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CASTILE AND See also:LEON TILL THE See also:UNION WITH See also:ARAGON  . Fernando III. was See also:king of See also:Castile and See also:Leon from I230 to 1252 . See also:Alphonso X . 1252-1284 Eldest son of Fernando III . Sancho IV . . 1284-1295 Second son of Alphonso X . Was preferred to the sons of his See also:elder See also:brother See also:Ferdinand de la Cerda, who died in Alphonso's lifetime . Ferdinand IV . 1295-1312 Son of Sancho . Alphonso XI . . 1312-1350 Son of Ferdinand IV . See also:Peter "The Cruel" 1350-1369 Son of Alphonso XI .

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Henry II . . 1369-1379 Natural son of Alphonso IX . He deposed and murdered Peter, and founded the See also:line of the new See also:kings . See also:John I . . . 1379-1390 Son of Henry II . Henry III . . 1390-1406 Son of John I . John II . 1406-1454 Son of Henry III . Son . The See also:legitimacy of the daughter of his second See also:marriage Henry IV .

. . 1454-1474 was not recognized, and the See also:

crown of Castile passed to his See also:Isabella . . . 1474-1504 See also:sister, who married Ferdinand of See also:Aragon . The marriage See also:united the crowns in 1479• Aragon, from the See also:union with the See also:county of See also:Barcelona, to the union with Castile: Alphonso II . 1162-1196 Son and successor of Petronilla and Ramon Berenguer IV . Recovered the Provencal pos- sessions of Ramon Berenguer II . Peter II . . . 1196-1213 Son . Killed at Muret . See also:James I., " The 1213-1276 Son .

Conquered the Balearic Conqueror." Islands and See also:

Valencia . See also:Left the islands to his son James, from whom the See also:title passed in succ_es- . See also:sion to Sancho (d . 1324), his eldest son, to Sancho's See also:nephew James (d . 1349), and to another James, his son (d . 1375) ; but the actual See also:possession was re- covered by the elder line before the extinction of the younger See also:branch . Peter III . . . 1276-1285 Eldest son . Conquered See also:Sicily, claimed by right of his wife See also:Constance, daughter of See also:Man- fred of Beneventum . Alphonso III . . 1285-1291 Eldest son .

Succeeded to See also:

Spanish possessions . James II . . . 1291-1327 Second son of Peter III . He had succeeded to Sicily, but re- signed his rights, which were then assumed by his brother See also:Frederick, who founded the Aragonese line of kings of Sicily . Alphonso IV . . 1327-1336 Son of James II . Peter IV . . . 1336-1387 Finally reannexed the Balearic Islands . John I . . .

. 1387-1395 Son by the marriage of Peter IV . with his See also:

cousin Eleanor of the Sicilian line . See also:Martin . . 1395-1410 Younger brother of John I . His son Martin was chosen king of Sicily, but died in 1409 . The male line of the kings of Aragon of the See also:House of Barcelona ended with Martin . Ferdinand I . . 1412-1416 Second son of Eleanor, sister of Martin, and wife of John I. of Castile . Succeeded by choice of the See also:Cortes . Alphonso V . 1416-1458 Son . Spent most of his See also:life in See also:Italy, where he was king of See also:Naples and Sicily .

John II . . . 1458-1479 Brother of Alphonso V., whom he succeeded in the Spanish pos- sessions, and Sicily, but not in Naples . Ferdinand II . . 1479-1516 Son . His marriage with Isabella united the crowns . Sancho II . . Alphonso VI . Urraca . Alphonso VII . . Sancho III .. . 1157-1158 Fernando II .

1157-1188 Alphonso VIII .. 1158-1214 Alphonso IX . 1188-1230 Henry I . . Berengaria Fernando III . . He expelled Alphonso and See also:

Garcia, reuniting the three kingdoms . Murdered at See also:Zamora . Returned from See also:exile, obtained all the three kingdoms, and imprisoned Garcia for life . Daughter of Alphonso VI., and widow of See also:Raymond of See also:Burgundy . Son . Recognized as king in Gallicia during his See also:mother's life . Divided his kingdoms between his sons; to the elder Sancho, Castile, to the younger, Fernando, Leon . In Castile .

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In Leon . Castile . Son of Sancho III . Leon . Son of Fernando II . Is numbered IX. because he was junior to the cousin Alphonso of Castile . Castile . Son of Alphonso VIII . Daughter of Alphonso VIII . Married to Alphonso IX. of Leon, but the marriage was declared uncanonical by the See also:

pope . The See also:children were declared legitimate . Berengaria resigned the crown of Castile to her son Fernando by the uncanonical marriage with Alphonso IX. of Leon .

Inherited Leon on the See also:

death of his See also:father Alphonso IX., and united the crowns for the last See also:time, in 1230 . I005-I072 1065-1109 II09-II26 1126-1157 I214-I217 I217- I217-I252 See also:Navarre'till the See also:conquest of Ferdinand the See also:Catholic: — KINGS OF UNITED See also:SPAIN (continued) I Garcia IV . 1134–1150 A descendant of Sancho el Ferdinand VII . . 1808–1833 Was proclaimed king on the See also:Mayor . Elected by the Navar- forced See also:abdication of his father . rese on the death of Alphonso Remained a prisoner in See also:France of Aragon without issue . during the See also:Peninsular See also:War . I-Ie repealed the Salic See also:Law estab- Sancho VI., called 1150–1194 Son . Father of Berengaria, wife lished by See also:Philip V . " The See also:Wise " of See also:Richard Coeur de See also:Lion . Sancho VII . . 1194–1234 Son .

