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Period: 700 to 900
Origin and formation of the Christian kingdoms
The Christian kingdoms are formed from the eighth to the eleventh century, in northern Spain, both in the eastern and western parts. -
722
Battle of Covadonga
The battle was between Don Pelayo's Asturian army and al-Andalus troops, who were defeated. -
830
Creation of the kingdom of pamplona
The kingdom of Pamplona was a political entity created in the western Pyrenees around the city of Pamplona in the early centuries of the Reconquest. -
951
Castilla county independence
The county of Castilla was a geographical area that was part of the kingdom of Asturias and the kingdom of León until it took the form of an autonomous State in 932. A century later, in 1065, it became the kingdom of Castilla. -
Period: 1000 to 1100
Consolidation of christian kingdoms
THROUGH OUT THE XII AND XIII CENTURIES THE CONSOLIDATION OF THE PENINSULAR CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS OCCURS. THESE PENINSULAR CHRISTIAN KINGDOMS ARE: PORTUGAL, CASTILLA, NAVARRA AND THE KINGDOM OF ARAGÓN. -
1035
Death of Sancho III the Elder of Pamplona
He was king of Pamplona from 1004 until his death. His reign is considered the stage of greatest hegemony in the kingdom of Pamplona over the Spanish-Christian sphere in all its history.
He death in 1035 -
1038
The kingdom of Castilla annexes the kingdom of León
It was one of the medieval kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula that existed between the years 1065 and 1230. It emerged as an autonomous political entity in the 9th century, being a vassal county of the Kingdom of León. Its name was due to the large number of castles that were in the area. -
1043
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar El Cid
He was a Castilian military leader who came to dominate the Levante of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of his 11th century as an independent lord over the authority of any king. -
Period: 1100 to 1200
The great expansion of the Christian kingdoms
He advance of the Christian kingdoms was in part the response to a demographic and economic expansion of the warrior societies of the north of the Peninsula. ... The old Kingdom of León gave rise to three kingdoms: the Kingdom of Portugal, the Kingdom of León and the Kingdom of Castile. Portugal remained independent. -
1118
Conquest of Zaragoza by Alfonso II
King of Aragon between July 18, 1164 and April 25, 1196, Count of Barcelona on those same dates and since 1166 Marquis of Provence. -
1128
Alfonso Enriquez makes the kingdom of Portugal independent
He was the second count of the Portucalense County of the house of Burgundy and the first king of Portugal -
1137
Marriage between Petronila de Aragon and Ramon Berenguer IV
She was queen of Aragon between 1157 and 1164 and countess consort of Barcelona between 1162 and 1164
He was count of Barcelona, Gerona, Osona and Cerdaña, and princeps of Aragon -
Period: 1200 to 1400
Nasrid kingdom of Granada
The Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, also known as the Emirate of Granada or Sultanate of Granada, was a Muslim state located in the south of the Iberian peninsula, with capital in the city of Granada, which existed during the Middle Ages. -
1213
Pedro II de Aragon is defeated in the battle of Muret
Pedro II de Aragón is defeated by Simón de Monfort in Muret. On September 12, 1213, Pedro II of Aragon lost his life when he was defeated by Simón de Monfort in the battle of Muret -
1230
Definitive union of the kingdoms of Castilla y Leon
The history of the two kingdoms of Castile and León came together again in 1230, when Ferdinand III the Saint received the kingdom of Castile from his mother Berenguela (in 1217) and from his deceased father Alfonso IX (in 1230) that of León. . -
1238
Jaime I de Aragon conquers Valencia
It was the set of military maneuvers that led to the annexation of most of the current territory of the Valencian Community to the Crown of Aragon. In just sixteen years, between 1229 and 1245, the Crown of Aragon achieved the conquest of much of what would later be known as the Kingdom of Valencia. -
1282
Peter III the Great of Aragon incorporates Sicily
Called the Great, he was the son of James I the Conqueror and his second wife Violant of Hungary. He succeeded his father in 1276 in the titles of King of Aragon, King of Valencia and Count of Barcelona. Furthermore, he also became king of Sicily.
