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Kings of Castile

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Monarchs of
the Iberian
Peninsula
al-Andalus (taifas)
Aragon
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Catalonia
Galicia
Granada
León
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Majorca
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Portugal
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Spain
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This is a list of kings and queens of the Kingdom and Crown of Castile. For their predecessors, see List of Castilian counts.

The follow dynasts are descendants, in the male line, of Urraca's first husband, Raymond of Burgundy.

16 July 1212 won a decisive victory for the Reconquista at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa

John of Gaunt a great great grandson of Ferdinand III of Castile claimed the title of King of Castile and Léon by virtue of his marriage to Constance, daughter of Peter of Castile. He conducted several military actions, borrowing heavily from London merchants, to solidify his title, without success.

Henry II was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI. He was made count of Trastámara.

Succeeding to the throne of Aragon as Ferdinand II on 19 January 1479, Ferdinand then ruled all of non-Portuguese Iberia except Granada (added in 1492) and Navarre (added in 1515) effectively creating a de facto united realm of España.

In 1478 established the Spanish Inquisition to displace the Papal Inquisition

The Crown of Castile existed on its own right within the Spanish crown and with its own law until the arrival of the Bourbon dynasty after the War of Spanish Succession.



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