Ramiro I de Aragon
(1008-1063)
King of Aragon
1035-1063
Count of Sobrarbe
Count of Ribagorza
1043
Illegitimate son of: Sancho III de Navarra & Sancha de Aibar.
Husband of:
1. Gisberga de Bigorre, mar 1036
2. Agnes d'Aquitaine
His lover was:
Amuña.
Natural offspring:
a. Sancho Ramirez, Conde de Ribagorza (1043-1105/10).
Sibila de Fortia (1350-1406)
Queen of Aragon
Daughter of: Berenguer de Fortia & Francesca de Palau.
Wife of:
1. Artal de Foces (d.1374)
2) Pedro IV de Aragon, mar 1377.
Her lover was:
Pedro IV de Aragon.
Lover in 1375-1377.
" . . . After this third wife, Eleanor, died in 1375, Peter IV took as his mistress Sibilla de Fortia, a woman of lower rank. When he married her in 1377 and had her crowned queen four years later, the king did so without the approval of his two sons (by his marriage to Eleanor), John (Joan) and Martin (Marti). . . ." (Spain's Centuries of Crisis: 1300 - 1474: 74)
" . . . Sibila de Fortia, a widow, became the fourth wife of Pere IV (1336-87) in 1377 after first being his mistress and bearing him a daughter. Her extravagant coronation was a bold assertion of her status that signaled her dislike of her stepchildren, and was clearly an attempt to shield her from enemies who considered her a dangerous upstart whose crown was strictly for show. . . ." (The King's Other Body: Maria of Castile and the Crown of Aragon: 30)
First Encounter: " . . . Upon her widowhood, Sibila became a lady-in-waiting to Peter's third queen, Eleanor of Sicily, during the royal couple's stay in Sibila's home of Emporda. Eleanor died in 1375. . . Sibila attracted the attention of the king soon after Eleanor's death. Sibila was in her twenties and Peter was fifty-six. . . ." (Wikipedia)
Benefits of the relationship for Sibilla: "Now that Sibilla was queen, Pere the Ceremonious assigned her additional incomes and patrimony to support her 'queenly dignity'---assignations that totaled the considerable figure of 150,000 sous per year. To generate this type of income, Pere bought a number of castles and towns for her, for the most part in Valencia. Roca has calculated that in order for her household to function the queen required a yearly income of 135,000 sous, to which a further 15,000-sou budget for clothing and personal expenses had been added by the king. This was no mere frivolity; both Pere and Sibilla understood that if one hoped to be treated like a queen, one had to look like one. Hence, in addition to these formal assignations the king showered her with a stream of gifts of expensive jewelry. Thus, Sibilla enjoyed the resources necessary to maintain the luxurious lifestyle befitting a queen. But she did not spend all of her income on herself and her court, she also understood that ethpower of a queen lay in the extent and prestige of her network or patronage, and thus she was careful to generously reward her faithful dependents, to support members of her own family, as well as to patronize the Church." (Women & Wealth in Late Medieval Europe: 75)
Benefits of the relationship to Sibilla's family: "Given her particular situation it was crucial for Sibilla de Fortia to protect and promote her immediate family, not only the children she had by King Pere, but her mother, her brother and sister, and their children. Her ascent to the throne presented an opportunity to ennoble her family and increase their fortune, and in the absence of the support of the aristocracy of the realm it was crucial for her to build her own network of patronage from scratch. Thus, all of her closest relatives were incorporated into her royal household, and given generous assignations for food and clothing. But it was her brother who received the most favor. Bernat became Sibilla's special project; he received rents and properties and, thanks to his sister's influence, entered the king's confidence. Within a short time he was given the prestigious offices of royal chamberlain and governor-general of Catalonia. Thanks to Sibilla, Bernat had gone from being a provincial nobody to a highly placed courtier on record time." (Women & Wealth in Late Medieval Europe: 75)
