Kingdom of Toledo (Crown of Castile)

Kingdom of Toledo Reino de Toledo
banner	coat of arms
Kingdom of Toledo around 1590
Official language	Castilian
Capital	Toledo
founding	1085
resolution	1833

Iberian Peninsula around 1036

The Kingdom of Toledo ( Spanish : Reino de Toledo ) was a rulership in what is now Spain, connected to the Kingdom of Castile-Léon .

history

Islamic time

After the collapse of the Caliphate of Cordoba under Hischam III. (ruled 1026-1031) was Ismail Dahfir (ruled 1036-1038) the Taifa Kingdom of Toledo out of the former rule of the Caliphate. His successor Abul asan Yaya ben Ismail ben Dylinun al-Mamún, also known under the short names Almamún or Alimenón (r. 1038-1075), came to power with the support of Ferdinand I of León (r. 1035-1065); at times he even succeeded in conquering Cordoba and Valencia and their surroundings. He was on friendly terms with the young Alfonso VI. of León (ruled 1065–1109), to whom he even granted brief asylum in 1072. His grandson Yahya ben Ismail ben Yahya Al-Kadir (r. 1075-1081) lost the territories conquered by his grandfather again; as early as 1081 he passed his claims to rule over Toledo to Alfonso VI. from, who waited four years before his triumphant entry into the city.

Christian time

The Christian Kingdom of Toledo was founded in 1085 with the arrival of Alfonso VI. to the city. Until the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212), rule over the surrounding area was consolidated. As a Christian kingdom, it was connected to the crown of Castile, to whose power and cultural center it advanced. As the old capital of the Visigothic Empire , the city had great political and ideological symbolism for the expanding Kingdom of Castile. Toledo served the Castilian and Spanish kings from the 14th to 16th centuries as one of their residential cities. The city of Madrid , selected by King Philip II as the capital of Spain in 1561, was also in the Toledo catchment area. Institutionally, the kingdom was fully integrated into Castile, which is why the country was also called "New Castile" (Castilla la Nueva) . The country was officially given this name when it was established as a historical region with the provinces of Ciudad Real , Cuenca , Guadalajara , Madrid and Toledo in the reorganization of Spain by Interior Minister Francisco Javier de Burgos in 1833 . In 1983 it was finally renamed Castile-La Mancha as one of the 17 autonomous communities of Spain (Comunidad Autónoma) . Madrid was spun off as a separate autonomous community; in return, the province of Albacete came to the Toledo region.

literature

Olga Pérez Monzón, Enrique Rodríguez-Picavea Matilla: Toledo y las tres culturas. Ediciones AKAL, 1995, ISBN 978-84-460-0455-4 .

Individual evidence

↑ Reino de Toledo

[1] Reino de Toledo