{"id":"alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar","language":"en","name":"Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar","name_en":"Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar","name_ne":null,"description":"Illegitimate son of John II of Aragon; 1st Duke of Villahermosa","headline":"Illegitimate son of John II of Aragon; 1st Duke of Villahermosa","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Alfonso (or Alonso) de Aragon y Escobar (1417–1485), Duke of Villahermosa, Count of Ribagorza and Cortes and Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava, was an illegitimate son of John II of Aragon and one of his mistresses, Leonor de Escobar, daughter of Alfonso Rodríguez de Escobar.","summary_more":["His brothers and half brothers included Prince Charles of Trastámara and Viana (Charles IV of Navarre) and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, called the Catholic.","On August 18, 1443, he was elected Master of the Order of Calatrava and dismissed on September 19, 1445, replaced by Pedro Girón. Received the title of count of Ribagorza by his father John II in Monzón, and resigned on November 27, 1469, to be succeeded by his first son Fernando.","He fought in the War of the Castilian Succession. Capture of the Catalan castle of Amposta gave him fame during the war. He again led a group of skilled siege engineers in the Siege of Burgos in 1475.","In 1475 he was named Duke of Villahermosa by his father John II of Aragon as a reward for his loyalty and military value."],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1417","date":"1417"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Olmedo","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1764548"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"1485","date":"1485"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Linares","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q281272"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Crown of Castile","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217196"},{"text":"Crown of Aragon","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q204920"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"military personnel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47064"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"Leonor de Sotomayor y Portugal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132158931"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"Count of Ribagorza (1469–1485)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58002672","start":"1469","end":"1485"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_de_Arag%C3%B3n_y_Escobar","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar born?","a":"Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar was born on 1417 in Olmedo."},{"q":"What positions has Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar held?","a":"Positions held by Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar include: Count of Ribagorza (1469–1485)."}],"related":[{"name":"Ferdinand II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Alfonso the Battler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-the-battler"},{"name":"Sancho III of Pamplona","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sancho-iii-of-pamplona"},{"name":"John II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Ramiro II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ramiro-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Sancho Ramírez","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/sancho-ramirez"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar-efad8aed15.jpg","width":403,"height":736,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Roland de Mois.","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alonso,_el_Grande.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_de_Arag%C3%B3n_y_Escobar","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q615618","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q615618","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Alonso, el Grande.jpg by Roland de Mois. (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alonso,_el_Grande.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Alonso, el Grande.jpg — Roland de Mois., Public domain.","cite":"\"Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar\". DigiNepal. Last updated 31 October 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar. Retrieved 7 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-10-31T12:00:53Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-07","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfonso-de-aragon-y-escobar?lang=ne"}}