Alfonso maried Lucrezia Borgia, the daugther of pope Alexander VI and sister of Cesar Borgia on June 29th 1498. The pope saw in this marriage a way of increasing the pontificial power over the kingdom of Naples since Alfonso was son of King Alfonso II of Naples. Portrait of a Woman by Bartolomeo Veneziano, traditionally assumed to be Lucrezia Borgia. ... Alexander VI, né Rodrigo Borgia (January 1, 1431 - August 18, 1503) pope (1492-1503), is the most memorable of the secular popes of the Renaissance. ... Cesare Borgia. ... Alphonso II of Naples (November 4, 1448 - December 18, 1495) was King of Naples from January 25, 1494 to 1495. ...
In 1500, the pope suffered and accident that almost caused his death. Cesar became worried about himself since he realizad that most of his power resided in the protection he received from his father. Cesar had the support of Venice and France to protect all he had accoplished as well as himself, but he couldn't count much on the arangoneses of Spain and Naples who where clearly his enemies. Therefore, he saw in his brother-in-law Alfonso a possible danger if anything happened to his father, and on July 15th 1500 he sent men to kill him. Alfonso almost died in an embush and was to be taken care by his wife Lucrezia and sister Sancha of Aragon. While Alfonso was recovering in his bed, Cesar approached him and wispered in his ear:"what was not done in the breakfast will be done in the lunch". As promised, Cesar sent men to finish the job on August 18th 1500.
Lucrezia seems to have really loved him and mourned him for the following months. As was usual, she was sent to a convent to recover herself. Everybody was convinced that Cesar was guilty of murder but in a couple of week no one remembered nor cared about the assasination.
Alfonso I of Aragon 'the Battler' (circa 1073-1134, king of Aragon and Navarre 1104-1134).
Alfonso the Battler won his great successes in the middle Ebro, where he expelled the Moors from Zaragoza; in the great raid of 1125, when he carried away a large part of the subject Christians from Granada, and in the south-west of France, where he had claims as usurper-king of Navarre.
His testament was not honored: Aragon took his aged brother abbot-bishop Ramiro out of monastery and made him king; Navarrese regained independence and put Lord Garcia Ramirez of Monzon, son of his second cousin, to the throne in Pamplona.
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