Till middle life he was also lieutenant-general in Aragon for his brother and predecessor Alfonso V, whose reign was mainly spent in Italy.

He was born in Oviedo, where he spent his early life in the court of Alfonso II.

As a youth, he spent time in the court king Alfonso V of Aragón, where he was exposed to the work of poets in the Provençal, Valencia and Catalan traditions, the classic Humanist works of Virgil and Dante Alighieri, and the lyricism of troubadours such as Enrique de Villena.

When he was Prime Minister during the reign of Alfonso XIII, he spent summers at the estate of Can Mossenya, historically part of the Valldemossa Charterhouse in Majorca.

Alfonso Thiele ( 5 April 1920 – 15 July 1986 ) was a racing driver who held dual citizenship of the United States and Italy, though he spent most of his life in Italy.

Alfonso is not the only person in his family to have a career in the Professional Wrestling industry, his step brother, former Olympian Bob Roop also spent many years as a wrestler fighting all over the world under a variety of names and gimmicks while his cousin David Sierra has also enjoyed a long career in the ring including a stint in WCW as Fidel Sierra where he is remembered for a controversial feud with Hacksaw Jim Duggan.

However contrary to popular belief Alfonso is not related to Mike Awesome with whom he spent time with in ECW.

After Alfonso XII ascended the throne in 1875, Serrano spent some time in France.

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 ).

Tradition relates that in 814, the body of Saint James the Greater was discovered in Compostela and that Alfonso was the first pilgrim to that famous medieval ( and modern ) shrine.

He was finally compelled to give way in Castile and León to his stepson, Alfonso VII of Castile, son of Urraca and her first husband.

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.

King Alfonso X — named as Affonso in the Cantigas — is also believed to be an author of some of them as he refers himself in first person.

Although there has been an old tradition and like for making census in Spain, the oldest ones dating back to the 12th century ( by Alfonso VII of the Kingdom of Castile ), the first modern census was carried out in 1768 by Conde de Aranda, under the reign of Carlos III.

With almost 20 parties competing in the first round, the presidential election came down to a January 7, 1996 runoff in which PAN candidate Álvaro Arzú Irigoyen defeated Alfonso Portillo Cabrera of the FRG by just over 2 % of the vote.

During that period Christian kingdoms gradually took control over the Iberian Peninsula from Muslim kingdoms and with the fall of the Granadian emirate, the entire Iberian Peninsula was brought under Christian rule, while native Mozarabic Christian practices held for centuries in Muslim-ruled territory were first suppressed as early as 1080, by Alfonso VI of Castile, as Roman-rite Christian kingdoms advanced south.

Alfonso VI was first and foremost a tactful monarch who chose to understand the kings of taifa and employed unprecedented diplomatic measures to attain political feats before considering the use of force.

Ferdinand surprised his nephew Alfonso VIII, occupied Castrojeriz and Dueñas, both formerly lands of Teresa's first husband.

Urraca tried in vain to have Alfonso IX, first son of Ferdinand II, declared illegitimate, to favour her son Sancho.

According to the legend, king Alfonso was the first pilgrim who had come to see the Apostle: During the travel he was guided at night by the Milky Way, which from then on acquired in Spanish the name Camino de Santiago.

His son Alfonso II first married Lucrezia, daughter of grand-duke Cosimo I of Tuscany, then after becoming a widower, Barbara, the sister of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1527 – 1576 ) and finally a third wife, Margherita Gonzaga, daughter of the duke of Mantua.

James first married, in 1221, Eleanor, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England.

Alfonso also wrote one of the first western chess treatises.

In the 13th century, Madrid was the only city of the region that preserved its own juridical personality, at first with the Old Fuero ( Charter ) and later with the Royal Fuero, granted by Alfonso X of Castile in 1262 and ratified by Alfonso XI in 1339.

Alfonso XI first married Costanza Manuel of Castile on 1325, but divorced her two years later.

Alfonso II provided the first land grant to the Cistercian monks on the banks of the Ebro River in the Aragon region, which would become the site of the first Cistercian monastery in this region.

Alfonso first used the title Emperor of All Spain, alongside his mother Urraca, once his mother vested him with the direct rule of Toledo in 1116.

Roger married his first wife, Elvira, daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and his fourth queen, Isabella, who may be identical to his former concubine, the converted Moor, Zaida, baptised Isabella.

Roger's first marriage was in 1117 to Elvira of Castile, a daughter of King Alfonso VI of Castile.

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.

Among its more notable entries is a depiction of what Alfonso calls the ajedrex de los quatro tiempos (" chess of the four seasons ").

