Alfonso the Battler

Alfonso I
Statue of Alfonso in the Parque Grande José Antonio Labordeta, Zaragoza
King of Aragon
Reign	28 September 1104 – 8 September 1134
Predecessor	Peter I
Successor	Ramiro II
King of Navarre
Reign	28 September 1104 – 8 September 1134
Predecessor	Peter
Successor	García Ramírez
Born	c. 1073/1074
Died	8 September 1134 (aged c. 60) Poleñino, Spain
Burial	Abbey of San Pedro el Viejo
Spouse	Urraca of León and Castile (annulled 1112)
House	House of Jiménez
Father	Sancho Ramírez of Aragon and Navarre
Mother	Felicie de Roucy
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Alfonso I (1073/1074 – 7 September 1134), called the Battler or the Warrior (Spanish: el Batallador), was the 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 earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts under the tutelage of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.