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Jane had been a maid of honour at the court of both Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn.
Other Romance minority languages, though not official, have special recognition, such as the Astur-Leonese group and Aragonese in Aragon.
Henry's break from Rome is convincingly anatomised, and Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn both emerge as strong, self-willed players.
Henry felt that the crown needed a male heir but his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, produced only a daughter, Mary.
He's a very engaging, open-faced, unlikely looking executioner, who connects with the barrio, like Art Aragon used to.
At the age of two he was betrothed to the three-year-old Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain.
Katherine of Aragon does not appear in the film, but Vanessa Redgrave makes a fleeting, non-speaking appearance as an incredibly authentic-looking and flirtatious Anne Boleyn.
During this period, Malta was sold and resold to various feudal lords and barons and was dominated successively by the rulers of Swabia, Aquitaine, Aragon, Castile, and Spain.
The Santangel family was one of the wealthiest in King Ferdinand's realm of Aragon.
She was the only child of King Henry VIII by his first wife, Catherine of Aragon, to survive infancy.
Henry VIII began the English Reformation as a political exercise over his desire to divorce his first wife, Catherine of Aragon.
Relatives of the kings of Aragon ruled the island until 1409, when it formally passed to the Crown of Aragon.
Castile was a much larger kingdom than Aragon, and it was inherited by Catherine's mentally unstable elder sister, Joanna.
The Kingdom of Navarre had been invaded by Ferdinand of Aragon jointly with Castile in 1512, but he pledged a formal oath to respect the kingdom.
With the union of Castile and Aragon in 1469, these kingdoms set their sights on annexing Granada.
Alfonso II the King of Aragon, himself having interests there, joined the war.
Historians have always compared Henry VII with his continental contemporaries, especially Louis XI of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon.
First degree consanguinity applied in the case of Henry VIII and his brother's widow Catherine of Aragon.
Henry is best known for his six marriages and, in particular, his efforts to have his first marriage, to Catherine of Aragon, annulled.
On 8 January 1536 news reached the king and the queen that Catherine of Aragon had died.
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If Edward died childless, the throne was to pass to Mary, Henry VIII's daughter by Catherine of Aragon, and her heirs.
He made a dynastic marriage with Catherine of Aragon, widow of his brother Arthur, in June 1509, just before his coronation on Midsummer's Day.
She was the only child of Henry VIII by his first wife Catherine of Aragon to survive to adulthood.
Some modern historians have argued that he was not from Genoa but, instead, from the Aragon region of Spain or from Portugal.
On October 1, 1500, Columbus and his two brothers, likewise in chains, were sent back to Spanish Aragon.
In 1130 the King of Aragon Alfonso the Battler besieged the city without success.
The Sicilians and later Genoese took the first two parts of the term and used them as one word, amiral, from their Aragon opponents.
This unified the Crown of Aragon and the Crown of Castile into the kingdom of Spain.
After the Compromise of Caspe in 1412, Ferdinand left Castile to become King of Aragon.
Upon the death of his mother, John II at the age of 14, took to the throne and married his cousin Maria of Aragon.
The consequence was a dynastic union of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon in 1479 when Ferdinand ascended to the Aragonese throne.
In 1516, Ferdinand II of Aragon, grandfather of the future Holy Roman Emperor Charles V, died.
Formally, the political center of the Crown of Aragon was Zaragoza, where kings were crowned at La Seo Cathedral.
The 'de facto' capital and leading cultural, administrative and economic centre of the Crown of Aragon was Barcelona, followed by Valencia.
For brief periods the Crown of Aragon also controlled Montpellier, Provence, Corsica, and the twin Duchy of Athens and Neopatras in Latin Greece.
And so, Ramiro was forced to leave his monastic life and proclaim himself King of Aragon.
Soon, Alfonso II of Aragon and Barcelona committed himself to conquer Valencia as the Aragonese nobility demanded.
This action should be seen as result of the aforementioned priority given over the Occitan and Catalan dominions of the Crown of Aragon.
Thus, the nobility of Toulouse, Foix and other vassals of the Crown of Aragon were defeated.
The Kingdom of Valencia became the third member of the crown together with Aragon and Catalonia.
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They were more an economic part of the Crown of Aragon than a political one.
Because restoration of fueros was one of its tenets, Carlism won support in the lands of the Crown of Aragon during the 19th century.
The origin of Coat of arms of the Crown of Aragon is the familiar coat of the Counts of Barcelona and Kings of Aragon.
