Editing Alfonso the Battler

{{Short description|King of Aragon and Navarre from 1104 to 1134}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name           = Alfonso I
| image          = Dinero chaqués cara Alifonso I.png
| caption         =Alfonso's Aragonese coin
| succession     = [[King of Aragon]] and [[Kingdom of Navarre|Navarre]]
| reign          = 28 September 1104{{snd}}{{nowrap|7 September 1134}}
| coronation     =
| predecessor    = [[Peter I of Aragon|Peter I]]
| successor      = [[Ramiro II of Aragon]]<br>[[García Ramírez of Navarre]]
| succession1 = [[Imperator totius Hispaniae|Emperor of All Spain]]
| moretext1    = (''[[jure uxoris]]'')
| reign1       = 1109{{ndash}}7 September 1134
| predecessor1  = [[Alfonso VI]]
| successor1    = [[Alfonso VII]]
|regent1        = [[Urraca of León|Urraca]] (1109–1126)
|regent2 = [[Alfonso VII of León and Castile|Alfonso VII]] (1126–1134)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wA4tFv2xRxQC&pg=PA178 |page=178|title=Momenti e figure della civiltà europea. Saggi storici e storiografici, voll. I-II |publisher=Ed. di Storia e Letteratura |language=it}}</ref>
|reg-type1      = Co-monarch
|reg-type2      = Anti-emperor
| spouse         = {{married|[[Urraca of León and Castile]]|1109|1112|end=annulled}}
| house          = [[House of Jiménez]]
| father         = [[Sancho Ramírez]]
| mother         = [[Felicie de Roucy]]
| birth_date     = ''{{circa}}''. 1073/1074
| birth_place    = 
| death_date     = 7 September 1134 (aged ''{{circa}}''. 60)
| death_place    = [[Poleñino]], Spain
| place of burial= [[Abbey of San Pedro el Viejo]]
}}

'''Alfonso I''' ({{Circa|1073/1074}}{{efn|According to the fourteenth-century ''[[Crónica de San Juan de la Peña]]'' he died in his sixty-first year{{sfn|Lourie|1975|p=639}}}}{{snd}}7 September 1134), called '''the Battler''' or '''the Warrior''' ({{langx|es|el Batallador}}), was [[King of Aragon]] and [[Kingdom of Navarre|Navarre]] from 1104 until his death in 1134. He was the second son of King [[Sancho Ramírez]] and successor of his brother [[Peter I of Aragon|Peter I]]. With his marriage to [[Urraca of Castile|Urraca]], queen regnant of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]], [[Kingdom of León|León]] and [[Kingdom of Galicia|Galicia]], in 1109, he began to use, with some justification, the grandiose title [[Imperator totius Hispaniae|Emperor of Spain]], formerly employed by his father-in-law, [[Alfonso VI of León|Alfonso VI]]. Alfonso the Battler earned his sobriquet in the [[Reconquista]]. He won his greatest military successes in the middle [[Ebro]], where he conquered [[Zaragoza]] in 1118 and later took [[Ejea de los Caballeros|Ejea]], [[Tudela, Navarre|Tudela]], [[Siege of Calatayud|Calatayud]], [[Borja, Zaragoza|Borja]], [[Tarazona]], [[Daroca]], and [[Monreal del Campo]]. He died in September 1134 after an unsuccessful battle with the [[Muslims]] at the [[Battle of Fraga]].

Alfonso's nickname comes from the [[Aragonese language|Aragonese]] version of the ''[[Chronicle of San Juan de la Peña]]'' (c. 1370), which says that "they called him lord Alfonso the battler because in Spain there wasn't as good a knight who won twenty-nine battles" (''clamabanlo don Alfonso batallador porque en Espayna no ovo tan buen cavallero que veynte nueve batallas vençió'').<ref>Carmen Orcástegui Gros (ed.), [https://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/10/06/7orcastegui.pdf "Crónica de San Juan de la Peña (Versión aragonesa)"], ''Cuadernos de Historia Jerónimo Zurita'', 51–52 (Zaragoza, Institución «Fernando el Católico», 1985), p. 459.</ref>

==Early life==
His earliest years were passed in the [[Abbey of San Pedro de Siresa|monastery of Siresa]], learning to read and write and to practice the military arts under the tutelage of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of [[Pedrola]] when Alfonso came to the throne.

