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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 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 ...
At the beginning of June, Alfonso received the news that an Almoravid army was heading to relieve the siege, so he decided to confront them and leave a small part of his army besieging the city. [9] After defeating the Muslim army at Cutanda [ es ] , the city surrendered along with Daroca , which was also under siege.
Coat of Arms of the Crown of Aragon. This is a list of the kings and queens of Aragon.The Kingdom of Aragon was created sometime between 950 and 1035 when the County of Aragon, which had been acquired by the Kingdom of Navarre in the tenth century, was separated from Navarre in accordance with the will of King Sancho III (1004–35).
King Ferdinand died on 2 April 1416, and Alfonso succeeded him as king of Aragon, Valencia, and Majorca and count of Barcelona. He also claimed the island of Sardinia, though it was then in the possession of Genoa. Alfonso was also in possession of much of Corsica by the 1420s. [1] [2] Alfonso's marriage with Maria was childless.
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.
Alfonso was the son of King Peter III of Aragon and Constance, daughter and heiress of King Manfred of Sicily. [2]Soon after assuming the throne, he conducted a campaign to reincorporate the Balearic Islands into the Crown of Aragon, which had been lost due to the division of the realm by his grandfather, James I of Aragon.