Compromise of Caspe
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The 1412 Compromise of Caspe was an act and resolution of parliamentary representatives of the constituent realms of the Crown of Aragon, meeting in Caspe, to resolve the interregnum following the dea
Original deed of the compromise.
Salvador Vinegra's depiction of the deliberations
Proclamation of Ferdinand I as king of Aragon, by Dióscoro Puebla
Portrait of Ferdinand of Castile, proclaimed king after the Compromise.
House of Trastámara
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The House of Trastámara was a royal dynasty which first ruled in the Crown of Castile and then expanded to the Crown of Aragon from the Late Middle Ages to the early modern period.
Compromise of Caspe
…domain of the county of Barcelona, but was shared out among the Trastámara's supporters. With the selection of a younger prince of the Castilian Royal House of Trastámara, the Aragonese Crown became increasingly drawn into the sphere of influence of the Castile. About 50 years after the Compromise, with the marriage of…
Henry supervising the beheading of his rival Peter, from the Grandes Chroniques de France.
Statue of Álvaro de Luna in Cañete