Kingdom of Gibraltar

After an unsuccessful siege led by Alfonso XI of Castile during the Reconquista period, the local governor ‘Isa ibn al-Hassan proclaimed himself “King of Gibraltar and its lands” in 1355.

Gibraltar was finally recaptured by Castile on 15 December 1462 when it fell to an army led by Enrique Pérez de Guzmán y Fonseca, later 2nd Duke of Medina Sidonia, who expelled Moors from the territory.

The title can thus no longer be used by his successors as the territory was ceded to the Crown of Great Britain in perpetuity, under the terms of the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713.

[5] When Gibraltar was captured by an Anglo-Dutch fleet on behalf of the Archduke Charles, claimant to the Spanish throne, in 1704, the city council and most of the population left in 1706 to found the nearby town of San Roque.

[10] On February 4, 2024, Gibraltar announced that they would present coins bearing the royal cypher of King Charles III at the Berlin Money Fair.

Arms granted to the city of Gibraltar by a Royal Warrant passed in Toledo on 10 July 1502 by Isabella I of Castile