HISTORIA DE LOS REINOS CRISTIANOS. This item is unavailable.HISTORIA DE LOS REINOS CRISTIANOS

Saints and wicked, intriguing, murderers, opportunists, unbalanced, wise, clumsy, warriors, cowards, brave, humble, arrogant, lustful, chaste, degenerate, altruistic, intellectual and with very short or very long reigns. Learn about the history of the Christian kingdoms through the 98 monarchs who ruled them. From the occupation of the Visigoth kingdom by the Muslims in 711 until the death of Juana la Loca in 1555, various Christian kingdoms appeared and evolved: the kingdom of Asturias, standing from the time when Pelayo defeated the Muslims in Covadonga in 722 and later transformed by Alfonso III "the Great" into the kingdom of León (910); the kingdom of Pamplona, ​​conformed by Íñigo Íñiguez in 824 and transformed by Sancho VI "the Wise" into the kingdom of Navarre in 1162; the kingdom of Aragon, which emerged with Ramiro I in 1035 and was transformed into the crown of Aragon in 1137, when the kingdom of Aragon and the county of Barcelona were united; the kingdom of Castile, born with Ferdinand I "the Great" in 1037 and transformed into the crown of Castile when the kingdoms of Castile and León were united under Ferdinand III "the Saint" (1230); the union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon, with the Catholic Monarchs (1475); the annexation of the kingdom of Navarre to Castilla-Aragón done by Fernando el Católico (1515), which conformed the whole kingdom of Hispania, consolidated some decades after by Carlos I after the death of his mother Juana la Loca (1555). This was the origin of the current Spanish monarchy.

Luis Jiménez Alcaide (Montefrío, Granada) ha sido catedrático de Ingeniería Química en la Universidad de Córdoba y dentro de su especialidad ha publicado más de trecientos trabajos de investigación y dirigido veinticuatro tesis de doctorado. Interesado en temas humanísticos ha publicado Los papas del primer milenio, Veinte siglos del papado (Editorial Académica Española, 2012), Los papas que marcaron la historia (Almuzara, 2014), Ocho siglos de moros y cristianos, Caudillos rebeldes durante la permanencia de los musulmanes en España y, ahora, Historia de los reinos cristianos.