Editing Peter of Castile

{{Short description|King of Castile and León (1350–1366, 1367–1369)}}
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{{redirect-distinguish|Peter the Cruel|Peter I of Portugal}}
{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Peter
| image        =Monnaie - Espagne, Castille et Leon, Pierre I, dobla, Séville - btv1b11335305r (1 of 2).jpg  
| image_size   =  
| caption      = Effigy of Peter on a gold ''[[dobla]]'', {{circa|1350–68}}
| succession   = [[King of Castile]] and [[List of Leonese monarchs|León]]
| reign-type   = 1st reign
| reign        = 26/27 March 1350 – {{nowrap|13 March 1366}}
| predecessor  = [[Alfonso XI of Castile|Alfonso XI]]
| successor    = [[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]]
| reign1       = 3 April 1367 – {{nowrap|23 March 1369}}
| reign-type1  = 2nd reign
| predecessor1 = [[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]]
| successor1   = [[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]]
| spouse       = [[María de Padilla]]<br/>[[Blanche of Bourbon]]<br>[[Juana de Castro]]
| issue        = Beatrice, Infanta of Castille<br> [[Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster|Constance, Duchess of Lancaster]]<br>[[Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York|Isabella, Duchess of York]]<br>Alfonso, Infante of Castile
| issue-link   = #Children
| issue-pipe   = among others...
| house        = [[Castilian House of Ivrea]]
| father       = [[Alfonso XI of Castile]]
| mother       = [[Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile|Maria of Portugal]]
| birth_date   = 30 August 1334
| birth_place  = [[Burgos]], [[Crown of Castile|Castile]]
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1369|03|23|1334|08|30|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Montiel]], [[Kingdom of Toledo (Crown of Castile)|Toledo]]
| burial_date  =
| burial_place = [[Seville Cathedral]]
}}
[[File:Estatua de Pedro I el Cruel (M.A.N.) 01.jpg|thumb| [[Alabaster]] sculpture of Peter, 1446]]
'''Peter''' ({{langx|es|Pedro}}; 30 August 1334{{snd}}23 March 1369), called '''Peter''' '''the Cruel''' ({{lang|es|el Cruel}}) or '''the Just''' ({{lang|es|el Justo}}),{{efn|Also known as '''Don Pedro''' in some English-language histories ({{harvnb|Fotheringham|1889|p=311}}; {{harvnb|Storer|1911|loc=''The title''}}).}} was [[King of Castile]] and [[List of Leonese monarchs|León]] from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the [[House of Ivrea]]. He was excommunicated by [[Pope Urban V]] for his persecutions and cruelties committed against the clergy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Pope Bl. Urban V|url=https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15214a.htm|website=Catholic Encyclopedia}}</ref>

==Early life==
Peter was born in the defensive tower of the [[Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas|Monasterio de Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas]] in [[Burgos]], Spain. His parents were [[Alfonso XI of Castile]] and [[Maria of Portugal, Queen of Castile|Maria of Portugal]].{{sfn|Estow|1995|p=30}}

According to chancellor and chronicler [[Pedro López de Ayala]], he had a pale complexion, blue eyes and very light blonde hair; he was {{convert|1.83|m}} tall and muscular. He was accustomed to long, strenuous hours of work, lisped a little and "loved women greatly". He was well read and a patron of the arts, and in his formative years he enjoyed entertainment, music and poetry.

He was to be married to his contemporary [[Joan of England (died 1348)|Joan]], the second and favourite daughter{{sfn|Estow|1995|p=11}} of King [[Edward III of England]]; however, on their way to Castile she and her retinue travelled through cities infested with the [[Black Death]], ignoring townspeople who had warned them not to enter their settlements. Since the plague had not yet entered England, it is likely that they underestimated the danger. Joan soon contracted the disease and died{{sfn|Estow|1995|p=11}} in 1348, aged 14. 
[[File:Double de 35 maravédis à l'effigie de Pierre I dit le Cruel ou le Justicier.jpg|thumb|[[Dobla]] of 35 [[maravedí]]s with the effigy of Peter of Castile]]

