Also known as:
Spanish: Alfonso II de Aragón;
French: Alphonse II d'Aragon
ALFONSO II OF ARAGON AND I OF CATALONIA. - Son of the count of Barcelona Raymond Berengar IV and of Petronilla, granddaughter of Alfonso I and daughter of Ramiro II, king of the Aragonese, b. in 1152, d. in 1196. On his father's death he obtained the crown of Aragon under the name A. II of Aragon and I of Catalonia. During his reign Catalonia extended its dominions beyond the Pyrenees. First the duchy of Provence (1167), then the county of Roussillon (1172), afterwards Béarn and Bigorre (1187) had to recognize Catalan supremacy. Son-in-law of Alfonso VIII of Castile, A. helped his father-in-law in the war against Navarre and the Muslims. During the incursions into Muslim territory he founded Teruel (1170). Later he drew closer to Navarre to the detriment of Alfonso VIII. He died at Perpignan, leaving the crown to Peter the Catholic, II of Aragon and I of Catalonia.
Bibliography5 worksB. Capasso, Le fonti della storia delle province napoletane, Naples 1902, pp. 171, 175, 195 n. 2, 196, 224 n. 5; J. Miret i Sans, Itinerario
BIBL.: B. Capasso, Le fonti della storia delle province napoletane, Naples 1902, pp. 171, 175, 195 n. 2, 196, 224 n. 5; J. Miret i Sans, Itinerario del rey A. I. de Cat., II en A., in Bol. de la R. Ac. de B. L. de Barcelona, 2 (1903-1904), pp. 357, 389, 437; B. Sánchez Alonso, Fuentes de la historia española e hispano-americana, 2nd ed., Madrid 1927, no. 1843 ff.; J. Wincke, Staat und Kirche in Katalonien und Aragon während des Mittelalters, I, Münster in W. 1931; id., Documenta selecta mutua civitatis Arago-Cathalaunicae et ecclesiae relationes illustrantia (Biblioteca histórica de la biblioteca Balmes, XV), Barcelona 1936.
Scaduto, Mario. “Alfonso II d'Aragona e I di Catalogna.” In Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, col. 850. Città del Vaticano: Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948. https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-ii-d-aragona-e-i-di-catalogna.
MLA
Scaduto, Mario. “Alfonso II d'Aragona e I di Catalogna.” Enciclopedia Cattolica, vol. I, Ente per l’Enciclopedia Cattolica e per il Libro Cattolico, 1948, col. 850. Azione Romana, https://azioneromana.com/article/alfonso-ii-d-aragona-e-i-di-catalogna.
BibTeX
@incollection{ec1_alfonso_ii_d_aragona_e_i_di_ca,
author = {Scaduto, Mario},
title = {Alfonso II d'Aragona e I di Catalogna},
booktitle = {Enciclopedia Cattolica},
volume = {I},
pages = {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-ii-d-aragona-e-i-di-catalogna}
}
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