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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, 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.
Alfonso the Battler - Crusader King of Aragon The triumph of the First Crusade greatly impacted the early-twelfth century Christian kingdoms of Iberia. Inspired by Pope Urban II’s message of holy war, the knights and clergy of Spain began to conceive of their centuries-long struggle against the Moors of al-Andalus as a Crusade that merited ...
The Battle of Fraga was a battle of the Spanish Reconquista that took place on 17 July 1134 at Fraga, Aragon, Spain. The battle was fought between the forces of the Kingdom of Aragon, commanded by Alfonso the Battler and a variety of Almoravid forces that had come to the aid of the town of Fraga which was being besieged by King Alfonso I. The ...
- 17 July 1134
- Almoravid victory.
- Fraga, Spain
The Battle of Cutanda took place in June 1120 between the forces of Alfonso I the Battler and an army led by Almoravid general Ibrahim ibn Yusuf occurring in a place called Cutanda, near Calamocha , in which the Almoravid army was defeated by the combined forces, mainly of Aragon and Navarre.
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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.'
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