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 Cuarón was born in México City and is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a nuclear physicist who worked for the United Nations ' International Atomic Energy Agency for many years.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

In 1086 Yusuf ibn Tashfin was invited by the taifa Muslim princes of the Iberian Peninsula ( Al-Andalus ) to defend their territories from Alfonso VI, King of León and Castile.

In 1138, Ali ibn Yusuf was defeated by Alfonso VII of León, and in the Battle of Ourique ( 1139 ), by Afonso I of Portugal, who thereby won his crown.

Afonso I was the son of Henry of Burgundy and Theresa of León, the natural daughter of King Alfonso VI of León.

He also vanquished Alfonso VII of León, came to the rescue of his mother, whose nephew he was, and thus freed the kingdom from political dependence on the crown of his cousin of León.

Independence from Alfonso VII of León's suzerainty, however, was not a thing he just could achieve militarily.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

The first-born of this union, Infanta Maria of Portugal, married King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1328, at the same time that Afonso IV's heir, Peter I of Portugal, was promised to another Castilian infanta, Constance of Peñafiel.

These arrangements were imperiled by the ill will of Alfonso XI of Castile, who was, at the time, publicly mistreating his wife.

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 was subsequently elected king on 14 September 791.

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.

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.

Alfonso was the son of Queen Isabella II of Spain, and allegedly, of her husband and King Consort, Francis, Duke of Cádiz.

Alfonso was the eldest son of Prince Francisco de Asis de Borbón-Dos Sicilias and Queen Isabel II, whose reign was marked by a constant political crisis which had several causes.

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.

So, he sent Alfonso to the Sandhurst Military Academy in England, where the training Alfonso received was severe but more cosmopolitan than Spain, given the current athmosphere

Alfonso Arau ( born January 11, 1932 ) is a Mexican actor and director.

Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.

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

* 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

Alfonso XIII was born after his father's death and was proclaimed king upon his birth.

One year later on 29 June 1475 her sister Beatrice d ' Este was born, and in 1476 and 1477 two brothers, Alfonso and Ippolito arrived.

Although this was denied, a child was born in that year before Lucrezia's marriage to Alfonso of Aragon.

Alfonso de Borja was born in La Torreta, now a neighbourhood of Canals, Valencia – today in Spain – but at that time in the Kingdom of Valencia under the Crown of Aragon.

Alfonso XIII was born on 17 May 1886 after the death of his father.

Valentino was born Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D ' Antonguolla in Castellaneta, Puglia, Kingdom of Italy.

* Juana Alfonso, 1st Lady of Trastámara ( born 1330 )

* Fadrique Alfonso, Master of the Order of Santiago and 1st Lord of Haro ; ( born 1335 )

Alfonso VII ( 1 March 1105 – 21 August 1157 ), born Alfonso Raimúndez, called the Emperor ( el Emperador ), became the King of Galicia in 1111 and King of León and Castile in 1126.

* Alfonso Mora ( born 1964 ), Venezuelan former tennis player

Alfonso was born in Zamora.

Alfonso also fathered many illegitimate children, some fifteen further children born out of wedlock are documented.

In December 2004, the Santa Fe Film Festival honored Alfonso Arau for his work in cinema.

The Cantigas de Santa Maria (" Canticles of Holy Mary ";, ) are 420 poems with musical notation, written in Galician-Portuguese during the reign of Alfonso X El Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) and often attributed to him.

* The Songs of Holy Mary by Alfonso X, the Wise: A Translation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.

* Studies on the " Cantigas de Santa Maria ": Art, Music, and Poetry: Proceedings of the International Symposium on the " Cantigas de Santa Maria " of Alfonso X, el Sabio ( 1221 – 1284 ) in Commemoration of Its 700th Anniversary Year – 1981.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

File: Christian and Muslim playing ouds Catinas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X. jpg | Christian and Muslim playing lute, miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X.

Christian and Muslim playing lute s in a miniature from Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X.

File: Christian and Muslim playing ouds Catinas de Santa Maria by king Alfonso X. jpg | Christian and Moor playing lute, 13th century

The small chapel housing it was built specifically for the cloth by King Alfonso II of Asturias in AD 840 ; the Arca Santa is an elaborate reliquary chest with a Romanesque metal frontal for the storage of the Sudarium and other relics.

Alfonso established Castilian as a language of higher learning, and was a prolific author of Galician poetry, such as the Cantigas de Santa Maria, which are equally notable for their musical notation as for their literary merit.

One of the miracles Alfonso relates is his own healing in Puerto de Santa María.

* Amy G. Remensnyder, " The Virgin and the King: Alfonso X's Cantigas de Santa Maria ," in Jason Glenn ( ed ), The Middle Ages in Texts and Texture: Reflections on Medieval Sources ( Toronto, University of Toronto, 2012 ),

Built on the cemetery of the primitive village of Gasteiz ( which today can be accessed through the excavations ), the church of Santa Maria collapsed with the fire of 1202, and Alfonso VIII of Castile ( who had conquered the square just 2 years earlier ), ordered to rebuild the city and lift at the site of a former church that was to serve two very different purposes: to save souls and store weapons.

Fortino Mario Alfonso Moreno Reyes was born in the Santa María la Redonda neighbourhood of Mexico City, and grew up in the tough neighborhood of Tepito.

The most recent monarch interred in the pantheon is King Alfonso XIII, removed there from the Church of Santa Maria in Monserrato, Rome in 1980.

Los Amantes de Teruel at once made the author's reputation, but Doña Mencia ( 1840 ) and Alfonso el Casto ( 1841 ) were disappointments ; it was not till 1845 that he repeated his former success with La Jura en Santa Gadea.

Chile also has important classic composers such as Alfonso Leng, Pedro Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz and others.

His nephew, Prince Alfonso of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, acquired another estate, Finca Santa Margarita, which in 1954 would become the Marbella Club, an international resort of movie stars, business executives and the nobility.

El Cid married the cousin of King Alfonso VI, Doña Ximena, but for certain reasons ( according to the story, he made the king swear by Santa Gadea that he had not ordered the fratricide of his own brother ), he fell into the disfavor of the king and had to leave his home country of Castile.

Alfonso X el Sabio fits into the third group with his series of three hundred poems, written in Galician: Las cantigas de Santa María.

The fundamental melody of the plena, as in all regional Puerto Rican music, has a decided Spanish strain ; it is marked in the resemblance between the plena Santa María and a song composed in the Middle Ages by Alfonso the Wise, King of Spain.