Denis (, ;
Lisbon, 9 October 1261 –
Santarém, 7 January 1325), called
the Farmer King (
Rei Lavrador) and
the Poet King (
Rei Poeta), was
King of Portugal and the Algarve. The eldest son of
Afonso III of Portugal by his second wife,
Beatrice of Castile, and grandson of king
Alfonso X of Castile (known as the Wise), Denis succeeded his father in 1279. His marriage to
Elizabeth of Aragon, who was later canonised as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, was arranged in 1281 when she was 10 years old.