Regardless of what the Sanhedrin says, Don Trump parrots, or Netanyahu boasts, the King of Jerusalem is Spain's King Felipe VI.
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Jerusalem also premieres king
The triple holy city also premiered today king, the same Felipe VI who swore his post in the Congress of Deputies
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King Felipe VI, during his first speech before the Cortes Generales after his proclamation. / EFE / Paco Campos
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06/19/2014 - 7:37 PM CEST (http://cadenaser.com/tag/fecha/20140619/)
Neither flags, nor cut streets, nor live television ... Jerusalem dawned on Thursday as any day, another day of fighting over the millenary stone. And, nevertheless, the triple-holy city also premiered today king , the same Felipe VI who swore his post in the Congress of Deputies (http://cadenaser.com/ser/2014/06/19/espana/1403135419_850215.html) . Among the long list of titles that King Juan Carlos has given his son is that of monarch of a kingdom that does not exist since the thirteenth century but whose legacy shows Spain from Fernando el Católico.
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"Our beloved king," said the historic Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, when he was with the abdicated Juan Carlos, whom he begged for his "subjects of Jerusalem." "The monarch of the holy places," insists the late President of Israel, Simón Peres, insistently, when speaking with a Spanish journalist. Many winks to the post served to defuse difficult moments during the peace negotiationsthat Palestinians and Israelis held in Madrid in 1991.
The origin of the title must be sought in the First Crusade, launched by Pope Urban II in 1095 . Four years later, Godfrey de Bouillon takes control of the key points of Christianity in Jerusalem, such as the Holy Sepulcher, founding a Christian kingdom that included in the so-called Crusader States. He gave himself the position of "protector" of the holy places , because wearing a gold crown where Christ wore the thorns seemed disrespectful. It was his brother Baldwin I who for the first time served as king of Jerusalem soon after.
The charge, submitted to many problems of descent, was passed from generation to generation, curiously by the hands of up to four women -Melisenda, Sibila, Isabel I, María de Montferrato-. His palace was in the Tower of David, in the old city, one of the most recognizable symbols of the capital and today a daily magnet for thousands of tourists. In 1187 the city yields under the power of Saladino, in times of the queen Sibila. The capital moves to San Juan de Acre, the city of the Templars. Only for 15 years, between 1229 and 1244, Jerusalem would be recovered during the Fifth Crusade, always already under the control of the Holy Germanic Roman Empire . The kings relied on this time in their regents, satellites of their domain. No one was already living in Jerusalem.
Tired of the problems that came from the East, ungovernable, and say the chronicles that rushed money, Maria de Antioquia, granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth I, decided to sell the title in 1277 , with the papal approval. The buyer was Carlos de Anjou, king of Naples, to whom the distinction was already linked forever. In the background, the disputes of the kings of Cyprus, who have always claimed their ties by marriage to the heirs of this diffuse crown. Seven years after the transaction, San Juan de Acre also fell before the Saracen power . Never again has there been land for that fabulous kingdom.
In 1504 Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, conquered Naples for Spain, for the Catholic King Ferdinand. This is how the Spanish crown was made with the reign over Jerusalem. In the so-called "big arms", the shield that represents all the distinctions of the monarchs, began to appear the Cross of Jerusalem, hidden or gleaming according to the heirs that were arriving , and their interests. Felipe II was one of those who wore it more clearly. His father, Charles I, gave him the title of king of Jerusalem and Naples by marrying Maria Tudor, who was already queen, to equal the rank. Then, after the abdication of his father, Philip II recalled his duty to Jerusalem leaving traces of their crosses in the stone medallions of El Escorial, and also in that pair of kings, David and Solomon, at the entrance of the basilica.
With the War of Succession and the arrival of the Bourbons the Italian possessions were lost, so Spain was left without Naples and without Jerusalem temporarily , but Felipe V recovered the island for his son Carlos and, on returning to Madrid as Carlos III, He fused the charges again on the same throne. Until the Bourbons of today.
The link of Jerusalem with the Spanish Royal House is evident , even today, and beyond the reverence of local politicians, in the Terrace of the Kings of Spain, in the beautiful neighborhood of Yemin Moshe, in the west of the city. The viewpoint was inaugurated in 2010 by the then Minister of Culture, Ángeles González Sinde, and is presided over by a map, a coat of arms and the names of Don Juan Carlos and Doña Sofía . The new kings, Don Felipe and Doña Letizia, were on an official visit to the city in May 2011.
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