Effects on Lovers' Family, Other People and Society: "Naturally, the fiercest resistance to this union came from within the royal family itself. Pere's children, Joan, Marti, and the infanta Countess. . . ." (Women & Wealth in Late Medieval Europe: 72)
" . . . The king's sons, Martin of Aragon and John of Aragon, soon found out what was happening. They were opposed (to) the idea of their father marrying Sibila; the marriage could cause dynastic problems that could imperil their rights in the line of succession. Indeed, the announcement of the marriage of the lovers led to some tense relations between the king and his sons." (Wikipedia)
Reaction from the highest nobility: "Thus, it was an exceptional event when on 11 October 1377 King Pere the Ceremonious married his lover Sibilla de Fortia. From a pragmatic point of view---and Pere was a person whose ruthless pragmatism was tempered only by chi choleric tendencies---the king had nothing to gain. His marriage to Sibilla would bring him no dowry and would establish no new alliance. The only apparent motives were his great love for her, his determination to fully legitimize their daughter, Isabel, and his desire to protect them, perhaps, from the fate of Leonor de Guzman. But these were hardly reasons for a king to marry. This was certainly how Pere's most important subjects felt. The upper nobility roundly rejected the notion of Sibilla as queen, undoubtedly feeling slighted that an illiterate child of the lowest provincial nobility should rise above them in such a manner. The king's Pygmalionesque efforts to transform Sibilla into an educated woman---the queen was immediately assigned two nuns to teach her to read and write---would have done nothing to appease their sense of righteous indignation. For the nobility such a marriage represented a subversion of a divinely ordained social hierarchy." (Women & Wealth in Late Medieval Europe: 72)
Achievements & Honours: Queen of Aragon, Valencia, Mallorca, Sardinia and Corsica; Duchess of Athens & Neopatria; Countess of Barcelona, Roussillon, Cerdanya & Ampurias, 1377-1387. (Wikipedia)
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| Jaume I de Aragon @Wikipedia |
(1208-1276)
King of Aragon
1213-1276
Count of Barcelona 1213
Lord of Montpeller 1219
King of Mallorca 1231
King of Valencia 1238.
Royal tradition of successive polygamy.
"The son of Pere and Marie, Jaume I continued the Spanish tradition of successive polygamy in the midst of a highly successful military and political career, about which he wrote engagingly in an autobiography. He was a an who fell in love often and ardently, not a mere cynical seducer. Jaume was born in 1207, and succeeded to the throne after his father's death at Muret in 1213. In 1219 -- so still very young -- he married Lyonor, the daughter of the King of Castile. They were related within the forbidden degrees even as redrawn to a much narrower circle at the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215. It was only in the succeeding pontificate that dispensation became common. . . Thus Jaume was able to obtain an annulment on solid grounds. His next wife His next wife, Violant, died in 1251. He then seems to have married the much younger Teresa Gil de Vidaure, informally but probably validly, so that he was unable to obtain an annulment of this marriage. This was much later: the pope undiplomatically indicated that at his age he ought to know better." (Dissolving Royal Marriages: A Documentary History, 860-1600: 76)
Wives and mistresses in succession.
"Soon estranged from his first wife, Elionor, the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile, who had given him a fine son, he divorced her after eight ears on the valid but dispensable grounds of consanguinity. Before that deed, he was already deeply involved with one public mistress, the Countess Aurembiaix, and perhaps with the Castilian Lady Elo Alvarez. His second wife, Violant, the daughter of King Andrew of Hungary, gave him nine children; Jaume produced three more from formal mistresses and had besides a fourth woman (Blanca d'Antillo, Berenguela Fernandez, Guillerma de Cabrera, and one whose name has been lost).
A notorious womanizer.
