Rey Alfonso d' Aragón, V, 'the Magnanimous'

1394 - 1458  (64 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Alfonso d' Aragón
  Prefix	Rey
  Suffix	V, 'the Magnanimous'
  Birth	1394
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Jun 1458
  Siblings	4 Siblings
  + 1. Maria d' Aragón,   b. 1394   d. 18 Feb 1445  (Age 51 years) ▻ Juan II de Castilla,  m. 4 Aug 1420 + 2. Rey Alfonso d' Aragón, V, 'the Magnanimous',   b. 1394   d. 26 Jun 1458  (Age 64 years) ▻ Maria d' Asturia;   Giraldona Carlino;   Margarita de Hijar + 3. Rey Juan II d' Aragón,   b. 29 Jun 1398, Medina Del Campo, Aragon, España d. 19 Jan 1479, Barcelona, Cataluña, España  (Age 80 years) ▻ Reine Blanca de Navarra,  m. 18 Jan 1420 ;   Juana Enriquez,  m. 1 Apr 1444 ;   Leonor de Escobar + 4. Leonor d' Aragón,   b. 1402   d. 1445  (Age 43 years) ▻ Rey Duarte I de Castilla + 5. Duque Enrique d' Aragón,   b. Abt 1400   d. 1445  (Age 45 years) ▻ Beatriz Pimentel
  Person ID	I53229	Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Rey Ferdinando I d' Aragón,   b. 27 Nov 1380, Medina Del Campo, Aragon, España d. 2 Apr 1416, Iqualada, Barcelona, España (Age 35 years)
  Mother	Condessa Leonor Urraca de Castilla,   b. 1374   d. 16 Dec 1435, Medina Del Campo, Aragon, España (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F6871	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Maria d' Asturia   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F21739	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2000

  
  

  Family 2	Giraldona Carlino   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Eleonora d' Aragón   d. Yes, date unknown   2. Maria d' Aragón   d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F21740	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Oct 2004

  
  

  Family 3	Margarita de Hijar   d. Yes, date unknown
  Children	+ 1. Re Ferdinando d' Aragón, I,   b. 1423, Napoli, Campania, Italia d. 25 Jan 1494, Napoli, Campania, Italia (Age 71 years)
  Family ID	F194633	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

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  Rey de Aragon ( 2.4.1416-27.6.1458) Re di Napoli ( 12.6.1442-27.6.1458) Re di Sicilia, Valencia et Mallorca ( 1416-1458) King of Aragon from 1416 after he had defeated Louis III of Naples, Queen Joanna II of Naples adopted him in 1421. They quarrelled and, after her death in 1435, Alfonso had to contest the throne of Naples with a rival claimant, René of Anjou. In 1442 he defeated René and remained in Naples for the rest of his life. He earned his epithet of 'the Magnanimous' by refusing to be told even the names of those involved in an abortive plot against him at the time of his accession, so that they went unpunished. He was more interested in his Italian realms of Naples and Sicily than in Aragon, where he left his Queen, Maria of Castile, as Regent. She proved herself an able administrator, but became estranged from the King after a fit of jealousy. Being childless herself led her to cause his pregnant mistress, one of her own ladies-in-waiting, to be strangled. Alfonso never forgave her or saw her again for the remaining twenty-six years of their marriage, though strangely they died within a few months of each other in 1458. A leading figure of the early Renaissance, he favoured men of letters. Also his devotion to the classics was such that a reading from Quintus Curtius is said to have cured him of a severe illness.