generalpl4gue
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Post by generalpl4gue on Sept 13, 2019 23:01:59 GMT -5
It's interesting that he went to North Africa to crusade. I wonder why other European nations didn't go there? Many went to the crusades in Jerusalem and Prussia had the Teutonic crusades, why did Spain and France or Italy not attack North Africa on crusade? Portugal engaged in the North Africa crusade to protect its own comercial outposts in Marroco. Portugal used to have a lot of trading outposts in the North Africa. another thing: Portugal was awaring of a new Iberian invasion made by muslins, regarding to them expansionist wave in north Africa. So, Portugal called Spain and Holy See, and they send a small group of crusaders. Portugal, due to its comercial outposts and fearing a invasion, decided to engage an almost solitary crusade. |
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Post by Octavio on Sept 14, 2019 6:28:23 GMT -5
Yeah, Portugal’s crusade was to restore Portugal’s prestige, protect the Ceuta trading post in Morocco and fill the treasury. This made it very limited.
Now, on King Pedro I of Portugal.
Dom Pedro, as a Prince, had an arranged marriage with a Spanish Noble, Dona Constança Manuel de Vilhena. When Constança arrived in Portugal, Pedro immediately fell in love with her courtier, Inês de Castro.
The two of them became lovers and after Constança died, Pedro arranged a secret marriage with Inês.
She had a great deal of influence on the prince’s actions, and that led the Portuguese nobles to think that he would sell Portugal to Spain in exchange for a nobility title for Constança and her brothers.
The nobles spoke with Portugal’s king and Pedro’s father, Afonso IV demanding for actions. Afonso allowed them to murder Inês. Pêro Coelho and Álvaro Gonçalves executed the plot.
Pedro got enraged and started a minor war against his father, but his mother and the Portuguese people pressed for peace. Eventually they pardoned each other, though they where bitter for the rest of their lives.
Pedro ascended to the throne in 1357, and made everyone know about his secret marriage with Inês, making her Queen of Portugal. There’s a tradition in Portugal that when a Queen was crowned, all nobles would gather to kiss her hands. Legend says that Pedro put his half decomposing wife on the throne at his side and made all nobles kiss her hands under the threat of personally beheading those ho refused. He also killed the two murderers in a very cruel way and without any trials, reason why he was nicknamed by the nobles “the crude”.
Pedro was obsessed with his “justice” and the need for it to get to the noble. Thus, he outlawed the lawyer profession , and acted as judge, jury and executor, on a quick, and usually cruel, punishment.
Although the nobles hated him, that made the people like his reign, since they felt that someone was punishing the nobility for their crimes. They called him “The Joust”, an interesting opposition to “The Crude” as the nobles called him and how he’s remembered today.
There’s a saying in Portugal related to this king: Agora Inês já era morta (Now Inês was already dead), which means “now it was too late”.
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