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Madragana as ancestress of Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of king George III of Great Britain. There is some controversy regarding her ethnicity. Duarte Nunes de Leão, a Portuguese royal chronicler of the 16th century, said that Madragana was a Moor (Arab-Berber). [5] That was disputed in the 18th century by António Caetano de Sousa. [6]
In 1253, he divorced Matilda in order to marry Beatrice of Castile, illegitimate daughter of Alfonso X, King of Castile, and Mayor Guillén de Guzmán. [ 6 ] Determined not to make the same mistakes as his brother, Afonso III paid special attention to what the middle class, composed of merchants and small land owners, had to say.
Madragana was not the wife, but just the mistress of Dom Afonso III. Se was christened in time, receiving her new christian name as Maior Afonso, Mor being short for Maior, a common female name in mediaeval portuguese (Maior meaning "the bigger", and not "the moor", even if she really was a moor).
Luis Alfonso del Barrio Michelena (born 23 September 1957) is a Spanish former football player and manager. After a playing career as a midfielder, he began managing in 1997, in the first of three spells at Barakaldo. He spent most of his managerial career in Segunda División B, and had a brief spell in the Segunda División with Recreativo de ...
In 2006, Criterion Collection released Sólo con tu pareja in DVD , with a new remastered transfer and with the shorts Noche de Bodas by Carlos Cuarón and Cuarteto Para el Fin Del Tiempo (Alfonso Cuarón's first short, made when he was a film student in 1983).
Alfonso de Borbón y Borbón (15 November 1866 – 28 April 1934) was a Spanish nobleman and a great-great-grandson of King Charles III of Spain. He is known for having had 88 forenames, [ a ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] recognised as a record for a historical royal person by Guinness World Records .
Alfonso II (1–25 March 1157 [1] [2] [3] – 25 April 1196), called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death. [ 1 ] [ 4 ] The eldest son of Count Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona and Queen Petronilla of Aragon , [ 5 ] he was the first King of Aragon who was also ...
She was the mother of Alfonso's only son, Sancho, [2] [4] [5] [6] who, though illegitimate, was named his father's heir. (Sancho was killed at the Battle of Uclés (1108), during his father's lifetime.) It has been suggested that Alfonso's fourth wife – also named Isabel – may have been Zaida, [7] [6] [8] [9] but this is still subject to ...