Alfonso II, King of Aragón, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza

- 1196

• Name	Alfonso II
  Suffix	King of Aragón, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza
  Gender	Male
  Death	25 Apr 1196	Perpignan, Pyrènèes-Orientales, Languedoc-Roussillon, France   [1, 2]
  Burial	Royal Abbey of Santa Maria de Poblet, Conca de Barberà, Catalonia, Spain   [2]
  Person ID	I1420	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Ramon IV Berengar,   b. Abt 1113   d. 6 Aug 1162 (Age ~ 49 years)
  Mother	Petronila of Aragón, Queen of Aragón,   b. 29 Jun 1136, Huesca, Aragón, Spain d. 13 Oct 1173 (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	Aug 1150	Lleida, Lleida, Catalonia, Spain   [1]
  Family ID	F2753	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sancha of Castile,   b. 21 Sep 1154, Toledo, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain d. 9 Nov 1208, Villanueva de Sigena, Huesca, Aragón, Spain (Age 54 years)
  Marriage	18 Jan 1174	Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain   [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. Pedro II, King of Aragón,   b. Between 1174 and 1176   d. 14 Sep 1213, Muret, Occitan, France (Age ~ 39 years) + 2. Alfonso II,   b. Abt 1180   d. Feb 1209, Palermo, Sicily (Age ~ 29 years)
  Family ID	F4703	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Called "the Chaste" (el Casto); also "the Troubador." By 1162, as his paternal heritage, Count and Marquess of Barcelona, Tortosa, and Lerida, and Count of Tarragona, Gerona, and Cordagne. By 1164, as his maternal heritage, King of Aragon, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza. In 1166, by devolution, Marquess of Provence. Christened Ramón, he was called both Ramón and Alfonso from birth. When he took the united throne of Aragon and Barcelona, he took Alfonso as his single name as a gesture to the Aragonese. The issue of his birth year was for a time confused due to the fact that his mother's eldest son, b. 1155, was actually christened Alfonso. This prior Alfonso died in 1162. Szabolcs de Vajay (citation details below) has his birth as in 1157, before 25 March, in "Villamayor del Valle," a place we cannot locate.

  
  

• Sources

  [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia. [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989. [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., date only.