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3 days ago · Fighting in the Hundred Years' War spilled from the French and Plantagenet lands into surrounding realms, including the dynastic conflict in Castile between Peter of Castile and Henry II of Castile. The Black Prince allied himself with Peter, defeating Henry at the Battle of Nájera .
2 days ago · Later, he vied for the crown of Castile brought to him through his second wife, Constance. With King Edward’s failing health, John assumed much of his father’s governing responsibilities and after the king’s death, John supported his nephew, Richard’s, succession to the throne as Richard II.
5 days ago · Louis married again, in 1154, to Constance of Castile. They together had two daughters. At the encouragement of Becket, who had previously been Henry II's chancellor and friend, Louis agreed to have his oldest daughter with Constance, Margaret, marry Henry's oldest son, Henry.
5 days ago · 186. One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game. Question 1 of 10. 1. I was the daughter of a King named Philip. My husband was King Louis XIII of France and I was his Queen Consort for 28 years. Although we didn't have a happy marriage, we had two sons together.
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1 day ago · Eleanor secured her freedom by agreeing to his demands. She continued south, crossed the Pyrenees, and travelled through the kingdoms of Navarre and Castile, arriving in Castile before the end of January 1200. Eleanor's daughter, Queen Eleanor of Castile, had two remaining unmarried daughters, Urraca and Blanche. Eleanor selected the younger ...
4 days ago · Lindy Grant’s long awaited and magisterial (although here one particularly laments the lack of a gender-appropriate adjective) book offers us a biography of Blanche of Castile, the Iberian princess famously chosen by her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, to marry the son of Philip II of France, Lord Louis, the future Louis VIII.
1 day ago · The Plantagenets continued to interfere and John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, the prince's brother, married Peter's daughter Constance, claiming the Crown of Castile in the name of his wife. He arrived with an army, asking John I to give up the throne in favour of Constance.
