Royal arms of Aragon (Lozenge shaped and Crowned)

Coat of Arms of Valencia (16th-18th Centuries)

For the majority of the Middle Ages,

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was a constituent part of larger polities. From the time of the Muslim conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, Valencia was controlled by the Umayyad Caliphate in Damascus and the Emirate/Caliphate of Cordoba. Following the latter's collapse, Valencia became the seat of a Taifa state ruled by a succession of local dynasties from 1010 until it was conquered by Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, in 1095. He ruled until his death, when his widow swore fealty to Castile, but was forced out in 1102 and Valencia fell back under the control of a Muslim Caliphate. Again in the 1140s, Caliphate collapse led to the return of local rule, but following four changes of leadership in two years it fell under the control of neighboring

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, and later the Almohad Caliphate. A third time, in 1229, Valencia saw almost a decade of local rule before being conquered by Aragon in 1237. Valencia was reorganized into an administrative ' Kingdom of Valencia' within the

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, ruled by Governors appointed by the Aragonese monarch. This arrangement continued until the formal creation of the

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and abolition of the previous administrative kingdoms by the Nueva Planta Decrees in 1714.

Rulers of Valencia (713-1239)

For those who ruled in or over Valencia, see the following pages: *713–1010 :

Umayyad Caliphate The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by th ...

and Emirate/Caliphate of Córdoba *1010–1095 : First

Taifa of Valencia The Taifa of Valencia () was a medieval Moorish taifa kingdom which existed, in and around Valencia, Spain during four distinct periods: from 1010 to 1065, from 1075 to 1099, from 1145 to 1147 and last from 1229 to 1238 when it was finally co ...

*1095–1099 : El Cid *1099–1102 : Castile *1102–1145 : Almoravids of Morocco *1145–1147 : Second

*1147–1172 :

Taifa of Murcia The Taifa of Murcia () was an Arab '' taifa'' of medieval Al-Andalus, in what is now southern Spain. It became independent as a ''taifa'' centered on the Moorish city of Murcia after the fall of the Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba (11th centur ...

*1172–1229 : Almohad Caliphate *1229–1239 : Third

Monarchs of Valencia (1239-1707)

House of Aragon

*1238-1276 : James I ''the Conqueror'',

King of Aragon 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 ...

and Count of Barcelona *1276-1285 : Peter I ''the Great'' (III of Aragon), son of James I *1285-1291 : Alfons I '' the Liberal'' (III of Aragon), son of Peter I/III *1291-1327 : James II ''the Just'', son of Peter I/III *1327-1336 : Alfons II ''the Kind'' (IV of Aragon), son of James II *1336-1387 : Peter II ''the Ceremonious'' (IV of Aragon), son of Alfonso II/IV *1387-1396 : John I ''the Hunter'', son of Peter II/IV *1396-1410 : Martin ''the Elder, the Humane or the Ecclesiastic'', son of Peter II/IV : Martin died without legitimate children.

Interregnum

*1410-1412 : between the death of Martin ''the Elder'' and the

Compromise of Caspe The 1412 Compromise of Caspe (''Compromís de Casp'' in Catalan) was an act and resolution of parliamentary representatives of the constituent realms of the Crown of Aragon (the Kingdom of Aragon, Kingdom of Valencia, and Principality of Cata ...

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 ...

*1412-1416 : Ferdinand I ''of Antequera or the Just'', Martin's nephew *1416-1458 : Alfonso III ''the Magnanimous'' (V of Aragon), son of Ferdinand I *1458-1479 : John II ''the Great'', son of Ferdinand I *1479-1516 : Ferdinand II ''the Catholic'', son of John II :Ferdinand II became '' Jure uxoris'' King of Castile, jointly with his wife

Isabella I 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 by ...

. Dynastic union of Aragon with Castile. *1516-1555 : Joanna ''the Mad'', daughter of Ferdinand II :Nominally jointly with her son Charles I but was effectively kept under confinement.

House of Habsburg The House of Habsburg (), alternatively spelled Hapsburg in Englishgerman: Haus Habsburg, ; es, Casa de Habsburgo; hu, Habsburg család, it, Casa di Asburgo, nl, Huis van Habsburg, pl, dom Habsburgów, pt, Casa de Habsburgo, la, Domus Hab ...

*1516-1556 : Charles I ''the Emperor'', grandson of Ferdinand II :Jointly with his mother Joanna ''the Mad'' (confined) *1556-1598 : Philip I ''the Prudent'' (Philip II of Castile), son of Charles I *1598-1621 : Philip II ''the Pious'' (Philip III of Castile), son of Philip I/II *1621-1665 : Philip III ''the Great'' (Philip IV of Castile), son of Philip II/III *1665-1700 : Charles II ''the Bewitched'', son of Philip III/IV : Charles died without children.

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 ...

House of Bourbon

*1700-1704 : Philip IV ''the Spirited'' (Philip V of Castile), great-grandson of Philip III/IV

House of Habsburg

*1704-1707 : Charles III ''the Archduke'', great-grandson of Philip II/III During the war (officially in 1707) Philip d'Anjou, the first of the Bourbon empire in Spain, disbanded the Crown of Aragon ( Nueva Planta decrees). After this time, there are no more Aragonese monarchs. Nevertheless, Spanish monarchs up to

Isabella II Isabella II ( es, Isabel II; 10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904), was Queen of Spain from 29 September 1833 until 30 September 1868. Shortly before her birth, the King Ferdinand VII of Spain issued a Pragmatic Sanction to ensure the successi ...

, 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''.