Alfonso of Aragon and Eiximenis

Alfonso de Aragón y Eiximenis, el Jove ( * after 1358; † November 29, 1425 ) was 2nd Duke of Gandia, Count of Denia and Ribagorza 1412-1425 He was the son of Alfonso de Aragón y Foix, 1st Duke. Gandía and thus a member of the House Barcelona, ​​and Violante de Eiximenis Arenós

He married on January 20 in 1393 in Tudela Infanta Maria of Navarre, daughter of King Charles II of Navarre ( † after 1420 ), and was a brother of the 1387-1425 reigning King Charles III. Later he married March y Vilarig Aldonza, daughter of Mosén Juan March and Violante Vilarig.

By the death of his father in 1410 he was declared the pretender to the crown of Aragon in Compromise of Caspe, but received no votes in the election. In the uprising of the Count of Urgell ( 1412/14 ) and the Battle of Balaguer ( 1413 ), he fought on the side of Ferdinand I of Aragon, he blockaded the city of Lleida ( Lerida ), and finally mediated the end of the uprising.

He died in 1425 without legitimate offspring, so that the succession of his territories was unclear. Gandia went to Hugo de Cardona, Ribagorza to the Infante Juan de Aragon, who later became King John II A little later, in 1433, Hugo de Cardona Gandía came also from Juan de Aragon, so that Alfonso's titles were reunited.

However, he had an illegitimate son from an unknown woman, Jaime de Aragón, who was married to a daughter of Bernardo de Villaragut 1465 and died in prison of Xativa.