Kingdom of Aragon

History

In antiquity, Aragon belonged to the Roman province of Tarraconaise, and answers partly the Celtibérie of old.

The first emanation of Aragon, the county of Aragon was born in the ruins from the Marche from Carolingian Spain, under the dependence of the Royaume of Navarre. In 1035, the death of the king de Navarre Sanche III caused a division between its four sons: the county of Aragon échut to Ramire, one of them, and was set up in kingdom.

The kingdom of Aragon was then extremely tightened: it increases by successive conquests at the 11th century to gather, in addition to Aragon itself, the counties of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza.

Kings d' Aragon, taking part in the Reconquest, developed the kingdom out of its Pyrenean tiny room to carry it on the Èbre. The king Alphonse I {{er}} '' the Fighter '' conquered Saragossa which became the capital of the kingdom. Aragon then reached its current borders, which are those of the current community of Aragon.

With the marriage of the queen Pétronille d' Aragon and of the count Raimond-Berenger IV of Barcelona, it became one of the kingdoms composing the Couronne of Aragon. It should be announced in this respect the title of “king d' Aragon” designates often not only the sovereign of the kingdom of Aragon, but more especially the sovereign of the crown of Aragon. Aragon preserved however its particularism inside the crown of Aragon, thanks to its the Cortes (general Parliament) and with the wide capacities of its nobility. Moreover, Aragon was the only kingdom inside the crown with speaking the Castillan and the Aragonese and not the Catalan.

See too

Crown of Aragon
List of the kings d' Aragon
General information of autonomous Catalonia
the Community of Aragon

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