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  Alfonso XII of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfonso XII of Spain (November 28, 1857–November 25, 1885), was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'état restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic.
His biological paternity is uncertain, though his legal paternity is not: his mother was married to her (presumed) homosexual cousin Francis of Asis de Bourbon, Infante, and king Consort of Spain, eldest son of the duke of Cadiz, at the time of Alfonso's conception and birth.
Monument to Alfonso XII in Parque del Retiro, Madrid.
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 Alfonso XIII of Spain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alfonso XIII of Spain (May 17, 1886 – February 28, 1941), King of Spain, posthumous son of Alfonso XII of Spain, was proclaimed King at his birth.
As Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena were returning from the wedding they narrowly escaped the assassination attempted by the anarchist Mateu Morral; instead, the bomb explosion killed or injured many bystanders and members of the royal procession.
Leandro Alfonso Ruíz Moragas (born in 1929), officially recognized by Spanish courts on May 21, 2003 as Leandro Alfonso de Borbón Ruíz, son of the King, Infante of Spain.
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 Alfonso XII of Spain
Alfonso XII of Spain (November 28, 1857 - November 25, 1885), was king of Spain, reigning from 1875 to 1885, after a coup d'etat restored the monarchy and ended the ephemeral First Spanish Republic[?].
Alfonso's biological father is said to have been Enrique Puig y Moltó, a captain of the guard.
He assumed the title of Alfonso XII; for although no king of united Spain had previously borne the name, the Spanish monarchy was regarded as continuous with the more ancient monarchy, represented by the eleven kings of Leon and Castile already referred to (see Alfonso).
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alfonso, King of Portugal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alfonso III ALFONSO III [Alfonso III] 1210-79, king of Portugal (1248-79), son of Alfonso II, brother and successor of Sancho II.
Alfonso II ALFONSO II [Alfonso II] (Alfonso the Fat), 1185-1223, king of Portugal (1211-23), son and successor of Sancho I. His reign was spent in struggles with the church and his brothers and sisters, to whom his father had left many of his estates.
Alfonso XI ALFONSO XI [Alfonso XI] 1311-50, Spanish king of Castile and León (1312-50), son and successor of Ferdinand IV.
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 Chapter 12: A History of Aragon and Catalonia
Shortly before Alfonso's death Eleanor had met her brother, the King of Castile, and secured a promise of help from him in case her stepson should attempt to deprive her of the donations which she had extorted from her husband.
Alfonso III had conquered the Balearic Islands, as a consequence of the treacherous behaviour of their King James to his brother Pedro III.
Sancho died in 1324 and James III married Constance, daughter of Alfonso IV of Aragon, and was thus the brother-in-law of Pedro IV, the Ceremonious.
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 Alfonso XIII King of Spain: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
Although Alfonso enjoyed some personal popularity, the monarchy was threatened by social unrest in the newly industrialized areas, by Catalan agitation for autonomy, by dissatisfaction with the constant fighting in Morocco, and by the rise of socialism and anarchism.
Alfonso X, King of Castile and...Castile Spain --History--Alfonso X, 1252-1284...remarked that "Spain shines forth...and the king of the Spaniards...40 Alfonso X had little...dictated, or so Alfonso X believed, that a king ruling by...previous kings of Spain had made...
ALFONSO XIII, king of Spain 1886 1941, king of Spain (1886 1931), posthumous son and successor of Alfonso XII.
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 THE TREATIES OF UTRECHT, RENUNCIATIONS OF 1712 AND THE SUCCESSION TO THE HEADSHIP OF THE ROYAL HOUSE OF FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alfonso had accepted the Collar of the Saint Esprit, in a diploma in which he was described as “Prince Alphonse”, thus recognizing the Duke of Madrid’s claim to the Headship of the House of France.
The late Duke of Anjou and Cadiz was elected by the French Society of the Cincinnati to be the representative of Louis XVI (leading to the resignation of the Count of Paris, who had represented the Admiral d'Orléans), and frequently attended legitimist functions and meetings.
Alfonso, Duke of Anjou and Cadiz, was sued in the French courts by the Count of Clermont, eldest son of the Count of Paris, who sought an order to prevent him from using the plain Arms of France and the title of Duke of Anjou.
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 Castiles & Leon
Alfonso was killed in battle against his stepson, Alfonso VII of Castile, and was succeeded by his brother Ramiro II in Aragón and by García IV in Navarre.
Alfonso VII (Alfonso the Emperor), 1104—57, Spanish king of Castile and León (1126—57), son and successor of Urraca.
Alfonso was married to Eleanor, daughter of Henry II of England.
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 Portuugal History
His successor, Alfonso VI, revived the metropolitan see of Braga-which reinforced the integrity of the provence that was to become known as Portugal.
Alfonso I, aided by the Templars and other military orders sworn to fight the Moors, extended the border of the new kingdom as far south as the Tagus River.
John, duke of Braganza, was elected John IV, first king of the house of Braganza, which ruled Portugal as long as the monarchy endured.