"Jaime had his dark side, however. He could be cruel in warfare after the manner of the times. He cut our the tongue of the bishop of Girona in 1246, for which he suffered papal thunders and public penance. And he was notoriously a womanizer. His guardians had married him n 122 to an older woman, Leonor, the sister of Fernando III of Castile, for reasons of state. When he was able to consummate the union, Jaime produced his son and first heir, Alfonso (who died in 1260). Rome annulled the marriage in 1229, in in 1235 he married the true love of his life, Violante, the daughter of King Bela IV of Hungary, by whom he had two sons and two daughters. She died in 1251, and in 1255 Jaime married Teresa Gil de Vidaure, by whom he had two sons. Historians often count Teresa as a mistress, but Pope Gregory X regarded the marriage as firm in his thunders against Jaime's efforts to divorce her (1274) after he had relegated her to a nunnery in Valencia. Jaime also had seven formal or contract mistresses and at least five illegitimate children. This led some moderns to dub him 'the Henry VIII of Spain.'" (Key Figures in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia: 361)
A partiality for beautiful women.
"James also showed a partiality for beautiful women, and very likely employed troubadours to entertain them. Probably the early literary compositions were composed for such ceremonies. . . ." (The Worlds of Alfonso the Learned and James the Conqueror: 76)
Physical appearance & personal qualities.
" . . . Nature had lavished upon him the most precious gifts. His stature greatly exceeded that of other men. His features were handsome; his form exhibited the proportions and the muscles of a Roman gladiator. His manners were singularly winning; his demeanor conspicuous for its graces among a people renowned for their courtesy. While fearless in the presence of danger, such was his compassion that he shrank from the signature of a death-warrant, and more than once a criminal escaped the consequences of his misdeeds through the gentleness and humanity of his king. No king in Spanish history occupies a more exalted position for manly qualities, dauntless valor, and lavish generosity. . . ." (History of the Moorish Empire in Europe, Vol 2: 395)
His lovers were:
1) Aurembiaix, Condesa de Urgell (1196-1231)
Lover in 1228.
Wife of:
1. Alvaro Perez de Castro, mar 1212, ann 1228.
2. Pedro de Portugal, Conde de Urgell, mar 1229.
". . . Occasionally the rights of the concubine and her lover were spelled out in formal contracts. Such a contract between King James I of Aragon and countess Aurembiaix of Urgel, dated 23 October 1228, for example, made detailed provisions for the status of any children they might have, property-sharing between the principals, and the disposition of assets owned jointly. . . ." (Law, Sex, and Christian Society in Medieval Europe: 370)
"For two years after the Peace of Alcala the country enjoyed a state of repose which had long been unknown. In Catalonia, indeed, this calm was ruffled by a renewal of the dispute over the succession to the county of Urgel. We have seen that in 1222 Guerao Cabrera had been put in temporary possession, but with reservation of the rights of Aurembiax, the rival claimant. The latter now presented herself, and on Guerao refusing to appear and plead before the king's court, sentence was given by James at Lerida in favour of the Countess, who did homage. The king then (Sept., Oct.) overran the county, captured all the chief towns, and reinstated Aurembiax. Guerao himself was allowed to go free, and became a Templar. . . So far from it being the case that n restoring Aurembiax the king was acting from purely chivalrous motives, the truth is that, either now or later, the Countess was his mistress. This is clear from the wording of the agreement with her, signed Oct. 22, 1229, and sworn to by James as early as Dec. 29, 1228. . . ." (The Life and Times of James the First the Conqueror: 32)
Keeping Appearances Up: "...At first the government of Mallorca fell into the hands of a freewheeling Iberian prince, Pedro of Portugal. Pedro had already performed signal service to James by marrying the royal mistress Aurembiaix, countess of Urgell, after James had tired of her...." (A Mediterranean Emporium: The Catalan Kingdom of Majorca: 42)
2) Blanca de Antillon (1210-?)
Daughter of: Sancho de Antillón, Señor de la Baronía de Antillón & Leonor de Urgell. [Fam2]
Natural offspring: 1. Fernan Sanchez (1241-1275), Señor de Castro y Pomar
3) Berenguela Alfonso de Molina (1220-1272)
Lover in 1246?.
Daughter of: Alfonso de Castilla (1203-?), Señor de Molina & Teresa Peres de Braganza.
