Death of Alfonso I the Battler
September 10, 1134
The king of Aragon and Navarre died on campaign after a disastrous defeat against the Almoravids at Fraga. He left his kingdom in his will to the three military orders of the Holy Land, a bequest his nobles immediately ignored in favor of his brother Ramiro the Monk. The Battler's reign had pushed the Reconquista further than any Aragonese king before him, but his bizarre testament threatened to undo everything.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.