About two years later Peter began his reign when almost sixteen years old<ref name="Dillon">{{harvnb|Dillon|1788|p=280}}.</ref> and subject to the control of his mother and her favourites. Though at first controlled by his mother, Maria of Portugal, Peter ascended the throne with the encouragement of his mother's second cousin, the Portuguese minister Count [[João Afonso de Albuquerque|Alburquerque]].<ref name="EB1911">{{harvnb|Hannay|1911|p=292}}.</ref> Becoming attached to [[María de Padilla]], he married her in secret in 1353. María turned him against Alburquerque, who fled to Portugal.{{sfn|Storer|1911|pp=64–86}}

In the summer of 1353, the young king was practically coerced by his mother and the nobles into marrying [[Blanche of Bourbon]]; he deserted her at once upon hearing rumors that she had slept with his half-brother Fadrique, who was supposed to be guarding her virtue and made her instead "an unwilling Isolde to his Tristan," according to one historian.{{Who|date=September 2023}} This marriage necessitated Peter's denying that he had married María, but his relationship with her continued and they had four children. He also apparently went through the form of marriage with [[Juana de Castro]], widow of Don Diego de Haro, convincing her that his previous marriage to Queen Blanche was a nullity.{{sfn|Storer|1911|p=112}} The bishops of Avila and Salamanca were asked to concur, and were afraid to say otherwise.{{sfn|Storer|1911|p=113}} Peter and Juana were married in Cuellar, and Juana was proclaimed Queen of Castile.<ref name="Dillon"/> After two nights, he then deserted her. They had a son who died young, after Peter's death. A period of turmoil followed in which the king was for a time overpowered and, in effect, imprisoned. The dissension within the party striving to coerce him enabled him to escape from [[Toro (Spain)|Toro]], where he was under observation, to [[Segovia]].<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1361, Queen Blanche died at [[Medina Sidonia]]. French historians claim that Peter ordered two Jews to murder her;<ref>''Histoire de Bertrand du Guesclin, connestable de France et des royaumes de Léon, de Castille, de Cordoue et de Séville, duc de Molines, comte de Longueville'', par messire Paul Hay, seigneur du Chastelet, édition à Paris, chez Jean Guignard 1666, conservé un temps à la bibliothèque impériale de Vienne (Autriche)</ref> another version of the story says she was poisoned; a third one that she was shot with a crossbow,{{sfn|Tuchman|1978|p=228}} although it may have been the plague.{{sfn|Storer|1911|p=226}} Also that year, Maria de Padilla died in Seville.{{sfn|Storer|1911|p=227}} After Maria's death, Peter declared that she had been his first and only legitimate wife.{{sfn|Storer|1911|pp=[https://archive.org/details/petercruellifen00storgoog/page/n82 64]–86}}

==Wars with Aragon==
[[File:War of Peter The Cruel in Castle.jpg|thumb|War of Peter The Cruel in Castile.''The illustrated history of the world for the English people.'' Painting of 1884.]]
From 1356 to 1366, Peter engaged in constant wars with [[Aragon]] in the "[[War of the Two Peters]]", in which he showed neither ability nor skill in his support of his English ally or Castilian interests in the Mediterranean against the French and Aragonese. The king of Aragon then supported Peter's bastard brothers against him. It was during this period that Peter perpetrated the series of murders which made him notorious.{{Clarification needed|date=September 2023}}<ref name="EB1911"/>

In 1366 began the calamitous [[Castilian Civil War]], which would see him dethroned. He was assailed by his bastard brother [[Henry II of Castile|Henry of Trastámara]] at the head of a host of soldiers of fortune,{{sfn|Tuchman|1978|p=228}} including [[Bertrand du Guesclin]] and [[Hugh Calveley]], and abandoned the kingdom without daring to give battle, after retreating several times (first from [[Burgos]], then from [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], and lastly from [[Seville]]) in the face of the oncoming armies. Peter fled with his treasury to Portugal, where he was coldly received by his uncle, King [[Peter I of Portugal]], and thence to [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]], in the northern [[Iberian Peninsula]], where he ordered the murder of Suero, the archbishop of [[Santiago de Compostela|Santiago]], and the [[Dean (religion)|dean]], Peralvarez.

[[File:Battle najera froissart.jpg|thumb|The [[Battle of Nájera]] in a 15th-century manuscript (Peter and the English are on the left).]]

==Peter and the Spanish Jewry==
Peter's rival [[Henry II of Castile]] continuously depicted Peter as "King of the Jews", and had some success in taking advantage of popular Castilian antisemitism. Henry instigated [[pogrom]]s beginning a period of anti-Jewish riots and [[forced conversion]]s in Castile that lasted approximately from 1370 to 1390. Peter took forceful measures against this, including the execution of at least five anti-Jewish leaders of a riot.