Wife of: Gonzalo Froilaz (1250-?)
Natural Offspring:
a. Pedro Fernandez, Señor de Hijar (1247-1297).
"Berenguela Alfonso, natural daughter of Alfonso de Molina, brother of Ferdinand III. James was greatly taken by her and, in order to marry her (though the relationship was incestuous), sought to put away his common-law wife Teresa Gil de Vidaure who, according to James, had contracted leprosy. . . On 17 February 1264, Pope Clement IV responded firmly in the negative to James's desire declaring it 'antagonistic to God, abominable to the angels, and monstrous to men. . . Berenguera died in Narbonne on 17 July 1272. . . ." (The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon: 310)
"The new object that had taken possession of the king's heart was doubtless the cause of his anxiety to get rid of Doña Teresa. In an interview that took place, in 1265, between the sovereigns of Castile and Aragon, James became enamored of Doña Berengaria Alfonso, a natural daughter of the infante Alfonso (the king's brother) and, consequently, niece of the king of Castile. This lady, who was in attendance on the queen of Castile, though the lover was fifty-eight, an age when the gift of pleasing is generally wanting, consented, forgetful of every other consideration, to accompany him back to his own dominions,and live as his mistress until his death. Some writers assert that Doña Berengaria was the fourth wife of James, and, if we take into consideration the high birth of the lady, and the facility with which the king seemed to loose and unloose the Gordian-knot of matrimony, this assertion may not appear unfounded." (Annals of the Queens of Spain: 90)
"Mistress of James I of Catalonia-Aragon. Documented in 1248-51, she had a son by him, Pere Ferrandis, who was given the barony of Híxar. She has often been mistaken for Berenguera Alfonso." (Enciclopedia Catalana)
4) Elo Alvarez.
5) Elvira Sarroca.
Natural offspring:
a. Jaime Sarroca (d.1289), Bishop of Huesca.
6) Guillerma de Cabrera.
7) Sibilia de Saga.
8) Teresa de Vidaure.
Natural offspring: Jaime, Baron de Xerica (1255-1285)
"Tje closing years of Violante's life were shadowed by the ascendancy which Teresa de Vidaura usurped over the heart and mind of her faithless husband. Much that concerns this later amour of the Conqueror's must be left in uncertainty. It is known that she bore two sons, Pedro and Jaime, to her royal lover, and that he bestowed upon his mistress the town and castle of Exerica in Valencia, with all its revenues, a very important barony, says one of the Spanish historians. But the precise date of her relations with the King is disputed, certain authorities maintaining that the liaison preceded his marriage with Violante, and that it was resumed after the death of the Queen, others supposing that she actually became his wife. In either case, she was probably concerned with that dark episode in the life of King James, the tearing out of the tongue of the Bishop of Gerona, who had dared to reprove the licentiousness of his royal master, or, as some assert, who had informed the Pope of the King's solemn promise to marry Teresa, a promise which he refused to fulfil. Again, it is said that the Bishop suffered his terrible punishment as a champion of the cause of Violante, whom the King desired to divorce. Thanks to Papal intervention, however, she kept her place as Queen of Aragon to the close of her life." (The Queens of Aragon, Their Lives and Times: 107)
9) Unnamed mistress.
Natural offspring: 1. Pedro del Rey (d.1307), Bishop of Lerida.
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| Pedro III of Aragon @Wikipedia |
(1239-1285)
King of Aragon
King of Valencia
1276-1285
King of Sicily
1282.
Son of Jaime I de Aragon & Violante of Hungary
Husband of Costanza de Sicilia, daughter/heiress of Manfredi di Sicilia
His lovers were:
1) Ines Zapata.
2) Maria Nicolau
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| Pedro IV of Aragon @Wikipedia |
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| Alfonso V of Aragon @Wikipedia |
(1396-1458)
King of Aragon
1416-1458
King of Aragon 1416-1458, King of Valencia (Alfonso III), King of Mallorca, Sardinia & Corsica (Alfonso I), Count of Barcelona (Alfonso IV), King of Naples (Alfonso I)
Husband of: 1. Maria de Castilla (1401-1458) mar 1415.