James III of Majorca, vassal of the Kingdom of Aragon, used a coat of arms with four bars, as seen on the Leges Palatinae miniatures.
Aragon, Catalonia and Valencia each had a legislative body, known as the Cortes in Aragon or Corts in Catalonia and Valencia.
From 1502, Ferdinand and later Phillip II forced all Muslims in Castile and Aragon to convert or be expelled.
Cosimo de' Medici and Alfonso V of Aragon entered the Italic League, together with Pope Nicholas, with Francesco Sforza of Milan and with Venice.
Meanwhile, Venice sided with Alfonso V of Aragon, who occupied the throne of Naples.
Abraham Cresques was a Majorcan Jew who worked at the service of Pedro IV of Aragon.
Charlemagne established across them the vassal regions of Pamplona, Aragon, and Catalonia respectively.
The Kingdom of Aragon collected a number of territories in the Mediterranean, known as the Crown of Aragon.
James I of Aragon, also known as James the Conqueror, expanded Aragon to the north, south and east.
Fueros remained as city charters until the 18th century in Aragon, Valencia and Catalonia and until the 19th century in Castile and Navarre.
Meanwhile, Navarre lost all importance under King Sancho IV, for he lost Rioja to Sancho II of Castile, and nearly became the vassal of Aragon.
Denis' only wife was Isabel or Elizabeth of Aragon, daughter of Peter III of Aragon.
He was the only legitimate son of King Denis of Portugal by his wife Elizabeth of Aragon.
The Kingdom of Fez finally conquered the region in 1387, with assistance from the Crown of Aragon.
Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife Eleanor of Aragon.
The oldest daughter, Isabella of Aragon, had been married to Afonso, Prince of Portugal, since childhood.
In 1442, however, Alfonso V conquered the Kingdom of Naples and unified Sicily and Naples once again as dependencies of Aragon.
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In 1501, he occupied Naples and partitioned the kingdom with Ferdinand of Aragon, who abandoned his cousin King Frederick.
In 1305, Granada conquered Ceuta, but lost control of the city in 1309 to the Kingdom of Fez with the assistance of the Crown of Aragon.
The forging of a dynastic link between the Crowns of Aragon and Castile marked the beginning of Barcelona's decline.
The marriage of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile in 1469 united the two royal lines.
Ferdinand annexed Navarre first to the Crown of Aragon, but later, under the pressure of Castilian noblemen, to the Crown of Castile.
Consequently, after Ferdinand II's funeral on 14 March 1516, Charles I was proclaimed King of Castile and of Aragon jointly with his mother.
Isabella refused and made a secret promise to marry her cousin and very first betrothed, Ferdinand of Aragon.
Meanwhile, John II of Aragon negotiated in secret with Isabella a wedding to his son Ferdinand.
Her daughter, Isabella of Aragon, died in childbirth whose son Miguel da Paz also died at the age of two.
His first wife was Isabella of Aragon, princess of Spain and widow of the previous Prince of Portugal Afonso.
On March 22, 1508 he was made the pilot major of Spain by Ferdinand II of Aragon in honor of his discoveries.
Many of the anarchist collectives formed in Spain, especially in Aragon and Catalonia, during the Spanish Civil War were based on their ideas.
The Crown of Aragon inherited by Charles included the Kingdom of Naples, the Kingdom of Sicily and the Kingdom of Sardinia.
In 1520, Charles visited England, where his aunt, Catherine of Aragon, urged her husband, Henry VIII, to ally himself with the emperor.
From 1520 added to the corresponding quarter to Aragon and Sicily, one in which the arms of Jerusalem, Naples and Navarre are incorporated.
Saint George, San Chorche in Aragonese, is the patron of Aragon, one of the autonomous communities of Spain.
When Henry tried to divorce Queen Catherine of Aragon, Fisher became the Queen's chief supporter.
The east stained glass window is Victorian, and the oriel window to the north side of it was built by Henry VIII for Catherine of Aragon.
In 1532, Henry VIII was preparing to repudiate Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, in defiance of the pope.
After a time at the Lenin Barracks in Barcelona he was sent to the relatively quiet Aragon Front under Georges Kopp.
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Instead of joining the International Brigades as he had intended, he decided to return to the Aragon Front.
His wife, Catherine of Aragon, bore him only a single child that survived infancy, Mary.
In 1428, the Emperor Yeshaq sent two emissaries to Alfonso V of Aragon, who sent return emissaries who failed to complete the return trip.
In 1428, Yeshaq I sent two emissaries to Alfonso V of Aragon, who sent return emissaries.
