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Alfonso V King of Aragón

Male 1394 - 1458  (64 years)


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  • Name Alfonso V King of Aragón  [1
    Born 1394  Villaverde (Medina del Campo), Valladolid, España Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1412 
    Created Infante de Aragón on his father's assumption of power 
    Occupation 1414 
    Created Duque de Girona by his father at his coronation 
    Occupation 1416 
    Conde de Barcelona (Alfons IV) 
    Occupation 1416 
    King of Aragón (succeeded his father) 
    Occupation 1416 
    King of Sicily (Alfonso I) 
    Occupation 2 Apr 1416 
    King of Aragón 
    Occupation 1420 
    Landed at Alghero (Italy) to crush the Sardinian revolt, captured Calvi, besieged Bonifaci but forced to withdraw from Corsica by Genoese resistance 
    Occupation 8 Jul 1421 
    Offered the succession of Naples in return for military help, he was received by Giovanna II Queen of Sicily (appointment revoked in 1423) 
    Occupation 1433 
    Reappointed heir to Naples (but when Queen Giovanna II died in 1435 she left her kingdom to René d'Anjou) 
    Occupation 5 Aug 1435 
    Captured with his brothers at Ponza while trying to capture Naples (released after making an alliance with Filippo Visconti in October) 
    Occupation 1436 
    Campaigned to impose himself as King of Naples against Angevin opposition 
    Occupation 2 Jun 1442 
    Captured Naples declaring it united with Sicily to form the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies 
    Occupation 1443 
    Recognised as ruler of Naples by Pope Eugene IV 
    Died 26 Jun 1458  Napoli, Apulia, Italia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I4900  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Fernando I de Trastámara King of Aragón,   b. 27 Nov 1380, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Apr 1416, Igualada (Barcelona), España Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 35 years) 
    Mother Leonor Urraca de Castilla,   b. 1374, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Dec 1435, Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married 1393  Medina del Campo, Valladolid, España Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2416  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 María de Castilla & León,   b. 14 Nov 1401, Segovia, España Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Sep 1458, Valencia, España Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married 12 Jun 1415  Valencia, España Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F2486  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Lucrèce d'Alañon 
    Married
    Not married Partners 
    Children 
     1. Fernando d'Aragón,   b. 1423,   d. 25 Jan 1494  (Age 71 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F11449  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S750] The History of Italy, from the fall of the Western Empire to the commencement of the wars of the French Revolution, Colonel George Procter, (Second Edition, Whittaker and Co., London, 1844), 150-151, 154-158, 161-162 & 165.
      Also Histoire de la fortification, La citadelle et la place de Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, de la Renaissance à l'Époque Contemporaine, Gérard Folio, général de division, Centre d'études d'histoire de la Défense, Cahier n° 25, 2005, Tome 2, p. 25.