The prominence of [[Samuel ha-Levi]], King Peter's treasurer, has often been cited as evidence of Peter's supposed pro-Jewish sentiment, but Ha-Levi's success did not necessarily reflect the general experience of the Spanish Jewry in this period which was often marked by discrimination and pogroms.{{sfn|Estow|1995|p=}}{{pn|date=July 2017}} Following Peter's death, Jews had to wear a yellow badge, as punishment for having supported him.<ref>"the Jews were forced to wear the Yellow Badge in penance for their loyalty to Pedro" http://jewishhistory.org.il/history.php?startyear=1330&endyear=1339</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Pierre leCruel.jpg|thumb|[[Henry II of Castile|Henry II]] kills his predecessor Peter, in an early illustration to [[Froissart's Chronicles]]]] 
[[File:Pedro Castile beheading2.jpg|thumb|Peter the Cruel decapitated by order of [[Henry II of Castile]]. Manuscript from 15th century]]
In the summer of 1366, Peter took refuge with [[Edward the Black Prince|Edward, the Black Prince]], who restored him to his throne in the following year after the [[Battle of Nájera]]. The health of the Black Prince broke down, and he left the [[Iberian Peninsula]],<ref name="EB1911"/> bringing with him two of Peter's daughters, Constance and Isabella of Castile, whom he had taken as hostages as assurers that Peter would pay up. He married the princesses to his younger brothers, most famously Constance to his brother John of Gaunt, in order to make a claim on the Castilian throne.

Meanwhile, [[Henry of Trastámara]] returned to [[Castile (historical region)|Castile]] in September 1368. The ''[[cortes of Castile and León|cortes]]'' of the city of [[Burgos]] recognized him as King of Castile. Others followed, including [[Córdoba, Spain|Córdoba]], [[Palencia]], [[Valladolid]], and [[Jaén, Spain|Jaén]]. [[Galicia (Spain)|Galicia]] and [[Asturias]], on the other hand, continued to support Peter. As Henry made his way toward [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]], Peter, who had retreated to [[Andalusia]], chose to confront him in battle. On 14 March 1369, the forces of Peter and Henry [[Battle of Montiel|met at Montiel]], a fortress then controlled by the [[Order of Santiago]]. Henry prevailed with the assistance of [[Bertrand du Guesclin]]. Peter took refuge in the fortress, which, being controlled by a military order of Galician origin, remained faithful to him. Negotiations were opened between Peter and his besieger, Henry. Peter met with du Guesclin, who was acting as Henry's envoy. Peter offered du Guesclin 200,000 gold coins and several towns, including Soria, Almazán, and Atienza to betray Henry. Ever opportunistic, du Guesclin informed Henry of the offer and immediately bargained for greater compensation from Henry to betray Peter.{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}}{{Dubious|date=February 2018}}

Having made a deal with Henry, Du Guesclin returned to Peter. Under the guise of accepting his deal, du Guesclin led Peter to his tent on the night of 23 March 1369. Henry was waiting. The historian [[Pero López de Ayala|López de Ayala]] described the encounter as follows: "Upon entering du Guesclin's tent, Henry saw King Peter. He did not recognize him because they had not seen each other for a long time. One of Bertrand's men said 'This is your enemy.' But King Henry asked if it was he and King Peter said twice, 'I am he, I am he.' Then King Henry recognized him and hit him in the face with a knife and they ... fell to the ground. King Henry struck him again and again."{{Citation needed|date=February 2018}} Having dispatched his half-brother, Henry left Peter's body unburied for three days, during which time it was subjected to ridicule and abuse.

==Legacy and reputation==
{{Quote box
| width = 30%
| quote = From ''[[The Monk's Tale]]''<br>
O noble, O worthy PETRO, glorie OF SPAYNE,
Whom Fortune heeld so hye in magestee,<br>
Wel oughten men thy pitous death complayne!<br>
Out of thy land thy brother made thee flee,<br>
And after, at a seege, by subtiltee,<br>
Thou were bitraysed and lad unto his tente,<br>
Where as he with his owene hand slow thee,<br>
Succedynge in thy regne and in thy rente.
| source = [[s:The Canterbury Tales/The Monk's Tale|Chaucer, ''The Canterbury Tales'']]
}}
[[File:La muerte del Rey Don Pedro I de Castilla.jpg|thumb|''The death of King Peter of Castile'', painting in 1883 by Arturo Montero y Calvo. [[Museo del Prado]].]]

