House of Trastámara

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The House of Trastámara (Spanish: Casa de Trastámara, Catalan: Casal de Trastàmara) was a Spanish dynasty of Castilian origin which ruled in the Crown of Castile from 1369 to 1504, in the Crown of Aragon from 1412 to 1516, in the Kingdom of Navarre from 1425 to 1479 and from 1512 to 1516, and in the Kingdom of Naples from 1458 to 1501 and from 1504 to 1516. The Trastámaras, an illegitimate cadet line of the ruling House of Burgundy (Castile), take its name from the County of Trastámara (from Trans Tamaris, ‘beyond the River Tambre’), one of the titles held by Henry II of Castile, the founder of the dynasty, before he became king. They acceded to power in Castile as a result of the victory of Henry of Trastámara over his half-brother Peter I in the 1351–1369 Castilian Civil War, in which the nobility, and, to a lesser extent the clergy, had played a decisive role in favour of the former. The resulting dynastic change saw a radicalization of the anti-Jewish sentiment in Castile in which religious...

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