List of Galician monarchs


Galicia is an autonomous community and historical nationality in modern-day northwestern Spain on the Iberian Peninsula, which was a major part of the Roman province known as Gallaecia prior to 409. It consists of the provinces of A Coruña, Lugo, Ourense and Pontevedra. It is bounded on the north by the Cantabrian Sea, to the south by Portugal, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean and to the east by principality of Asturias and the community of Castile and León. The archipelago of the Cíes Islands, the Ons archipelago, the Sálvora archipelago and other island such as Cortegada, Arousa, the Sisargas Islands and the Malveiras Islands are also part of Galicia.
Galicia has about 2,795,422 inhabitants which mainly combines the coastal strip between Ferrol and A Coruña in the northwest and between Vilagarcía de Arousa and Vigo in the southwest.
The medieval and modern Kingdom of Galicia derived of the kingdom of the Suebi, founded by king Hermeric in 409. By the 6th century the kingdom of the Suebi was already known as the Kingdom of Galicia, Gregory of Tours being the first chronicler to use this denomination.

Kings of the Suebi (409–585)

;First royal dynasty
;Competing kings
Note: the war of succession split the kingdom, and multiple kings ruled smaller regions of Galicia.
;Period of obscurity
;Final period of the Suebi

Visigothic Kings (585-712)

The Visigoth kings took control of Galicia in 585, which became the sixth province of the Kingdom of Toledo. Galicia maintained a distinguishable administrative and legal identity up to the collapse of the Visigothic monarchy.

Asturian kings (740-910)

In 740, Alfonso I of Asturias captured Galicia from the Muslims.

Kings of Galicia

In 910, Alfonso III the Great was forced to abdicate in favor of his sons, Ordoño, Fruela and Garcia, who partitioned the kingdom amongst them. Ordoño was the first to adopt the title "King of Galicia".

Ordoñez dynasty (910-1037)

Jiménez dynasty (1037–1111)

  • Ferdinand I. Upon his death, Castile, León and Galicia were divided amongst his sons.
  • García II - reigned in Galicia and in the County of Portugal until he was deposed by his brothers Alfonso and Sancho in 1071, after which he was made prisoner until his death in 1090.
  • Sancho II - briefly co-reigned as king of Galicia with his brother Alfonso until he was assassinated in 1072.
  • Alfonso IV - co-ruled Galicia until his brother Sancho was assassinated in 1072, whereupon he acceded the throne of Castille as well.
  • Urraca. Daughter of the former.

Burgundian dynasty (1111-1369)

Portuguese House of Burgundy (1369-1371)

House of Trastámara (1371-1555)

House of Habsburg (1555–1700)

House of Bourbon (1700–1808)

House of Bonaparte (1808–1813)

House of Bourbon (1813–1868)

House of Savoy (1870–1873)

House of Bourbon (1874–1931, 1975–present)