23 Gens. (AC: Rich York, 1411; Elnr Holnd, 1405)
King of Castile, Leon and Galicia
24 Gens. (AC: Elnr Holnd, 1405)
Il est marié avec Yolanda Violante Aragon.
Ils se sont mariés en l'an 1249, il avait 27 ans.
Enfant(s):
Alfonso Castilla | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
1249 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Yolanda Violante Aragon |
Born in Toledo, Kingdom of Castile, Alfonso was the eldest son of Ferdinand III and Elizabeth (Beatrice) of Swabia.[2] His mother was the paternal cousin of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, to whom Alfonso is often compared. His maternal grandparents were Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina. Little is known about his upbringing, but he was most likely raised in Toledo. For the first nine years of his life Alfonso was only heir to Castile until his paternal grandfather king Alfonso IX of León died and his father united the kingdoms of Castile and León. He began his career as a soldier, under the command of his father, when he was only sixteen years old.
After the accession of King Theobald I of Navarre, Ferdinand tried to arrange a marriage for Alfonso with Theobald's daughter, Blanche, but the move was unsuccessful. At the same time, he had a romantic relationship with Mayor Guillén de Guzmán, who bore him a daughter, Beatrice. In 1240, he married Mayor Guillén de Guzmán, but the marriage was later annulled and their issue declared illegitimate. In the same period (1240–1250) he conquered several Muslim strongholds in Al-Andalus alongside his father, such as Murcia, Alicante and Cadiz.
In 1249, Alfonso married Violant, the daughter of King James I of Aragon and Yolande of Hungary,[3] although betrothed already in 1246.