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Catherine has remained a popular biographical subject to the present day. The American historian Garrett Mattingly was the author of a popular biography Katherine of Aragon in 1942. In 1966, Catherine and her many supporters at court were the subjects of Catherine of Aragon and her Friends, a biography by John E. Paul.
Coat of Arms of the Crown 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 in accordance with the will of King Sancho III (1004–35).
The Kingdom of Aragon (Aragonese: Reino d'Aragón; Catalan: Regne d'Aragó; Latin: Regnum Aragoniae; Spanish: Reino de Aragón) was a medieval and early modern kingdom on the Iberian Peninsula, corresponding to the modern-day autonomous community of Aragon, in Spain.
Consequently, after Ferdinand II's funeral on 14 March 1516, Charles I was proclaimed King of Castile and of Aragon jointly with his mother. Finally, the Castilian Regent, Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros accepted the fait accompli, and the Castilian and Aragonese Cortes paid homage to him [22] as King of Aragon jointly with his mother. [23]
Violant was the daughter of Robert I, Duke of Bar and Marie of Valois. [2] Violante was the eighth of eleven children. She was married in 1380 at the age of 15 to John, Duke of Girona, [3] the heir apparent to the throne of Aragon, thus becoming Duchess of Girona and Countess of Cervera.
The aristocracy of Navarre elected a king of their own, restoring their independence, and the nobility of Aragon raised Ramiro to the throne. [5] Pope Innocent II rejected this election, seeking to affirm Alfonso I's final will. [5] Despite the lack of papal approval, King Ramiro the Monk, as he is known, married Agnes of Aquitaine in 1135. [5]
Violant was born in Zaragoza, the daughter of King James I of Aragon (1213–1276) and his second wife, Violant of Hungary (ca.1215-1253). [1] Her maternal grandparents were Andrew II of Hungary and Yolanda de Courtenay.
James was born at Montpellier as the only son of Peter II of Aragon and Marie of Montpellier. [2] As a child, James was made a pawn in the power politics of Provence, where his father was engaged in struggles helping the Cathar heretics of Albi against the Albigensian Crusade led by Simon IV de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, who were trying to exterminate them.