County of Aragon

The county of Aragon ( Spanish Condado de Aragon, Aragonese Condato d' Aragon ) was a historic district in the Spanish Official Mark of the Frankish Empire in the 9th and 10th centuries in what is now Spain.

The historic county Aragón was not congruent with today's much larger Autonomous Community of Aragón in their territorial scope, although this had developed as a kingdom in the wake of a territorial expansion process during the Reconquista of the county out. The area of the county of Aragón corresponded in scope rather the today's Comarca Jacetania with the main town of Jaca, after which she is often referred to as " County Jaca ". The county in the Middle Ages but was named after flowing through it Río Aragón.

The result is the county Aragon in the early 9th century as part of the expansion of the Frankish empire south into the space of the Pyrenees during the rulers times of Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious. Administratively, the space between the Pyrenees and the Ebro had been grouped together as one directed against the Muslim Al -Andalus Grenzmark, the Spanish so-called Mark ( Marca Hispanica ), which was in turn subdivided into several counties. The county of Aragón ultimately formed the western end of the Spanish market, to which in addition to the field of largely remained independent mountain people of the Basques leaning to Pamplona.

The area around Jaca itself was inhabited by Basque ethnic groups and also that of Aznar I. Galíndez derived Graf house apparently was of Basque origin. It follows that, from the beginning of dynastic and political ties between them and the rulers of Pamplona, facilitating a rapid alienation of Aragón from the Frankish Empire. Had the Earl dated to the middle of the 9th century their certificates even after the reigns of the Frankish kings, she later renounced it. Through the marriage of his last heir to the King García I. in the early 10th century, the inclusion of Aragón in the Kingdom of Navarre was finally completed. The dynasty of internal power struggles and feudal disintegration drawn Franks could not prevent as well as the entire Spanish Mark eluded at the time of the royal supremacy that loss. Aragon was now another century a part of Navarre, whose kings occasionally inserting here own graphs for administration, to King Sancho III. the Great decided shortly before his death in 1035 a division of his empire among his sons. The illegitimate Ramiro I got the old county of Aragón, but now with all the regalia of a king, so ultimately the Kingdom of Aragon was founded.

The Counts of Aragón were:

Aureolus († 809)
Aznar I. Galíndez ( presumably † 836)
García Galíndez " the evil one " ( presumably † after 836), his son- Galindo Garcés

County of Aragon

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