Alfonso XI (Castilla) de Castilla
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Alfonso (Castilla) de Castilla (1311 - 1350)

Alfonso (Alfonso XI) "Rey de Castilla y León" de Castilla formerly Castilla
Born in Salamanca, Salamanca, Castilla-Leon, Spainmap
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Husband of — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of — married 1328 [location unknown]
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Died at age 38 in La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Andalusia, Spainmap
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Preceded by
Ferdinand IV
King of Castile and León
1367 - 1369
Succeeded by
Peter 'the cruel' I of Castile

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Biography

Upon his father's death in 1312, several disputes ensued over who would hold regency, which were resolved in 1313. Once Alfonso was declared an adult in 1325, he began a reign that would serve to strengthen royal power. His achievements include solving the problems of the Gibraltar Strait and the conquest of Algeciras.

Known as the Avenger or the Implacable, and 'He of Salado River.' Battle of Rio Salado 1340.

Alfonso XI never went to the insane lengths of his son Pedro of Castile, but he could be bloody in his methods. He killed for reasons of state without form of trial. It may be that his early death, during the Great Plague of 1350, at the Siege of Gibraltar, only averted a desperate struggle with Peter, though it was a misfortune in that it removed a ruler of eminent capacity, who understood his subjects well enough not to go too far. He was the only European monarch to die during the Black Death.

In Valladolid on 28 November 1325, Alfonso XI of Castile married the young Constanza Manuel. They were married for only two years when Alfonso had the marriage dissolved. He then married in 1328 to Maria of Portugal. He openly neglected his wife Maria and had an ostentatious passion for Eleanor of Guzman, who bore him ten children. After Alfonso's death, his widow Maria had Eleanor arrested and later killed.

Children

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With Maria:

  • Ferdinand (Valladolid, 1332–1333);
  • Peter of Castile (1334–1369), King of Castile

With Eleanor:

  • Pedro Alfonso (1330–1338), Lord of Aguilar de Campoo
  • Sancho Alfonso (1331–1343), 1st Lord of Ledesma
  • Henry II of Castile (1333–1379) King of Castile (1369-1379);
  • Fadrique Alfonso (1333–1358), Henry's twin brother, he was Master of the Order of Santiago and Lord of Haro;
  • Fernando Alfonso (1336–c. 1350), 2nd Lord of Ledesma;
  • Tello Alfonso (1337–1370), Lord of Aguilar de Campoo
  • Juan Alfonso (1341–1359), Lord of Badajoz and Jerez de la Frontera;
  • Juana Alfonso, (born 1342), Lady of Trastámara due to her marriage in 1354 to Fernando Ruiz de Castro. The marriage was annulled and in 1366 she married Felipe de Castro;
  • Sancho Alfonso (1343–1375), 1st Count of Alburquerque
  • Pedro Alfonso (1345–1359)

Death

Died: On the night of the 25th or 26th March 1350 in La Línea de la Concepción, Cádiz, Spain.
Buried: Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus in Cordoba, Spain.
Infected by the Black Death during the 1349–1350 siege of Gibraltar

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XI_of_Castile




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If he died during the Siege of Gibraltar, then it should be near Gibraltar, not in Germany
posted by Jorge Gubbins
Of Castile-95 and Bourgogne-268 appear to represent the same person because: Same dates, is the same person
posted by John Atkinson

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