Pedro I DE PORTUGAL, - O Justiceiro

1320 - 1367  (46 years)

• Name	Pedro I DE PORTUGAL  [1]
  Suffix	- O Justiceiro
  Birth	18 Apr 1320	Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal   [1]
  Christening	19 Apr 1320	Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal   [1]
  Gender	Male
  TitleOfNobility	[2]
  	8th King of Portugal and the Algarve, The Just'
  TitleOfNobility	1357	Portugal   [2]
  	King of Portugal
  Name	Pedro I  [2]
  Name	Pedro O CRUEL  [2]
  Name	Pierre le JUSTICIER  [2]
  _FSFTID	GNN3-YYJ
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GNN3-YYJ
  _UID	00A7801E1DE14191A46A8F97990F23DBEFFE
  Death	18 Jan 1367	Estremoz, Evora, Portugal   [1]
  Burial	18 Jan 1367	Mosteiro de Santa Maria da Vitória, Batalha, Leiria, Portugal   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I7570	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	16 Dec 2022

  
  

  Father	Affonso IV Dinisez King Of PORTUGAL,   b. 8 Feb 1291, Lisbon, Portugal d. 28 May 1357, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Beatrix Infanta Of CASTILE,   b. 1293, Toro, Zamora, Spain d. 25 Oct 1359, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	12 Sep 1309	Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
  _STAT	Divorced
  Family ID	F3798	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Teresa Gille LOURENCO,   b. 1336   d. 1358, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 22 years)
  Marriage	Not Married
  Family ID	F3784	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

  Family 2	Constanza Manuel DE CASTILE,   b. Abt 1318, Of, Escalona, Toledo, Spain d. 13 Nov 1345, Santarem, Santarem, Portugal (Age ~ 27 years)
  Marriage	24 Aug 1339	Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
  Children	1. Luís DE PORTUGAL,   b. 27 Feb 1340, Lisboa, Portugal d. 6 Mar 1340, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 0 years)   2. Maria DE PORTUGAL,   b. 6 Apr 1342, Évora, Évora, Portugal d. 1377, Genova, Liguria, Itália (Age 34 years)   3. Rei Fernando I DE PORTUGAL, - O Formoso,   b. 31 Oct 1345, Coimbra, Portugal d. 22 Oct 1383, Lisboa, Portugal (Age 37 years)
  Family ID	F3791	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2022

  
  

  Family 3	Inez DE CASTRO   d. Yes, date unknown
  Marriage	1 Jan 1353-1354	Of, Lemos, Coimbra, Portugal
  Children	1. Afonso DE PORTUGAL,   b. 1346, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal d. 1346, Portugal (Age 0 years)   2. Beatriz DE PORTUGAL, , Condessa de Albuquerque,   b. 9 Dec 1347, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal d. 5 Jul 1381, Ledesma, Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain (Age 33 years)
  Family ID	F3783	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Dec 2022

  
  

• Notes

  affair with the beautiful and newly widowed Leonor de Guzman. Maria bore Alfonso a son in 1334, who ultimately became Peter of Castile, but after the Castilian king refused to end his affair Maria returned home to Portugal in 1335. Alfonso had been married once before, to his cousin's daughter, Constanza Manuel (granddaughter of James II of Aragon). Alfonso had the marriage annulled in 1327, after only two years, to clear the way for marriage to Maria. This angered his cousin Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, a powerful Castilian aristocrat, and for two years Juan Manuel waged war against the Castilians - who had kept his daughter Constanza hostage - until Bishop John del Campo of Oviedo mediated a peace in 1329. Afonso, now enraged by the infidelity and mistreatment of his daughter Maria, forged an alliance with Juan Manual by marrying his son and heir, Peter, to Constanza. When Constanza arrived in Portugal in 1340, Inês de Castro, the beautiful and aristocratic daughter of a prominent Galician family (with links albeit through illegitimacy, to the Portuguese and Castilian royal families), accompanied her as her lady-in-waiting. Peter soon fell in love with Inês, and the two conducted a long love affair that lasted until Inês's murder in 1355. Constanza died in 1349, following childbirth complications. The scandal of Peter's affair with Inês, and its political ramifications, caused Afonso to banish Inês from court after Constanza died. Peter refused to marry any of the princesses his father suggested as a second wife; and the king refused to allow his son to marry Inês as Peter wanted. The two aristocratic lovers began living together in secret. According to the chronicle of Fernão Lopes, during this period, Peter began giving Inês's brothers, exiles from the Castilian court, important positions in Portugal and they became the heir-apparent's closest advisors. This alarmed Afonso. He worried that upon his death, civil war could tear the country apart, or the Portuguese throne would fall into Castilian hands, either as Juan Manuel fought to avenge his daughter's honor, or the de Castro brothers supported their sister. Peter claimed that he had married Inês against his father's orders. In any event, in 1355, Afonso sent three men to find Inês at the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, where she was detained, and they decapitated her in front of one of her young children. Enraged, Peter revolted against his father. Afonso defeated his son within a year, but died shortly thereafter, and Peter succeeded to the throne in 1357. The love affair and father-son conflict inspired more than twenty operas and many writers, including: the Portuguese national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, the Spanish "Nise lastimosa" and "Nise laureada" (1577) by Jerónimo Bermúdez and 'Reinar despues de morir' by Luís Vélez de Guevara, as well as "Inez de Castro" by Mary Russell Mitford and Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte.[2] Peter reigned for a decade, and is often confused with his Castilian nephew because of their identical nicknames. Fernão Lopes labels Peter "the Just" and said that the Portuguese king loved justice— especially the dispensing of it, which he enjoyed doing for himself. Inês' assassins received his harshest punishment: the three had escaped to Castile, but Peter arranged for them to be exchanged for Castilian fugitives residing in Portugal with his nephew, Peter of Castile.[citation needed] The Portuguese king conducted a public trial of Pêro Coelho and Álvaro Gonçalves in 1361. After finding them guilty of Ines' murder, the king ripped their hearts out with his own hands, according to Lopes, because of what they had done to his own heart. Diogo Lopes Pacheco escaped and died in 1383. According to legend, Peter later had Inês' body exhumed and placed upon a throne, dressed in rich robes and jewels, and required all of his vassals to kiss the hand of the deceased "queen". However, contemporary evidence that the event occurred is minimal; Peter did have Inês' body removed from her resting place in Coimbra and taken to Alcobaça where it was reburied in the royal monastery. Peter had two tombs constructed, one for each of them, so they would see each other when rising at the Last Judgment. The tombs show Peter and Inês facing each other, with the words "Até o fim do mundo..." ("Until the end of the world...") inscribed on the marble. Peter was also the father of Ferdinand I of Portugal and John I of Portugal. John was the Master of the military order of Avis, and he would become the founder of the Avis dynasty after the 1383– 85 Crisis.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 11 Dec 2022), entry for Affonso IV Dinisez King Of PORTUGAL, person ID LTKD-XJF. (Reliability: 3). [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 11 Dec 2022), entry for Pedro I King Of PORTUGAL, person ID LYFQ-WJT. (Reliability: 3).