Many individuals closely associated with Breton, notably Louis Aragon, left his group to work more closely with the Communists.
Sicily was ruled as an independent kingdom by relatives of the kings of Aragon until 1409 and then as part of the Crown of Aragon.
The kingdom of Aragon also introduced the feudal system into the areas of Sardinia that it ruled.
In 1409, Martin I of Sicily, king of Sicily and heir to the crown of Aragon, defeated the Sardinians at the Battle of Sanluri.
The conquest of Sardinia by the Kingdom of Aragon meant the introduction of the feudal system throughout Sardinia.
Peter ruled from Palma, but after his death without issue in 1258, the islands reverted by the terms of the deal to the Crown of Aragon.
The Balearic Islands were then incorporated directly into the kingdom of Aragon.
The County of Barcelona and the Kingdom of Aragon entered in a dynastic union and gained territory and power in the Mediterranean.
Various regional styles of folk music abound in Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Castile, the Basque Country, Galicia, Cantabria and Asturias.
By contrast, in the kingdoms of the crown of Aragon, and especially in the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre, law prevailed, and the monarchy was a contract with the people.
The strongest candidate looks to be debt-ridden Real Zaragoza, founded in the Aragon region of Spain in 1932, but Getafe also look a likely target for the investors.
At the legatine court of 1529, Henry's first wife, Katherine of Aragon begged on her knees before him as he attempted to have their marriage annulled.
Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales, first husband of Catherine of Aragon.
Charles was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right, and as a result he is sometimes referred to as the first King of Spain.
When Catherine of Aragon travelled to London, she brought a group of her African attendants with her, including one identified as the trumpeter John Blanke.
This caused Pope Martin IV to excommunicate the king, place Sicily under interdiction, and offer the kingdom of Aragon to a son of Philip III of France.
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On the south side of the Ward is King Henry VIII's gateway, which bears the coat of arms of Catherine of Aragon and forms the secondary entrance to the castle.
When James II of Aragon completed the conquest of the kingdom of Valencia, the Crown of Aragon established itself as one of the major powers in Europe.
Rodrigo de Borja was born on 1 January 1431, in the town of Xativa near Valencia, one of the component realms of the Crown of Aragon, in what is now Spain.
At that point both the Castile and the Crown of Aragon remained distinct territories, each keeping its own traditional institutions, parliaments and laws.
Genoa lost Sardinia to Aragon, Corsica to internal revolt and its Middle Eastern, Eastern European and Asia Minor colonies to the Turkish Ottoman Empire.
When Ferdinand succeeded his father as King of Aragon in 1479, the Crown of Castile and the various territories of the Crown of Aragon were united in a personal union.
In 1532, he wanted to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon.
In these documents Ferdinand explained his general outlook on political power, and his true goals behind all his decisions during life as the King of Castile and Aragon.
These areas were to grow into the kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon.
His will had reinstated his daughters by his annulled marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn to the line of succession, but did not legitimise them.
To Edward, it was imperative that such a war be avoided, and in Paris in 1286 he brokered a truce between France and Aragon that helped secure Charles' release.
After unifying Castile, Ferdinand introduced to Castile many laws, regulations and institutions such as the Inquisition, that were typical in Aragon.
In 1282, the citizens of Palermo rose up against Charles of Anjou and turned for help to Peter of Aragon, in what has become known as the Sicilian Vespers.
The catalog also contains recordings by the musical groups Aragon, Irakere and Los Van Van, including their most recent album La Fantasia, A Tribute to Juan Formell.
The death of Isabella of Aragon, created a necessity for Manuel I of Portugal to remarry and Isabella's third daughter, Maria of Aragon, became his next bride.
However, the terms of the will specified that the new kingdom be a vassal state to the Kingdom of Aragon, which was left to his older brother Peter.
Manuel and Isabella's young son Miguel was for a period the heir apparent of Castile and Aragon, but his death in 1500 at the age of two years, ended these ambitions.
By the end of the 10th century, Aragon was annexed by Navarre.
The 13th century also witnessed the Crown of Aragon, centred in Spain's north east, expand its reach across islands in the Mediterranean, to Sicily and even Athens.
The Kingdom of Aragon was an offshoot of the Kingdom of Navarre.
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This action caused some consternation in Aragon and Castile.
Manuel's next wife, Maria of Aragon, was his first wife's younger sister.
King Ferdinand II of Aragon married Queen Isabella I of Castile in 1469, uniting the two largest kingdoms into what would later be the Spanish Crown.
