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Cross of the Order of Calatrava.

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

His brothers and half brothers included Prince Charles of Trastámara and Viana (Charles IV of Navarre) and King Ferdinand II of Aragon,[3] called the Catholic.

On August 18, 1443, he was elected Master of the Order of CalatravaШаблон:Sfn and dismissed on September 19, 1445, replaced by Pedro Girón.Шаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn

He fought in the War of the Castilian Succession. Capture of the Catalan castle of Amposta gave him fame during the war. He again led a group of skilled siege engineers in the Siege of Burgos in 1475.[3][4]

In 1475 he was named Duke of Villahermosa by his father John II of AragonШаблон:Sfn 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.Шаблон:Sfn

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:

With María Junquers, daughter of Mosen Gregorio de Junquers, he 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.

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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.Шаблон:Harvnb
  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.

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