His lovers were:
Lover in 1448.
Italian royal mistress.
Daughter of: Nicolas d'Alagno, Signore di Torre Annunziata & Covella Toraldo.
"Alfonso of Aragon was married to Mary of Castile when; he fell in love with Lucrezia d’Alagno. The lady was very beautiful and belonged to a noble Neapolitan family. He was 54 and she was 18. Everyone of the Neapolitan Court knew about their love-story and everyone accepted it, except Alfonso’s wife, obviously. Lucrezia was respected at the Court, considered as a queen, and she could enjoy the privileges reserved to the aristocracy. It was in that period Lucrezia got a lot of lands, titles and richness for herself and for her family. And, it seems that she had a very good reputation because it was said that during all the period of her relationship with Alfonso she remained a virgin. It was said she was ambitious but she would have never used her body to gain the power. She hoped to marry the King one day, becoming Queen of Aragon, of Sicily and of Naples. And it seems that she asked Alfonso to marry her during the Saint John’s Eve festival. King Alfonso agreed but he had a wife so he sent Lucrezia to Rome to ask the Pope the way to annul the marriage, but the Pope refused. The only hope Lucrezia had was the Queen’s death. But Alfonso had a bad disease and he died on 27 June 1458 at the age of 64. Lucrezia, after ten years spent like a queen, remained without any dream or hope, being the lands Alfonso had given her, threatened. King Alfonso was walking across the street to participate in the festival of Saint John’s Eve. He was passing in front of d’Alagno’s building where the beautiful Lucrezia lived, and Alfonso, suddenly met her. He was impressed by her beauty; she approached him with a vase of barley because, according to the tradition, girls tried to foresee their love destiny through cultivating barley in small vases, and told him without being shy : “ I have sown barley thinking of you. Now I expect your present.“ Alfonso, very surprised, ordered his Treasurer to offer Lucrezia a bag with coins. She took the bag and looked for a “small alfonso” that was a kind of coin and then she said :” One Alfonso is just enough for me” and she went away. From then on Alfonso and Lucrezia were lovers for ever." (Lucrezia d'Alagno)
"More than twenty poets celebrated the beauty of Lucrezia d'Alagno in Catalan, Castilian, Italian, Na Latin, defending her chastity and her right to be crowned queen. . . ." (Medieval Hispanic Studies in Memory of Alan Deyermond: 42)
Beneficiaries of Lucrezia's affair with the king: "Alphonsus created a great many more Nobility and Barons than formerly had been in the Kingdom. Before his time there were only two Princes, those of Taranto and Salerno, to whom he added the Prince of Rossano, five dukes, and a few Marquises; there were a good many Counts, and many more Barons, but Alphonsus, according to Summonte, doubled their Number. In some Seggi of Naples, there were no Nobility; and the first in the Seggio of Nido were the Counts of Borrello and Bucchianice of the Family of Alagna. There were the brothers of the famous Lucrezia d'Alagno the Daughter of a Gentleman of Nido, with whom Alphonsus was so much in love, that he endeavoured to obtain a Dispensation from Rome for repudiating his Wife, who was the King of Castile's Sister, in order to Marry Lucrezia; and among the other remarkable things he did for her, he no sooner enjoyed her, than he created one of her Brothers Count of Borrello, and High-Chancellor, and the other Count of Bucchianico; and Trisiano Caracciolo in his Book De Varietate fortuna, mentioned by Cofianzo, writes, that these were the two first Noblemen of the Seggio of Nido." (The Civil History of the Kingdom of Naples: 367)
Affair's end & aftermath: "Alagno, Lucrezia d' (c1430-1479). Mistress of King Alfonso of Naples. Lucrezia d'Alagno was the daughter of Cola and Covella Toraldo, wealthy Italians residing in Torre del Greco. In 1448 King Alfonso, who was then fifty-four, took the eighteen-year-old Alagno as his mistress. In 1457 Alfonso tried to have Pope Calixtus III annul his marriage to Mary of Castile so that he could marry Alagno, but his request was denied. When Alfonso died in 1458, Alagno's position at court became untenable. After Alfonso's death and the succession of his son Ferrante, Alagno was alleged to have taken as her lover Jacopo Piccinino, the famous condottiere and son-in-law of Francesco Sforza who was murdered in 1465 while was King Ferrante's guest at the Castelnuovo. In 1469 Alagno moved to Rome, where she died in 1479 and was buried in Santa Maria sopra Minerva. . . . " (Odes: 356)
2) Giraldona Carlino.
