A 17th-century Nordic scholar, Torfaeus, compared the Icelandic hero Amlodi and the Spanish hero Prince Ambales ( from the Ambales Saga ) to Shakespeare's Hamlet.

Saint Isidore of Seville ( Spanish: or, Latin: ) ( c. 560 – 4 April 636 ) served as Archbishop of Seville for more than three decades and is considered, as the historian Montalembert put it in an oft-quoted phrase, " the last scholar of the ancient world ".

* 1676 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar ( d. 1764 )

* 1515 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish scholar ( d. 1585 )

* December 30 – Jose Rizal, Filipino scholar and poet, is executed by Spanish authorities in the Philippines.

* September 26 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar ( b. 1676 )

* March 9 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish scholar and writer ( d. 1772 )

* May 6 – Juan Luís Vives, Spanish scholar ( b. 1492 )

* December 7 – Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar ( b. 1695 )

* February 13 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar ( b. 1515 )

* October 8 – Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish scholar ( d. 1764 )

* September 8 – Alfonso Salmeron, Spanish Jesuit biblical scholar ( d. 1585 )

For example, Spanish scholar Juan Luis Vives dedicated his Satellitium Animi to " Dominæ Mariæ Cambriæ Principi, Henrici Octavi Angliæ Regis Filiæ ".

* Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Spanish scholar, politician, Head of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999.

The early period of Alfonso's reign saw the translation of selected works of magic ( Lapidario, Picatrix, Libro de las formas et las ymagenes ) all translated by a Jewish scholar named Yehuda ben Moshe ( Yhuda Mosca, in the Old Spanish source texts ).

He was also a renowned Portuguese and Spanish scholar, translating a number of works of those two countries into English and writing both a History of Brazil ( part of his planned History of Portugal which was never completed ) and a History of the Peninsular War.

Spanish Civil War scholar ( and anti-socialist ) Burnett Bolloten writes of this process:

His description of Avalon here, which is heavily indebted to the early medieval Spanish scholar Isidore of Seville ( being mostly derived from the section on famous islands in Isidore's famous work Etymologiae, XIV. 6. 8 " Fortunatae Insulae "), shows the magical nature of the island:

However, Gerolamo Cardano noted a century later that much of the material there on spherical trigonometry was taken from the twelfth-century work of the Spanish Islamic scholar Jabir ibn Aflah.

According to Spanish scholar González Echeverría in as speech to the ISHM, the John M. Riddle Anonymous B ( De Materia Medica of 1543 ) would be Michael Servetus, and that the Anonymous D ( De Materia Medica of 1554 of Mattioli plus non-signed commentaries ) is two comentarians, Servetus and Mattioi, being the last one hired for editing the " Lyons printers ' Tribute to Michel de Villeneuve " edition.

The book's protagonist had been a Medieval scholar specialising in this work, until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War forced him to become a soldier and secret agent.

* October 8-Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro, Spanish monk and scholar ( died 1764 )

The learning of the Tosafists, but not the literature on Ashkenazic customs as such, was imported into Spain by Asher ben Yeḥiel, a German-born scholar who became chief rabbi of Toledo and the author of the Hilchot ha-Rosh-an elaborate Talmudic commentary, which became the third of the great Spanish authorities after Alfasi and Maimonides.

The lyrics were modified slightly in 1934 by Professor Jose Maria Bonilla Ruano, a Spanish grammar scholar.

A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.

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.

Much like in Britain, who subtracted itself from the liberal constitutional process, Spanish conservatives wanted to continue with the Traditional Spanish Organic Laws such as the Fuero Juzgo, the Novísima Recopilación and the Partidas of Alfonso X.

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 ; ( Spanish ) ( 2008 )

Once the Spanish Civil War broke out, Alfonso made it clear he favoured the military uprising against the Popular Front government, but General Francisco Franco in September 1936 declared that the Nationalists would never accept Alfonso as King ( the supporters of the rival Carlist pretender made up an important part of the Franco Army ).

On 15 January 1941, Alfonso XIII abdicated his rights to the Spanish throne in favour of his third ( of four ), but second-surviving, son Juan, father of the current King, Juan Carlos.

* Leandro Alfonso Luis Ruíz y Moragas ( born 26 April 1929 ), officially recognized by Spanish Courts on 21 May 2003 as Leandro Alfonso Luis de Borbón y Ruíz Moragas

Written as it was during Queen Ena's lifetime, this book necessarily omits the King's extramarital affairs ; but it remains a useful biography, not least because the author knew Alfonso quite well, interviewed him at considerable length, and relates him to the Spanish culture of his time.

Alfonso XIII ; ( Spanish ) ( 2008 )

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

* Alfonso Pérez Muñoz, Spanish football ( soccer ) striker.

* Miguel Alfonso Pérez Aracil, Spanish football ( soccer ) midfielder.

* Nicolás Salmerón y Alfonso, Spanish statesman.

* Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Spanish playboy and businessman.

* Celestino Alfonso, Spanish republican and volunteer fighter in the French resistance during World War II.

* 1931 – Spanish Cortes depose King Alfonso XIII and proclaims the 2nd Spanish Republic.

* 1655 – Alfonso de la Cueva, 1st Marquis of Bedmar, Spanish cardinal and diplomat ( b. 1572 )