This is a list of the kings and queens of Aragon. The

Kingdom of Aragon The Kingdom of Aragon ( an, Reino d'Aragón, ca, Regne d'Aragó, la, Regnum Aragoniae, es, Reino de Aragón) was a medieval and early modern kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community eu, a ...

was created sometime between 950 and 1035 when the County of Aragon, which had been acquired by the

Kingdom of Navarre The Kingdom of Navarre (; , , , ), originally the Kingdom of Pamplona (), was a Basque kingdom that occupied lands on both sides of the western Pyrenees, alongside the Atlantic Ocean between present-day Spain and France. The medieval state took ...

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 (

) and the Catalan count Ramon Berenguer IV ( County of Barcelona) 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 Mallorca, or Majorca, is the largest island in the Balearic Islands, which are part of Spain and located in the Mediterranean. The capital of the island, Palma, is also the capital of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. The Bale ...

and

Sicily (man) it, Siciliana (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title = , population_blank1 = , demographics_type1 = Ethnicity , demographics1_footnotes = , demographi ...

were added to the Crown, and in the fourteenth the Kingdom of Sardinia and Corsica. The Crown of Aragon continued to exist until 1713 when its separate constitutional systems ( Catalan Constitutions, Aragon ''Fueros'', and Furs of Valencia) 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, Phili ...

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, 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. ...
, 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, al ...

son of Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Petronilla of Aragon, , Sancha of Castile
7 children, , 25 April 1196

Perpignan Perpignan (, , ; ca, Perpinyà ; es, Perpiñán ; it, Perpignano ) is the prefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France, in the heart of the plain of Roussillon, at the foot of the Pyrenees a few kilometres from the ...

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
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 Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 November 1290) was Queen of England as the first wife of Edward I, whom she married as part of a political deal to affirm English sovereignty over Gascony. The marriage was known to be particularly close, and ...

1221
1 child

Violant of Hungary
1235
10 children

Teresa Gil de Vidaure
2 children, , 27 July 1276

aged 68 , - ,

Peter III Peter III may refer to: Politics * Peter III of Bulgaria (ruled in 1072) * Peter III of Aragon (1239–1285) * Peter III of Arborea (died 1347) * Peter III Aaron (died 1467) * Pedro III of Kongo (ruler in 1669) * Peter III of Russia (1728–1762) * ...

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 Vilafranca del Penedès, or simply Vilafranca (), is the capital of the ''comarca'' of the Alt Penedès in Catalonia, Spain. The Spanish spelling of the name, ''Villafranca del Panadés'', is no longer in official use since 1982 (Law 12/1982, o ...

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 ...

aged 27 , - ,

James II James II may refer to: * James II of Avesnes (died c. 1205), knight of the Fourth Crusade * James II of Majorca (died 1311), Lord of Montpellier * James II of Aragon (1267–1327), King of Sicily * James II, Count of La Marche (1370–1438), King C ...

18 June 1291 – 2 November 1327, , , , 10 August 1267

son of Peter III and Constance of Sicily, , Isabella of Castile
1 December 1291
No children

Blanche of Anjou Blanche of Anjou (1280 – 14 October 1310) was Queen of Aragon as the second spouse of King James II of Aragon. She was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou, she is also known as Blanche of Naples. She served as Regent or "Queen-Lieutenant" ...

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

2 children, , 27 January 1336

aged 37 , - , Peter IV
24 January 1336 – 5 January 1387, , , , 5 October 1319
Balaguer
son of Alfonso IV and Teresa d'Entença, , Maria of Navarre
1338
2 children

Eleanor of Portugal
1347
No children

Eleanor of Sicily Eleanor of Sicily (1325–1375) was Queen of Aragon from 1349 until 1375 as the third wife of King Peter IV. Early life Eleanor was the daughter of Peter II of Sicily and Elisabeth of Carinthia. She was the second of eight children, six of ...

4 children, , 5 January 1387

aged 68 , - ,

John I John I may refer to: People * John I (bishop of Jerusalem) * John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople * John of Antioch (died 441) * Pope John I, Pope from 523 to 526 * John I (exarch) (died 615), Exarch of Ravenna * John ...

