Pastlasby Oleh Voronko

State · 1173 – 1714

Principality of Catalonia

A state of 1173 – 1714 — 541 years in Europe. It replaced County of Barcelona, County of Urgell and County of Cerdanya and 6 more. It was replaced by Andorra, Catalan Republic (1640–1641) and Roussillon and 1 more. The atlas records 22 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 21. Its line of rulers holds 37 people, 31 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
541 years
1173 – 1714
Rulers
37
the viceroy of Catalonia
Within it
22
recorded rows
Symbols
2
on record, with years

Where it sits in time

3000 BCE2000 BCE1000 BCE110002000County of Barcelona: 801 – 1164County of Urgell: 785 – 1413County of Besalú: 988 – 1111Andorra: 1278 – 2026Catalan Republic (1640–1641): 1640 – 1641Principality of Catalonia: 1173 – 1714

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

After it

Rulers

The line of viceroy of Catalonia.

Alfonso II of Aragon · 1162 – 1196 · died in office, manner not recordedPeter II of Aragon · 1196 – 1213 · died in battleJames I of Aragon · 1213 – 1276 · died in office, manner not recordedPeter III of Aragon · 1276 – 1285 · died in office, manner not recordedJuan de Lanuza y Garabito · 1493 – 1495 · left office aliveFadrique de Portugal · 1525 – 1539 · died in office, manner not recordedFrancis Borgia · 1539 – 1543 · left office aliveJuan Fernández Manrique de Lara y Pimentel · 1543 – 1553 · died in office, manner not recordedPedro Afán de Ribera · 1554 – 1558 · left office aliveGarcía Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio · 1558 – 1564 · left office aliveFernando Álvarez de Toledo · 1571 – 1580 · left office aliveJuan de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of Peñaranda · 1583 – 1586 · left office aliveFrancisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Cárdenas · 1611 – 1615 · died in office, manner not recordedFrancisco Fernández de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Alburquerque · 1615 – 1619 · left office aliveLuis Díez de Aux y Armendáriz · 1626 – 1627 · died in office, manner not recordedMiguel de los Santos de San Pedro · 1627 – 1629 · left office aliveCardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria · 1632 – 1633 · left office aliveUrbain de Maillé, 1st Marquis of Brézé · 1641 – 1642 · left office aliveDiego Felípez de Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Leganés · 1645 – 1647 · left office aliveJohn Joseph of Austria · 1653 – 1656 · left office aliveFrancisco de Moura Corte Real, 3rd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo · 1663 – 1664 · left office aliveGaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Osuna · 1667 – 1669 · left office aliveFrancisco Fernández de Córdoba y Pimentel · 1669 – 1673 · left office aliveAlexander Farnese, Prince of Parma · 1676 – 1677 · left office aliveJuan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca · 1677 – 1678 · left office aliveJuan Tomas Enriquez de Cabrera, 7th Duke of Medina de Rioseco · 1688 – 1688 · left office aliveCarlos de Aragón de Gurrea, 9th Duke of Villahermosa · 1688 – 1690 · left office aliveJuan Claros Pérez de Guzmán, 11th Duke of Medina Sidonia · 1690 – 1693 · left office aliveJuan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Duke of Escalona · 1693 – 1694 · left office aliveFrancisco Antonio de Agurto, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga · 1694 – 1696 · left office aliveLuis Tomás Fernández Portocarrero Bocanegra · 1701 – 1704 · left office alive120013001400150016001700
killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeleft alive by a regular road
RulerReignLengthHow it ended · sourceTo the ruler before
Alfonso II of Aragon1162 – 119634 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Peter II of Aragon1196 – 121317 yearsdied in battleWikidata's manner of deathchild
James I of Aragon1213 – 127663 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Peter III of Aragon1276 – 12859 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alonechild
Juan de Lanuza y Garabito1493 – 14952 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Fadrique de Portugal1525 – 153914 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Francis Borgia1539 – 15434 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan Fernández Manrique de Lara y Pimentel1543 – 155310 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Pedro Afán de Ribera1554 – 15584 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
García Álvarez de Toledo y Osorio1558 – 15646 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo1571 – 15809 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan de Zúñiga, 1st Duke of Peñaranda1583 – 15863 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francisco Hurtado de Mendoza y Cárdenas1611 – 16154 yearsdied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 7th Duke of Alburquerque1615 – 16194 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luis Díez de Aux y Armendáriz1626 – 16271 yeardied in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Miguel de los Santos de San Pedro1627 – 16292 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria1632 – 16331 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Urbain de Maillé, 1st Marquis of Brézé1641 – 16421 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Diego Felípez de Guzmán, 1st Marquis of Leganés1645 – 16472 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
John Joseph of Austria1653 – 16563 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francisco de Moura Corte Real, 3rd Marquis of Castelo Rodrigo1663 – 16641 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Gaspar Téllez-Girón, 5th Duke of Osuna1667 – 16692 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francisco Fernández de Córdoba y Pimentel1669 – 16734 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Alexander Farnese, Prince of Parma1676 – 16771 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan Domingo de Zuñiga y Fonseca1677 – 16781 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan Tomas Enriquez de Cabrera, 7th Duke of Medina de Rioseco1688 – 1688under a yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Carlos de Aragón de Gurrea, 9th Duke of Villahermosa1688 – 16902 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan Claros Pérez de Guzmán, 11th Duke of Medina Sidonia1690 – 16933 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Juan Manuel Fernández Pacheco, 8th Duke of Escalona1693 – 16941 yearleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Francisco Antonio de Agurto, 1st Marquess of Gastañaga1694 – 16962 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone
Luis Tomás Fernández Portocarrero Bocanegra1701 – 17043 yearsleft office aliveread off the dates alone

