The convening of the Cortes de León in the cloisters of the Basilica of San Isidoro would be one of the most important events of Alfonso's reign.

Alfonso's biological paternity is uncertain: there is speculation that his biological father may have been Enrique Puig y Moltó ( a captain of the guard ), or even an American dental student.

It is generally thought that the codices were constructed during Alfonso's lifetime, To perhaps in the 1270s, and T / F and E in the early 1280s up until the time of his death in 1284.

This is the generally given reason for El Cid's exile, although several others are plausible and may have been contributing factors: jealous nobles turning Alfonso against El Cid, Alfonso's own animosity towards El Cid, and an accusation of pocketing some of the tribute from Seville.

It is widely rumored that Lucrezia's brother Cesare was responsible for Alfonso's death, as he had recently allied himself ( through marriage ) with France against Naples.

Alfonso's scientific interests — he is sometimes nicknamed " the Astrologer " ( el Astrólogo )— led him to sponsor the creation of the Alfonsine tables, and the Alphonsus crater on the moon is named after him.

The titular Jewish woman of the novel is based on Alfonso's historical paramour, Rahel la Fermosa.

In 2007 she is performing the title role to sold out audiences in Lizt Alfonso's dance musical " Vida ", the story of modern Cuba through the eyes and with the memories of an old woman.

Alfonso's apparent indifference to the disaster-vacationing in southern France, he reportedly said that " Chicken meat is cheap " when informed of the disaster-led to a popular backlash against the monarchy.

It is clear that the Aragonese court at Naples introduced the Moorish garden traditions of Andalusia, with its shaded avenues and baths, sophisticated hydraulics that powered splendid waterworks, formal tanks, fishponds and fountains, as a luxurious and secluded setting for court life, and combined them with Roman features: Alfonso's Poggio Reale was built around three sides of an arcaded courtyard with tiers of seating round a sunken centre that could be flooded for water spectacles ; on the fourth side it opened onto a garden that framed a spectacular view of Vesuvius.

The confusion is thought to have stemmed from the fact that Awesome's real surname was Alfonso and the fact that he wrestled in Japan as The Gladiator, a name that Alfonso's real brother Bob Roop also used during his career.

His true biological paternity is uncertain, though his legal paternity is not: his mother was married to her ( presumed homosexual ) cousin Francis of Assisi de Borbon, the King Consort of Spain, at the time of Alfonso's conception and birth.

Alfonso's body was provisionally buried in the monastery of San Francisco in Salamanca, which is no longer extant.

Alternately, " Michelotto " ( Miguel de Corella ) is mentioned in Brandolin's description of the death of Lucrezia's second husband as Alfonso's murderer.

The majority of Carlists, however, considered that Alfonso was disqualified because he did not share the Carlist ideals ( and, more importantly, because Spanish law excluded from succession the descendants of those who had committed treason against the king, just as Alfonso's male-line ancestors had done, according to carlists, ever since Infante Francisco de Paula's recognition of Isabella II ), and many regarded his descent as illegitimate, believing that Alfonso XII's biological father was Isabella II's lover Enrique Puigmoltó y Mayans, Captain of the Royal Guard, or even General Francisco Serrano.

Mauregatus was succeeded by Bermudo, Alfonso's cousin, who abdicated after his defeat at the Battle of the Burbia River.

" The result of the crisis produced by the result of Alfonso I's will was a major reorientation of the peninsula's kingdoms: the separation of Aragon and Navarre, the union of Aragon and Catalonia and — a moot point but stressed particularly by some Castilian historians — the affirmation of ' Castilian hegemony ' in Spain " by the rendering of homage for Zaragoza by Alfonso's eventual heir, Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona.

Naples, which was held by Alfonso's brother, Pedro de Aragon, was besieged in 1424 by the Genoese ships and Joan's troops, now led by Francesco Sforza, son of Muzio ( who had died at L ' Aquila ).

It was not until Alfonso II that the kingdom was firmly established with Alfonso's recognition as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope.

It was not until King Alfonso II of Asturias ( 791-842 ) that the kingdom was firmly established with Alfonso's recognition as king of Asturias by Charlemagne and the Pope.