Died without issue . Isabella II . . . i833–1868 Daughter . Her See also:

succession was resisted by her See also:uncle See also:Don See also:Theobald I . 1234–1253 See also:Husband of See also:Blanche, daughter See also:Carlos, and the Carlist See also:Wars of Sancho " The Wise." ensued . Deposed . Theobald II . 1253–1270 Son . Died without issue . Alphonso XII . . 1875–1885 Son . His mother abdicated in Henry I .

1270–1274 Brother . his favour and he was re- stored . Jeanne I . 1274–1305 Daughter, wife of Philip IV. of France . Navarre was now Alphonso XIII . . 1886 See also:

Born after his father's death . (D . H.) (2) See also:Works: The See also:standard See also:general See also:history of Spain written by a Spaniard is that of Don Modesto Lafuente in 30 volumes (1850–1867; new ed., by Valera, 22 vols., Barcelona, 1888) . It was written before the See also:medieval See also:period had been properly investigated, is wordy, and largely spoilt by displays of See also:national vanity . A later and more See also:critical writer of nearly the same name, Don See also:Vicente de la Fuente, has published valuable Estudios criticos sobre la historia y el derecho de Aragon (1884–1886) . No satisfactory general history of Spain has been written by a foreigner . The best is that of M .

Ramey, Histoire d'Espagne (1843) . Don Rafael Altamira has published an Historia de Espana y de la See also:

civilization espanola (2 vols., Barcelona, 1900-1902), in which he sums up the results of later See also:research . Among older writers Juan de See also:Mariana, who ends with the Catholic sovereigns, professedly took See also:Livy as a See also:model, and wrote a See also:fine example of a rhetorical history published in Latin (1592–1609), and then in Spanish translated and largely re-written by himself . It was continued to 1600 by Minana . An See also:English See also:translation, with supplements, was published by See also:Captain J . See also:Stephens in 1699 . The Anales de Aragon of Geronimo Zurita (161o) are very far See also:superior to the history of Mariana in See also:criticism and research . The See also:great school of Spanish historians died out with the other glories of the nation in the 17th See also:century . The later periods have been indifferently treated by them, but Don See also:Antonio Canovas del See also:Castillo published some valuable studies on the later See also:Austrian See also:dynasty under the title Estudios del reinado de Felipe IV . (1889) . The reader may also consult—for the earlier period—See also:Florian de Ocampo and Ambrosio de Morales, whose combined works are known as the CrOnica general de Espana (fol. See also:editions, 1543–1586, republished in 10 small volumes at See also:Madrid, 1791–1792) . This was continued by Prudencio de Sandoval, See also:bishop of See also:Tuy and afterwards of Pampeluna, under the title of Hist. de los reyes de Castilla y de Leon: Fernando I .

Alonso VII . Both See also:

ancient and later times are dealt with in the Historia general de Espana, escrita See also:por individuos de la real academia de la historia (Madrid, 1892 sqq.)—a See also:series of studies by different hands; that on the reign of See also:Charles III., by Senor See also:Manuel Danvila, is very valuable for the later 18th century . An See also:account of the troubled years of the 19th century has been written by Don Antonia Pirala, Historia contempordnea (1871–1879) . The latest general history of Spain is Don Rafael Altamira y Crevea's Historia de Espana y de la civilization espaliola, 3 vols(Barcelona 1902–1906) . The standard authority for the See also:Mahommedan See also:side of Spanish history is the Histoire See also:des Musulmans d'Espagne, 711–1110, by R . P . A . See also:Dozy (4 vols., See also:Leiden, 1861) . It requires to be supplemented by Don Pascual de Gayongos's translation of Al Makkari's History of the Mahommedan Dynasties in Spain (1840–1843) and by Senor Francisco Codera's Decadencia y desaparicion de los See also:Almoravides en Espana (See also:Saragossa, 1899) and Estudios criticos de hist. arabe espaniola (ibid., 1903) . See also See also:Stanley See also:Lane See also:Poole, The See also:Moors in Spain (" See also:Story of the Nations " Series, 1887) and S . P . See also:Scott, Hist. of the Moorish See also:Empire in See also:Europe (3 vols., See also:Philadelphia and See also:London, 1904) .

Other English works, on general Spanish history, are Martin A . S . See also:

Hume's Spain, its Greatness and Decay, 1479-1788 (See also:Cambridge, 1898) and See also:Modern Spain, 1788–1898 (" Story of the Nations " Series, 1899), and See also:Butler See also:Clarke's Modern Spain, 1815–1898 (Cambridge, 1906) . Excellent summaries of Spanish history See also:year by year are published in the See also:Annual See also:Register . Jeanne II . . . 1328–1349 Charles II., called 1349–1387 " The See also:Bad " Charles III.,"The 1387–1425 See also:Noble " John I. of Aragon 1425–1479 1479–1483 J 1483–1514 absorbed in France, and so remained till 1328, when on the death of Charles IV. of France, the last of the house of See also:Hugh See also:Capet, it passed to his niece Jeanne, daughter of See also:Louis X., and wife of Philip, See also:count of See also:Evreux . Son . These two kings were much concerned with France, and little with Spain . King of Navarre by right of his wife Blanche, daughter of Charles III . On his death Navarre passed to his daughter by Blanche, Eleanor, widow of Gaston IV., count of See also:Foix . She died in the same year as her father, and Navarre passed to her See also:grand-son, See also:Francis See also:Phoebus .

Died without issue, and was succeeded by his sister, the wife of See also:

Jean D'See also:Albret . The Spanish See also:part of Navarre was conquered by Ferdinand the Catholic in 1512 .

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