37 rulers, 31 with terms dated as terms, covering 1162 – 1704. Median reign 3 years. 1 of 30 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”.

Flags and arms, in order

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

  • Coat of Arms of Catalonia
    coat of arms, undatedCoat of Arms of Catalonia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · This vector image includes elements that have been taken or adapted from this file:
  • Flag of Catalonia
    flag, undatedFlag of Catalonia · Public domain

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.

1100 – 1199: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other11001200 – 1299: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other12001300 – 1399: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other13001400 – 1499: 3 recorded — 1 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 2 other14001500 – 1599: 9 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 9 other15001600 – 1699: 10 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 10 other16001700 – 1799: 0 recorded — 0 wars and battles, 0 risings, regime changes and massacres, 0 other1700

1400 – 14993 rows · 1 wars and battles

1500 – 15999 rows

and 1 more in the atlas.

1600 – 169910 rows

and 2 more in the atlas.

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 stood541 years

    stood longer than 88% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.

  • Wars recorded per century0.2

    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 median3 years

    had longer reigns, at the median, than 9% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.

  • Rulers on record37

    has more rulers on record than 96% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 12 causes the record names and 3 results, 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.

County of Roussillon · Linked · 812 – 1172County of RoussillonCounty of Barcelona · Linked · 801 – 1164County of BarcelonaCounty of Conflent · Linked · 850 – 1126County of ConflentCounty of Besalú · Linked · 988 – 1111County of BesalúCounty of Urgell · Linked · 785 – 1413County of UrgellCounty of Cerdanya · Linked · 798 – 1403County of CerdanyaPrincipality of Catalonia · 1173 – 1714Principality of CataloniaRoussillon · Linked · 1659 – 1790RoussillonAndorra · Linked · 1278 – 2026AndorraSpain · In the article · 1516 · “The ascension to the throne of Aragon of Ferdinand II (1479), already married to Isabella I of Castile, put under a personal union two of the three major mona…”Spain100015002000
in the articlelinked

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

Wikidata Q15581 (CC0) · 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.