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In century XVII years will come from crisis, of political and economic decay. With the expulsion of the moriscos, the Calanda miracle and the height of the Pilarista veneration.
Century XVIII will bring him war of Succession, the submission of the kingdom by Felipe V (IV of Aragón) by means of the arms and the decrees of New Plant.
Although the problem happened of hands of Felipe II Aragón and Navarre conserved the Fueros that they had when they were independent, Felipe II did not support to see as Aragón had as much force, being able feel at some moment threatened his control on the zone. A king born in a Castile that still kept distrusts towards Aragón could not allow the arrogance of Aragón such as for example, going to sign the laws and decrees to Aragón territory, in the presence of Cortes de Aragón.

The death of the Justicia of Aragón.
In 1590, Antonio Perez, Felipe II's secretary and, therefore, connoisseur of important state secrets, fled from the jail of Madrid during its criminal process by the murder of Escobedo, the brother of the king's secretary. After fled his one took refuge there in the convent of the Dominican ones of Calatayud and, invoking his condition of Aragón man, take refook in the privilege of the manifestation, reason why it had to be transferred to the jail of the declared ones in Zaragoza, thus preventing to be catched by the bailiffs of the king. In Madrid, after to be declared guilty and the condemned until death by the murder of Escobedo, it was accused of blasfemo; having to be transferred therefore to the jails of the Inquisición.
Felipe II took advantage of this situation to enter 1568 with his troops. The army of the king could not enter Aragón territory, and Justice, Juan de Lanuza, who was the max representation of the town in front of the sovereign, went to speak with Felipe II so that their troops left.
But the king ordered and condemned justice until death, which caused a revolt. Aragón Justice Juan de Lanuza was executed in the same Seat of Aragón, just where today a statue rises to its memory, by decapitation by troops of Castile. No Aragón people attended the execution. The armies of Castile were that day with a hostile and desert city.
Later, Felipe II eliminated most of the Fueros, and restored a Castilian nobility who will dominate the Aragoneses.
As of that Aragón moment he underwent a continuous sacking of his resources. One of most visible is the cutting of the Monegros (Black Mounts), turning an immense extension of forest bathed by the Ebro, in a desert that does not agree with the amount of water that lowers by the river.
In 1700 Felipe V raises the throne, beginning a war by the same one at European level, between the house of Austria and the Borbones. Aragón supported in that war to Austria, along with other zones of Spain, thing that paid well expensive since when Felipe V of Borbón arrived at the power, it eliminated the practical totality of the fueros that stayed as punishment to the supported salary to their enemy. Like remarkable fact, it is necessary to mention that it gave to England the Rock of Gibraltar, like payment to help him in the war, and still it conserves it today.