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  • 28 - The Spanish kingdoms

  • from PART III - NON-CAROLINGIAN EUROPE
  • Edited by Timothy Reuter, University of Southampton
  • Book:
    The New Cambridge Medieval History
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    13 March 2000, pp 670-691

  • Summary

    The Arab conquest of most of the Iberian peninsula in 711 destroyed the centralising governmental structures of the Visigothic monarchy and of the Spanish church. The deposition of Alfonso III of the Asturias by his son Garcia in 910 marks the formal divide between the Asturian and Leonese monarchies, but there was no break in dynastic continuity. Where in evidential terms the Leonese kingdom considerably excels its Asturian predecessor is in the survival of charters. The kings of Pamplona of the second dynasty, that of the Jiménez, are better known than their ninth-century Arista predecessors, but still appear shadowy in comparison with their Leonese contemporaries. To the west of the heartlands of the kingdom surrounding Pamplona lay the county of Aragón, which had been administered for the Navarrese monarchs by a line of hereditary counts since the early ninth century.