Template:Short description Template:Infobox royalty Alfonso V (c. 994Template:Snd7 August 1028), called the Noble, was King of León from 999 to 1028. Like other kings of León, he used the title emperor ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}) to assert his standing among the Christian rulers of Spain.Template:Sfn He succeeded his father, Bermudo II, in 999.Template:Sfn His mother Elvira García and count Menendo González, who raised him in Galicia,Template:Sfn acted as his co-regents. Upon the count's death in 1008, Alfonso ruled on his own.Template:Sfn
ReignEdit
Alfonso began the work of reorganizing the Christian kingdom of the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula after a most disastrous period of civil war and Arab inroads.<ref name="EB1911">{{#if: |
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His name and that of his wife are associated with the grant of the first franchises of León (1017).Template:Sfn On Wednesday, 7 August 1028, Alfonso V was killed by an arrow while besieging the Muslim-occupied town of Viseu.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn King Alfonso was buried next to his first wife Elvira, according to his wishes, at the Church of Saint John the Baptist and San Pelayo which later changed its name to the Basilica of San Isidoro when the latter saint's remains were transferred from Seville.Template:Sfn The following epitaph was carved on his tomb:
FamilyEdit
Alfonso first married Elvira Menéndez in 1013, daughter of his tutor Menendo González at whose house he was raised as a child. They had two children:Template:Sfn
After Elvira's death on 2 December 1022,Template:Sfn Alfonso married Urraca Garcés, sister of King Sancho III of Pamplona.Template:Sfn Before this marriage took place, the king of Pamplona had sent Ponce, abbot at the Monastery of San Pedro de Tavèrnoles, later bishop of Oviedo, and a nobleman named Garcia, to intercede before Abbot Oliba, bishop of Vic, in favor of the marriage of his sister Urraca to the king of León, despite the impediments of consanguinity. Although Bishop Oliba did not authorize the marriage, describing it as incesti connubii in a letter dated 11 May 1023,Template:Sfn the royal wedding was celebrated between the date of the bishop's letter and 13 November 1023 when Alfonso V and his new wife, who confirms as Urraka regina, appear together for the first time in a charter in the Cathedral of León.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Urraca and her mother Jimena Fernández made a donation on 26 September 1028 to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela confirming as Scemena regina simulque et filia mea Urraca Regina (...) genitoris nostri Fredenandus Ueremudiz et domna Geloria, and a few years later, King Bermudo III on 6 August 1031 referred to his step-mother as Urraca regina Garseani regis filia.
Alfonso and Urraca had one daughter, who was named Jimena as attested in a charter dated 22 December 1036 in a donation made by Muniadona and her son Fernando Gundemáriz, son of Gundemaro Pinióliz, whom she confirms as Jimena, daughter of King Alfonso.Template:Sfn
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