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It was the hecatomb for the Almohade empire in the Iberian Peninsula. With this historic victory of the Christian alliance had begun the decline of Muslim rule of Spain. The Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa, was undoubtedly the most important battle of the Reconquest.
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Ferdinand Ernest of Habsburg and Wittelsbach was Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Ferdinand III, King of Hungary and King of Bohemia
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Fernando III the Saint received from his mother Berenguela (in 1217) the kingdom of Castile and his father Alfonso IX (in 1230) that of León.
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The siege of Jaén of the years 1245 and 1246 was carried out by King Ferdinand III of Castile during his third campaign, which took place between 1240 and 1248.
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Alfonso X of Castile, called «the Wise», was king of León, Castilla, and of the other kingdoms with which it was entitled between 1252 and 1284. Upon the death of his father, Fernando III «the Saint», resumed the offensive against the Muslims, and occupied Jerez, razed the port of Rabat, Salé and conquered Cádiz
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In the year 1262, the Castilian armies of the monarch Alfonso X besieged and took the Islamic city of Niebla, thus conforming one more of the numerous and successful stages of the Christian Reconquest in the Iberian Peninsula, also allowing the Kingdom of Castile to take direct control of the last Islamic territory or taifa located in the west of al-Andalus.
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The Honest Council of the Mesta of Alfonso X was created in 1273 by Alfonso X el Sabio, bringing together all the pastors of León and Castilla in a national association and granting them important prerogatives and privileges such as exempting them from military service and witnessing in the judgments
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Sancho IV of Castile, called "the Brave", was King of Castile between 1284 and 1295. He was the son of King Alfonso X "the Wise" and his wife, Queen Violante of Aragon, daughter of Jaime I "the Conqueror" , King of Aragon.
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Fernando IV of Castile, called "the Emplazado" (Seville, December 6, 1285 - Jaén, September 7, 1312), was King of Castile between 1295 and 1312
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Alfonso XI of Castile, called «the Justiciero» (Salamanca, August 13, 1311 - Gibraltar, March 26, 1350), was King of Castile, the great-grandson of Alfonso X «el Sabio»
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The battle of the Salado was one of the most important battles of the last period of the Reconquest. In it, the combined forces of Castile and Portugal decisively defeated the Benimerines, the last Maghrebi kingdom that would try to invade the Iberian peninsula through battle.
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The site of Algeciras of 1342 was a warlike enterprise carried out by the Castilian troops of Alfonso XI together with the fleets of Aragon and Genoa during the Reconquest with the aim of conquering the Muslim city of al-Ŷazīra al-Jaḍrā, called Algeciras
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Pedro I of Castile (Burgos, August 30, 1334 - Montiel, March 23, 1369), 1 called in the aftermath «the Cruel» by his detractors and «the Just» or «the Justiciero» by his supporters, b He was King of Castile from March 26, 1350 until his death.
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Under the different aspects of the transmission the monarchical authority obtained by Pedro and the economic development that had been driven by the bourgeoisie were weakened. At the same time, under their governments a policy that responds later to the so-called authoritarian monarchies is very well manifested. They managed to involve Castile in the War of the Years, European diplomacy in the affairs of the kingdom.
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Juan I of Castile (Épila or Tamarite de Litera, b c d 1358-Alcalá de Henares, 1390) was King of Castile from May 29, 1379 to October 9, 1390. He was the son of Henry II de Castilla and Juana Manuel de Villena, daughter of Don Juan Manuel
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Enrique III of Castile, called "El Doliente" (Burgos, October 4, 1379-Toledo, December 25, 1406), son of Juan I and Leonor de Aragón, was King of Castile between 1390 and 1406. He succeeded his death his son, Juan II
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Juan II of Castile (Toro, 6 of March of 1405-Valladolid, 22 of July of 1454) was king of Castile between 1406 and 1454, son of the king Enrique III "the Sufferer" and the queen Catherine de Lancáster.
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Henry IV of Castile (Valladolid, January 5, 1425-Madrid, December 11, 1474) 1 2 was King of Castile from 1454 until his death in 1474. Some historians called him disparagingly "the Impotent." He was the son of Juan II and María de Aragón, and paternal brother of Isabel, who was proclaimed queen at his death, and Alfonso, who disputed the throne in life
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Isabel I of Castile (Madrigal of the High Towers, 22 of April of 1451-Medina of the Field, 26 of November of 1504) was queen of Castile from 1474 to 1504, queen consorte of Sicily from 1469 and Aragon from 1479,2 For his marriage to Fernando de Aragón
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It is called War of Castilian Succession to the warlike conflict that took place from 1475 to 1479 by the succession of the Crown of Castile among the supporters of Juana. This conflict has also been called Castellana Civil War
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The Nasrid kingdom of Granada would be the last Muslim state of the Iberian peninsula, the former al-Ándalus. Its last king was Muhámmad XII (known as Boabdil el Chico), overthrown by the Catholic Monarchs, who was forced to surrender Granada on January 2, 1492
