Alfonso de Aragón y de Escobar

Alfonso de Aragón y de Escobar
Duke of Villahermosa and
Reign 27 November 1475 – 1485
Successor Alfonso de Aragón y de Sotomayor
Count of Ribagorza
Reign 27 November 1469 – 1485
Predecessor Fernando II
Successor John II of Aragon
Born 1417
Olmedo, Valladolid
Died 1485
Linares, Jaén
Consort Ana de Sotomayor y Portugal
Issue Fernando de Aragón y de Sotomayor
Alfonso de Aragón y de Sotomayor
María de Aragón (married with Jacopo V Appiani, Lord of Piombino).
Father John II of Aragon
Mother Leonor de Escobar
Religion Roman Catholicism
Cross of the Order of Calatrava.

Alfonso (or Alonso)[1][n. 1][2] de Aragon y de Escobar[3][4] (1417 – 1495), Duke of Villahermosa, Count of Ribagorza and Cortes and Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava,[5] was an illegitimate son of John II of Aragon and Leonor de Escobar, one of his mistresses.

His brothers and half brothers included Prince Charles of Trastámara and Viana (Charles IV of Navarre) and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic.

On August 18, 1443 he was elected Master of the Order of Calatrava[6] and dismissed on September 19, 1445, overtaken by Pedro Girón.[7] Received the title of count of Ribagorza by his father John II in Monzón,[n. 2] and resigned on November 27, 1469 to be succeeded by his first son Fernando.[8]

In 1475 he was named Duke of Villahermosa by his father John II of Aragon [7] as a reward for his loyalty and military value.

Alfonso of Aragon and Escobar died in Linares in 1485, not long after making to Pizarra, Málaga.[9]

Marriage and children

In 1477 Alfonso married with Leonor de Sotomayor of Portugal, daughter of Juan de Sotomayor and Isabel of Portugal with whom he had three children:

María Junquers had two extramarital children:

The premature death of his eldest son, Fernando, at the age of three years in 1481, would make the duchy passed to the second son of the marriage: Alfonso, who would inherit the duchy at 16 years in 1485.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Don Alonso, bastardo de Juan II, conde de Ribagorza (1469-1477).
  2. ↑ «Being held to king to the court of the Aragonese in the town of Monzon on 27 of November of this year 1469, as to own county of Ribagorza on behalf of his son the King of Sicily [or the former Count of Ribagorza and helpful county gentleman][...] donated to his son Don Alonso de Aragón of that county, entitled count, with the consent and will of the entire county.[...] and had his predecessors, for him and his legitimate children." Alonso de Aragón, the third of its name in the Ribagorzana line, was the bastard son of King John II of Aragon and Leonor de Escobar.[2]
  3. ↑ The Duchy of Moon, is a Spanish noble title created in 1495 by the King of Aragon, Fernando II, in favor of his nephew, Juan Jose de Aragon and Sotomayor, 4th count of Ribagorza, Viceroy of Naples and Catalonia.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Navarro Latorre 1982, p. 159.
  2. 1 2 Costa 2001, p. 275.
  3. ↑ Soler Carnicer (1985:112)
  4. ↑ Menache 1987, p. 9.
  5. ↑ Francisco José Morales Roca (1999). Prelados, abades mitrados, dignidades capitulares y caballeros de las Ordenes Militares habilitados por el brazo eclesiástico en las Cortes del Principado de Cataluña: dinastía de Trastamara y de Austria : siblos XV y XVI (1410–1599) (in Spanish). Madrid: Ediciones Hidalguia. pp. 87, 90. ISBN 978-84-89851-15-3.
  6. ↑ Menache 1987, p. 11.
  7. 1 2 Menache 1987, p. 12.
  8. ↑ Menache 1987, p. 19.
  9. ↑ Menache 1987, p. 24.
  10. ↑ Menache 1987.
  11. ↑ Menache 1987, pp. 16-17.

Bibliography

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