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When Peter IV was on the verge of open conflict with his stepmother, Eleanor of Castile, over the rights of his half-brothers, Ferdinand and John, it was the Count of Ribagorza who dissuaded him from invading Castile, where they had taken refuge, and from attacking Pere de Xèrica , Eleanor's ally.
When Peter IV was on the verge of open conflict with his stepmother, Eleanor of Castile, over the rights of his half-brothers, Ferdinand and John, it was the Count of Ribagorza who dissuaded him from invading Castile, where they had taken refuge, and from attacking Pere de Xèrica, Eleanor's ally.
Urged on by France and by his own ambitions, Peter IV underwrote Henry of Trastámara ’s claims to the Castilian throne in exchange for a promised cession of one-sixth of Castile. The war was disastrous to Aragon, which was saved only by the intervention of the mercenary companies brought from France by Bertrand du Guesclin.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The County of Ribagorza or Ribagorça (Aragonese: Condato de Ribagorza, Catalan: Comtat de Ribagorça, Latin: Comitatus Ripacurtiae) was a medieval county on the southern side of the Pyrenees, including the northeast of modern Aragón and part of the northwest of modern Catalonia, both in Spain.
Peter IV (Catalan: Pere IV d'Aragó; Aragonese; Pero IV d'Aragón; 5 September 1319 – 6 January 1387), called the Ceremonious (Catalan: El Cerimoniós; Aragonese: el Ceremonioso), was from 1336 until his death the king of Aragon, Sardinia-Corsica, and Valencia, and count of Barcelona.
Following the traditional customs of the royal house, on the death of his father in 1336 Pedro IV prepared to be crowned in Zaragoza, although the count Pedro de Ribagorza y Ampurias and the count of Prades Ramón Berenguer de Aragón advised him to I had first to go to Barcelona to swear the Usatges.
Peter was the Count of Ribagorza (1322–1358), Count of Empúries (1325–1341) and (1341–1358). He was the most important counsellor of Alfonso IV and Peter IV, and was regent during the absence of the latter (1354–1356).
