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To appease the Pope, King Frederick eventually consented to a match between the Pope's daughter Lucrezia Borgia, aged 18, and the 17-year-old Alfonso of Aragon. On 15 July 1498 Alfonso entered Rome in disguise. Alfonso and Lucrezia were married in the Vatican on 21 July with the celebrations being held behind closed doors. [4] With Alfonso came ...
Alfonso (1417–1495), duke of Villahermosa, count of Ribagorza and Cortes, baron of Arenos, grand master of the Order of Calatrava; Alonso or Alfonso (1470–1520), archbishop of Zaragoza and Valencia and lt. general of Aragon; Alfonso (1481–1500), duke of Bisceglie and prince of Salerno
Alfonso the Magnanimous (Alfons el Magnànim in Catalan) [a] (1396 – 27 June 1458) was King of Aragon and King of Sicily (as Alfons V) and the ruler of the Crown of Aragon [b] from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfons I) from 1442 until his death.
Alfonso II (1–25 March 1157 [1] [2] [3] – 25 April 1196), called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Queen Petronilla of Aragon , [ 5 ] he was the first King of Aragon who was also ...
Alfonso was released in October. [9] Milan's change of alliances revolted the Genoese at Christmas 1435, killing the Milanese governor. [10] Peter of Aragon, brother of Alfonso and who had escaped defeat, [5] finally took Gaeta on March 25, 1435, where Alfonso entered on February 2, 1436, [11] and the same year, to Terracina. [citation needed]
On 27 September 1458, Alfonso V of Aragon, Skanderbeg's most important and helpful ally after the stipulation of the Treaty of Gaeta, died. [1] In 1448, as a gesture of friendship with Alfonso, Skanderbeg sent a detachment of Albanian troops commanded by General Demetrios Reres to Crotone to quell a rebellion against Alfonso. [4]
Alfonso became heir to the throne in December 1319 after his older brother James renounced his rights to become a monk. During the reign of his father, Alfonso was the procurator-general of the Crown, and in 1323–1324, he undertook the conquest of Sardinia. Alfonso's father and first wife Teresa died within a few days of each other in 1327.
Actively involved in the League of Lezhë, a 1444 alliance against Ottoman rule, Pal later accepted vassalage under Alfonso V of Aragon in 1454. However, he eventually abandoned Skanderbeg's forces and joined the Ottomans.