Genealogy of the Royal House of Aragon

The Royal House of Aragon was founded bymale primogeniture, but this was not followed. Six
James I of Aragonclaimants
("The Conqueror") who reigned as King ofto the throne stepped forward. Through intrigues
Aragon 1213 - 1276.and
The Kingdom of Aragon was one of the smallpolitical gerrymandering the law of succession
Christian stateswas set
which arose in the Iberian peninsula following theaside, and a group of nine electors was put
gradualtogether to
expulsion of the Moors, who had held sway indecide upon the respective claims. They met at
the area in theCaspe in
wake of their conquest of the old VisigothicAragon in 1412, and by the very composition of
realm of Spainthe group a
in the eighth century.Peter III succeeded hisdecision for one of the claimants, Ferdinand of
father James I to the throne inAntequera,
1276, and for many years the successionwas assured in advance. He thus came to power
continued withoutin a manner
problems. But when King Martin I (the Humanist)similar to a coup in conflict with the prevailing
of Aragonorder of
died in 1410 he had no children to succeed him,succession.This point is also stressed by T.N.
and he hadBisson, who for many
not named any successor. The only written lawyears was professor of medieval history at
of successionHarvard
was the Will of James I which confirmed theUniversity.
principle of