Daughter of: Enrique Carlino & Isabel Carlino.
Natural offspring:
a. Ferdinando I di Napoli
b. Maria of Aragon (1425-1449), 2/mar 1444 Leonello d'Este
c. Leonora d'Aragona, mar/1443 Mariano Marzano, Duca di Squillace, Principe di Rossano.
" . . . After nearly ten years of marriage, with two spent waiting for Maria to mature sexually and over three years apart, Maria and Alfonso had no children together. The problem was no Alfonso's, for in June 1425, Gueraldona Carlina Reverdit, one of his mistresses and the wife of a high-ranking Barcelona citizen, bore the king his only son Ferran. . . ." (The King's Other Body: Maria of Castile and the Crown of Aragon: 36)
3) Margarita de Hijar (1501-?)
Daughter of: Juan Fernandez de Hijar y Cabrera, 1st Duque de Hijar & Catalina de Beaumont y Navarra.
Wife of: Felipe de Erill, Señor de Galve (1471-1531)
"Yet this brilliant Alfonso carried a secret and bitter sorrow at his heart, and all his great enterprises were for the sake of forgetting his grief, one mixed with sin to give it poignancy. He had unlawfully loved a beautiful lady, named Marguerita de Hijar, who had been poisoned by his wife, Leonor of Castile, and died, leaving him one child, named Fernando. Alfonso never shook off his grief for Marguerita, and, as he had no other child, he set all his affections on her son, whom he resolved to make King of Naples and Sicily, and all his endeavors in his latter years were directed to making the other powers in Italy consent to the establishment of Fernando at Naples. Alfonso died in 1458, and his brother Juan became King of Aragon, while Fernando took the crown of the Two Sicilies. . . ." (Landmarks of History: In Three Parts. Part II: Mediaeval History Vol 2: 180)
" . . . Though Maria had qualities that won her the esteem and veneration of her subjects, her domestic life was most unhappy. The passion of Alfonso for Dona Margarita de Ijar, one of the queen's ladies, had caused much disquiet for some tome to Maria, and the truth of her suspicions having became but too manifest, in a fit of jealous frenzy she ordered her hapless rival to be strangled. The king, who was at the time engaged in hunting, was so enraged when told of the fate of his mistress and her unborn babe, that he took a solemn oath he would never again live with the queen, and this oath has never once broke during the course of his long reign. . . ." (Annals of the Queens of Spain: 150)
" . . . Other rumors surrounded their marriage, all concerning Alfonso's extramarital sexual behavior and all underscoring Maria's failure to produce an heir. One particularly vivid story, often repeated but never substantiated, has Maria personally strangling one pregnant mistress, Margarita de Hijar, in her bed with her own embroidered belt. Some accounts say that she was smothered, not strangled; some say Hijar was a high-ranking lady-in-waiting at Maria's court, others say she was a prostitute. I have found no evidence to prove the story's veracity, and on the basis of Maria's careful, prudent, and circumspect life in later decades, I am inclined to agree with both Soldevilla, who does not believe that Alfonso ever had an affair with Hijar, and Ryder, who says that ' of neither Alfonso not Maria does this tale ring true.' But the existence of such rumors reflected both the sad state of their affections and the general opinion of the court and household that the royal marriage was not a happy one. . . ." The King's Other Body: Maria of Castile and the Crown of Aragon: 37)
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| Ferdinand II of Aragon @Wikipedia |
(1452-1516)
King of Aragon
1479-1516
Duke of Montblanc 1458-1479, Count of Ribagorza 1458-1479, Lord of Balaguer 1458-1479, King of Aragon 1479, King of Valencia 1479, King of Sicily 1479, King of Sardinia 1479, King of Mallorca 1479, Count of Barcelona 1479, Count of Rosellon 1479, Count of Cerdanya 1479, Count of Osona 1479, Count of Besalu 1479, Count of Pallars 1479, King of Naples 1501, (Ferdinando III), King of Castile 1504, King of Leon 1504, King of Galicia 1504, King of Murcia 1504, King of Jaen 1504, King of Toledo 1504, "King of Sevilla 1504, King of Cordoba 1504, King of Navarre 1512 (Fernando I), King of Spain 1512.
