| Alfonso I | |
|---|---|
 Alfonso's Aragonese coin | |
| King of Aragon and Navarre | |
| Reign | 28 September 1104 – 7 September 1134 |
| Predecessor | Peter I |
| Successor | Ramiro II of Aragon García Ramírez of Navarre |
| Emperor of All Spain (jure uxoris) | |
| Reign | 1109–7 September 1134 |
| Predecessor | Alfonso VI |
| Successor | Alfonso VII |
| Co-monarch | Urraca (1109–1126) |
| Anti-emperor | Alfonso VII (1126–1134)[1] |
| Born | c. 1073/1074 |
| Died | 7 September 1134 (aged c. 60) Poleñino, Spain |
| Burial | |
| Spouse | Urraca of León and Castile (annulled 1112) |
| House | House of Jiménez |
| Father | Sancho Ramírez |
| Mother | Felicie de Roucy |
Alfonso I (c. 1073/1074[a] – 7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior (Spanish: el Batallador), was King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King Sancho Ramírez and successor of his brother Peter I. With his marriage to Urraca, queen regnant of Castile, León and Galicia, 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 the Battler earned his sobriquet in the Reconquista. He won his greatest military successes in the middle Ebro, where he conquered Zaragoza in 1118 and took Ejea, Tudela, Calatayud, Borja, Tarazona, Daroca, and Monreal del Campo. He died in September 1134 after an unsuccessful battle with the Muslims at the Battle of Fraga.
His nickname comes from the Aragonese version of the Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña (c. 1370), which says that "they called him lord Alfonso the battler because in Spain there wasn't as good a knight who won twenty-nine battles" (clamabanlo don Alfonso batallador porque en Espayna no ovo tan buen cavallero que veynte nueve batallas vençió).[3]
- ^ Momenti e figure della civiltà europea. Saggi storici e storiografici, voll. I-II (in Italian). Ed. di Storia e Letteratura. p. 178.
- ^ Lourie 1975, p. 639.
- ^ Carmen Orcástegui Gros (ed.), "Crónica de San Juan de la Peña (Versión aragonesa)", Cuadernos de Historia Jerónimo Zurita, 51–52 (Zaragoza, Institución «Fernando el Católico», 1985), p. 459.
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