastámara) was a royal dynasty which first ruled in the Crown of Castile and then expanded to the Crown of Aragon in the late middle ages to the early modern period. They were ...

1462–1463'', , , , 5 January 1425

Valladolid Valladolid () is a municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. It has a population around 300,000 peop ...

son of

John II of Castile John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405. Regency John was the ...

and Maria of Aragon, , Joan of Portugal
1455
1 child, , 11 December 1474

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the Largest cities of the Europ ...

aged 49 , - , ''

Peter V of Aragon Peter of Coimbra (also known as Peter the Constable) ( pt, Pedro, pronounced ; c. 1429 – Granollers, 30 June 1466), sometimes known as Peter V of Aragon, was the son of Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra, who became the fifth Constable of Portu ...

(claimant)
House of Aviz
1463–1466'', , , , 1429
son of Peter, Duke of Coimbra and Isabella of Urgell, , never married, , 1466

Granollers Granollers () is a city in central Catalonia, about 30 kilometres north-east of Barcelona. It is the capital and most densely populated city in the comarca of Vallès Oriental. Granollers is now a bustling business centre, having grown from a t ...

aged 37 , - , '' René
(claimant)

House of Valois-Anjou The House of Valois-Anjou (, it, Casa Valois-Angiò) was a noble French family and cadet branch of the House of Valois. Members of the house served as monarchs of Naples, as well as several other territories. History The house was founded in the ...

1466–1472'', , , , 16 January 1409
Château d'Angers
son of

Louis II of Anjou Louis II (5 October 1377 – 29 April 1417) was Duke of Anjou and Count of Provence from 1384 to 1417; he claimed the Kingdom of Naples, but only ruled parts of the kingdom from 1390 to 1399. His father, Louis I of Anjouthe founder of the House ...

and

Yolande of Aragon Yolande of Aragon (11 August 1384 – 14 November 1442) was Duchess of Anjou and Countess of Provence by marriage, who acted as regent of Provence during the minority of her son. She was a daughter of John I of Aragon and his wife Violant ...

, ,

Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine Isabella (1400 – 28 February 1453) was suo jure Duchess of Lorraine, from 25 January 1431 to her death in 1453. She was also Queen of Naples by marriage to René of Anjou. Isabella ruled the Kingdom of Naples and her husband's domains in Fr ...

1420
10 children

Jeanne de Laval
10 September 1454
No children, , 10 July 1480
Aix-en-Provence
aged 71 , -

House of Habsburg, 1516–1700

' , - , Charles I the Emperor
23 January 1516 – 16 January 1556, , , , 24 February 1500

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded i ...

son of

Philip I of Castile Philip the Handsome, es, Felipe, french: Philippe, nl, Filips (22 July 1478 – 25 September 1506), also called the Fair, was ruler of the Burgundian Netherlands and titular Duke of Burgundy from 1482 to 1506, as well as the first Habsburg K ...

and

, , Isabella of Portugal
10 March 1526
3 children, , 21 September 1558
Yuste
aged 58 , - , Philip I the Prudent
16 January 1556 – 13 September 1598, , , , 21 May 1527

son of Charles I and Isabella of Portugal, , Maria of Portugal
1543
1 child

Mary I of England
1554
No children

Elisabeth of Valois Elisabeth of France or Elisabeth of Valois ( es, Isabel de Valois; french: Élisabeth de France) (2 April 1545 – 3 October 1568) was Queen of Spain as the third spouse of Philip II of Spain. She was the eldest daughter of Henry II of France ...