Husband of Isabel I de Castilla.
Fernando II's physical appearance & personal qualities.
"Ferdinand was now in his eighteenth year. His complexion was fair, his eve vivacious, his forehead lofty and ample; while his muscular and well-knit limbs were developed and invigorated by the sports and warlike exercises in which he delighted. His address was courteous, and his fluent words, uttered in a somewhat shrill and treble-voice, might indicate a shrewd observer a character afterwards noted for perfidy and dissimulation. Isabelle was a year older than her husband. She too was fair; her auburn locks inclined to red, and her lustrous blue eyes expressed both feeling and intellect. In stature she exceeded the average of her sex. Her demeanour was dignified and reserved, and her taste had led her to cultivate literature, of o which we find no trace in Ferdinand." (1453-1530: 186)
Fernando's affairs' effects on his wife, Queen Isabel.
"Ferdinand's infidelities made Isabella jealous, and hurt her deeply even though she presented a stoic face to the world. The two of them came to blows about it on one occasion in Segovia, in a room in the Alcazar. Courtiers heard shouts and blows, then the plaintive sound of muffled sobs." (Isabella: The Warrior Queen: 102)
His lovers were:
1) Aixa Abd Muhammad of Granada.
Daughter of Ab' al-Hasan 'Ali Nazari (d.1485), King of Granada, 1464-1482, 1483-1485 & Aïsha bin Muhammad ibn al-Ahmar Nazari
"After the conquest of Granada, King Fernando undertook another conquest, this time, the heart of Boabdil's daughter, Aixa Abd Muhammad, having a great secret romance which afterwards had consequences and an illegitimate son was born in 1495, called Miguel Fernandez Caballero de Granada. Don Fernando wanted Aixa to be baptized with the name of Isabel of Granada. ---(Don Fernando). In conquering the Kingdom of Granada---my dear Aixa---I have become Fernando I of Nueva Granada, therefore, we will have a prince as son and he will be---Miguel I heir to the Principality of Nueva Granada---who upon joining our cultures will rule Granada as the New Kingdom; our son will be educated by don Pedro Fernandez de Cordoba that is one of my right-hand man and I will grant him as gratitude the Marquisate of Priego; and so that my wife the Queen is not angry, if she ever happened to know the existence of our son Miguel, we will keep him away from the Court. Miguel Fernandez Caballero de Granada should have been the first Prince of Nueva Granada in the territory previously occupied by the Caliphate of Granada, to which he had right for being grandson of the last sultan Boabdil, and great grandson of Mulay Hacen.---And the Principality (Aixa asked) when will it be effective and our son could be prince? When Miguel reaches the adulthood age of 15 years old, he will be the only descendant of royal lineage by the fusion---Islamic-Jewish-Christian---then; the necessary conditions will be established so that the 'Foundation of the Principality of Nueva Granada' is consolidated. All these illusions were vanished when the Principality could not be founded due to the conflict raised with the expulsion of the Arabs, Miguel Fernandez Caballero de Granada did not have any important precisely by his Moorish origin by her mother's side. However, his lineage continued with the Viceroyalty of the Spanish Empire of Nueva Granada in America. Aixa entered a convent where she became Sor Isabel de Granada." (From Al Andalus to Monte Sacro: 25)
