Alfonso I "the Battler", King of Aragon

1074 - 1134  (60 years)

• Name	Alfonso I
  Relationship	with Robert Alan Roy
  Birth	About 1073/74  [2]
  Military	1090 (Age 16)  [2]
  He joined El Cid's expeditions in Valencia in 1090.
  Military	1105 (Age 31)  [2]
  In 1105, he conquered Ejea and Tauste and refortified Castellar and Juslibol. In 1106, he defeated Ahmad II al-Musta'in of Zaragoza at Valtierra. In 1107, he took Tamarite de Litera and Esteban de la Litera.
  Title(s)	1109 (Age 35)  [2]
  With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León, and Galicia, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI.
  Military	1118 (Age 44)  [2]
  He won his greatest military successes in the middle Ebro, where he conquered Zaragoza in 1118 and took Ejea, Tudela, Calatayud, Borja, Tarazona, Daroca, and Monreal del Campo.
  Death	7 Sep 1134  [2]
  	He died after an unsuccessful battle with the Muslims at the Battle of Fraga. [2]
  Person ID	I22275
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

  Family	Urraca "la Temeraria", Infanta of Castile and León, Countess of Galicia,   b. Apr 1079, Burgos, Castile and León, Spain d. 8 Mar 1126, Saldaña, Palencia, Castile and León, Spain (Age 46 years)
  Marriage	Oct 1109	Monzón Castle, Monzón, Aragon, Spain   [1, 3]
  Age at Marriage	He : ~ 35 years and 10 months - She : 30 years and 6 months.
  Information	Urraca became again an heir presumptive after the death of her half-brother Sancho at the Battle of Uclés in 1108. Alfonso VI reunited the nobles of the Kingdom in Toledo and announced that his widowed daughter was the chosen one to succeeded him. The nobles agreed with the royal designation but demanded that Urraca should marry again. Several candidates for the hand of the heiress to the thrones of León and Castile appeared immediately, including counts Gómez González and Pedro González de Lara. Alfonso VI feared that the rivalries between Castilian and Leonese nobles would be increased if she married any of these suitors and decided that his daughter should wed Alfonso I of Aragon, known as the Battler, opening the opportunity for uniting León-Castile with Aragon.   [3]
  Annulled	1115  [1]
  Family ID	F2362	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Oct 2021

  
  

• Event Map		Marriage - Oct 1109 - Monzón Castle, Monzón, Aragon, Spain  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Photos

  Coin of Alfonso I

  
  

• Sources

  [S60] Stuart, Roderick W. Royalty for Commoners, The Complete Known Lineage of John of Gaunt, Son of Edward III, King of England, and Queen Philippa Fourth Edition, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002). [S304] Wikipedia, Alfonso the Battler. [S304] Wikipedia, Urraca of León.