King Alfonso IV 'The Kind' of Aragon and Wives (Queen Teresa and Queen Leonor)

[Marengo]

Alfonso IV 'The Kind', King of Aragon, Valencia, Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily, Duke of Athens and Neopatria, Count of Barcelona and Urgell (Napels, 1299 – Barcelona, 27 January 1336); married 1stly in Lerida on 10 September 1314 Countess Teresa of Urgell (? - Zaragosa, 1329); married 2ndly in Tarragona on 5 February 1329 Princess Leonor of Castile (1307-Castrojeriz, 1359)

Reign: 1327 - 1336

Dynasty: Barcelona

Predecessor: King Jaime II of Aragon

Succeeded by: King Pedro IV of Aragon

Children Alfonso & Teresa: Prince Alfonso and King Pedro IV of Aragon; Count Jaime I of Urgell; Prince Fadrique of Aragon; Queen Constanca of Mallorca; Princess Isabel and Prince Sancho of Aragon

Children Alfonso & Leonor: Prince Fernando of Aragon, Marques of Tortosa and Prince Juan of Aragon

Parents Alfonso: King Jaime II of Aragon and Blanche of Anjou, Princess of Napels

Parents Teresa: Don Gombald of Entenza, Count of Urgell and Dona Constanza of Antillón

Parents Leonor: King Fernando IV of Castile and Constanca of Portugal

Siblings Alfonso: Prince Jaime of Aragon; Queen Maria of Castile; Princess Constança of Castile, Duchess of Penafiel; Prince Juan of Aragon, Archbisshop of Toledo and Tarragona, Patriarch of Alexandria; Duchess Isabel (Elizabeth) of Austria, Queen of Germany; Prince Pedro of Aragon,
Count of Ribagorça and Prades; Princess Blanca of Aragon, Prioress of Sixena; Prince Ramon of Aragon, Count of Empúries and Baron of Ejerica; Princess Violante of Tarente, Despotes of Roumania, later Lady of Segorbe

Siblings Teresa: None

Siblings Leonor: Princess Constanca and King Alfonso XI of Castile & Leon

 

[Marengo]

Alfonso IV, called the Kind (also the Gentle or the Nice, Catalan: Alfons el Benigne) (1299 – 24 January 1336) was the King of Aragon and Count of Barcelona (as Alfonso III) from 1327 to his death. He was the second son of James II and Blanche of Anjou. His reign saw the incorporation of the County of Urgell, Duchy of Athens, and Duchy of Neopatria into the Crown of Aragon.
During the reign of his father, he was the procurator general of the Crown. He married Teresa d'Entença, heiress of Urgell, in 1314. In 1323–1324, he undertook the conquest of Sardinia. He became heir after his older brother James renounced his rights to become a monk. In 1329, he began a long war with the Republic of Genoa. The city of Sassari surrenderd in 1323, but rebelled three more times and was contested by Genoa.

Read the entire wikipedia article here.

 

[CyrilVladisla]

The Catalan Parliament assembled in Mountblanc in 1333 under the chairmanship of King Alfonso IV of Aragon.
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-al...f-the-usages-catalan-parliament-29967033.html

 

[An Ard Ri]

By his first wife,Teresa of Entenza the countdom of Urgel and viscounty of Ager merged with the crown of Aragon after her death in 1327.

 

[Blog Real]

Artistic presentation of Alfonso IV of Aragon, painted by Manuel Aguirre y Monsalbe (1822–1856).
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Alifonso_IV_d'Aragón.jpg