Alfonso de Aragón y de Escobar | |
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Reign | 27 November 1475 – 1485 |
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Count of Ribagorza | |
Reign | 27 November 1469 – 1485 |
Predecessor | Fernando II |
Successor | John II of Aragon |
Born | 1417 Olmedo, Valladolid |
Died | 1485 Linares, Jaén |
Consort | Ana de Sotomayor y Portugal |
Issue | Fernando de Aragón y de Sotomayor Alfonso de Aragón y de Sotomayor María de Aragón (married with Jacopo V Appiani, Lord of Piombino). |
Father | John II of Aragon |
Mother | Leonor de Escobar |
Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Alfonso (or Alonso)de Aragon y de Escobar (1417 – 1495), Duke of Villahermosa, Count of Ribagorza and Cortes and Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava, was an illegitimate son of John II of Aragon and Leonor de Escobar, one of his mistresses.
His brothers and half brothers included Prince Charles of Trastámara and Viana (Charles IV of Navarre) and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic.
On August 18, 1443 he was elected Master of the Order of Calatrava and dismissed on September 19, 1445, overtaken by Pedro Girón. Received the title of count of Ribagorza by his father John II in Monzón, and resigned on November 27, 1469 to be succeeded by his first son Fernando.
In 1475 he was named Duke of Villahermosa by his father John II of Aragon as a reward for his loyalty and military value.
Alfonso of Aragon and Escobar died in Linares in 1485, not long after making to Pizarra, Málaga.
In 1477 Alfonso married with Leonor de Sotomayor of Portugal, daughter of Juan de Sotomayor and Isabel of Portugal with whom he had three children:
María Junquers had two extramarital children:
The premature death of his eldest son, Fernando, at the age of three years in 1481, would make the duchy passed to the second son of the marriage: Alfonso, who would inherit the duchy at 16 years in 1485.