During his brother's reign, he participated in the taking of Huesca (the [[Battle of Alcoraz]], 1096), which became the largest city in the kingdom and the new capital.  He also joined [[El Cid]]'s expeditions in [[Valencia (taifa)|Valencia]].  His father gave him the lordships of [[Biel, Zaragoza|Biel]], [[Luna, Zaragoza|Luna]], [[Ardenes]], and [[Bailo, Spain|Bailo]].

A series of deaths put Alfonso directly in line for the throne.  His brother's children, Isabella and Peter (who married María Rodríguez, daughter of [[El Cid]]), died in 1103 and 1104 respectively.

==Matrimonial conflicts==
A passionate fighting-man (he fought twenty-nine battles against Christian or Moor), he was married (when well over 30 years and a habitual bachelor) in 1109 to the ambitious Queen [[Urraca of León]], a passionate woman unsuited for a subordinate role.  The marriage had been arranged by her father [[Alfonso VI of León]] in 1106 to unite the two chief Christian states against the [[Almoravides|Almoravids]], and to supply them with a capable military leader.  But Urraca was tenacious of her right as [[queen regnant]] and had not learnt chastity in the polygamous household of her father. Husband and wife quarrelled with the brutality of the age and came to open war, even placing Urraca under siege at Astorga in 1112.{{sfn|Reilly|1995|p=133–134}} Alfonso had the support of one section of the nobles who found their account in the confusion. Being a much better soldier than any of his opponents he won the [[Battle of Candespina]] and the [[Battle of Viadangos]], but his only trustworthy supporters were his Aragonese, who were not numerous enough to keep [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]] and [[Kingdom of León|León]] subjugated. The marriage of Alfonso and Urraca was declared null by the pope, as they were second cousins, in 1110, but he ignored the papal nuncio and clung to his liaison with Urraca until 1114.<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Alphonso|display=Alphonso s.v. Alphonso I., king of Aragon|volume=1|pages=734–735}}</ref> During his marriage, he had called himself "King and Emperor of Castile, Toledo, Aragón, Pamplona, Sobrarbe, and Ribagorza" in recognition of his rights as Urraca's husband; of his inheritance of the lands of his father, including the kingdom of his great-uncle [[Gonzalo of Sobrarbe and Ribagorza|Gonzalo]]; and his prerogative to conquer [[Andalusia]] from the Muslims.  He inserted the title of ''imperator'' on the basis that he had three kingdoms under his rule.

==Church relations==
[[File:Arbre-Sobrarb-ANFUS-REX-ARA-GON-Alfons-I-Aragó-1104-1134.jpg|thumb|A ''[[denarius]]'' of Alfonso's, minted at [[Jaca]], bearing his effigy and the inscription ANFUS-REX ARA-GON (''Anfusus rex Aragonensium'', King Alfonso of Aragon).]]
The king quarrelled with the church, and particularly the [[Cistercian]]s, almost as violently as with his wife.  As he defeated her,{{Citation needed|date=June 2010}} so he drove [[Bernard de Sedirac|Archbishop Bernard]] into exile and replaced the abbot of [[Sahagún, Spain|Sahagún]] with his brother.{{Clarify|reason=Wording confusing: cause of exile not the 'defeat' of his wife|date=October 2021}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://thebiography.us/en/alfonso-i-rey-de-aragon-y-navarra|title=Biography of King of Aragón y Navarra Alfonso I (1073–1134)|website=TheBiography|access-date=2019-06-17|archive-date=17 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190617164504/https://thebiography.us/en/alfonso-i-rey-de-aragon-y-navarra|url-status=dead}}</ref> He was finally compelled to give way in Castile and León to his stepson, [[Alfonso VII of Castile]], son of Urraca and her first husband.  The intervention of [[Pope Calixtus II]] brought about an arrangement between the old man and his young namesake.<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1122 in Belchite, he founded [[Confraternity of Belchite|a confraternity of knights]] to fight against the [[Almoravid dynasty|Almoravids]].{{sfn|Constable|Zurro|2012|p=203}}  It was the start of the military orders in Aragon.  Years later, he organised a branch of the ''Militia Christi'' of the [[Holy Land]] at [[Monreal del Campo]].