Alfonso's election as King of the Romans by the imperial prince-electors misled him into complicated schemes that involved excessive expense but never succeeded.

Reconciliation was bought by Alfonso's son Ferdinand in 1273.

In 1275 Alfonso tried to meet with his nominal imperial vicar in Italy, William VII of Montferrat ( who had succeeded Ezzelino ) and his Ghibelline allies in Piedmont and Lombardy to fight against the Guelph Charles I of Anjou ; he was however halted in Provence by the Pope who, after a long negotiation, obtained Alfonso's renunciation of the title of King of the Romans.

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 ).

Alfonso and his love affairs are mentioned in poems by many troubadours, including Guillem de Berguedà ( who criticized his dealings with Azalais of Toulouse ) and Peire Vidal, who commended Alfonso's decision to marry Sancha rather than Eudokia Komnene that he had preferred a poor Castilian maid to the emperor Manuel's golden camel.

At first, the murdered king's young son, García, who had fled to Castile, was recognized as titular king by Alfonso VI, while Sancho Ramírez recruited to his side noblemen of Navarre who resented their kingdom falling under Alfonso's influence.

Alfonso's children by Theresa of Portugal were:

Alfonso's children by Berengaria of Castile were:

Alfonso's children by Aldonza Martínez de Silva ( daughter of Martin Gomez de Silva & Urraca Rodriguez ), later married to Diego Froilaz, Count of Cifuentes:

Alfonso's child by Inés Iñíguez de Mendoza ( born c. 1180 ) ( daughter of Lope Iñiguez de Mendoza, 1st Lord of Mendoza ( ca.

Alfonso's child by Estefánia Pérez de Limia, daughter of Pedro Arias de Limia and wife, subsequently wife of Rodrigo Suárez, Merino mayor of Galicia, had issue ):

Alfonso's children by Maua, of unknown origin:

Alfonso's children by Teresa Gil de Soverosa ( born aft.

Alfonso's cousin, Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, had also been rebuffed by the king when his daughter Constanza was rejected in favor of the Portuguese princess.

The Almoravids decisively beat the Castilians and many leaders are killed, including Sancho, Alfonso's only son ( by Zaïda, a Muslim princess ) and heir.

The will has greatly puzzled historians, who have read it as a bizarre gesture of extreme piety uncharacteristic of Alfonso's character, one that effectively undid his life's work.

While the other major works that came out of Alfonso's workshops, including histories and other prose texts, were in Castilian, the Cantigas are in Galician-Portuguese, and reflect the popularity in the Castilian court of other poetic corpuses such as the cantigas d ' amigo and cantigas d ' amor.

John passed over Alfonso's eldest daughter and heiress in favor of a younger daughter, Berenguela of Leon.

Alfonso of Castile had his eyes on Gascony and John Maunsell helped to defuse the situation by arranging the marriage of Edward to Alfonso's half-sister, Eleanor in 1254.

Alfonso's successor, John II, sought the peasants ' help against the nobility.

Elena Lourie ( 1975 ) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession — Aragon had been a fief of the Papacy since 1068 — and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, Alfonso VII of Castile, for the Papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.

Alfonso's second son, Sancho, claimed to be the new heir, in preference to the children of Ferdinand de la Cerda, basing his claim on an old Castilian custom, that of proximity of blood and agnatic seniority.

But now Victoria Eugenie had drawn the King's attention and, as Princess Patricia seemed not to be impressed by the Spanish monarch, Alfonso's interest in Victoria Eugenie grew.

Given Alfonso's maternal membership in Spain's titled aristocracy ( his mother, María de la Piedad de Yturbe y Scholtz-Hersmendorff, was the Marquesa de Belvís de las Navas, and his paternal kinship to the royal courts of Europe, the hotel quickly proved to be popular with vacationing members of Europe's social elites for its casual but discreet luxury.

In addition to her objections to Alfonso's handling of rebels, the couple had a falling-out over his execution of one of the rebels who had surrendered to the queen, to whom the queen was inclined to be merciful.

Alfonso's reign was destined to be short.