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Afonso II
King Afonso in the Castilian manuscript Compendium of Chronicles of Kings, c. 1312-1325
King of Portugal
Reign
26 March 1211[1][2] – 25 March 1223
Predecessor
Sancho I
Successor
Sancho II
Born
Afonso Sanches 23 April 1185 Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal
Died
25 March 1223(1223-03-25) (aged 37) Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal
Burial
Alcobaça Monastery[3]
Spouse
Urraca of Castile
(m. 1206; died 1220)
Issue among others...
Sancho II, King of Portugal
Afonso III, King of Portugal
Leonor, Queen of Denmark
Fernando, Lord of Serpa
House
Burgundy
Father
Sancho I of Portugal
Mother
Dulce of Aragon
Afonso II (IPA:[ɐˈfõsu]; English: Alphonse; Archaic Portuguese: Affonso; Portuguese-Galician: Alfonso or Alphonso; Latin: Alphonsus; 23 April 1185[4] – 25 March 1223), nicknamed the Fat (o Gordo) or the Leper (o Gafo), was the third king of Portugal and the second but eldest surviving son of Sancho I of Portugal and Dulce of Aragon. Afonso succeeded his father on 27 March 1211.[2][1]
^ abCarvalho Correia 2008, p. 187.
^ abCaetano de Souza 1735, p. 132.
^Caetano de Souza 1735, p. 134.
^Caetano de Souza 1735, p. 131.
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