==Military expansion==
Alfonso spent his first four years as king in near-constant war with the Muslims.  In 1105, he conquered Ejea and Tauste and refortified Castellar and Juslibol.  In 1106, he defeated [[Ahmad II al-Musta'in]] of Zaragoza at Valtierra. In 1107, he took [[Tamarite de Litera]] and [[San Esteban de Litera]].  
Then followed a period dominated by his relations with [[Castile and León]] through his wife, Urraca. He resumed his conquests in 1117 with [[Fitero]], [[Corella, Spain|Corella]], [[Cintruénigo]], [[Murchante]], [[Monteagudo, Navarre|Monteagudo]], and [[Cascante]].

In 1118, the Council of Toulouse declared a [[crusade]] to assist in the conquest of [[Zaragoza]].  Many Frenchmen consequently joined Alfonso at [[Ayerbe]].  They took Almudévar, Gurrea de Gállego, and Zuera, besieging Zaragoza itself by the end of May. The city fell on 18 December, and the forces of Alfonso occupied the Azuda, the government tower.  The great palace of the city was given to the monks of Bernard.  Promptly, the city was made Alfonso's capital. Two years later, in 1120, he defeated a Muslim army intent on reconquering his new capital at the [[Battle of Cutanda]]. He promulgated the ''fuero'' of ''tortum per tortum'', facilitating taking the law into one's own hands, which among others reassumed the Muslim right to dwell in the city and their right to keep their properties and practice their religion under their own jurisdiction as long as they maintained tax payment and relocated to the suburbs.

[[File:Estatua de Alfonso I de Aragón.jpg|thumb|upright|Modern statue of Alfonso as a warrior in the Parque Grande José Antonio Labordeta, Zaragoza]]

In 1119, he retook Cervera, Tudejen, Castellón, Tarazona, Ágreda, Magallón, Borja, Alagón, Novillas, Mallén, Rueda, Épila and populated the region of [[Soria]].  He began the [[siege of Calatayud]], but left to defeat the army at Cutanda trying to retake Zaragoza.  When Calatayud fell, he took Bubierca, Alhama de Aragón, Ariza, and Daroca (1120).  In 1123, he [[Siege of Lleida (1123)|besieged Lleida]], which was in the hands of the [[count of Barcelona]].  From the winter of 1124 to September 1125, he was on a risky expedition to Peña Cadiella deep in [[Andalusia]].

In the great raid of 1125, he carried away a large part of the subject Christians from Granada, and in the south-west of France, he had rights as king of Navarre.<ref name="EB1911"/> From 1125 to 1126, he was on [[Granada campaign (1125–26)|campaign]] against [[Granada]], where he was trying to install a Christian prince, and [[Córdoba (Spain)|Córdoba]], where he got only as far as Motril.  In 1127, he reconquered Longares, but simultaneously lost all his Castilian possessions to [[alfonso VII of Castile|Alfonso VII]].  He confirmed a treaty with Castile the next year (1128) with the [[Peace of Támara]], which fixed the boundaries of the two realms.

He conquered Molina de Aragón and populated [[Monzón]] in 1129, before besieging [[Valencia (city in Spain)|Valencia]], which had fallen again upon the Cid's death.

