Talk:Alphonso I of Asturies

Shouldn't this article be named Alfonso I of Aragon? Spain, as such, didn't exist when this guy ruled. Or so I thought... --maveric149

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Yes, it should be named Alphonso I of Asturies, but that above is the way the history of Spain has been cooked since 1812 and well after the death of Franco in 1975. Among other legendary and ideologic fixations:

• Tubal, a descendant of Noah, was the first Spaniard.
• The visigoth Ataulf was the first king of Spain.
• The kings of Spain are numbered after the ones of Castille, taking precedence over the series of Leon or Aragon.

In fact:

• One cannot speak of a Spanish Crown before 1479 (union of the crowns of Isabella of Castille and Ferdinand of Aragon)
• And then, there is not a Spanish kingdom before 1715 (Decreto de Nueva Planta by Phillip 5th, that revokes the privileges of the Aragonese kingdoms)

  Perique des Palottes, 2002/07/23

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What the heck is Asturies? Could you possibly mean AsturiAs? -- Zoe