List of Galician monarchs

The first person to assume the title of King of Galicia, centered in Northwestern Spain was the Suevic king Hermeric, who succeeded the Roman government of the province of Gallaecia and made it his new kingdom in the year 409. The first dynasty established a Suevic kingdom while the monarchy and the elite of the inmates were Suevi, however during the 5th century, the understanding with the more numerous aristocrats and Galician adoption of Roman Catholicism, consolidated a kingdom of Galicia. At the end of the 6th century, the scholar Gregory of Tours first speaks of Regnum Galliciense, and their kings, as kings of Galicia.

Suebic kings of Galicia (409–585)

First Royal Dynasty (409–456)

• Hermeric (409–438)
• Rechila (438–448)
• Rechiar (448–456)
• Aioulf (456–457)

Kings during a Suebic Civil War (456–469)

• Maldras (457–460 in Lusitania, 457 in the north)
• Framta (457 in the north)
• Richimund (457–464 in the north)
• Frumar (460–464 in Lusitania)
• Remismund (464–464), reunified the kingdom

Dark Period (469–550)

• Theodemund

Final Suevic Period (550–585)

• Chararic (550–558)
• Ariamir (558–561)
• Theodemar (561–570)
• Miro or Mirón (570–583)
• Eboric, also called Euric (583–584)
• Andeca (584–585)
• Malaric (585)

Visigothic Kings of Galicia, Spain and Septimania

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Political Map of Northwest Iberian peninsula

Despite the fact that the Visigothic kings attained control of the region in 585. Galicia continued under a different development than the other Visigothic kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula. Thus, even then, the Visigothic kingdoms of Spain contained three fully distinct cultural regions.

• Liuvigild (585–586)
• Reccared I (586–601)
• Liuva II (601–603)
• Witteric (603–610)
• Gundemar (610–612)
• Sisebut (612–621)
• Reccared II (621)
• Suintila (621–631)
• Sisenand (631–636)
• Chintila (636–640)
• Tulga (640–641)
• Chindasuinth (641–653)
• Reccesuinth (649–672)
• Wamba (672–680)
• Erwig (680–687)
• Egica, (687–702) He ruled no more Galicia in 702, securing his son Wittiza as his heir.
• Wittiza, king of Galicia between 648 and 710 (coruling with his father until 702), also king of Septimania and Hispania (702–710)
• Roderic (710–712)

Asturian kings with capital in Cangas de Onís

• Pelagius (718–737) He ruled only east of Asturias, the so-called regnum asturorum.
• Favila (737–739) Brief lord of the same territory.
• Alfonso (739–757) Extent of his dominions unknown.
• Fruela I (757–768)

"Usurper" Kings (768–791)

• Aurelius (768–774)
• Silo (774–783)
• Mauregatus (783–788)
• Bermudo I (788–791)

Asturian kings with capital in Oviedo

• Alfonso II (791–842)
• Nepotian (842)

The Ramiro Dynasty (842–910)

• Ramiro I (842–850)
• Ordoño I (850–866)
• Afonso III the Great (866–910) Refounded the kingdom of Galicia.

Kings of León

• Ordoño II of León (910–924) From 910 he governed the Galician territory in the social position of dominus.
• Fruela II (924–925), younger brother of Ordoño II
• Alfonso Froilaz (925–926), son of Fruela II

Map of the northwest peninsula in 1064. The area of Galicia was ruled at the time by Ferdinand I of León and Castile, and the rest of Spain (Hispania) was divided into taifas.

The Ordóñez dynasty (910–1037)

• Sancho I Ordóñez (925–929), first-born of Ordoño II
• Alfonso IV the Monk (929–931)
• Ramiro II (931–951)
• Ordoño III (951–956)
• Sancho I (called "the Fat") (956–958)
• Ordoño IV (called "the Wicked" or "the Bad" (958–960)
• Sancho I (restored) (960–966)
• Ramiro III (966–982) Galicia once again became separate from León during his reign, which lasted until 984 in León.
• Bermudo II (982–999) Becomes king of León in 984.
• Alfonso V the Noble (999–1027)
• Bermudo III (1027–1037)
• Ferdinand I (1037–1065) Upon his death, Castile, León, and Galicia became three separate kingdoms.

Galician-Navarre Dynasty (1065–1111)

• García II (1065–1072) Reigned in Galicia (and Portugal from 1071) until deposed in 1072, after which he lived imprisoned in a monastery until his death in 1090.
• Alfonso VI (1073–1109) Ruled in León from 1067 to 1072, when Sancho II exiled him. Returned from exile 1073 to rule Galicia, León and Castile Directly ruled Toledo after 1085.
• Urraca (1109–1111)

House of Burgundy

• Alphonse VII (1111–1157) In 1111 he was crowned king of Galicia in Compostela, and in 1026 he succeeded Urraca as king of León, Castile and Kingdom of Toledo.

Kings of Galicia and León

The death of Alphonse VII in the year 1157 to divide their domains among their children. Thus, while Ferdinand II inherit the kingdom of Galicia and León, his brother inherits the kingdoms of Castile and Toledo. The territory of the Kingdom of Galicia had been reduced already in 1139 when Afonso Henriques won the independence of the County of Portugal, creating it as a new kingdom and thus ending Portugal's foreign rule from Galicia.

• Ferdinand II (1157–1188)
• Alphonse VIII (1188–1230)

Kings of Galicia-León and Castile-Toledo

• Ferdinand III of Castile (1230–1252)
• Alfonso X of Castile (1252–1284)
• Sancho IV of Castile (1284–1292)
• Ferdinand IV of Castile (1295–1312)
• Alfonso XI (1312–1350)
• Peter of Castile (1350–1369)

Trastámara Dynasty

• Henry II of Castile (1369–1379)
• John II of Castile (1379–1390)
• Henry III of Castile (1390–1406)
• John II of Castile (1406–1454)
• Henry IV of Castile (1454–1474)
• Isabella I of Castile (also called the Catholic) (1474–1516)

Kings of Portugal that claimed possession of Galicia

Dinasty of Borgonha (Portugal)

• Ferdinand I of Portugal, claimed king of Galicia and León after the execution of King Peter of Castile and the submission of several Galician and Leonese cities to Portugal(1369–1373).

Dinasty of Avís

• Afonso V of Portugal and Juana la Beltraneja, acclaimed de jure kings of Galicia in 1475, saw their pretensions to the Castilian throne defeated in the Battle of Toro in 1479.