He went north of the Pyrenées in October 1130 to protect the [[Val d'Aran]].  Early in 1131, he besieged [[Bayonne]].  It is said he ruled "from Belorado to Pallars and from Bayonne to Monreal."{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}

At the [[Siege of Bayonne (1130–31)|siege of Bayonne]] in October 1131, three years before his death, he published a will leaving his kingdom to three autonomous religious orders based in Palestine and politically largely independent – the [[Knights Templars]], the [[Hospitallers]], and the [[Order of the Holy Sepulchre|Knights of the Holy Sepulchre]],<ref name="EB1911"/> whose influences might have been expected to cancel one another out. The will has puzzled some historians, who have read it as an unusual gesture of extreme piety, though not out of line with his purported devotion for militant Christianity.{{sfn|Lacarra|1978|p=35}} Elena Lourie (1975) suggested instead that it was Alfonso's attempt to neutralize the papacy's interest in a disputed succession – Aragon had been a fief of the papacy since 1068 – and to fend off Urraca's son from her first marriage, [[Alfonso VII of Castile]], for the papacy would be bound to press the terms of such a pious testament.{{efn|[[Pope Innocent II]] indeed did write Alfonso VII to just this effect, 10 June 1135 or 1136.{{sfn|Lourie|1975|p=645}}}} Generous bequests to important churches and abbeys in Castile had the effect of making the noble churchmen there beneficiaries who would be encouraged by the will to act as a brake on Alfonso VII's ambitions to break it – and yet among the magnates witnessing the will in 1131 there was not a single cleric. In the event it was a will that his nobles refused to carry out – instead bringing his brother Ramiro from the monastery to assume royal powers – an eventuality that Lourie suggests was Alfonso's hidden intent.

His final campaigns were against Mequinenza (1133) and [[Battle of Fraga |Fraga (1134)]], where [[García Ramírez of Navarre|García Ramírez]], the future king of Navarre, and a mere 500 other knights fought with him.  It fell on 17 July. He was dead by September. His tomb is in the [[Abbey of San Pedro el Viejo|monastery of San Pedro]] in [[Huesca]].

==Death==

===Succession===
[[File:A box (reliquary) of the bones (relics) of Alfonso the Battler.PNG|thumb|A box ([[reliquary]]) containing the bones ([[relics]]) of Alfonso the Battler, with the skull centre, facing the viewer. Photograph by Enrique Capella (May 1920).]]
The testament of Alfonso leaving his kingdom to the three orders was dismissed out of hand by the nobility of his kingdoms, and possible successors were sought.  Alfonso's only brother, [[Ramiro II of Aragon|Ramiro]], had been a [[Order of Saint Benedict|Benedictine]] monk since childhood, and his commitment to the church, his temperament and vow of celibacy made him ill-suited to rule a kingdom under constant military threat and in need of a stable line of succession. The step-son of the deceased king, [[Alfonso VII of León]], as reigning monarch and legitimate descendant of [[Sancho III of Navarre]], put himself forward but garnered no local support.  The nobility of Navarre aligned behind [[Pedro de Atarés]], the grandson of Alfonso's illegitimate uncle, while the Aragonese nobility rallied around the abbot-bishop Ramiro.  A convention was called at [[Borja, Zaragoza|Borja]] in order to develop a consensus. Pedro de Atarés had so alienated his own partisans there with his perceived arrogance that they had abandoned him, yet at the same time were unwilling to accept Alfonso's younger brother Ramiro.  The convention then broke up without ever arriving at a compromise, and the two regional factions proceeded to act independently.

The choice of the Navarrese lords fell on [[García Ramírez of Navarre|García Ramírez]], Lord of [[Monzón]], descendant of an illegitimate son of [[García Sánchez III of Navarre|García Sánchez III]] and protégé of Alfonso VII to be their king. The Aragonese took Ramiro out of a monastery and made him king, marrying him without papal dispensation to Agnes, sister of the [[Duke of Aquitaine]], then betrothing their newborn daughter to [[Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Barcelona]], who was then named Ramiro's heir. "The result of the crisis produced by the result of Alfonso I's will was a major reorientation of the peninsula's kingdoms: the separation of Aragon and Navarre, the union of Aragon and Catalonia and – a moot point but stressed particularly by some Castilian historians – the affirmation of 'Castilian hegemony' in Spain"{{sfn|Lourie|1975|p=645}} by the rendering of homage for [[Zaragoza]] by Alfonso's eventual heir, Ramon Berenguer IV of Barcelona.

