Alfonso de Aragón y Escobar

Alfonso (or Alonso) de Aragon y Escobar (1417–1485), Duke of Villahermosa, Count of Ribagorza and Cortes and Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava, was an illegitimate son of John II of Aragon and one of his mistresses, Leonor de Escobar, daughter of Alfonso Rodríguez de Escobar.

His brothers and half brothers included Prince Charles of Trastámara and Viana (Charles IV of Navarre) and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, and resigned on November 27, 1469, to be succeeded by his first son Fernando.

He fought in the War of the Castilian Succession. Capture of the Catalan castle of Amposta gave him fame during the war. He again led a group of skilled siege engineers in the Siege of Burgos in 1475.

In 1475 he was named Duke of Villahermosa by his father John II of Aragon as a reward for his loyalty and military value.

Alfonso of Aragon and Escobar died in Linares in 1485, not long after making to Pizarra, Málaga.

Marriage and children In 1477 Alfonso married with Leonor de Sotomayor of Portugal, daughter of Juan de Sotomayor and Isabel of Portugal with whom he had three children: Fernando de Aragón y de Sotomayor (1478–1481) Alfonso de Aragón y de Sotomayor (1479–1513) María de Aragón y de Sotomayor (Zaragoza, 1485 – Piombino, 1513), wife of Roberto Sanseverino II who was widowed in 1510 and remarried with Jacopo V Appiani, Lord of Piombino :es:Principality of Piombino. The premature death of his eldest legitimate son, Fernando, at the age of three years in 1481, would make the duchy passed to the second son of the marriage: Alfonso, who would inherit the duchy at 6 years in 1485.

He also had five extramarital children:

With María Junquers, daughter of Mosen Gregorio de Junquers, Juan II de Ribagorza (1457–1528), Duke of Luna Leonor de Aragon, married to Jaime de Mila and became the first Marquess of Albayda.

with Estenga Conejo (or Maria Sanchez Conejo): Alfonso de Aragón y Sánchez (1455-1514), Bishop of Tortosa and President of the Generalitat of Catalonia. Ferran de Aragon y Conejo, Prior of Catalonia.

with Catalina de Maldonado Enric de Aragon (? - 1509). Abbot of Santa Maria de Alaó.