Pedro II King of Aragon 
Pedro II King of was born in 1176 in Barcelona, Spain. Pedro II King of's father was Alfonso II King of Aragon and his mother was Sancha of Castile. His paternal grandparents were Ramon Berenguer IV Marquis of Barcelona and Petronila I Heiress of Aragon; his maternal grandparents were Alfonso VII "The Emperor" King of Leon & Castile and Richilde of Poland. He had a brother and a sister, named Alfonso Alfonsez Prince Aragon Count of and Constance Princess of. He died at the age of 37 on September 13th, 1213 in Slain at Battle of Muret, Spain.General Notes
Peter II, king of Aragon (1174-1213), son of Alphonso II., and Sancia, daughter of Alphonso VIII. of Castile, had a very marked and curious personal character. As a Spanish prince, he was a crusader, and took a distinguished part in the victory over the Almohades at the Navas de Tolosa in 1212. His lands to the north of the Pyrenees brought him in touch with the Albigenses and in 1213 he fought against Simon de Montfort's crusaders, moved not by sympathy with the Albigenses, but by hostility to the conquering intervention of the north under pretence of religious zeal. A favourer of the troubadours, he combined great personal valour with the most lax morality. He was killed at the battle of Muret (Sept. 12, 1213). [EncyclopÊdia Britannica, 1961 ed., Vol. 17, p. 639, PETER II]
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Peter II, byname PETER THE CATHOLIC, Spanish PEDRO EL CAT”LICO (b. 1174--d. Sept. 12, 1213, Muret, Fr.), king of Aragon from 1196 to 1213, the eldest son and successor of Alfonso II.
Peter married (1204) Mary, lady of Montpellier, and thus greatly extended Aragonese power in southern France. Despite the violent objections of his subjects, he had himself crowned by Pope Innocent III in Rome and declared his kingdom a feudatory of the Holy See (1204). Peter, with other Spanish kings, took a prominent part in the victory over the Moors at Las Navas de Tolosa (July 16, 1212); but he then went to support his brother-in-law Raymond VI of Toulouse against the crusader Simon de Montfort in Languedoc. There he was killed in the Battle of Muret. His son James I succeeded him. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '97]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1053 in Barcelona, Spain d.05 Dec 1082 in Killed on way to Gerona, probably by twin brother and co-ruler
- b.11 Nov 1082 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain d.19 Jun 1131 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.~ 1059 in Apulia, Cala, Italy d.1083
- b.~ 1113 in Barcelona, Spain d.06 Aug 1162 in Borgo San Dalmazzo, Piedmont, Italy
- b.~ 1055 in Carlat, Cantal, Auvergne, France d.1110 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France
- b.1095 in Milhaud, Gard, Languedoc, France d.1128
- b.~ 1057 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.04 Apr 1152 in Villa Mayor del Valle, Barcelona, Spain d.25 Apr 1196 in Perpignan, Roussillon, France
- b.< 1045 in Aragon, Spain d.06 Jul 1094 in Huesca, Aragon, Spain (killed during seige of Huesca)
- b.~ 1085 in Aragon, Spain d.16 Aug 1154
- b.~ 1010 in Montdidier, Somme, Picardy, France d.~ 1063
- b.~ 1055 in Montdidier, Picardy, France d.24 Apr 1086
- b.~ 1014 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardy, France d.1062
- b.~ 1135 in Huesca, Spain d.13 Oct 1173
- b.~ 1024 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France d.25 Sep 1086 in Aquitaine, France
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1126/27 in Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1100 in of Poitou, Aquitaine, France
- b.~ 1073 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.28 Nov 1117
- b.1176 in Barcelona, Spain d.13 Sep 1213 in Slain at Battle of Muret, Spain
- b.1024 in Macon, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France d.11 Nov 1087
- b.~ 1060 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France d.26 Mar 1107 in Grajal Do Campos, Leon, Spain
- b.~ 1012 in Longwy, Lorraine, France d.1048
- b.~ 1035 in Longwy, Duchy of Bar, Lorraine, France d.> 1088
- b.~ 1015 in Carcassonne, Aude, Languedoc, France
- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.<Jun 1040 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.29 Jun 1109 in Toledo, Castile, Spain
- b.BET 1077 AND 1081 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.8 MAR 1125/26 in Saldana, Palencia, Spain
- b.~ 1046 in Dijon, Cote d'Or, Bourgogne, France d.ABT JAN 1092/93
- b.21 Sep 1154 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.09 Nov 1208 in Monasterio de Jaen, Jaen, Spain
- b.~ 1043 in Krakow, Poland d.04 Jun 1102
- b.20 Aug 1085 in Krakaow, Poland d.28 Oct 1138
- b.~ 1062 in Prague, Czechoslovakia d.25 Dec 1085
- b.1105 in Krakaow, Poland d.30 May 1159
- b.1086 in Kiev, Ukraine d.1113
- b.1131 in Wroclaw, Poland d.16 Jun 1175
- b.~ 1075 in Klosterneuberg, Niederostereich, Austria d.15 Nov 1136 in Abbey, Klosterneuberg, Niederostereich, Austria
- b.~ 1111 in Vienna, Austria d.25 JAN 1156/57
- b.1074 in Klosterneuberg, Niederostereich, Austria d.24 Sep 1143
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Pedro II King of and Maria de were married in a religious ceremony on June 25th, 1208 in 3rd wife. They had a son named James I "The Conqueror" King of.
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Children
James I "The Conqueror" King of Aragon
James I "The Conqueror" King of was born in Montpellier, Herault, Languedoc, France. He died on July 27th, 1276 in Valencia, Spain.
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