Monarchs of Castile and Leon

From 1230 to 1454

In 1230, King Ferdinand III of Castile was crowned as king of Leon. Rather than a simple personal Union, Ferdinand ruled both kingdoms as one entity.

From 1454 to 1809

The history of the Iberian peninsula is almost unchanged up to 1468, when king Enrique IV of Castile and Leon's brother Alfonso died *here*. (but not *there*.)

Enrique IV died on schedule in 1474 and in a quick civil war Alfonso XII managed to get rid of Enrique's wife's daughter Juana and was proclaimed king.

Alfonso XII's sister, Isabella, had married Ferdinand II, king of Aragon, and there was no unification of Spain.

Both Alfonso of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon, continued their crusade against the Moors, and in 1492 the Kingdom of Granada was decisively defeated, and both kings expeled the Jews from their kingdoms.

Alfonso XII, worried trying to compete with Portugal, who had circumnavigated Africa, and the Aragonese dominium of the Mediterranean, accepted the proposal of this Genovese sailor Christopher Columbus, and sponsors an expedition to the Indies by navigating westwards.

Isabella and Ferdinand of Aragon, had a daughter called Juana who married Habsburg prince Phillip. Their son, Charles later became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V and King of Aragon as Carlos I, who's followed by Philip II (who also inherited the Netherlands), Philip III, Philip IV and Carlos II.

In Castile, Alfonso's son Sancho V is followed by his son Juan III, who also became King of Portugal as João IV, but this was barely a personal union. Juan's successors, Alfonso XIII and Enrique VII, also ruled over Portugal (as Alfonso VI & Henrique II) until João Braganza drived the Castilians usurpers and became João V of Portugal.

Enrique's son Sancho VI, was a contender to the Aragonese trone after the death of Carlos II. He managed to hold the Aragonese crown from 1700 to 1704, but he finally lost the Aragonese Sucession War to the Boubons, and Philip V Bourbon become the new king of Aragon and Navarre.

After João V, the Braganza dinasty in Portugal followed: Alfonso VII, Pedro II, Joao VI, Joseph Emanuel and Maria I.

In Aragon, Ferdinand VI, Charles III and Charles IV followed Philip V. Charles IV's son Ferdinand conspired with Napoleon and ascended the throne as Ferdinand VII after his father abdication in 1808. Aragon and the Two Sicilies (under Ferdinand), became allied to France and their armies and Navies part of the French Imperial Army and Navy.

In Castile, Sancho VI was suceded by his nephew Sancho VII, then was Juan IV and Juan V and Alfonso XIV.

In 1809, Napoleon attempted to take both Castile and Portugal. He managed to make Maria resign for his son Pedro and Pedro resign for Napoleon's brother Joseph, and both of them were made prisoners. Alfonso of Castile managed to scape to New Andalusia denouncing Joseph Bonaparte as an ursurper.

List of Monarchs

Monarchs of Castile and Leon
Name	Reign	Born	Place of Birth	Died	Place of Death	Notes
Fernando III	1217-1252	1198		1252		King of Leon from 1230
Alfonso X	1252-1284	1221		1284		Rival King of Germany, 1257-1273
Sancho IV	1284-1295	1257		1295
Fernando IV	1295-1312	1285		1312
Alfonso XI	1312-1350	1311		1350
Pedro I	1350-1369	1334		1369
Enrique II	1366-1379	1334	Sevilla	1379	Santo Domingo de la Calzada
Juan I	1379-1390	1358		1390
Enrique III	1390-1406	1379	Burgos	1406	Toledo
Juan II	1406-1454	1405		1454	Vallodolid
Enrique IV	1454-1474			1474
Alfonso XII	1474-?
Sancho V
Juan III						Also João IV of Portugal
Alfonso XIII						Also Alfonso VI of Portugal
Enrique V						Also Henrique III of Portugal
Sancho VI						Also King of Aragon from 1700-1704
Sancho VII
Juan IV
Juan V	??-1788		Valladolid	1788	Valladolid	Abdicated
Alfonso XIV	1788-1809 1813-1829	1759	Valladolid	1829	Madrid	Abdicated in 1809, returned to the throne in 1813
José I	1809-1813	1768	Corte, Corsica	1844	Oxbridge, NAL	Often considered a usurper Elder brother of Napoleon Previously King of Portugal
Isabel I	1829-1832	1793	Toledo	1874	Rome	Abdicated
Carlos I	1832-1865	1787	Toledo	1865	Valladolid
Carlos II	1865-1898	1824	Cádiz la Nôva	1898	Havanna, Cuba
Leopoldo I	1898-1910	1834	Könisberg, Germany	1910	Valladolid
Juan VI	1910-1922 1925-1939 (America only)	1872	Könisberg, Germany	1939	Cádiz la Nôva
María Luisa I	1939-1975 (America only)	1899	Valladolid, Castilian Spain	1996	Santa María, New Granada	Abdicated in grandson's favor, reuniting the two kingdoms
Eduardo I	1967-1975 (Castilian Spain only)	1922	Frankfurt, Germany	1975	Santa Fe, New Granada
Alfonso José I	1975-	1943	Cadiz la Nôva, New Granada