Pedro is chiefly known for his love of Inês de Castro, the Hispanic maidservant that his father had killed in 1355. Pedro certainly led at least two revolts against his father before acceeding to the throne. Once he was king he announced that he had married Inês de Castro in secret and that she, despite dead, was Queen of Portugal. This fact is based only in the king's word.
As King, Pedro was a surprising success. True he brutally murdered the killers of Inês de Castro, but he also persecuted felons of all classes, and instituted reforms to free the Portuguese Crown and Church from Papal intervention. His wife, Constanza, had been a Castilian princess, and it was for this reason, Pedro joined an Aragonese invasion of Castile-Leon.
Pedro's marriages and descendents
First wife: Branca, princess of Castile (divorced)
Second wife: Constance, princess of Castile (1320-1349)
Luís (1340)
Maria, princess of Portugal (1342-1367), married to Ferdinand, prince of Aragon
Pedro I of Portugal (April 8, 1320 – January 18, 1367) was the eighth king of Portugal (in English, Peter I), known as the Cruel (not to be confused with Pedro I of Castile, also known as Pedro the Cruel) or as the Lawful (Port.
Pedro is chiefly known for his love of Inês de Castro, the Castilian maidservant that his father had killed in 1355.
Pedro I first married Blanca of Castile, daughter of Pedro of Castile and Maria of Aragon.
Pedro (or Peter; August 30, 1334 – March 23, 1369), sometimes known as Pedro the Cruel (Pedro el Cruel) or Pedro the Lawful was the king of Castile from 1350 to 1369.
Pedro was to be married to Joan Plantaganet, the daughter of Edward III of England, but on the way to Castille, she travelled through cities infested with plague, ignoring townspeople who had warned her not to enter the town.
Pedro's daughters by Maria de Padilla, Constance and Isabella, were each married to sons of Edward III, king of England, Constance to John of Gaunt and Isabella to Edmund of Langley.
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