Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra
Spanish courtier
Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra (1454–1513) was a Spanish courtier. She was the royal mistress of King Ferdinand II of Aragon, with whom she also had children, among them Alonso de Aragón. She was already the mistress of the king at the time of his marriage in 1468. She was married to a courtier, and attended court officially as the wife of her courtier-husband. She accompanied the king on his travels, often dressed as a man.
Biography
Born in Cervera, the capital of the comarca of Segarra in 1454 to Pedro Roig i Alemany and Aldonza de Iborra. She was the lover of King Ferdinand II of Aragon before his marriage to Princess Isabella I of Castille. Her and Ferdinand's son, Alonso de Aragón, was Ferdinand's only son to outlive himself and his only extramarital son, and was the abbot of the Monastery of Montearagón from 1492 to 1520, Archbishop of Zaragoza, Archbishop of Valencia, and Viceroy of Aragon. Despite his position in the church, Alonso would go on to have seven children who in turn gave rise to many Spanish noble families.
It is said that Aldonza Ruiz de Ivorra was strikingly beautiful and would allegedly accompany Ferdinand II in public while dressed as a man.
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