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Meanwhile, King Alfonso VII of León regarded the independent ruler of Portugal as nothing but a rebel. Conflict between the two was constant and bitter in the following years. Afonso became involved in a war, taking the side of the Aragonese king, an enemy of Castile. To ensure the alliance, his son Sancho was engaged to Dulce of Aragon.
The Portuguese had participated in the Reconquista practically ever since the foundation of the County of Portugal in 868.. King Sancho I had captured Silves in Algarve in 1189, however the great Muslim city was retaken by the Almohads in 1191 and all Portuguese conquests south of the Tagus river lost, with the exception of Évora, which remained in the hands of the Order of Aviz.
He was a son of Enrique de Aragón y Pimentel and Guiomar de Portugal, and succeeded his father as Count of Ampurias and 2nd Duke of Segorbe after his death in 1522. In 1516 he married Duchess Juana I Folch de Cardona, 3rd Duke of Cardona, daughter and heiress of Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona. This made him 3rd Duke-consort of Cardona.
King of Portugal r. 1367–1383: Philippa of Lancaster 1360–1415: John I 1357–1433 King of Portugal r. 1385–1433: Inês Peres c. 1350 – c. 1400: Ferdinand I 1380–1416 King of Aragon: Beatrice c. 1386 –1439 Countess of Arundel: Afonso 1377–1461 1st Duke of Braganza: Eleanor of Aragon 1402–1445: Edward 1391–1438 King of Portugal ...
It is the first true history of Portugal. [3] Earlier historiography produced in Portugal is more general and lacks a distinctly Portuguese focus, but in the Chronicle of 1419 "for the first time, the kingdom [of Portugal] is the field of observation." [4] The work is anonymous. [4] It has sometimes been attributed to Fernão Lopes, but this is ...
The Kingdom of the Algarve (Portuguese: Reino do Algarve, from the Arabic Gharb al-Andalus غَرْب الأنْدَلُس, "Western al-'Andalus"), after 1471, Kingdom of the Algarves (Portuguese: Reino dos Algarves), was a nominal kingdom within the Kingdom of Portugal, located in the southernmost region of continental Portugal, until the end of the monarchy in 1910.
Alfonso I of Asturias (739–757), king of Asturias; Afonso I of Portugal (1094–1185), king of Portugal; Alfonso Jordan (1103–1148), count of Toulouse; Alfonso I of Aragon (1104–1134), known as Alfonso the Battler, king of Aragon and Navarre; Alfonso I, Duke of Gandia (1332–1412) Alfonso V of Aragon (1396–1458), king of Naples as ...
Velasco (or Blasco) Sánchez (floruit 1153–1181) was an Iberian nobleman who held various political and military offices in three different kingdoms, serving under Afonso I of Portugal, Alfonso VIII of Castile, and Ferdinand II of León. He held the rank of count from at least May 1159. [1] Velasco's family was from Galicia. He was a son of ...