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Old 12th June 2019, 04:31 AM   #2628
Craig B
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Originally Posted by McHrozni View Post
War of Spanish succession was a war between houses of Burbon (Capet) and Habsburg about who should control Spain. Yes, it also abolished what remained of the kingdom of Aragon, because they sided with the losing side (Habsburgs). It was not, in any shape or form, a war for Aragonese independence or the start of the unified Spain.

Spain de facto unified back in 1469, with the marriage of Isabella of Castillie and Ferdinand of Aragon. The country remained a union of kingdoms, with Castillie (itself a union of the kingdoms of Castillie and Leon) getting the upper hand most of the time, until Castillian institutions sided with the winning side after the death of Charels II of Spain. In the ensuing war France (& friends) prevailed over Austria (& friends) and Aragonese institutions got the shaft.

It wasn't some sort of a war of unification or anything. Independent institutions were collateral damage.

McHrozni
That doesn't make sense. The war resulted in the destruction of the crown of Aragon's political institutions and subsequent imposition of Castilian ones. It is called a war of succession, but it resulted in unification and that was not a peaceful operation. The unification dates from the abolition of the Corts. As in Britain the two Crowns had a single monarch before that. But the unification came when the legislatures were united. Scotland and England weren't united in 1603, but in 1707.
See wiki Crown of AragonWP
The Crown of Aragon and its institutions were abolished in 1716 only after the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714) by the Nueva Planta decrees, issued by Philip V of Spain. The old regime was swept away, the administration was subsumed into the Castilian administration, the lands of the Crown were united formally with those of Castile to legally form a single state, the kingdom of Spain, as it moved towards a centralized government under the new Bourbon dynasty.

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