Alfonso tried to besiege the city in the following September, but failed.

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

Pope Clement IV tried to dissuade James from Crusading, regarding his moral character as sub-par, and Alfonso X did the same.

After the election of Theobald I as king of Navarre, his father tried to arrange a marriage for Alfonso with Theobald's daughter, Blanche of Navarre, but the move was unsuccessful.

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.

There is some evidence that Alfonso tried to seduce Beatrice, but she didn't give in.

Resentful of the parliamentarians ' attacks against him, King Alfonso tried to give Primo de Rivera legitimacy by naming him prime minister.

Upon his death, Alfonso VI was succeeded by his daughter the widowed Urraca, who then married Alfonso I of Aragon, but they almost immediately fell out, and Alfonso tried unsuccessfully to conquer Urraca's lands, before he repudiated her in 1114.

The eldest, Alfonso, who gained Castel Goffredo, was assassinated in 1592 by members of the household of his nephew Rodolfo Gonzaga of Castiglione, brother of the saintly Aloysius Gonzaga ; Alfonso, publicly tried for murder but acquitted, was murdered in turn, 31 January 1593, occasioning a popular uprising that reestablished the Magnifica Comunità.

He also tried to conquer León, but he was defeated in 878 at Valdemora, by king Alfonso III of Asturias.

The latter was under general, Hashim ibn Abd al-Aziz, and Muhammad tried to persuade Hashim to unite with him against the Asturians, now ruled by Alfonso III.

Later that year, İbrahim II of the Karamanid Dynasty tried to create an anti-Ottoman alliance which would include his realm, Skanderbeg, Hunyadi, Calixtus, and Alfonso, all of whom would act in concert to defeat the sultan.

Hugh of Brienne himself is said to have tried to sell his rights to Alfonso III of Aragon in 1289.

In 1459 Skanderbeg's forces captured fortress of Sati from Ottoman Empire and Skanderbeg ceded it to Venice in order to secure cordial relationship with Signoria before he send his troops to Italy to help King Ferdinand to regain and maintain his kingdom after the death of king Alfonso V of Aragon.

El Cid is exiled from Castile by King Alfonso VI and fights against the Moors to regain his honor.

The Prince of Asturias, Alfonso, is the person chosen to develop the new roadmap proposed by Canovas, which led to the June 1870 abdication of Queen Isabel II in favour of her son Prince Alfonso.

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.

In 1338 he was chosen archbishop of Toledo in succession to his uncle by the favour of the king, Alfonso XI of Castile.

He endeavoured to curry favour with Yusuf by betraying the other Muslim princes to him, and intrigued to secure the alliance of Alfonso against the Almoravids.

Therefore, she kept her brother's death and her own accession secret from Alfonso before finally abdicating in their son's favour on 31 August.

Between 1542 and 1560 he was a private secretary, first to Ercole II and afterwards to Alfonso II d ' Este ; but having, in connection with a literary quarrel, lost the favour of his patron, he moved to Mondovi, where he remained as a teacher of literature until 1568.

Charter by which Petronilla abdicated ( 18 July 1164 ) in favour of her son Alfonso II of Aragon.

Shortly after her husband's death in 1162, Petronilla renounced the crown of Aragon in favour of her eldest son, Ramon Berenguer, who, as a compliment to the Aragonese, changed his name to Alfonso.

In 1989 Prince Henri d ' Orléans and Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma appealed the judgment in the lawsuit about the use of a title and arms by Alfonso ; the original judgment in favour of Alfonso was upheld.

Alfonso, terrified by a series of portents, as well as unusual dreams ( perhaps attributable to memories of his victims ), abdicated in favour of his son, Ferdinand or Ferrandino, and fled, entering a Sicilian monastery.

On 19 July 1969, Don Jaime definitively renounced the Spanish succession in favour of his nephew, current King Juan Carlos I of Spain, by petition of his son Alfonso de Borbón.

With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile and León, in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title Emperor of Spain, formerly employed by his father-in-law, Alfonso VI.

Alfonso had been in love with a woman of noble family named Lucrezia d ' Alagno, who served as a de facto queen at the Neapolitan court as well as an inspiring muse.

Although the former queen, Isabella II was still alive, she recognized that she was too divisive as a leader, and abdicated in 1870 in favor of her son, Alfonso.

* Berenguela of Castile, queen of Alfonso IX of Castile ( d. 1246 )

* October 31 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile ( b. 1162 )

* December 20 – Elvira Mendes, queen of Alfonso V of Castile ( b. 996 )

* November 9 – Sancha of Castile, queen of Alfonso II of Aragon ( b. 1155 )

* October 13 – Leonora of England, queen of Alfonso VIII of Castile ( d. 1214 )

Alfonso XIII was declared of age in 1902 and he married Victoria Eugénie Julia Ena of Battenberg, the granddaughter of the British queen Victoria, on 31 May 1906.

* Eleanor of Castile ( 1307 – 1359 ), queen consort of Aragon, wife of Alfonso IV of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand IV of Castile

* Mary of Modena ( 1658 – 1718 ), queen consort of England, the daughter of Alfonso IV ( Duke of Modena ), and the second wife of James II of England

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.

From its earliest days, the King David Hotel hosted royalty: the dowager empress of Persia, queen mother Nazli of Egypt and King Abdullah I of Jordan stayed at the hotel, and three heads of state forced to flee their countries took up residence there: King Alfonso XIII of Spain, forced to abdicate in 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, driven out by the Italians in 1936, and King George II of Greece who set up his government in exile at the hotel after the Nazi occupation of his country in 1942.

* Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( 1887 – 1969 ), full name Princess Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena of Battenberg, became queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain by marrying Alfonso XIII

Princess Victoria Eugenie of Battenberg ( christened Victoria Eugenie Julia Ena ; 24 October 1887 – 15 April 1969 ) was queen consort of King Alfonso XIII of Spain.

Sancha of Castile ( 21 September 1154 / 5 – 9 November 1208 ) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second queen, Richeza of Poland, who was the daughter of Vladislav II, Duke of Silesia.

Marriage negotiations were still underway when Alfonso VI died and Urraca became queen.

As queen, Urraca rose to the challenges presented to her and her solutions were pragmatic ones, according to Reilly, and laid the foundation for the reign of her son Alfonso VII, who in spite of the opposition of Urraca's lover Pedro González de Lara succeeded to the throne of a kingdom whole and at peace at Urraca ’ s death in 1126.

Alfonso wished to negotiate for Naples, and so gave Clement support: his queen Maria of Castile, and the Aragonese bishops supported Martin.

* Urraca of Castile, Queen of Navarre ( Urraca the Asturian ) ( 1132 – 1164 ), daughter of Alfonso VII of León and Castile, and queen consort of García Ramírez of Navarre

This was in contrast with the will of the childless and aged queen of the Italian kingdom, Joanna II, who had adopted Alfonso V of Aragon as her heir.

However, when the relationships between Alfonso and queen suddenly worsened after the arrest of Joanna's lover and prime minister, Gianni Caracciolo, the queen moved to Aversa where Louis joined her.

Her husband became, by the testament of King Alfonso, king in his conquered territories ( and Isabella became queen consort ) 1458, and as such used the title King of Naples and Jerusalem ( Ferdinand I of Naples ).