Afonso II (Portuguese pronunciation: ; English Alphonzo), or Affonso (Archaic Portuguese), Alfonso or Alphonso (Portuguese-Galician) or Alphonsus (Latin version), nicknamed "the ...
Infante Afonso (future Afonso II) Infante Pedro, Count of Urgell; Infante Fernando ... In the papal bull Manifestis Probatum, Pope Alexander III acknowledged Afonso as King and Portugal as ...
King of Portugal 1211–23. He is noted chiefly for his endeavours to weaken the power of the clergy, in the course of which he was excommunicated, and for his code of law.