Also known as:
Spanish: Alfonso el Batallador;
French: Alphonse le Batailleur;
Latin: Alfonsus I Rex Aragonum
ALFONSO I OF ARAGON, called the Battler. - Having succeeded his brother Peter I in 1104, he ruled the Aragonese throne until his death in 1134. Following his marriage to Urraca, daughter and heir of Alfonso VI of Castile and León, the union of the two crowns also came about. But both the marriage and the political union had negative results. From them arose marital disagreements (due according to some to Urraca's free life, according to others to A.'s tyranny) and political struggles between Castile and Aragon provoked by the preponderance of the Aragonese element in the administration of Castile. Peace returned only after the death of Urraca, when the two kingdoms again became separate.
A.'s fame is linked to the wars against the Muslims of Spain, which made the Aragonese a hero of the reconquest. In 1118 Saragossa fell into his hands, then Calatayud and Taroca. Later (1125) he responded to the invitation of the Andalusians and descended as far as Valencia and Murcia, pushing beyond Granada to the sea; but these conquests were not lasting. Death overtook him while he was besieging Fraga near the border of Catalonia.
Bibliography3 worksR. Dozy, Recherches sur l'histoire et la littérature de l'Espagne, I, 2nd ed., Leiden 1860, pp. 343-60; A. Ballesteros, Historia de España y
BIBL.: R. Dozy, Recherches sur l'histoire et la littérature de l'Espagne, I, 2nd ed., Leiden 1860, pp. 343-60; A. Ballesteros, Historia de España y su influencia en la historia universal, II, Barcelona 1920, pp. 325-29; B. Sánchez Alonso, Fuentes de la historia española e hispano-americana, 2nd ed., Madrid 1927, nos. 1711-75, 2008-2015.
Scaduto, Mario. “Alfonso I d'Aragona, detto il batallador.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, coll. 849–850. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-i-d-aragona-detto-il-batallador.
MLA
Scaduto, Mario. “Alfonso I d'Aragona, detto il batallador.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, coll. 849–850. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-i-d-aragona-detto-il-batallador.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_alfonso_i_d_aragona_detto_il_b,
author = {Scaduto, Mario},
title = {Alfonso I d'Aragona, detto il batallador},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {849--850},
note = {Cited by column},
publisher = {Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico},
address = {Città del Vaticano},
year = {1948},
url = {https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-i-d-aragona-detto-il-batallador}
}
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