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Alfonso I (c. 1073/1074 – 7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior (Spanish: el Batallador), was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I .
King Alfonso I, the battler of the Kingdom of Aragón. During the same year that the Knights Templar were founded, in 1118, Alfonso I conquered Zaragoza for the Christian community of the Iberian Peninsula. The struggle of the two was the same, separated by a continent but united by a deep religiosity.
Alfonso I was the king of Aragon and of Navarre from 1104 to 1134. Alfonso was the son of Sancho V Ramírez. He was persuaded by Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile to marry the latter’s heiress, Urraca, widow of Raymond of Burgundy. In consequence, when Alfonso VI died (1109) the four Christian kingdoms.
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The Conquest of Zaragoza of 1118 was a military operation led by Alfonso I the Battler, king of Aragón and Pamplona, who It allowed him to take the city of Zaragoza from the Almoravids .
- 1118
- Christian victory
- Zaragoza
King Alfonso appealed to France for assistance in his first proposed crusade. His target was Zaragoza, a formerly independent Moorish city, which had in 1110 fallen to the powerful Almoravid Empire based in North Africa.
Alfonso I ( c. 1073/1074 – 7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior ( Spanish: el Batallador ), was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I.
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WHEN Alfonso I, king of Aragon and Navarre, died without issue on 8 September 1134, he left a will bequeathing his realms to the Orders of the Temple, St. John of Jerusalem and the Holy Sepulcher.'
