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Oct 29, 2020 · When the kingdoms of Aragon and Castille were united, it was determined that the heir would continue to use the title Prince of Asturias.
Aug 9, 2023 · The first Prince of Asturias was Henry III of Castille, who was granted the title by his father, John I of Castile. Henry was also given jurisdiction of Asturias as well.
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The Kingdom of Asturias arose in 718 and transitioned into the Kingdom of Leon in 910. In this period, a dozen Asturian kings ruled the region. They fought Muslims, Galicians and Basks. One committed fratricide. Another king got a bastard son with a Moorish slave girl, while a third one got killed by a brown bear. Not very different from what we us...
At the start of the 8thcentury, Muslims occupied almost all of Spain. To win back their country, the Spanish began a rebellion. This is what we know as the ‘Reconquista’; the recapturing of their land by the Spanish people. This actually took quite a while: almost 800 years before the whole of Spain was retaken! This famous episode in Spanish histo...
King Alfonso II (791- 842) is Asturias’ most influential king. Some of Asturias’ most famous neo-Romanesque buildings were built under his reign, as well as part of Oviedo’s city wall, aqueducts and fountains. However, a more personal physical exercise led to a phenomenon now known around the world: his pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostella, in Gal...
A few centuries later, John, the Duke of Lancaster, and King Juan I of Castilla, rivalled over the Castilian throne. On July 8, 1388, they signed the Treaty of Bayonne. The Duke renounced all his rights over the Castilian throne when his daughter Catherine married the first-born son of King Juan, the future Henry III. They received the title ‘Princ...
The Princess of Asturias award ceremony is a major yearly event for Asturias and for Oviedo specifically. It takes place in Oviedo’s theatre Campoamor. The Awards are handed out to persons or organizations playing an important role, both nationally and internationally, in science, culture or humanities. Famous winners are, for example, Woody Allen ...
The title originated in 1388, when King John I of Castile granted the dignity – which included jurisdiction over the territory of Asturias – to his first-born son Henry. In an attempt to end the dynastic struggle between the heirs of Kings Peter I and Henry II of Castile , the principality was chosen as the highest jurisdictional lordship ...
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince noted for his patronage of voyages of discovery among the Madeira Islands and along the western coast of Africa. He sponsored expeditions in the early stages of European exploration and inaugurated the Portuguese slave trade.
Henry IV of Castile (Castilian: Enrique IV; 5 January 1425 – 11 December 1474), nicknamed the Impotent, was King of Castile and León and the last of the weak late-medieval kings of Castile and León. During Henry's reign, the nobles became more powerful and the nation became less centralised.
With the forced abdication of Alfonso III by his sons in 910, the Kingdom of Asturias split into three separate kingdoms of León, Galicia and Asturias. The three kingdoms were eventually reunited in 924 (León and Galicia in 914, Asturias later) under the crown of León.