1559
2 children

Anna of Austria
4 May 1570
5 children, , 13 September 1598

aged 71 , - , Philip II the Pious
13 September 1598 – 31 March 1621, , Felipe-III-de-Espana A-Vidal

, , 14 April 1578

son of Philip I and Anna of Austria, , Margaret of Austria
18 April 1599
5 children, , 31 March 1621

aged 42 , - , Philip III the Great
31 March 1621 – 17 September 1665, , , , 8 April 1605

son of Philip II and Margaret of Austria, , Elisabeth of France
1615
7 children

Mariana of Austria
1649
5 children
, , 17 September 1665

aged 60 , - , Charles II the Bewitched
17 September 1665 – 1 November 1700, , Carlos_II,_con_armadura

, , 6 November 1661

son of Philip III and Mariana of Austria, , Marie Louise of Orléans
19 November 1679
No children

Maria Anna of Neuburg
14 May 1690
No children
, , 1 November 1700

aged 38 , - Aragon itself stayed loyal to Philip IV during the

Reapers' War The Reapers' War ( ca, Guerra dels Segadors, , es, Guerra de los Segadores), also known as the Catalan Revolt, was a conflict that affected a large part of the Principality of Catalonia between the years of 1640 and 1659. It had an enduring ef ...

while Catalonia switched allegiance to

Louis XIII Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...

and

Louis XIV , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Ver ...

''the Sun-King'' (see

List of Counts of Barcelona The Count of Barcelona ( ca, Comte de Barcelona, es, Conde de Barcelona, french: Comte de Barcelone, ) was the ruler of the County of Barcelona and also, by extension and according with the usages and Catalan constitutions, of the Principality o ...

). Portugal seceded in 1640. Charles II died without heirs.

House of Bourbon, 1700–1705

, - , Philip IV the Spirited
1 November 1700 – 1705, , , , 19 December 1683

Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ...

son of

Louis, Grand Dauphin Louis, Dauphin of France (1 November 1661 – 14 April 1711), commonly known as Grand Dauphin, was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Louis XIV and his spouse, Maria Theresa of Spain. He became known as the Grand Dauphin after the birth of ...

and Maria Anna Victoria of Bavaria, , Maria Luisa Gabriella of Savoy
2 November 1701
4 children

Elisabeth Farnese Elisabeth Farnese ( Italian: ''Elisabetta Farnese'', Spanish: ''Isabel Farnesio''; 25 October 169211 July 1766) was Queen of Spain by marriage to King Philip V. She exerted great influence over Spain's foreign policy and was the ''de facto'' r ...

24 December 1714
7 children
, , 9 July 1746

aged 62 , -

House of Habsburg, 1705–1714

, - , Charles III the Archduke
1705–1714, , , , 1 October 1685

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, , Elisabeth Christine
1 August 1708
4 children, , 20 October 1740

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

aged 55 , - During the war (officially in 1707)

Philip V of Spain Philip V ( es, Felipe; 19 December 1683 – 9 July 1746) was King of Spain from 1 November 1700 to 14 January 1724, and again from 6 September 1724 to his death in 1746. His total reign of 45 years is the longest in the history of the Spanish mon ...

, the first of the Bourbon dynasty 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'.

References

External links

{{DEFAULTSORT:Aragonese Monarchs, List Of Lists of Spanish monarchs . .

Jiménez dynasty The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca,Alberto Cañada Juste, "¿Quién fue Sancho Abarca?, ''Príncipe de Viana'', 73: 79-132. was a medieval ruling family from the 9th c ..., 1035–1164

House of Barcelona The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 (as kings from 1162) until 1410. They descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy. Th ..., 1164–1410

House of Trastámara, 1412–1555

Claimants against John II, 1462–1472

House of Habsburg, 1516–1700

House of Bourbon, 1700–1705

House of Habsburg, 1705–1714

See also

References

External links

Jiménez dynasty The Jiménez dynasty, alternatively called the Jimena, the Sancha, the Banu Sancho, the Abarca or the Banu Abarca,Alberto Cañada Juste, "¿Quién fue Sancho Abarca?, ''Príncipe de Viana'', 73: 79-132. was a medieval ruling family from the 9th c ...
, 1035–1164

House of Barcelona The House of Barcelona was a medieval dynasty that ruled the County of Barcelona continuously from 878 and the Crown of Aragon from 1137 (as kings from 1162) until 1410. They descend from the Bellonids, the descendants of Wifred the Hairy. Th ...
, 1164–1410