Beatrice of Portugal (Coimbra, February 1373 - Crown of Castile, c. 1420) 2 Daughter of King Ferdinand I of Portugal and his wife Queen Leonor Tellez de Meneses.
During his early years, Beatriz was a pawn in the shifting political alliances of his father King Ferdinand I of Portugal, and he was negotiating successive marriages. By his marriage with King Juan I of Castile, Beatrix became queen consort of Castile, and the death of his father, his mother assumed the regency on behalf of Beatrice, which was proclaimed queen. The opposition to the regency, the fear of Castilian domination and the loss of Portuguese independence, produced a popular rebellion and a war in whichcivil3 faced on one side, the Master of Avis, illegitimate brother of Ferdinand and proclaimed regent and defender of the kingdom, and on the other, King Juan I of Castile, husband of Beatrice, who had taken the title of King of Portugal in right of hiswife, had invaded the kingdom and had obtained the transfer of the regency governmentof Leonor. Finally, the master of Avis was proclaimed King of Portugal, and Juan I of Castile was finally defeated in Aljubarrota.
Queen Beatrix since it handled and cared for maintaining the Portuguese exiles in Castile dynastic loyal to their cause to the Portuguese throne after the death of her husband went to second place in the Spanish court. But the dynastic cause embodiedstill remained in force and hindering the normalization of relations between Castile andPortugal. Since the second decade of the fifteenth century the paper trail is fading until it disappeared around 1420.
She was born in Coimbra (Portugal), during the brief siege imposed Castilian troopsduring World War II Fernandina. Courts in Leiria (Portugal) from 1376 sworn byaccepting heiress Beatrice and her commitment to the Duke of Benavente. Thebetrothal of words was done in Leiria on 24 November 1376 and January 3 was accepted by Henry II of Castile. To ensure the succession to the throne in Beatrice, Queen Eleanor devised a plot in which he accused of adultery by the sister of the queen,named Mary Teles, who was the wife of Prince John. In 1379 John murdered his wife inCoimbra, and although he later won the royal pardon, he chose to flee to Castile-fearingfamily of the deceased. That same year died King Henry II of Castile.
After learning of the death of the king and the rise of John to the throne, the Portuguese court sought the commitment of Beatrice with the firstborn of the new king, Henry III. In 1380 the marriage agreement was signed.
The marriage took place on April 2, 1383 in Salvatierra of Magicians. She dead in 1423
During his early years, Beatriz was a pawn in the shifting political alliances of his father King Ferdinand I of Portugal, and he was negotiating successive marriages. By his marriage with King Juan I of Castile, Beatrix became queen consort of Castile, and the death of his father, his mother assumed the regency on behalf of Beatrice, which was proclaimed queen. The opposition to the regency, the fear of Castilian domination and the loss of Portuguese independence, produced a popular rebellion and a war in whichcivil3 faced on one side, the Master of Avis, illegitimate brother of Ferdinand and proclaimed regent and defender of the kingdom, and on the other, King Juan I of Castile, husband of Beatrice, who had taken the title of King of Portugal in right of hiswife, had invaded the kingdom and had obtained the transfer of the regency governmentof Leonor. Finally, the master of Avis was proclaimed King of Portugal, and Juan I of Castile was finally defeated in Aljubarrota.
Queen Beatrix since it handled and cared for maintaining the Portuguese exiles in Castile dynastic loyal to their cause to the Portuguese throne after the death of her husband went to second place in the Spanish court. But the dynastic cause embodiedstill remained in force and hindering the normalization of relations between Castile andPortugal. Since the second decade of the fifteenth century the paper trail is fading until it disappeared around 1420.
She was born in Coimbra (Portugal), during the brief siege imposed Castilian troopsduring World War II Fernandina. Courts in Leiria (Portugal) from 1376 sworn byaccepting heiress Beatrice and her commitment to the Duke of Benavente. Thebetrothal of words was done in Leiria on 24 November 1376 and January 3 was accepted by Henry II of Castile. To ensure the succession to the throne in Beatrice, Queen Eleanor devised a plot in which he accused of adultery by the sister of the queen,named Mary Teles, who was the wife of Prince John. In 1379 John murdered his wife inCoimbra, and although he later won the royal pardon, he chose to flee to Castile-fearingfamily of the deceased. That same year died King Henry II of Castile.
After learning of the death of the king and the rise of John to the throne, the Portuguese court sought the commitment of Beatrice with the firstborn of the new king, Henry III. In 1380 the marriage agreement was signed.
The marriage took place on April 2, 1383 in Salvatierra of Magicians. She dead in 1423
