Main Page: Titles of European hereditary rulers


 

The same existence of a local version of a ruler's title tells that the region had a separate administration.

The following samples from the documents issued in the name of King Philip II of Spain for his various lands in the 1580s:

For the lands of the Crown of Castile and the Spanish colonies:

King of Castile, Leon, Aragon, both Sicilies, Jerusalem, Portugal, Navarra, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, East & West Indias, the Islands & Mainland of the Ocean sea;

Archduke of Austria;

Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan;

Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Barcelona;

Lord of Biscay, Molina;

 

 

 

For the lands of the Crown of Aragon (Aragon, Catalonia, Valencia, Naples, Sicily, Sardinia, The Balearic islands):

King of Castile, Aragon, Leon, both Sicilies, Jerusalem, Portugal, Hungary, Dalmatia, Croatia, Navarra, Granada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algeciras, Gibraltar, the Islands of Canary, the Islands of East & West Indias, Mainland of the Ocean sea;

Archduke of Austria;

Duke of Burgundy, Brabant, Milan, Athenas, Neopatria;

Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Tyrol, Barcelona, Roussillon, Cerdagne;

Margrave of Oristano, Goceano;

 

 

 

For Portugal and the Portuguese colonies (Brazil, Angola, etc.):

King of Portugal, the Algarves, of either side of the sea in Africa;

Lord of Guinea, & of the Conquest, Navigation, & Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, & India;

 

 

 

For the lands of the Crown of Burgundy (Luxembourg, the Low Countries, Franche-Comté):

King of Castile, Leon, Aragon, both Sicilies, Jerusalem, Portugal, Navarra, Grenada, Toledo, Valencia, Galicia, Majorca, Sevilla, Sardinia, Cordova, Corsica, Murcia, Jaen, the Algarves, Algecira, Gibraltar, the Canary Islands, and of East & West Indias, the Islands & Mainland of the Ocean sea;

Archduke of Austria;

Duke of Burgundy, Lotharingia, Brabant, Limburg, Luxembourg, Gelderland, Milan;

Count of Habsburg, Flanders, Artois, Burgundy Palatine, Tyrol, Hainaut, Holland, Zeeland, Namur, Zutphen;

Prince of Swabia;

Margrave of the Holy Roman Empire;

Lord of Frisia, Salins, Mechelen, the cities, towns & lands of Utrecht, Overyssel, Groningen;

Dominator in Asia & Africa;

 

 

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