5 January 1387 – 19 May 1396, , , , 27 December 1350

son of Peter IV and Eleanor of Sicily, , Martha of Armagnac
1 child

Yolande of Bar
3 children, , 19 May 1396
Foixà
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 capit ...

son of Peter IV and Eleanor of Sicily, ,

Maria de Luna Maria de Luna (c. 1358 – 1406) was queen consort of Aragon, as the spouse of King Martin I of Aragon, from his ascension in 1396 to her death in 1406. In the early years of Martin's reign, she served as regent of Aragon while her husband tende ...

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
son of John I of Castile 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 t ...

aged 36 , - ,

Alfonso V the Magnanimous Alfonso the Magnanimous (139627 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfonso V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfonso I) from 1442 until his death. He was involved with struggles to the ...

2 April 1416 – 27 June 1458, , , , 1396
Medina del Campo
son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque, , Maria of Castile
1415
No children, , 27 June 1458

aged 52 , - , John II the Great
27 June 1458 – 19 January 1479, , , , 29 June 1398
Medina del Campo
son of Ferdinand I and Eleanor of Alburquerque, ,

Blanche I of Navarre Blanche I (6 July 1387Anthony (1931) states that she was the fourth-born daughter of King Charles III of Navarre by Queen Eleanor, and she was preceded by Joan, Maria and Margaret and the two latter died early. Anthony defines Blanche's exact bi ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

19 October 1469
5 children

Germaine of Foix
1505
No children, , 23 January 1516
Madrigalejo
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 ...

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
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, there were three who claimed his throne, though this never included the

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. , - , '' 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 wer ...

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 peo ...

son of John II of Castile 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 metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), an ...

aged 49 , - , '' Peter V of Aragon
(claimant)

House of Aviz The House of Aviz ( Portuguese: ''Casa de Avis''), also known as the Joanine Dynasty (''Dinastia Joanina''), was a dynasty of Portuguese origin which flourished during the Renaissance and the period of the Portuguese discoveries, when Portugal ...

1463–1466'', , , , 1429
son of

Peter, Duke of Coimbra Infante D. Pedro, Duke of Coimbra KG (; en, Peter), (9 December 1392 – 20 May 1449) was a Portuguese ''infante'' (prince) of the House of Aviz, son of King John I of Portugal and his wife Philippa of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt ...

and

Isabella of Urgell Isabella of Urgel (Aragonese: ''Isabel d'Urchel''; died 1071) was Queen of Aragon; the only daughter of Ermengol III, Count of Urgell Ermengol (or Armengol) III (10321065), called ''el de Barbastro'', was the count of Urgell from 1038 to his death. ...

, , never married, , 1466
Granollers
aged 37 , - , '' René
(claimant)
House of Valois-Anjou
1466–1472'', , , , 16 January 1409
Château d'Angers
son of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, ,

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 i ...

1420
10 children

Jeanne de Laval
10 September 1454
No children, , 10 July 1480

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label=Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

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 Municipalities of Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest 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 ...

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 Mary I (18 February 1516 – 17 November 1558), also known as Mary Tudor, and as "Bloody Mary" by her Protestant opponents, was Queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 and Queen of Spain from January 1556 until her death in 1558. She ...

1554
No children

Elisabeth of Valois
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 e ...

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 Ve ...

''the Sun-King'' (see List of Counts of Barcelona). Portugal seceded in 1640. Charles II died without heirs.

House of Bourbon The House of Bourbon (, also ; ) is a European dynasty of French origin, a branch of the Capetian dynasty, the royal House of France. Bourbon kings first ruled France and Navarre in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Spanis ...
, 1700–1705

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

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son of Louis, Grand Dauphin 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'' ...

24 December 1714
7 children
, , 9 July 1746

aged 62 , -

House of Habsburg, 1705–1714

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

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

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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 Bourbon may refer to: Food and drink * Bourbon whiskey, an American whiskey made using a corn-based mash * Bourbon barrel aged beer, a type of beer aged in bourbon barrels * Bourbon biscuit, a chocolate sandwich biscuit * A beer produced by ...

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

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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. ..., 1164–1410