===Pseudo-Alfonso the Battler===
Sometime during the reign of [[Alfonso II of Aragon]], the Battler's grandnephew, a man came forward claiming to be Alfonso the Battler. The only contemporary references to this event are two letters of Alfonso II addressed to [[Louis VII of France]]; they were carried to Louis by [[Berengar (Bishop of Lérida)|Berengar]], the [[Bishop of Lérida|Bishop of Lleida]], but are not dated.<ref>They were first published in the ''Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (Correspondance de Louis VII)'', XV (Paris: 1878), 2nd ed., n<sup>o</sup>. 223–4, pp. 71–2, and utitised extensively by Marcelin Defourneaux, "Louis VII et le souverains espagnols. L'enigme du «pseudo-Alphonse»", in ''Estudios dedicados a Menéndez Pidal'', VI (Madrid: 1956), 647–61. They were published again by Ubieto Arteta (1958), appendices I and II, pp. 37–8.</ref> According to the second of these, the pretender was then living in Louis's domains, meaning the [[Principality of Catalonia]], which was ruled by Alfonso under Louis's suzerainty. This pretender was an old man (appropriately, since the Battler had died some decades earlier) and Alfonso II expressed confidence that Louis would arrest him at the earliest possible moment and bring him to justice. The first letter supplies sufficient information to date it approximately, since the Bishop sojourned at the court of Louis on his way to Rome. It is known from other sources that Berengar attended the [[Third Lateran Council]] in March 1179. The letters were probably written towards the end of 1178 or in January 1179 at the latest.<ref>Ubieto Arteta (1958), 35, cites the evidence for Aragon's early support for Alexander III against the [[Antipope Victor IV (1159–1164)|Antipope Victor IV]]. The earliest possible date at which Berengar could have been travelling to Rome to meet Alexander is after 23 November 1165, when the latter finally took up residence in Rome.</ref> According to an annalist source for the years 1089–1196, the pretender was received with honour and pomp in Zaragoza, Calatayud, and Daroca, which the Battler had conquered, but after it was found out that he was false he was executed before the city of Barcelona in 1181.<ref>Antonio C. Floriano, "Fragmentos de unos viejos anales (1089–1196). Transcripción y análisis paleográfico. Crítica histórica", ''Boletín de la Academia de la Historia'', CXIV (1929), 153–4, cited in Ubieto Arteta (1958), 36:<blockquote>Vino un ferrero e dixo: «yo so don Alfonso, el que presó a Çaragoça e Cadatayut e Daroqua»; e recebido es en aquellos lugares con grant honra e con grant ponpa. E dice muchas cosas que semeiavam verdat de lo passado quel havia fecho. E era tenido por senyer e por don Alfonso. E despues fue conoscido que non era aquel, e enforcáronlo muy desonradament devant la ciudad de Barcelona.</blockquote></ref> Modern historian [[Antonio Ubieto Arteta]] has hypothesised that the Aragonese lords of the tenancies of Zaragoza, Calatayud, and Daroca – Pedro de Luesia, Loferrench de Luna, Pedro de Castillazuelo (lord of Calatayud), Pedro Cornel (lord of Murillo de Gállego), and the majordomo Jimeno de Artusilla, all of whom disappear between 1177 and 1181 in the documentation of their tenancies – supported, at least initially, the pretender.<ref>Ubieto Arteta (1958), note 24, who also connects the appearance of the pretender with the economic disasters that befell Aragon in 1174.</ref> These lords also appear in the later legend of the [[Bell of Huesca]], which has no historical basis, as the victims of Ramiro II (1136). Since, historically, they were not active in the 1130s, it is possible that the historically based legend of the pseudo-Alfonso had some influence on the genesis of the Bell of Huesca.

