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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 .
Alfonso I, called the Battler or the Warrior, 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. With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Galicia, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title ...
In order to become the queen of Leon, Doña Urraca was remarried against her will in 1109 to the king of Aragon, Alfonso I the Battler, with whom she was at constant loggerheads until their final separation.
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.
Beltrán (or Bertrán) de Risnel, also called Bertrand de Laon (died 17 July 1134), was a French-born Aragonese political and military leader during the reign of Alfonso the Battler, who was his cousin. Beltrán was mainly active in the kingdoms of León and Castile, which Alfonso co-ruled for a time with his wife, Queen Urraca. He received ...
Around 1109, the warring King of Aragón, Alfonso I the Battler, married Doña Urraca, Queen of Castile. As was usual practice at the time, it was a mar...
Alfonso I (Alfonso the Battler) ălfŏnˈsō, äl– [key], d. 1134, king of Aragón and Navarre (1104–34), brother and successor of Peter I. The husband of Urraca, queen of Castile, he fought unsuccessfully to extend his authority over her kingdom.