For example, the Introduction notes that the Constitution limits the power of the king while making reference to the Fuero Juzgo and the laws of Aragon, Navarra, and Castile.
A major obstacle to this was represented by the conflict between the French House of Anjou ruling southern Italy, and the kingdom of Aragon in Spain.
The War of the Sicilian Vespers had by the early 14th century divided southern Italy into an Aragon Kingdom of Sicily and an Anjou Kingdom of Naples.
He participated in the campaign on the Italian peninsula in 1480 to rescue Ferdinand II of Aragon from the Ottoman invasion of Otranto that ended in victory.
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 was the first king to rule Castile and Aragon simultaneously in his own right and as a result he is often referred to as the first king of Spain.
Spain was now in personal union under Ferdinand II of Aragon.
Ferdinand's death led to the ascension of young Charles to the throne as Charles I of Castile and Aragon, effectively founding the monarchy of Spain.
In October 1469 Isabella I and Ferdinand II, heir to the throne of Aragon, married in secret in the Palacio de los Vivero in Castilian Valladolid.
Rumours of undiscovered islands northwest of Hispaniola had reached Spain by 1511 and king Ferdinand II of Aragon was interested in forestalling further exploration.
Henry wanted to ally Castile with Portugal or France rather than Aragon.
His son Philip the Fair married Joanna the Mad, the heiress of Castile and Aragon, thus acquired Spain and its Italian, African, and New World appendages for the Habsburgs.
Hispania Citerior comprised the eastern part of former Castilla la Vieja, and what are now Aragon, Valencia, Catalonia, and a major part of former Castilla la Nueva.
Given the amount of new lands and the resulting influx of wealth, the Kingdom of Portugal and the united kingdoms of Castile and Aragon began to compete openly.
In this sense, the larger Crown of Aragon must not be confused with one of its constituent parts, the Kingdom of Aragon, from which it takes its name.
Catherine of Aragon while exiled in Ampthill, England was said to have supported the lace makers there by burning all her lace, and commissioning new pieces.
If Ferdinand died without male heir, as was probable, Afonso would be the heir not only to the throne of Portugal, but also to those of Castile and Aragon.
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Thus, after the celebration of Ferdinand II's obsequies on 14 March 1516, Charles was proclaimed king of the crowns of Castile and Aragon jointly with his mother.
The combined state was initially known as Regno, Dominio et Corona Aragonum et Catalonie, and later as Corona Regum Aragoniae, Corona Aragonum or simply Aragon.

Examples from Classical Literature

That fellow, that mouchard, Marcieu, says he is due to cross into France from Aragon.
And here, so far as Naples is concerned, closes the history of the House of Aragon.
Shall I, who am of the house of Aragon, be more afraid than thou, a Howard?
It is the tetragon with the Aragon bars, given as a shield of arms by James I. to the city he had conquered.
Yolande of Aragon has deep-pink flowers, and is an abundant autumn bloomer.
The rank of provincial capital was bestowed by Ferdinand of Aragon in acknowledgment of the fidelity of Lecce to his cause.
The ancient palace of the sovereigns of Aragon is now the ayuntamiento.
Sicily maintained independence by offering its crown to Peter III of Aragon, Naples continued to be ruled by the Angevins.
The League of Cambray, comprehending the Emperor, the King of France, the King of Aragon, and most of the Italian princes and states.
We shall then compel the King of Aragon to place our good friend and brother James of Majorca upon the throne.
The King of Aragon held his kingdom as feudatory to the pope.
Her progress was majestic, for were not her ancestors hidalgos of Aragon?
But Mesa had gone to earth in Aragon, and Rubio was with him.
Her hero was the young Ferdinand of Aragon, and heir to that throne.
This family had probably removed to Naples with the house of Aragon.
And in this yere the kyng of Fraunce wente into Aragon with a gret powere.
The Roman law exercised a powerful influence in Aragon as elsewhere.
Honda rider Marc Marquez is inching closer in winning his first MotoGP championship in his debut season after the Spaniard took pole for Sunday's Aragon Grand Prix.
The Kingdom of Solun under Dojchin recognized the Suzerainty of Aragon and became part of Castilla and Aragon, the name Spain bore in those medieval days.
Louis Aragon, an eminence grise of the French Communist party, took an interest in the production and lobbied the Soviet authorities on Plisetskaya's behalf.
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Six other employees of the plant near the city of Zaragoza were hospitalized, some with serious injuries, said Gustavo Alcalde, prefect of the Aragon regional government.

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