Afonso I (25 July 1109,
Coimbra,
Guimarães or
Viseu – 6 December 1185,
Coimbra), more commonly known as
D. Afonso Henriques , nicknamed "the Conqueror" , "the Founder" or "the Great" by the
Portuguese, and
El-Bortukali [in Arabic البرتغال] ("the Portuguese") and
Ibn-Arrik [in Arabic ابن الرَّنك or ابن الرَنْق] ("son of Henry", "Henriques") by the
Moors whom he fought, was the first
King of Portugal. He achieved the independence of the southern part of the
Kingdom of Galicia, the County of Portugal, from Galicia's overlord, the
King of León, in 1139, establishing a new kingdom and doubling its area with the
Reconquista, an objective that he pursued until his death, in 1185, after forty-six years of wars against the Moors.