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{{Short description|King of León from 925 to 931}} {{Infobox royalty | type = monarch | name = Alfonso IV | image = Afonso IV de Leão- Compendio de crónicas de reyes (Biblioteca Nacional de España).jpg | caption = King Alfonso in a 15th-century manuscript of the ''[[Semblanzas de reyes]]'' | succession = [[List of Leonese monarchs|King]] of [[Kingdom of León|León]] | reign = 925–931 | coronation = | predecessor = [[Fruela II of León|Fruela II]] | successor = [[Ramiro II of León|Ramiro II]] | spouse = [[Onneca Sánchez of Pamplona]] | issue = [[Ordoño IV of León|Ordoño IV]]<br />Fruela | issue-link = | issue-pipe = | house = [[Astur-Leonese dynasty]] | house-type = Dynasty | father = [[Ordoño II of León]] | mother = [[Elvira Menéndez (died 921)|Elvira Menéndez]] | birth_date = {{circa|894}} | birth_place = | death_date = August 933 | death_place = [[Monastery of Ruiforco]] | burial_place = [[Basilica of San Isidoro]] | religion = [[Chalcedonian Christianity]] |}} '''Alfonso IV''' ({{circa|890}}s – 933), called '''the Monk''' ({{langx|es|el Monje}}), was [[Kingdom of León|King of León]] from 925 (or 926) and [[Kingdom of Galicia|King of Galicia]] from 929, until he [[abdication|abdicated]] in 931. When [[Ordoño II of León|Ordoño II]] died in 924 it was not one of his sons who ascended to the throne of León but rather his brother [[Fruela II of León|Fruela II of Asturias]]. The exact circumstances of the succession upon Fruela's death one year later are unclear, but the son of Fruela, [[Alfonso Fróilaz]], became king in at least part of the kingdom when his father passed. [[Sancho I Ordoñez|Sancho Ordóñez]], Alfonso, and [[Ramiro II of León|Ramiro]], the sons of Ordoño II, claimed to be the rightful heirs and rebelled against their cousin. With the support of king [[Jimeno Garcés of Pamplona]], they drove Alfonso Fróilaz to the eastern [[marches]] of Asturias, and divided the kingdom among themselves with Alfonso Ordóñez receiving the crown of León and his elder brother Sancho being acclaimed king in Galicia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rodriguez Fernández|first=Justiniano|title=García I, Ordoño II, Fruela II, Alfonso IV|year=1997|publisher=Editorial La Olmeda|location=Burgos|isbn=84-920046-8-1|pages=176–178}}</ref> Alfonso IV resigned the crown to his brother Ramiro in 931 and went into a religious house. One year later he took up arms with Fruela's sons Ordoño and Ramiro against his own brother Ramiro, having repented of his renunciation of the world. He was defeated, blinded, and sent back to die in the [[cloister]] of [[Sahagún]].<ref>{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Alphonso|display=Alphonso s.v. Alphonso IV.|volume=1|page=734}}</ref> Alfonso had married [[Onneca Sánchez of Pamplona]], niece of his ally Jimeno Garcés and daughter of [[Sancho I of Pamplona]] by [[Toda of Navarre]]. He had two children: [[Ordoño IV of León]], and perhaps another son, Fruela, who was involved in a land dispute during the reign of [[Ramiro III of León]].{{efn|A minority of modern scholars including [[Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz y Menduiña|Claudio Sánchez-Albornoz]] and Manuel Carriedo Tejedo, consider Ordoño IV instead to have been son of his rival Alfonso Fróilaz. Independently, the placement of the ''Froylani prolis Adefonsi regis'' (Fruela, son of king Alfonso) of the time of Ramiro III as son of king Alfonso IV rather than king Alfonso Fróilaz has been disputed.}} ==Notes== {{notelist}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Bibliography== {{commons category |Alfonso IV of León}} {{refbegin}} * {{cite book |last=Arco y Garay |first=Ricardo del |publisher=Instituto Jerónimo Zurita |title=Sepulcros de la Casa Real de Castilla |year=1954 |location=Madrid |oclc=11366237}} * {{cite journal |last=Carriedo Tejedo |first=Manuel |year=2002 |title=La frontera entre León y Córdoba a mediados del siglo X: desde Santarén a Huesca |journal=Estudios Humanísticos. Historia |issue=1 |pages=63–93 |publisher=Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones |location=León |doi=10.18002/ehh.v0i1.2918 |issn=1696-0300 |url=http://buleria.unileon.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10612/1054/EUH-1-3.pdf?sequence=1 |access-date=9 June 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714232441/http://buleria.unileon.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10612/1054/EUH-1-3.pdf?sequence=1 |archive-date=14 July 2014 |url-status=dead |doi-access=free }} * {{cite book |last=Ceballos-Escalera |first=Alfonso |publisher=La Olmeda |title=Reyes de León: Ordoño III (951–956), Sancho I (956–966), Ordoño IV (958–959), Ramiro III (966–985), Vermudo II (982–999) |year=2000 |location=Burgos |isbn=84-89915-11-3 }} * {{cite book |last1=Elorza |first1=Juan C. |last2=Vaquero |first2=Lourdes |last3=Castillo |first3=Belén |last4=Negro |first4=Marta |publisher=publisher Evergráficas S.A. |editor=Junta de Castilla y León. Consejería de Cultura y Bienestar Social |title=El Panteón Real de las Huelgas de Burgos. Los enterramientos de los reyes de León y de Castilla |edition=2nd |year=1990 |location=León |isbn=84-241-9999-5}} * {{cite journal |last=González Flórez |first=Maximiliano |year=1981 |title=El Infantado de Torío |journal=Tierras de León: Revista de la Diputación Provincial |issue=45 |pages=35–60 |publisher=Diputación de León |location=León |issn=0495-5773 |url=http://www.saber.es/web/biblioteca/books/tierras-de-leon/html/45/4infantado.pdf |access-date=2 June 2010 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} * {{cite journal |last=Isla Frez |first=Amancio |year=1993 |title=Nombres de reyes y sucesión al trono (siglos VIII-X) |journal=Studia historica. Historia medieval |issue=11 |pages=9–34 |publisher=Universidad de Salamanca: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca y Departamento de Historia Medieval, Moderna y Contemporánea |location=Salamanca |issn=0213-2060 |url=http://campus.usal.es/~revistas_trabajo/index.php/Studia_H_Historia_Medieval/article/viewFile/4401/4417 |access-date=9 June 2014 }} * {{cite book |last=Martínez Diez |first=Gonzalo |title=El Condado de Castilla (711–1038): la historia frente a la leyenda |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KgiDVZfBipwC |year=2005 |location=Valladolid |isbn=84-9718-275-8 }} * {{cite journal |last=Moráis Morán |first=José Alberto |year=2010 |title=En torno a los procesos de la creación artística románica en el medio rural: los tímpanos de Ruiforco y Matueca de Torío (León) |journal=De arte: Revista de historia del arte |issue=9 |pages=37–60 |publisher=Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones |location=León |issn=1696-0319 |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3341845 |access-date=7 June 2014 }} * {{cite journal |last=Pamplona |first=Gerardo de |year=1946 |title=Un nuevo rey de León, Alfonso hijo de Fruela II |journal=Príncipe de Viana |issue=23 |pages=261–270 |publisher=Gobierno de Navarra: Institución Príncipe de Viana |location=Pamplona |issn=0032-8472 |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2251899 |access-date=9 June 2014 }} * {{cite journal |last=Pérez Llamazares |first=Julio |year=1953 |title=Panteones reales leoneses |journal=Hidalguía: La revista de genealogía, nobleza y armas |issue=2 |pages=341–346 |location=Madrid |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TjqedSRApi4C |issn=0018-1285 }} *{{Cite journal |last=Prada Marcos |first=María Encina |title=Estudio antropológico del Panteón Real de San Isidoro: La antropología al servicio de la Historia: Un caso real |year=1998 |journal=ProMonumenta |issue=II |url=http://www.oocities.org/es/mundo_medieval/San_Isidoro.pdf |oclc=630664764 }} * {{cite book |last=Risco |first=Manuel |author-link=Manuel Risco |publisher=En la oficina de don Blas Román |title=Historia de la ciudad y corte de León y de sus reyes |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b_eoPA3hI0IC |edition=1st |year=1792 |location=Madrid |oclc=18852768 }} * {{cite book |last=Rodríguez Fernández |first=Justiniano |publisher=La Olmeda |title=Reyes de León (I). García I, Ordoño II, Fruela II y Alfonso IV |edition=1st |year=1997 |location=Burgos |isbn=84-920046-8-1}} * {{cite book |last=Rodríguez Fernández |first=Justiniano |publisher=Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas |title=Sancho I y Ordoño IV, reyes de León |year=1987 |location=Madrid |isbn=84-00-06510-7}} * {{cite journal |last=Sáez |first=Emilio |title=Los ascendientes de San Rosendo, notas para el estudio de la monarquía astur-leonesa durante los siglos IX y X |year=1947 |journal=Hispania |publisher=CSIC, Instituto Jerónimo Zurita |issue=XXX |url=http://bibliotecadigital.jcyl.es/i18n/consulta/registro.cmd?id=6257 |oclc=2594708 }} * {{cite journal |last=Salazar y Acha |first=Jaime de |title=Urraca. Un nombre egregio en la onomástica altomedieval |year=2006 |journal=En la España Medieval |publisher=Universidad Complutense: Servicio de Publicaciones y Departamento de Historia Medieval |issue=1 |pages=29–48 |issn=0214-3038 |url=http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2688729 |access-date=19 February 2010 }} * {{cite book |last=Ser Quijano |first=Gregorio |publisher=Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca |title=Documentación de la catedral de León (siglos IX-X) |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=t7DrLm6SV8QC |edition=1st |year=1981 |location=Salamanca |isbn=84-7481-160-0 }} * {{cite book |last=Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León |first=Margarita Cecilia |title=Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII |year=1999 |publisher=Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de Educación y Cultura |location=Salamanca |isbn=84-7846-781-5}} * {{cite book |last=Viñayo González |first=Antonio |publisher=Edilesa |title=Real Colegiata de San Isidoro: Historia, Arte y Vida |year=1998 |location=León |isbn=84-8012-201-3}} {{refend}} {{s-start}} {{s-hou |[[Astur-Leonese dynasty]] |circa |890s |August |933}} {{s-reg}} {{s-bef |before= [[Fruela II|Fruela II]] or [[Alfonso Fróilaz|Alfonso Fróilaz]]}} {{s-ttl |title=[[King of León]] |years=925–931}} {{s-aft |rows=2 |after=[[Ramiro II of León|Ramiro II]]}} |- {{s-bef |before=[[Sancho I Ordóñez]]}} {{s-ttl |title=[[Kingdom of Galicia|King of Galicia]] |years=from 929 <br>(united with León)}} {{s-end}} {{Leonese monarchs}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Alfonso 04 of Leon}} [[Category:890s births]] [[Category:933 deaths]] [[Category:Year of birth uncertain]] [[Category:10th-century Leonese monarchs]] [[Category:10th-century Galician monarchs]] [[Category:Astur-Leonese dynasty]] [[Category:Burials in the Royal Pantheon at the Basilica of San Isidoro]] [[Category:Sons of emperors]] [[Category:Forcibly monasticised]]
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