Popular memory generally views King Peter I as one of the few monarchs who sided with an Islamic sultan (Granada), while also being a Catholic king. Granada paid Pedro I tribute. He helped them during several invasions and a coup. One of the rewards he was given by a sultan of Granada was the famous ruby, a reward for killing an usurper, that is now in the crown of England, brought back by The Black Prince of England along with Peter I's surviving two daughters (Constance and Isabella of Castile, who were legitimized). Not all of Peter's reputation comes from the works of the chronicler [[Pero López de Ayala]], who after his father's change of allegiance had little choice but to serve Peter's usurper. After time passed, there was a reaction in Peter's favour and an alternative name was found for him. It became a fashion to speak of him as ''El Justiciero'', the executor of justice (the Lawful).{{sfn|Estow|1995|p=xxvi}} Apologists were found to say that he had killed only men who would not submit themselves to the law or respect the rights of others.<ref name="EB1911"/> Peter did have his supporters. Even López de Ayala confessed that the king's fall was regretted by many, among them the peasants and burghers subjected to the nobles by late feudal gifts and by the merchants, who enjoyed security under his rule.

The English, who backed Peter, also remembered the king positively. [[Geoffrey Chaucer]] visited Castile during Peter's reign and lamented the monarch's death in ''[[The Monk's Tale]]'', part of ''[[The Canterbury Tales]]''. (Chaucer's patron, [[John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster]], had fought on Peter's side in his struggle to reclaim the throne.) The English Lake Poet [[Robert Southey]] was presented in 1818 with a copy of a five-act play by the novelist [[Ann Doherty]], entitled ''Peter the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon''.<ref>Romantic Circles: "Attersoll, Ann..." [https://www.rc.umd.edu/node/103426 Retrieved 11 November 2017.]</ref>

Peter had many qualities of those later monarchs educated in the [[centralization]] style. He built a strong Royal administrative force ahead of his times. He failed to counter or check all the feudal powers that supported his rivals, however illegitimate and opposite to the principles of aristocracy they represented themselves. But his moral superiority was reduced too by the violent means, including fratricides, by which he sought to suppress opposition; he at times was extremely despotic and unpredictable, even by the standards of his age. In this he was preceded by his father Alfonso XI, who since the crisis at the death of [[Alfonso X of Castile|Alfonso X]] had faced multiple rebellions against royal authority.

The death of King Peter ended the traditional alliance of Castile and Navarre with England, which had been started by the [[Plantagenets]] to keep France in check. The alliance was later renewed by the [[House of Trastámara|Trastámara]]s and [[Tudor dynasty|Tudor]]s. 

His death also led to the [[Fernandine Wars]], where [[Kingdom of Portugal|Portuguese king]] [[Ferdinand I of Portugal|Ferdinand I]] would claim the throne of [[Kingdom of Galicia|Galicia]], which would eventually lead to the [[Anglo-Portuguese Alliance|historical alliance between Portugal and England]] with the involvement of [[John of Gaunt]]'s claim to [[Kingdom of Castile|Castille]].

==Children==
Peter's children by [[María de Padilla]] were:
* Beatrice (1353–1369),{{sfn|Bartlett|2020|p=161}} nun at the Abbey of Santa Clara at Tordesillas<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/60073/beatriz-de-castilla | title=Beatriz de Castilla &#124; Real Academia de la Historia }}</ref>
* [[Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster|Constance]] (1354–1394), married [[John of Gaunt]], 1st [[Duke of Lancaster]]<ref>{{harvc|last=MacKay |first=Angus |c=Catalina de Lancaster |in1=Gerli |in2=Armistead |year=2003 |p=215}}</ref>
* [[Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York|Isabella]] (1355–1392), married [[Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York]]{{sfn|Leese|2007|p=149}}
* Alfonso (1359–1362). Peter forced the Cortes to recognize Alfonso as his legitimate heir on 29 April 1362. However, Alfonso, a very sickly child, died at the age of three, months after his recognition as Crown Prince.