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 [CTRL] SOME USES AND ABUSES OF THE TITLES OF DUKE OF ANJOU AND
The Duke of Cadiz was the father of Infante Enrique, Duke of Seville (1823-1870) who in 1847 went against the dispositions of the Pragmatic Sanction of Charles III of 23 March 1776 and married Elena de Castellvi (1821-1863), a noble lady of inferior rank.
Don Enrique Pio de Borbon (1848-1894), eldest son of the former Duke of Seville, Infante Enrique, was himself made Duke of Seville and Grandee of Spain (Note 6) by the grace of King Alfonso XII on 1 July 1882, twelve years after the death of his father in a duel with the Duke of Montpensier.
Duke of Enghien, Duke of Albret, Prince of Conti and of Laroche-sur-Yon, Count of Soissons and of Charolais, Count of Dunois, Viscount of Meaux and of Breteuil and Baron of Alais.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Alfonso XII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Alfonso XII ALFONSO XII [Alfonso XII] 1857-85, king of Spain (1874-85), son of Isabella II.
Alfonso XIII ALFONSO XIII [Alfonso XIII] 1886-1941, king of Spain (1886-1931), posthumous son and successor of Alfonso XII.
Maria Christina MARIA CHRISTINA [Maria Christina] märÄ“´ä krÄ“stÄ“´nä, 1858-1929, queen of Spain, consort of Alfonso XII.
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 Europe's 13th-Century Progress by Sanderson Beck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
When Alfonso's eldest son Fernando was killed fighting the Moors at Algeciras in 1275, he recognized his second son Sancho as heir to the throne; the widow Blanche got the French to fight for her son Alfonso de la Cerda.
After Alfonso IX of Leon signed a document in 1215, the Christian serfs were allowed to leave the estates of their lords and could not be sold with the land.
Hostility between Bohemia and Austria paused during the Mongol invasion as the Duke of Silesia was defeated by the Tartars at Liegnitz in 1241.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Christopher Columbus
Columbus went to Spain in 1485, and probably the first assistance he obtained there was from the Duke of Medina Celi, Don Luis de la Cerda, for whom he performed some services that brought him a compensation of 3000 maravedis in May, 1487.
As gold was needed the discovery of a new source of that precious metal made a strong impression on the people of Spain, and a rush to the new regions was inevitable.
He was a bold, skilful navigator, better acquainted with the principles of cosmography and astronomy than the average skipper of his time, a man of original ideas, fertile in his plans, and persistent in carrying them into execution.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
96 (inv 1399) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
Afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893.
Daughter of Philip (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy, K.G. Married William of Bavaria, Duke of Holland and Count of Ostrevant, K.G. 1408 Blanch, Duchess of Bavaria.
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 THE ROYAL PREROGATIVE, ITS USE BY THE HEIRS TO FORMER THRONES, AND BY REPUBLICAN OR REVOLUTIONARY REGIMES
The titles of Duke of Calabria, and Duke of Noto, conferred by the former on his only son, have been acknowledged officially in Spain, including on their diplomatic passports and identity cards.
King Alfonso XIII did not confer the Golden Fleece during his exile, but several concessions were made of the Order of María Luisa (including to the Infanta D. Alicia, dowager Duchess of Calabria, at the time of her marriage to the Infant D. Alfonso de Borbón-Dos Sicilias y Borbón, in 1936).
Both the Grand Duke Kyril and the Grand Duke Wladimir rigidly imposed the highly restrictive House Laws in regard to marriages of cadets of the family, while the latter declared his own marriage, to Mrs Summer Kirby, born Princess Leonida Bagration, to be equal for dynastic purposes.
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 Legitimists - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Jacques, Duke of Anjou and Madrid (1870-1931), "Jacques I" Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime (1849-1936), "Alphonse I" Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1886-1941), "Alphonse II"
Alphonse, Duke of Anjou and Cádiz (1936-1989), "Alphonse III"
In the history of Nicaragua the liberals (called Democrats) were opposed by the conservatives (called Legitimists), who expelled the Democrats from the constitutional assembly in 1853, driving them underground or into exile, and promulgated a constitution of 1854.
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 Unequal Marriages in Spain: the Pragmática of 1776
In 1814 the French were expelled from Spain and Ferdinand VII returned to the throne (the Cortes of Cadiz had recognized Carlos IV's abdication, but not that of Ferdinand VII); he immediately disowned the Cortes of Cadiz and, by a proclamation of May 4, 1814, annulled all of their decrees and promulgations.
Alfonso renounced his rights in a letter to his father dated June 11, 1933; he married unequally and without his father's approval 10 days later; he would die childless in 1938.
The Cortes of Cadiz carefully considered their history and their laws, and the clauses of their constitution embody the law of succession as it was understood, including, notably, the repeal of the law of 1713 and the return to mixed succession.
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She was received at a short distance from the camp by the marquis of Cadiz and the grand master of St. James, and escorted to her quarters amidst the enthusiastic greetings of the soldiery.