Five great teams were able to ensemble together four 10 handicap players in order to make a 40 handicap team: Coronel Suárez, 1975, 1977-1979 ( Alberto Heguy, Juan Carlos Harriott, Alfredo Harriot and Horacio Heguy ); La Espadaña, 1989-1990 ( Carlos Gracida, Gonzalo Pieres, Alfonso Pieres y Ernesto Trotz Jr .); Indios Chapaleufú, 1992-1993 ( Bautista Heguy, Gonzalo Heguy, Horacio Heguy Jr. and Marcos Heguy ); La Dolfina, 2009-2010 ( Adolfo Cambiaso Jr., Lucas Monteverde, Mariano Aguerre y Bartolomé Castagnola ); Ellerstina, 2009 ( Facundo Pieres, Gonzalo Pieres Jr., Pablo Mac Donough and Juan Martín Nero ).

Although Richard was elected in 1256 as King of Germany by four of the seven German Electoral Princes ( Cologne, Mainz, the Palatinate and Bohemia ), his candidacy was opposed by Alfonso X of Castile who was elected by Saxony, Brandenburg and Trier.

According to Alfonso Caso There were four earth gods-Tlaltecuhti who was male and three earth goddesses-Coatlique, Cihuacoatl and Tlazolteotl.

He was father of four sons: by Isabella, he had Peter, his successor ; by Felicia he had Ferdinand, who was alive in 1086 but died within the next decade, Alfonso, who succeeded Peter, and Ramiro, who succeeded Alfonso.

" The oldest of seven children, Luis had two brothers, Alfonso and Leonardo, and four sisters: Alicia, Concepción, Margarita and María.

* April 23-In a fight without any titles at stake, WBC world Bantamweight champion Carlos Zarate defeats WBA world champion Alfonso Zamora in four rounds at Inglewood.

Moreover, four of the deputies were separated from the rest: the still president of the government, Suárez ; the opposition leader, Felipe González Márquez ; the second on the rolls of the PSOE, Alfonso Guerra González ; and Carrillo.

In subsequent days four more dissidents were released: Raúl Rivero, Osvaldo Alfonso Valdés, Edel José García and Jorge Olivera.

Prior to his cabinet position, Cisneros served four terms as the second Hispanic mayor of a major U. S. city, ( the first being Alfonso Cervantes of St. Louis, Missouri 1965 – 1973 ) his hometown of San Antonio, Texas.

Anglada is notable today, if at all, for producing the first Spanish car purchased by Alfonso XIII ; the King bought a four from the company in 1904.

In season four, once Ricky, Freddy and Alfonso were in high school, their circle was completed by Brad ( Billy Jacoby, seasons 4 & 5 ), a reintroduction of the type of " bad boy " character similar to that of Derek and J. T.

After five years and four classic albums which elevated Revé to Van Van-like popularity and earned them the nickname La explosión del momento, Alfonso himself left the band in 1988 to form Dan Den.

Alfonso XII of Spain, for example, had only four great-grandparents instead of the usual eight.

Espada wanted to retire as a winner, however, and, after one year of inactivity, he made a one fight comeback, knocking out Julio Alfonso in four rounds, on December 10, 1981, in San Juan.

Eventually, actress Kristian Alfonso returned to the show four years later, and it was learned that Hope was in fact switched at the last moment before the explosion with an imposter, Greta von Amberg.

Darío Echandía was designated as acting president of Colombia on four different occasions: From 1943 to 1944 due to the temporary absence of Alfonso López Pumarejo, in 1944 due to a kidnapping attempt against Pumarejo, briefly in 1960, and briefly in 1967.

Princess Maria de los Dolores was the second of four children of Infante Carlos de Borbon-Dos Sicilias's second marriage, be being the second son of Prince Alfonso, Count of Caserta and of Princess Maria Antonietta of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.

Dulce Maria, Anahí, Alfonso Herrera, and Christian Chávez, are four of the main cast members on Rebelde and members of RBD, and all previously starred together on the telenovela called Clase 406.

Beltrán Alfonso Osorio y Díez de Rivera, 18th Duke of Alburquerque, ( 15 December 1918-18 February 1994 ) was Grandee of Spain on four occasions, he was also Duke of Algete, Marquis of Alcañices, los Balbases, Cadreita, Cuéllar, Cullera and Montaos, Count of Fuensaldaña, Grajal, Huelma, Ledesma, la Torre, Villanueva de Cañedo and Villaumbrosa.

Alfonso Zamora was the first one of the so-called " Z boys " to become a world champion, when he knocked out Soo Hwan Hong in four rounds on March 14, 1975 in Inglewood.