Peter had one son with [[Juana de Castro]]:
* John (1355–1405), married doña Elvira de Eril, had issue.<ref>[http://genealogy.euweb.cz/ivrea/ivrea8.html#PO House of Ivrea-Castile]</ref>

With María de Henestrosa, cousin of María de Padilla:
* Fernando de Castilla (1361-1362)<ref name="::">{{Cite web|url=https://www.academia.edu/2127419|title=Don Sancho de Castilla (1363-1371): Apuntes biográficos de un hijo ilegítimo de Pedro I.|last=Cañas Gálvez|first=Francisco de Paula|year=2012|page=1126 and n. 1|language=es}}</ref>

With Isabel de Sandoval, ''aya'' of his son Alfonso:
* Sancho de Castilla (1363–1371)
* Diego de Castilla (1365–1440), whose grandson Pedro de Castilla y Fonseca "el mozo" was lover to the queen [[Joan of Portugal]].

With Teresa de Ayala, niece of [[Pero López de Ayala]]:
* María de Castilla, who with her mother had long careers at the [[Dominican convent]] of Santo Domingo el Real in [[Toledo, Spain|Toledo]] and maintained a friendly correspondence with the Trastámaras.{{sfn |Estow |1995 |pages=xvi, n. 5}}

==Sources==
The great original but hostile authority for the life of Peter the Cruel is the ''Chronicle of the Chancellor [[Pedro López de Ayala]]'' (1332–1407).<ref name="EB1911"/> To put that in perspective are a biography by [[Prosper Mérimée]], ''Histoire de Don Pedro I, roi de Castille'' (1848) and a modern history setting Peter in the social and economic context of his time by Clara Estow (''Pedro the Cruel of Castile (1350–1369)'', 1995).

Strictly speaking, Peter was not defeated by Henry but by the opposing aristocracy; the nobles accomplished their objective of enthroning a weaker dynasty (the [[House of Trastámara]]), much more amenable to their interests.{{cn|date=April 2022}} Most of the bad stories about Peter are likely to be colored by [[black legend]], coined by his enemies, who finally succeeded in their rebellion. The Chancellor [[López de Ayala]], the main source for Peter's reign, was the official chronicler of the Trastámara, a servant of the new rulers and of Peter's aristocratic adversaries.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

The change of dynasty can be considered as the epilogue of the first act of a long struggle between the Castilian monarchy and the aristocracy; this struggle was to continue for more than three centuries and come to an end only under [[Charles I of Spain]], the grandson of Ferdinand II of [[Aragon]] (Ferdinand V of Castile) and [[Isabella I of Castile]] ([[The Catholic Monarchs]]), in the first quarter of the 16th century.{{cn|date=April 2022}}

==See also==
* ''[[Don Pèdre, roi de Castille]]'', play by [[Voltaire]]

==Notes==
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== References ==
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*{{Cite book |last=Estow |first=Clara |url=https://brill.com/display/title/1675 |title=Pedro the Cruel of Castile (1350-1369) |date=1995 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-47809-1 |location=Boston |oclc=1299382209}}
*{{Cite book|title=Medieval Iberia : an encyclopedia |date=2003|publisher=Routledge |editor-last=Gerli|editor-first=E. Michael  |editor2-first=Samuel G. |editor2-last=Armistead<!--|chapter=Pedro I the Cruel, King of Castile |last=Estow |first=Clara--> |isbn=0-415-93918-6|location=New York|oclc=50404104}}
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* Mérimée, Prosper (1849). ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=XjsOAAAAYAAJ  The History of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile and Leon].'' London: R. Bentley
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* {{cite book |last=Storer |first=Edward |year=1911 |title=Peter the Cruel, the life of the notorious Don Pedro of Castile, together with an account of his relations with the famous Maria de Padlla |pages=[https://archive.org/details/petercruellifen00storgoog/page/n82 64]–86 |location= London |publisher=John Lane |url=https://archive.org/details/petercruellifen00storgoog}}
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*{{Cite web |last=Valdeón Baruque |first=Julio |title=Pedro I de Castilla |url=https://dbe.rah.es/biografias/8207/pedro-i-de-castilla |website=Real Academia de la Historia |language=Spanish}}


:'''Attribution:'''
* {{EB1911 |last=Hannay |first=David |author-link=David Hannay (historian) |wstitle=Peter (Spanish kings)|display=Peter (Pedro) s.v. Peter "the cruel" |volume=21 |page=292}}

== Further reading ==
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* [http://www.genealogia-es.com/castilla/bibliodp1.htm Bibliography of recent works (in Spanish)]

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