Alfonso II d'Aragon {}

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[cf Anfos] GRLMA II.1.7:33 1 canso; prob born 1154; Alphonse Ier comte de Barcelone, (after 1162) II roi d'Aragon; appelle plus tard "le Chaste"; DOM Supl1 Catalogne, tenso {PC 242,22} avec Giraut de Borneil ..1173 [GRLMA II.1.7: 442]; Nicholson 1976:40 "N'Anfos d'Arago": born 1152 or 1158, son of Raimon-Berenger IV, this Alfonso was known initially as Alfonso I. He became Count of Barcelona in 1162, King of Aragon (under the name of Alfonso II) in 1164, Count of Provence in 1166, and died 1196 [BS 526n1]; he visited the Midi many times, Provence in 1167 and 1174, Lang in 1179, Carcass-Toul in 1181, 1186, 1193, Perpignan where he died in 1196; Aurell 1989:33 au moins 17 troubadours ont profite de son mecenat, en deca et au-dela des Pyrenees; Hoepffner 1955:100 "en 1181 le roi Alphonse II d'Aragon se preparait a envahir les domaines du comte Raimon V de Toulouse, avec lequel il etait en guerre pour la possession de la Provence"; BEdT 1999/07/27 generazione 3= 1170-1210;

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