Ramiro II, King of Aragón & Navarre

1086 - 1157  (71 years)

• Name	Ramiro II   [1]
  Suffix	King of Aragón & Navarre
  Birth	24 Apr 1086  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Aug 1157  [2, 3]
  Person ID	I5181	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Sancho V Ramirez, King Of Aragón; King Of Navarre,   b. Abt 1043   d. 4 Jun 1094 (Age ~ 51 years)
  Mother	Felicia of Roucy,   b. Abt 1050
  Marriage	1076  [4, 5]
  Family ID	F2347	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes of Aquitaine,   b. Abt 1105   d. Abt 1159 (Age ~ 54 years)
  Marriage	1135  [2]
  SEPA	1137  [6]
  Children	+ 1. Petronila of Aragón, Queen of Aragón,   b. 29 Jun 1136, Huesca, Aragón, Spain d. 13 Oct 1173 (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F1060	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Dec 2023

  
  

• Photos		The Huesca Bell, by José Casado del Alisal
  		Campanahuesca

  
  

• Notes

  Called "The Monk," he pursued a religious life, eventually becoming bishop of Barbastro-Roda in 1134, just before being elected king of Aragon upon his brother's unexpected death. Although the nobles who selected him expected him to be mild and pliant, in fact he defended his throne with considerable ruthlessness. While legendary rather than historical, the story of the Bell of Huesca is probably rooted in an occasion upon which he had several troublesome nobles summarily beheaded, nominally for having attacked a convoy of Muslims in time of truce but in fact because they were conspiring to end his reign. After three years he passed royal authority to his son-in-law Ramon Berenguer and withdrew to monastic life, although he kept his royal title until his death twenty years later.

  
  

• Sources

  [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only. [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia., says 1070. [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S160] Wikipedia.