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Alfonso XIII [a] (Spanish: Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Habsburgo-Lorena; French: Alphonse Léon Ferdinand Marie Jacques Isidore Pascal Antoine de Bourbon; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941), also known as El Africano or the African for his Africanist views, was King of Spain from his birth until 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was ...
Alfonso XIII became King of Spain at the moment of his birth in May 1886 because his father, Alfonso XII, had died five months earlier.His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, was regent until May 1902, when he turned sixteen and took the oath of office under the Constitution of 1876, when he began his personal reign, which lasted until 14 April 1931, when he had to go into exile after the ...
Alfonso XIII's claim descended (due to his two eldest sons' renunciations) to his third son, Juan of Bourbon, Count of Barcelona, who was passed over in favour of his eldest son, whose title is King of Spain.
son of Alfonso XIII of Spain and Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg: Emmanuelle de Dampierre 4 March 1935 Rome 2 children: 20 March 1975 St. Gallen aged 66 Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz: 20 April 1936 Rome son of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia and Emmanuelle de Dampierre: María del Carmen Martínez-Bordiú y Franco 8 March 1972 Royal Palace of ...
Alfonso was born in Madrid as the eldest son of the reigning Queen Isabella II on 28 November 1857. His official father, Isabella's husband Francisco de Asís, has been generally viewed as effeminate, impotent or homosexual, leading writers to question his biological paternity.
Alfonso VIII took the opportunity and began a counter-offensive in Cuenca, [2] from which came great danger since the Almohads used it as an outpost in their continuous attacks against Castile. [3] The city was well fortified so Alfonso VIII, with the help of Alfonso II of Aragon, carried out a long siege and captured it in 1177.
Alfonso even brought along most of his family by his mistress Leonora de Guzman – four boys and a girl – with his legitimate son Peter remaining in Seville. [10] The siege was supported by primitive cannon in what was to be the first use of gunpowder weapons against Gibraltar's fortifications.
The siege of Algeciras was the first of many sieges of the city by Christian forces in the lengthy period of the Spanish Reconquista.The siege, ordered by King Alfonso X of Castile also known as "el Sabio", was a fruitless military campaign initiated by the Kingdom of Castile with the objective of removing the Benimerins from Algeciras.