There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Alfonso XII ( born Alfonso Francisco de Asís Fernando Pío Juan María de la Concepción Gregorio Pelayo ) ( Madrid, 28 November 1857 – El Pardo, 25 November 1885 ) was King of Spain, reigning from 1874 to 1885, after a coup d ' état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.

He assumed the title of Alfonso XII, for although no King of united Spain had borne the name " Alfonso XI ", the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy represented by the 11 kings of Asturias, León and Castile also named Alfonso.

Alfonso XII and his second wife Maria Christina of Austria, 1885.

Funeral procession of Alfonso XII, from the 5 December 1885, issue of L ' Illustration

* Monument to Alfonso XII

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Alfonso was born in Madrid, posthumously born son of Alfonso XII of Spain, and became King of Spain upon his birth.

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Alfonso XII of Spain was duly crowned on 28 December 1874 after returning from exile.

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* Alfonso XIII of Spain-( 1886 – 1931 )

** King Alfonso XII of Spain ( b. 1857 )

He was brother to Dr. Juan Bruno de Zayas y Alfonso ( 1867 – 1896 ), a medical doctor and revolutionary hero who died in the war for Cuba's independence, and of Dr. Francisco de Zayas y Alfonso ( 1857 – 1924 ), Cuba's long-time Minister to Paris and Brussels.

* 1311 – Alfonso XI of Castile ( d. 1350 )

* 1171 – Alfonso IX of León ( d. 1230 )

* Alfonso I of Asturias ( 739 – 757 ).

* Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre ( 1104 – 1134 ), known as the Battler

* Alfonso II of Aragon, aka Alfons I, Count of Barcelona, ( 1162 – 1196 ) known as el Cast ( the Chaste ) or el Trobador ( the Troubadour )

Alfonso II ( 759 – 842 ), called the Chaste, was the king of Asturias from 791 to his death, the son of Fruela I and the Basque Munia.

* Alfonso XIII ( 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ).

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

* Alfonso Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( 28 January 1880, Madrid – 1970 ), married in 1922 to María de Guadalupe de Limantour y Mariscal ( d. 1977, Marbella ), daughter of Julio de Limantour y Marquet ( 17 June 1863, Mexico City – 11 October 1909, Mexico City ) and wife Elena Mariscal y ..., paternal granddaughter of French Joseph Yves de Limantour y Rence de la Pagame ( 1812, Ploemeur – 1885, Mexico City ) and wife Adèle Marquet y Cabannes ( 1820, Bordeaux –?

Alfonso XIII ( Alfonso León Fernando María Jaime Isidro Pascual Antonio de Borbón y Austria-Lorena ; 17 May 1886 – 28 February 1941 ) was King of Spain from 1886 until 1931.

1929 portrait of King Alfonso XIIIOn 31 May 1906, at the Royal Monastery of San Geronimo in Madrid, Alfonso married Scottish-born Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), a niece of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, and a granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

* Infante Alfonso Pio Cristino Eduardo Francisco Guillermo Carlos Enrique Fernando Antonio Venancio of Spain, Prince of Asturias ( 1907 – 1938 ), a hemophiliac, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 to marry a commoner, Edelmira Ignacia Adriana Sampedro-Robato, and became Count of Covadonga.

* Infante Jaime Luitpold Isabelino Enrique Alberto Alfonso Victor Acacio Pedro Maria of Spain ( 1908 – 1975 ), a deaf-mute as the result of a childhood operation, he renounced his rights to the throne in 1933 and became Duke of Segovia, and later Duke of Madrid, and who, as a legitimist pretender to the French throne from 1941 to 1975, was known as the Duke of Anjou.

* Infante Juan Carlos Teresa Silvestre Alfonso of Spain ( 1913 – 1993 ), named heir to the throne and Count of Barcelona, whose son is the current King, Juan Carlos I of Spain.

* Infante Gonzalo Manuel Maria Bernardo Narciso Alfonso Mauricio of Spain ( 1914 – 1934 ), a hemophiliac, like his elder brother Alfonso.

In November 1885, Alfonso died, just short of his 28th birthday, at the Royal Palace of El Pardo.

A modicum of stability and economic progress was restored to Spain during Alfonso XII's rule ( 1874 – 1885 ), although progress was cut short by his sudden death at age 28.

However, the government had become destabilized by Alfonso XII's unexpected death in 1885, followed by the assassination of prime minister Antonio Cánovas del Castillo in 1897.

* November 28 – King Alfonso XII of Spain ( d. 1885 )

* Alfonso XII ( 1870 – 1885 ) 1874 – 1885

Curry served as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain during 1885 – 1888 and as ambassador extraordinary to Spain on the coming of age of King Alfonso XIII in 1902.

He was special ambassador to Spain for the funeral of Alfonso XII in 1885, and chairman of the Society for the Suppression of Mendicity.

Its name is popularly believed to have been coined by King Alfonso XII, who visited the area in 1885 following a disastrous earthquake and was captivated by the scene.

It was also named Paseo de Alfonso XII ( Plaza of Alfonso XII ), after Alfonso XII, King of Spain during his reign from 1874 to 1885.

He died in Madrid on 25 November / 26 November 1885, twenty-four hours after Alfonso XII, who some say to be his own son.