Ruler · 1210 – 1279

Afonso III of Portugal

Lived 1210 – 1279; monarch. Monarch of Portugal of Kingdom of Portugal, 1248 – 1279; also in the line of Kingdom of the Algarve and County of Boulogne.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1210 – 1279; 69 years
In office: 31 years; one reign
Lines: 3; states
Left it: natural death; Kokkonen & Sundell

Monarch of Portugal

Kingdom of Portugal · the 5th of 37 dated reigns · 1139 – 1910

1 before

Sancho I of Portugal1185 – 1211

Afonso II of Portugal1211 – 1223

Sancho II of Portugal1223 – 1247

Afonso III of Portugal1248 – 1279

Denis of Portugal1279 – 1325

Afonso IV of Portugal1325 – 1357

Peter I of Portugal1357 – 1367

29 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1248 – 1279 · 31 years · came to it aged 38

Came to it: inheritedthe sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: natural deathcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell

He was the second son of King Afonso II of Portugal and Urraca of Castile; he succeeded his brother, King Sancho II of Portugal, who died on 4 January 1248.

Also in the line of Kingdom of the Algarve (1st of 2) and County of Boulogne (2nd of 2).

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