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Birth:          24 Apr 1086 Aragon
Death:          16 Aug 1157 Huesca, Spain

Notes
was a monk, 1093-1134 at San Pedro El Viego de Huesca, came out to be crowned 
king, returned to the cloister in 1147
Stuart has death in 1157 which suggest he abdicated as King
m Nov/Dec 1135
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramiro_II_of_Aragon
Ramiro II (24 April 1086 – 16 August 1157), called the Monk, was King of Aragon from 
1134 until withdrawing from public life in 1137 (although he used the royal title until 
his death). He was the youngest son of Sancho Ramírez, King of Aragon and Navarre 
and Felicia of Roucy.
Life before the throne[edit]

His father had placed him as a child into the Benedictine monastery of Saint Pons de 
Thomières in the Viscounty of Béziers. As a respected monk there he was elected 
abbot of the Castillian royal monastery of Santos Fecundo y Primitivo in Sahagún and 
later was abbot of the monastery of San Pedro el Viejo at Huesca. Wanting to limit 
Ramiro's power within the Kingdom of Navarre-Aragon, his brother Alfonso the Battler 
had blocked his elections as bishop of Burgos and as bishop of Pamplona. In 1134 he 
had been elected bishop of Barbastro-Roda when the death of his childless brother 
made him one of the candidates for succession to the crown. Others put forward 
included Alfonso VII, king of Castile, who as a foreign king found little support, and 
the choice of the Navarrese nobility, Pedro de Atarés, grandson of Sancho Ramírez, 
Count of Ribagorza, the illegitimate son of Ramiro I of Aragon. At an assembly at Borja 
intended to resolve the succession, a misunderstanding alienated Pedro from his 
supporters, yet they were unwilling to accept the Aragonese-favored Ramiro, and in 
the end the kingdoms were divided. In Navarre, García Ramírez, a scion of the pre-
union royal family of Navarre and protégé of Alfonso VII was chosen king, while in 
Aragon the choice fell on Ramiro, who suspended his monastic vows to take the 
crown.

King of Aragon[edit]

The reign of Ramiro the Monk, as he is known, was tumultuous. At the beginning of 
his reign he had problems with his nobles, who thought he would be docile and easily 
steered to their wishes, but discovered him to be inflexible. In order to produce an 
heir, he married Agnes, daughter of Duke William IX, Duke of Aquitaine. Once wed, 
his wife bore a daughter, Petronilla, who was betrothed to Ramon Berenguer IV, Count 
of Barcelona at the age of one. The marriage contract, signed at Barbastro on 11 
August 1137, made Petronilla the heiress to the crown of Aragon, which in event of 
her childless death would pass to Ramon Berenguer and any children he might have 
by other wives. Ramon accepted Ramiro as "King, Lord and Father", 'renounced his 
family name' in favor of the House of Aragon and united the County of Barcelona with 
the Kingdom. This union created the Crown of Aragon,[1] returning the previously-
landlocked kingdom of Aragon to the position of peninsular power it had held prior to 
the loss of Navarre, as well as giving it a window to the Western Mediterranean it 
would come to dominate.

In the time between his accession and the betrothal of his daughter, Ramiro II had 
already had to put down a rebellion of the nobles, and knowing himself not to be a war 
king, he passed royal authority to his son-in-law Ramon Berenguer on 13 November 
1137. Ramon became the "Prince of the Aragonese people" (Princeps Aragonensis) 
and effective chief of the kingdom's armies. Ramiro never formally resigned his royal 
rights, continuing to use the royal title,[2] and keeping aware of the business of the 
kingdom, he withdrew from public life, returning to the Abbey of San Pedro in Huesca. 
He later became known for the famous and passionate legend of the Bell of Huesca. 
He died there[3] on 16 August 1157, the crown then formally passing to his daughter 
Petronilla.[4]


Parents
RAMIREZ Sancho I (Ramiro IV of Navarre) (ABT 1042 - 4 Jun 1094)
DE ROUCY Felicitas (Felicie) (ABT 1059 - 3 May 1123)

Siblings
SANCHEZ Ramiro II "the Monk" (24 Apr 1086 - 16 Aug 1157)

Marriage To OF AQUITAINE Agnes (Maud) (Matilda) (ABT 1105 - ABT 1159)
    m. 13 Nov 1135 Jaca, Aragon

Notes
his 2d

Parents
____ William (Guillaume) VII (IX) (ABT 22 Oct 1071 - 10 Feb 1127)
____ Philippa (Mathilde) (Maud) (ABT 1073 - 28 Nov 1118)

Children by OF AQUITAINE Agnes (Maud) (Matilda) ABT 1105 - ABT 1159
OF ARAGON Petronilla (Petronel) I (1136 - 15 Oct 1173)

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