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The faction grew in power, especially after Inês de Castro, daughter of an important nobleman and maid of the Crown Princess Constance, became the lover of her lady's husband: Peter, the heir of Portugal.

Worried about his legitimate grandson's life, and the growing power of Castile within Portugal's borders, Afonso ordered the murder of Inês de Castro in 1355.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

In the church are the tombs of King Peter I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro.

In the church are the tombs of King Peter I and his murdered mistress Inês de Castro and with it the story of the tragic liaison between Pedro and his ever-lasting love for Inês.

Santa Inês ( Saint Agnes ) by Francisco de Zurbarán.

* January 7 – Inês de Castro, lover of King Peter I of Portugal ( murdered ; b. 1325 )

** Inês de Castro, lover of King Pedro I of Portugal ( d. 1355 )

The later years of his reign were darkened by the tragedy of Inês de Castro.

Against such a combination the Castilians were powerless ; Denis, eldest son of Inês de Castro, claimed the Portuguese throne and invaded Portugal in 1398, but his troops were easily crushed.

If Beatrice died childless, the crown would pass to other hypothetical younger sisters, and if not, the crown would pass to John I of Castile, and through him to his son Henry, thus disinheriting the line of Inês de Castro.

To avoid problems with John the Infante of Portugal, the dynastic eldest son of Inês de Castro, John I had him imprisoned in the Alcazar of Toledo.

She married Infante Denis, Lord of Cifuentes ( 1354-1397 ), son of Peter I of Portugal and Inês de Castro, and she is buried at Santa María de Guadalupe.

# REDIRECT Inês de Castro

# REDIRECT Inês de Castro

When Constanza arrived in Portugal, Inês de Castro, the daughter of an aristocratic Castilian land-owner, accompanied her as her lady-in-waiting.

Henry de Montherlant's French drama La Reine morte was inspired by the conflict between King Afonso and Pedro and Inês.

Pedro allegedly had Inês de Castro's body exhumed and crowned List of Portuguese royal consorts | Queen of Portugal, forcing the clergy and nobility to kiss the bones of her hands.

Inês Peres de Castro (; Inés Pérez in Castilian and Galician ; 1325 – 7 January 1355 ) was a Galician noblewoman born of a Portuguese mother.

Inês was the daughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro, Lord of Lemos and Sarria and his noble Portuguese mistress Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares.

Inês de Castro and Peter I had the following children:

* Inês de Castro: The Queen Who Was Crowned After Death

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During this time he conducted operas including Jenůfa, From the House of the Dead, I due Foscari, Salome, Fidelio, Mary Stuart, Káťa Kabanová, Peter Grimes, Tristan und Isolde, La forza del destino, The Jacobin, La traviata, Il trovatore, the world première of James MacMillan ’ s Inês de Castro, ( a revival of which was broadcast by BBC television ), The Cunning Little Vixen, Turandot, Hansel and Gretel, La bohème, The Queen of Spades, Dalibor, Der Rosenkavalier, Macbeth, Parsifal, Don Giovanni, Erwartung, Bluebeard's Castle and The Knot Garden.

He led Scottish Opera on a number of visits abroad: to Lisbon in 1994, to the 2000 Vienna Festival, where the Company performed its highly praised production of Macbeth, and to Porto in 2001, where he conducted the European première of MacMillan ’ s Inês de Castro.

His love is the chaste, timid affection of a wife and a vassal, rather than the strong passion of a mistress, but Pedro is really the man, history describes, the love-fettered prince whom the tragedy of Inês ’ s death converted into the cruel tyrant.

This is the official motive behind Afonso's next action: he sent three men to find Inês and murder her in 1355.

This has never been proven, but what is known is that Peter did have Inês ' body removed from her resting place in Coimbra and taken to Alcobaça where her body was laid to rest in the monastery.

He then stated that he had secretly married Inês, who was consequently the lawful queen, although his word was, and still is, the only proof of the marriage.

This is the case with the initial part of the episode of the Sad Inês, of the final part of the episode of the Adamastor and of the encounter on Love Island ( Canto IX ).

The episode, usually known as " of Inês de Castro ", is one of the most famous of Os Lusíadas.

This technique is used most strongly when Inês fears the orphaning of her children more than losing her own life and she begs for the commutation of capital punishment for an exile in Siberia ( Cítia ) or in Libya in order to have an opportunity to raise her children, and she is compared with " the young beautiful Policena ".

The Ponte Pedonal de Pedro e Inês was is the ultimate bridge being constructed and is the only footbridge in the city.

Another relevant playwright of the 16th century is António Ferreira ( 1528 – 1569 ), who wrote " A Castro " ( 1587 ), a well-known tragedy about the forbidden love between D. Pedro I and D. Inês de Castro.

D. Isabel Inês de Herédia, Duchess of Braganza ( Isabel Inês de Castro Curvelo de Herédia ; born 22 November 1966 in Lisbon, daughter of Architect Jorge de Herédia, great-grandson of Francisco Correia de Herédia, 1st Viscount da Ribeira Brava ), and wife Raquel Leonor Pinheiro Curvelo, is the wife of Dom Duarte Pio, Duke of Bragança, current claimant to the Portuguese throne and Duchess of Bragança.

Inez is an American spelling of the Spanish and Portuguese name Inés / Inês, the forms of the given name " Agnes ".

* 1355 – Inês de Castro is killed by royal order ; begins civil war between Afonso IV and his heir Pedro.

* 1357 – Pedro I of Portugal becomes king ; Inês de Castro is removed from her grave and crowned Queen of Portugal.

It is a splendid poem, with a chorus which sings the sad fate of Inês in musical odes, rich in feeling and grandeur of expression.

King Afonso is little more than a shadow, and only meets Inês once, his son never ; while, stranger still, Pedro and Inês never come on the stage together, and their love is merely narrated.