Alfonso II, king of Aragón

Known as “el Casto” (the Chaste).

Also known as Ramón.

King of Aragon

Count of Barcelona

Count and marquis of Provence

Count of Rousillon

As king of Aragon, he is numbered Alfonso II, but as count of Barcelona and Provence he is numbered Alfonso I.

Events

Date of Birth: 24 March, 1157.

Place of Birth: Huesca.

The date and place are given by Sarasa Sánchez. Claramunt and Engels give 1154.

Date of Death: 25 April 1196.

The date is given by Sarasa Sánchez, and by Claramunt and Engels. Barrios Martínez and Ubieto Arteta (p. 241) give 24 April.

Place of Death: Perpignan.

The place is given by Sarasa Sánchez and by Ubieto Arteta (p. 241).

Place of Burial: the Abbey of Poblet in Catalonia.

The place is given by Cokayne (p. 95).

Relationships

Father: Ramón Berenguer IV “el Santo”, count of Barcelona.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Pécout, by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 153), and by Claramunt and Engels.

Mother: Petronila de Aragón.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 153), and by Pécout.

Spouse: Sancha, daughter of Alfonso VII, king of Castile, Leon, and Galicia. Married 18 January 1174 in Zaragoza.

This relationship is given by Sarasa Sánchez, by Vones-Liebenstein, by Salazar y Acha (p. 153), and by Pécout.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Barrios Martínez.)

Pedro (July 1178 - 14 September 1213), later Pedro II “el Católico”, king of Aragon, married Marie de Montpellier 15 June 1204 in Montpellier.

Constanza (about 1179 - 23 June 1222) married (1), in 1198, Imre, king of Hungary; married (2), in February 1210, Friedrich, king of Sicily, (later Friedrich II, king of Germany, and Holy Roman Emperor).

Alfonso Berenguer (about 1180 - 1209), later Alphonse II, count of Provence, married, on 18 January 1174 in Zaragoza, Sancha de Castilla.

Leonor (about 1182 - February 1226) married, in January 1203, Raymond VI, count of Toulouse.

Sancha (about 1186 - shortly after 1241) married, about 1211, Raymond (later Raymond VII, count of Toulouse). They were divorced in 1241.

Fernando (about 1190 - 1249). Abbot of Montearagón.

Dulce (born about 1192).

References

Barrios Martínez, María Dolores. Sancha, primera reina de la Corona Aragón. (Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses, 2017).

Claramunt, S. and O. Engels. "Alfons II 'der Keusche', König von Aragón un Graf von Barcelona" in Lexikon des Mittelalters Band 1 (Stuttgart 1980).

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

Pécout, Thierry. L’invention de la Provence: Raymond Bérenger V (1209-1235) (Perrin, 2004).

Sarasa Sánchez, Esteban. "Alfonso II de Aragón" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).

Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. Historia de Aragón. Creación y desarrollo de la Corona de Aragón. (Zaragoza: Anúbar, 1987).

Vones-Liebenstein, Ursula. Aragon genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Online Biographies

Alfonso II de Aragón (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)

Alfonso II of Aragon (Wikipedia)