State · 900 – 1598

County of Ribagorza

A state of 900 – 1598 — 698 years in Europe. It replaced Spanish march. It was replaced by Kingdom of Aragon. The atlas records 15 things within it — wars and battles 3 · people 12. Its line of rulers holds 23 people, 22 with dated terms.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 698 years; 900 – 1598
Rulers: 23; the Count of Ribagorza
Most ground: 171,800 km²; in 1034
Within it: 15; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Map: County of Ribagorza in 1034, its borders in gold among its neighbours — County of Ribagorza in 1034, when it held the most ground the borders dataset draws for it: 171,800 km². Its neighbours wear their tints, as on the atlas's own map. Borders from Cliopatria (CC BY 4.0), coast and rivers from Natural Earth, cities from Reba, Reitsma & Seto 2016 (CC BY 4.0), each city under the name it bore that year.

County of Ribagorza in 875, first mapped — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

County of Ribagorza in 1034, at its largest — The rise and the fall in one frame: the same ground at the years the borders dataset first maps it, maps it largest, and last maps it.

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Spanish march · replaces

After it

Kingdom of Aragon · replaced by · 1035 – 1707

Rulers

The line of Count of Ribagorza - the office this state names as its head of state.

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Raymond I of Ribagorza	872 – 920	48 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Bernardo I de Ribagorza	920 – 955	35 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Ramon II of Ribagorza	955 – 970	15 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Unifred, Count of Ribagorza	970 – 979	9 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Arnold, Count of Ribagorza	979 – 990	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Isarn, Count of Ribagorza	990 – 1003	13 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Tota of Ribagorza	1003 – 1011	8 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
William Isarn	1011 – 1017	6 years	killedWikidata's manner of death	nephew or niece
Sancho III of Pamplona	1018 – 1035	17 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza	1035 – 1043	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Ramiro I of Aragon	1043 – 1063	20 years	died in battleWikidata's manner of death	sibling
Sancho Ramírez	1063 – 1085	22 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona	1085 – 1104	19 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Alfonso the Battler	1104 – 1134	30 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Ramiro II of Aragon	1134 – 1157	23 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Peter, Count of Ribagorza	1322 – 1381	59 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone
Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia	1381 – 1412	31 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
Alfonso II, Duke of Gandia	1412 – 1425	13 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	child
John II of Aragon	1425 – 1458	33 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ferdinand II of Aragon	1458 – 1469	11 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone	child
Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar	1469 – 1485	16 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone	sibling
Juan de Gurrea y Aragón	1565 – 1573	8 years	executedWikidata's manner of death

23 rulers, 22 with terms dated as terms, covering 872 – 1573. Median reign 16.5 years. 3 of 21 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Ground held, by year

km² inside its borders as the borders dataset draws them, measured on an equal-area grid; a step series, held between the years the dataset maps.

20,900 km² in 900, 20,500 km² in 1075; at its largest 25,800 km² in 1000. Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, undatedArms of John, Count of Prades · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Heralder

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

900 – 9995 rows · 1 wars and battles

Battle of Valdejunquera · battle · 920
Ramon II of Ribagorza · ruler · 901 – 970
Tota of Ribagorza · ruler · 901 – 1011
William Isarn · ruler · 901 – 1017
Unifred, Count of Ribagorza · ruler · 901 – 979

1000 – 10994 rows · 2 wars and battles

García Sánchez III of Pamplona · ruler · 1012 – 1054
Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza · ruler · 1017 – 1045
Battle of Tamarón · battle · 1037
War of the Three Sanchos · war · 1065 – 1067

1300 – 13993 rows

Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia · ruler · 1332 – 1412
Alfonso II, Duke of Gandia · ruler · 1358 – 1425
Peter, Count of Ribagorza · ruler · 1305 – 1380

1400 – 14992 rows

Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar · ruler · 1417 – 1485
Juan II de Ribagorza · ruler · 1457 – 1528

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood698 years
stood longer than 93% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
The most ground it held171,800 km²
held more ground at its peak than 55% of 1,465 states with a border in Cliopatria.
Wars recorded per century0.1
had more wars on record per century than 89% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median17 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 54% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record23
has more rulers on record than 93% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 830 – 1668, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1034, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q1297894 (CC0) · borders Cliopatria, CC BY 4.0 · coast and rivers Natural Earth · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.