The earliest chronicle source for the imposture is [[Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada]], writing in the middle of the thirteenth century, who records that there were several legends then current about the death of Alfonso the Battler: some believed he perished in the [[battle of Fraga]], some that his body had never been recovered, others that he was buried in the monastery of [[Castle of Montearagón|Montearagón]], and still others that he had fled from Fraga in shame after his defeat and became a pilgrim as an act of penance. Some years later, Rodrigo writes, though he does not give a year, an impostor arose and was received by many as the Battler, though Alfonso II had him arrested and hanged. This is the earliest reference to the impostor's end.<ref>The account in ''[[De rebus Hispaniae]]'' (Madrid: 1793), II, 150–51, quoted in Ubieto Arteta (1958), note 1:<blockquote>[Alfonsus] nam victus occiditur et si occisus inventus fuerit dubitatur. Ab aliquibus enim dicitur corpus eius in montis Aragonis monasterio tumulatum a mauris tamen ante redemptum. Ab aliis dicitur vivus a proelio evasisse et confusionem proelii nequiens tolerare peregrinum se exhibuit huic mundo effigie et habitu immutatus. Et annis aliquot interpositis, quispiam se ostendit qui se eumdem publice fatebatur et multorum Castellae et Aragoniae id ipsum testimonio affirmabant qui cum eo in utroque regno fuerant familiariter conversati et ad memoriam reducebant secreta plurima que ipse olim cum eis habita recolebat et antiquorum assertio ipsum esse firmiter asserebat. Demum tamen quia cum ex regno plurimi sectabantur et de die in diem eorum numerus augebatur. Aldefonsus rex Aragoniae fecit eum suspendio interire.</blockquote></ref> The legend was amplified in later years. According to the fourteenth-century  ''[[Crónica de los Estados Peninsulares]]'', the Battler went on a pilgrimage to [[Jerusalem]], where he lived for many years.<ref>The account in the ''Crónica de los Estados Peninsulares: texto del siglo XIV'', ed. Antonio Ubieto Arteta (Granada: 1955), 128, quoted in Ubieto Arteta (1958), note 2:<blockquote>Otros dicen que de vergüenza que era vencido sent passo la mar a Jerusalem, pero nunca lo trobaron ni muerto ni vivo. Otros dicen que a tiempo vino en Aragon e fablo con algunos que sopieran de sus poridades. Otros que alli se perdio e non fue conoscido..</blockquote></ref> The ''[[Crónica de San Juan de la Peña]]'' also recounts the incident, but it depends entirely on Rodrigo and the ''Estados Peninsulares''. It is not until the seventeenth-century historian [[Jerónimo Zurita]] penned his ''Anales de la Corona de Aragón'' that new details were added to the legend.<ref>Zurita's account is found in his second book, twenty-second chapter, and is completely recapitulated by Ubieto Arteta (1958), 29–30.</ref> Zurita dates the impostor's appearance to the death of [[Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona]], who had been exercising power in Aragon, and the succession of the child Alfonso II in 1162. The death of the impostor, by hanging, must have occurred in 1163.

==Competitors for succession ==
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==Sources==
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*{{cite book |chapter=Grants to Military Christian Orders |translator-first=James W. |translator-last=Brodman |pages=203–208 |title=Medieval Iberia: Readings from Christian, Muslim, and Jewish Sources |editor1-first=Olivia Remie |editor1-last=Constable |editor2-first=Damian |editor2-last=Zurro |publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press |year=2012 }}
*{{cite book |first=José María |last=Lacarra |title=Alfonso el Batallador |publisher=Guara Editorial |year=1978}}
*{{cite journal |last=Lourie |first=Elena |title=The Will of Alfonso I, ''El Batallador'', King of Aragon and Navarre: A Reassessment. |journal=Speculum |volume=50:4 October |year=1975 |issue=4 |pages=635–651 |doi=10.2307/2855471 |jstor=2855471 |s2cid=159659007 }}
*{{cite book |first=Bernard F. |last=Reilly |title=The Contest of Christian and Muslim Spain, 1031-1157 |publisher=Blackwell |year=1995 }}
*Ubieto Arteta, Antonio. [http://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=2111000 "La aparición del falso Alfonso I el Batallador."] ''Argensola'', '''38''' (1958), 29–38.

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