Juan Pacheco, duke of Escalona, marquis of Villena.
The dukes of Cadiz and Medina Sidonia were prince John's sponsors; and, after the completion of the ceremony, the new knight conferred the honors of chivalry in like manner on several of his young companions in arms.
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 Relatives of D.T. Rogers(b. 1943) - pafg729 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Duke Konrad II of Swabia [Parents] was born in 1167.
She married Duke Konrad II of Swabia in 1188.
Manuel of Castile [Parents] was born in 1234 in Carrion,Spain.
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 The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor
Likewise, Alfonso, King of Portugal, son of Count Henry of Burgundy and Queen Teresa, was in conflict with Alfonso.
Alfonso I, King of Aragón, was born in 1073.
Alfonso Enríquez was the son of Count Henry of Burgundy and Teresa, an illegitimate daughter of Alfonso VI.
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 Index to royal Genealogical Data - ordered by forename - part 3
Alfonso I of Ferrara, Duke of Ferrara and Modena d'Este
Alfonso I the battler of Aragón, King of Aragón Sanchez, b.
Alfonso IV the Monk of León, King of León, b.
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 Philip V of Spain Encyclopedia Article @ 216.92.11.26 ()   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
He was a younger brother of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and an uncle of Louis XV of France.
His maternal grandparents were Ferdinand Maria, Elector of Bavaria and Adelaide Henriette of Savoy, the daughter of Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy.
Philip, Duke of Parma (15 March 1720–18 July 1765).
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 Luis Alfonso de Borbón News and Pictures Part 2 - Page 10 - The Royal Forums
Jaime, Duke of Segovia (1908-1975), who renounced all rights to the throne of Spain for himself and his descendants in 1933 (confirmed 1945 and 1947).
Following the death of Alfonso XIII he assumed the title of Duke of Anjou as primogeniture representative of the House of Bourbon.
Luis Alfonso's mother, Dona Carmen, daughter of Don Cristobal Martinez-Bordiu, 10th Marques de Villaverde, and Dona Maria del Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, was reported in both Royalty Digest and Point de Vue as causing a fuss during the wedding reception of her son.
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 Top 20 Encyclopedia
Though the Duke of Alba and the Spanish occupation, however, was little more popular in Lisbon than in Rotterdam, the combined Spanish and Portuguese empires placed into Philip’s hands almost the entirety of the explored New World along with a vast trading empire in Africa and Asia.
When John IV died in 1657, the Spanish attempted to wrest Portugal from his son Alfonso VI of Portugal, but were defeated at Ameixial (1663) and Monte Claros (1665), leading to Spain’s recognition of Portugal’s independence in 1668.
A brief period of improvement occurred in the 1870s when the capable Alfonso XII of Spain and his thoughtful ministers succeeded in restoring some vigour to Spanish politics and prestige, in part by accepting and working intelligently within the reality of the country's reduced circumstances.
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 Decret de Nova Planta
The siege was started by the Duke of Berwick, the French General imposed by Louis XIV on his grandson Philip V. General Antoni Villarroel was placed at the head of the Catalan troops.
On 15 September 1714, the Duke of Berwick officially appointed the Supreme Royal Council of Justice and Government under the presidency of Philip’s minister José Patiño, to replace the Generalitat and the Consell de Cent.
In 1874, a military coup brought down the Republic and restored the monarchy with Alfonso XII, who was succeeded by Alfonso XIII under the regency of Maria Cristina in 1885.
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 Personalities of Louisiana: Charles III of Spain
Charles' (or Don Carlos) mother is Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766) a granddaughter of the Duke of Parma (in Italy).
Philip V dies at the palace of Buen Retiro and is buried at San Ildefonso.
In 1713 he had revoked the Siete Partidas of Alfonso X which had recognized the right of females to succeed to the throne of Castile and Leon in default of male heirs of an equally near degree of consanguinity.
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 Contemporary spanish history
In 1870 a duke from Italy accepted the Spanish throne and was crowned Amadeus I. Amadeus abdicated in 1873 and in that year it was the First Republic in Spain.
On Christmas Eve the army procalimed Isabella´s oldest living son, Alfonso XII king of Spain and the first Republic collapsed.
The son of Alfonso XII, Alfonso XII became the king of Spain in 1902, until then Alfonso XII´s wife acted as regent.
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 File 1a - From 1095 to 1400AD - Merchants and Bankers Listings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The son of this Raymond and Urraca was the famous Alfonso VII of Portugal (1105-1157), Alfonso Henriques, who had three wives: Berengaria/Berenguela Borrell of Barcelona, daughter of a Count of Barcelona; Matilda of Savoy; and Ryska of Poland, daughter of Vladislav II of Poland and Agnes Hohenstaufer.
Mark Sanudo is given island of Naxos as Duke of the Archipelago (of the Aegean).
In 1312 in Paris, Hugh V Duke of Burgundy, "King of Salonica", is one of a party of negotiators deciding on fate of lost empire of Romania and Greek principality of Archaia.
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