Ines de Castro. The dead queen

Escrito por Comandante Norton el Lunes, 26 de Noviembre del 2007 a las 12:13 pm

She was a lady of company of the future wife of the king of Portugal. The legend tells that Ines de Castro was unearthed and put in the throne of Portugal so that everybody kissed the hand to her. This is her story.

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Ines was born in Galicia in century XIV in a accommodated family, but the death of her mother forced her father to look for a location better to her. Being only one girl, Ines happened to be lady of company of the Castilian nobleman Constanza Manuel, granddaughter of the king of Aragón Jaime II, and Infant of Castile.

Indeed due to the continuous wars that freed Castilian and Portuguese, the monarchs of both kingdoms decided to unite in Contanza marriage with the heir to the throne of Portugal: the infant Pedro.

According to they count all the books, as soon as Constanza met with its future husband taking with himself to its cut, the Infant Pedro was pledged with the beauty of the young Ines.

The marriage completed and gave to them three children, although only two arrived at adults. But the attraction that Pedro and Ines felt the one by the other took to them to become lovers. Constanza died in the childbirth of his third son, and the adulterous relation of the Infant with the young person Ines happened to be shown, having with her other three children, but gaining the distrusts of his father, the king Alfonso IV of Portugal.

The bishop of Panties privily married to the young pair few years later and both decided to retire to live to Coimbra and to enjoy their children.

But the political stability seemed to stagger for several reasons: Pedro refused to marry with another woman who not outside Ines, the situation was getting worse with the years and the old Alfonso lost the control of the cut. Pedro’s son, Fernando, was a sickly boy whereas the Ines’ childrens grew strong and healthy. Worried about the life of his grandson and the flood to be able about Castile in the borders with Portugal, Alfonso IV decreed the death of Ines de Castro, and commanded to three of his more faithful men to execute the order.

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They took advantage of the absence the Infant to accept the real mandate. They cut the Ines’ neck without mercy in front of her own children.

When Pedro returned and knew the news his world staggered. It entered rage and it unleashed a bloody civil war against its father until it obtained to the throne two years later.

And here it is where the legend tells that, after to have commanded to give death to the executors of Ines, he ordered to unearth the bones of his lover and it placed it in the throne of Portugal so that all the Court kissed the hand to her.

Later he ordered to raise two tombs for both of them, in front one from another, so that, when the day of the final judgment arrived and the body of Pedro returned to the life, the first thing their eyes see will be to his loved Ines.

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