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Persoonlijke gegevens Alfonso de PORTUGAL II 

• Hij is geboren op 23 april 1185 in Coimbrã, Leiria, Portugal.
• Titel: King of Portugal
• (Nickname) : "El Gordo", The Fat.
• Hij is overleden op 25 maart 1223 in Coimbrã, Leiria, Portugal, hij was toen 37 jaar oud.
• Een kind van Sancho de PORTUGAL en Dulce Berenger de BARCELONA

Gezin van Alfonso de PORTUGAL II

Hij is getrouwd met Uraca de CASTILE.

Zij zijn getrouwd in het jaar 1206 te Coimbrã, Leiria, Portugal, hij was toen 20 jaar oud.

Kind(eren):

1. Fernando de PORTUGAL  1217-1246
2. Eleanor de PORTUGAL  1211-1231
3. Sancho de PORTUGAL  1209-1248
4. Afonso de PORTUGAL  1210-1279 

Notities over Alfonso de PORTUGAL II

Afonso II, nicknamed "the Fat", King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city. He was the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal by his wife, Dulce, Infanta of Aragon. Afonso succeeded his father in 1212.

Afonso II set a different approach of government. Hitherto, his father Sancho I and his grandfather Afonso I were mostly concerned with military issues either against the neighbouring Kingdom of Castile or against the Moorish lands in the south. Afonso did not pursue territory enlargement policies and managed to insure peace with Castile during his reign. Despite this, some towns, like Alcácer do Sal in 1217, were conquered from the Moors by the private initiative of noblemen. This does not mean that he was a weak or somehow cowardly man. The first years of his reign were marked instead by internal disturbances between Afonso and his brothers and sisters. The king managed to keep security within Portuguese borders only by outlawing and exiling his kin.

Since military issues were not a government priority, Afonso established the state's administration and centralized power on himself. He designed the first set of Portuguese written laws. These were mainly concerned with private property, civil justice, and minting. Afonso also sent ambassadors to European kingdoms outside the Iberian Peninsula and began amicable commercial relations with most of them.

Other reforms included the always delicate matters with the pope. In order to get the independence of Portugal recognized by Rome, his grandfather, Afonso I, had to legislate an enormous number of privileges to the Church. These eventually created a state within the state. With Portugal's position as a country firmly established, Afonso II endeavoured to weaken the power of the clergy and to apply a portion of the enormous revenues of the Roman Catholic Church to purposes of national utility. These actions led to a serious diplomatic conflict between the pope and Portugal. After being excommunicated for his audacities by Pope Honorius III, Afonso II promised to make amends to the church, but he died in 1223 before making any serious attempts to do so.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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