Afonso died in 1185 and was succeeded by his son, Sancho I.Īfonso was the son of Theresa, the illegitimate daughter of King Alfonso VI of León, and her husband, Henry of Burgundy.

He secured the independence of Portugal following a victory over León at Valdevez and received papal approval through Manifestis Probatum. In 1139 he won a decisive victory at the Battle of Ourique, and in 1147 he conquered Santarém and Lisbon from the Moors, with help from men on their way to the Holy Land for the Second Crusade. In 1139, Afonso renounced the suzerainty of the Kingdom of León and established the independent Kingdom of Portugal.Īfonso actively campaigned against the Moors in the south. Unhappy with Teresa's romantic relationship with Galician Fernando Pérez de Traba and his political influence, the Portuguese nobility rallied around Afonso, who revolted and defeated his mother at the Battle of São Mamede in 1128 and became Count of Portugal soon afterwards. Henry died in 1112, leaving Teresa to rule alone. He achieved the independence of the County of Portugal, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death.Īfonso was the son of Theresa of León and Henry of Burgundy, rulers of the County of Portugal. (ill.) Urraca, 1st Lady of Avô and AveiroĪfonso I of Portugal ( Portuguese pronunciation: born 1106, 1109 or 1111 died 1185), also called Afonso Henriques, nicknamed the Conqueror ( Portuguese: O Conquistador) by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (in Arabic البرتقالي 'the Portuguese') and Ibn-Arrink or Ibn Arrinq (in Arabic ابن الرَّنك or ابن الرَنْق 'son of Henry', 'Henriques') by the Moors whom he fought, was the first king of Portugal. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.You should also add the template to the talk page.A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Portuguese Wikipedia article at ] see its history for attribution. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation.If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality.Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 1,442 articles in the main category, and specifying |topic= will aid in categorization.Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.

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