How were the Spanish sub-kingdoms decided?

How were the Spanish sub-Kingdoms decided?

I had assumed they were just based on the previous Taifas, but there seem to be different Taifas with different borders:

Partially, taifas. Not the taifas of 1080, but the Taifas of the third period. There's as much difference between the taifas of 1080 and the ones of XIII century than England of Edward the Confessor and of Richard Lionheart.

Then, steps of conquests. Depending on how and when it was conquered.

Finally, divided interest between settlers (leonese, castillans, ultrapyreneans).
 
It was decided by the old system of you take it you got it ...

Except Murcia and Granada most of the annexations were piece by piece.
 
Even in your links, the maps don't line up. The Taifa of Baeza for example...

There's map of taifas in my link? First news.

The map of conquest isn't supposed to be acurate, it's for showing you that the constitution of kingdom depends on when it was conquered.
 
Yeah, I noticed it - but for different reasons. If one looked at Wiki's map of New Spain (modern-day Mexico), one sees all these different kingdoms as the top tier, before getting onto the intendancies, captaincies-general, and the like. That bit always confused me, as it just seemed random (particularly when you have Texas listed as the "Kingdom of the New Philippines"). So how did they decide which parts of New Spain/Mexico were kingdoms or not?
 
Yeah, I noticed it - but for different reasons. If one looked at Wiki's map of New Spain (modern-day Mexico), one sees all these different kingdoms as the top tier, before getting onto the intendancies, captaincies-general, and the like. That bit always confused me, as it just seemed random (particularly when you have Texas listed as the "Kingdom of the New Philippines"). So how did they decide which parts of New Spain/Mexico were kingdoms or not?

More or less the same. Depending of when it was conquered, and what are the eventual treaties passed with Indigenous, PLUS the diverging interest of settlers groups.

For "Kingdom of New Philippines", it was a way to 1)Attract settlers in the most backyards place of northern New Spain, by trying to make think people it would be as interesting to settle there than actual Philippines 2)A way to play up the royal family.
 
There's map of taifas in my link? First news.

The map of conquest isn't supposed to be acurate, it's for showing you that the constitution of kingdom depends on when it was conquered.

Ah, I misinterpreted. so if the Castillians captured a chunk of territory in one go, whether it was a segment of one Taifa or multiple Taifas, they'd just name it one Kingdom? That makes sense. I'm always surprised Extremadura wasn't the Kingdom of New Leon or something like that. Castile and Toledo seem to have more in common than (old) Leon and Extremadura.
 
Ah, I misinterpreted. so if the Castillians captured a chunk of territory in one go, whether it was a segment of one Taifa or multiple Taifas, they'd just name it one Kingdom? That makes sense. I'm always surprised Extremadura wasn't the Kingdom of New Leon or something like that. Castile and Toledo seem to have more in common than (old) Leon and Extremadura.

It's a bit more complicated.

Depending on how were the relation between the taifa and Castile, how it was conquered, what was its strategical importance, its prestige, who were the settlers coming there, it could be a kingdom.

Generally so, the border correspond to taifas but do not match exactly these. Don't forget that often the borders presented on maps for these kingdoms are XVI/XVII ones and that could differ from actual XIII kingdoms.

Actually, no. Leon and Castile had a lot on common, culturally, historically.
You don't have an opposition between Leon and Castile for itself, just the usual local rivalities that you could found between Castile and Jaen let's say.

For Estramadure, it's because the name is old and widely used (On the other side of the Douro). It's for the same reason that "New Philippines" was quickly renamed Tejas by everyone.

But actually, even in Mexico you didn't had a "Kingdom of New Leon" but a "New Kingdom of Leon".
 
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