2) Aldonza Ruiz de Iborre y Alemany de Cervera (d.1454)
Catalan aristocrat
Natural offspring:
a. Alfonso de Aragon (1469-1520), Archbishop of Saragossa 1478, Archbishop of Valencia 1478, Archbishop of Monreale 1478
"Ferdinand also had children from his mistress, Aldonza Ruiz de Iborre y Alemany of Cervera. He had a son, Alfonso de Aragon (born in 1469), who later became Archbishop of Saragossa, and a daughter Joanna (born in 1471), who married Bernardino Fernández de Velasco, 1st Duke of Frías." (Wikipedia on Ferdinand II of Aragon)
"But episodes of unfaithfulness, some of long and humiliating duration, started very soon after the wedding. When Ferdinand left for the battlefield, he was accompanied by his mistress, Aldonza Roig de Ibarra, later made Viscountess of Ebol, a pretty young Catalan woman from the town of Cervera. Aldonza dressed up in men's clothes while on military campaigns with Ferdinand but she wasn't fooling anyone about her gender. Together they had already produced two offspring, Alonso and Juana, both of whom Ferdinand recognized as his children." (Isabella: The Warrior Queen: 102)
Germaine of Foix
4) Germaine de Foix ((1488-1536)
Natural offspring: 1. Isabel de Castilla (1518-1536).
6) Joana Nicolau.
Natural offspring:
a. Juana de Aragon (1471-1522) mar Bernardino Fernandez de Velasco (1451-1512), 1st Duque de Frias, 3rd Conde de Haro, Constable of Castile.
"Soon another woman came into is field of vision, and he passed tome with her in the winter of 1472-73, also near the battlefields of Perpignan, on the French-Catalan border. She was Joana Nicolau, daughter of a low-level official. Together they produced a child who was also named Juana. . . ." (Isabella: The Warrior Queen: 102)
7) Luisa de Estrada (1456-1486)
Daughter of Fernando, Duque de Estrada & Mencia Pariente de Nava
Wife of Juan Alonso Hernandez Hidalgo
Natural Offspring:
a. Alonso de Estrada (1470-1530), Archbishop of Saragossa & Valencia, Lieutenant-General of Aragon [Gen1:Somos Primos]
8) Toda de Larrea. (b/w 1419-1479)
Natural offspring:
a. Maria Esperanza de Aragon (1482-1530), Augustinian nun at Madrigalejo, Abbess of the Royal Convent of Our Lady Mother of Grace at Avila, Abadesa de Nuestra Señora de Gracia el Real de Madrigal
" . . . A few years later, when he was visiting Bilbao, he spied a young woman called Toda de Larrea, and a torrid encounter produced yet another child, a girl who was named Maria. The baby's mother was proud of her royal liaison and flaunted the child's existence. Lacking an official title, the child was popularly style La Excelenta. And there were others. 'Although he loved the Queen his wife greatly, he gave himself to other women, the court chronicler Pulgar said with a sigh." (Isabella: The Warrior Queen: 102)
9) Unknown mistress from Nassau.
Natural offspring: 1. Juana de Austria (1523-1530), Nun
[Gen1:Genmarenostrum] [Ref1:Soler Salcedo:229]
Galindo II Aznarez de Aragon
(?-923)
Conde de Aragon
893.
Son of: Aznar Galindez II de Aragon & Oneca Garcia de Pamplona.
Husband of:
1. Acibella de Gascogne, daughter of Garcia I de Gascogne & Aimena de Perigord.
2. Sancha Garcia de Pamplona, daughter of Garcia II Jimenez de Pamplona & Oneca, widow of Iñigo Fortun de Pamplona.
Natural offspring
Unnamed mistresses.
1) Guntislo, 2) Sancho, 3) Velasco, 4) Bancio, 5) Aznar.
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