From 1111 until 1126 Galicia was separate from the union under Alfonso VII.

From 1072 until 1157 under Alfonso VI (died 1109), Urraca (died 1126), and Alfonso VII.

Upon his death his kingdoms passed to his sons, León to Alfonso VI, Castile to Sancho II, and Galicia to García.

From 1037 until 1065 under Ferdinand I of León.

The two kingdoms had been united twice previously: In the 11th century, it became a kingdom in its own right. From the second half of the 10th century to the first half of the 11th century it changed hands between León and the Kingdom of Navarre. The Kingdom of Castile appeared initially as a county of the Kingdom of León. The Kingdom of León arose out of the Kingdom of Asturias. Main articles: Kingdom of León and Kingdom of Castile Towards unification History Preceding events Two kingdoms: León and Castile This unified the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile into the kingdom of Spain.Įven though the Nueva Planta decrees did not formally abolish the Crown of Castile, the country (of Castile and Aragon) was called 'Spain' by both contemporaries and historians. In the early 18th century, Philip of Bourbon won the War of the Spanish Succession and imposed unification policies over the Crown of Aragon, supporters of their enemies. Charles I was King of Aragon, Majorca, Valencia, and Sicily, and Count of Barcelona, Roussillon and Cerdagne, as well as King of Castile and León, 1516–1556. The title of 'King of Castile' remained in use by the Habsburg rulers during the 16th and 17th centuries. The discovery of the Pacific Ocean, the conquest of the Aztec Empire, the conquest of the Inca Empire, the conquest of New Granada as well as the conquest of the Philippines all helped shape the Crown of Castile into a global empire in the 16th Century. The West Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea were also a part of the Crown of Castile when transformed from lordships to kingdoms of the heirs of Castile in 1506, with the Treaty of Villafáfila, and upon the death of Ferdinand the Catholic. In 1492, the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Americas were major events in the history of Castile. It continued to exist as a separate entity after the personal union in 1469 of the crowns of Castile and Aragon with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs up to the promulgation of the Nueva Planta decrees by Philip V in 1715.

The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne.

^ Itinerant court until Philip II fixed it to Madrid.

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