INEZ DE See also:CASTRO (d. 1355)
, See also:mistress, and perhaps wife, of See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter I
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(Pedro), See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:Portugal, called Calla de Garza, i.e
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"See also:Heron's See also:Neck," was See also:born in See also:Spanish See also:Galicia, in the earlier years of the 14th See also:century
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Tradition asserts that her See also:father, See also:Don Pedro See also:Fernandez de See also:Castro, and her See also:mother, Dona Aldonca Soares de Villadares, a See also:noble Portuguese See also:lady, were unmarried, and that Inez and her two See also:brothers were consequently of See also:bastard See also:birth
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Educated at the semi-See also:Oriental provincial See also:court of Juan See also:Manuel, See also:duke of Penafiel, Inez See also:grew up See also:side by side with Costanca, the duke's daughter by a See also:scion of the royal See also:house of See also:Aragon, and her own See also:cousin
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After refusing several crowned heads in See also:marriage, Costanca was at last persuaded to accept the See also:hand of the See also:infante Dom Pedro, son of See also:Alphonso the Proud, king of Portugal
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In 1341 the two girls See also:left Penafiel; Costanca's marriage was celebrated in the same See also:year, and the See also:young infanta and her cousin went to reside at See also:Lisbon, or at See also:Coimbra, where Dom Pedro conceived that luckless and furious See also:passion for Inez which has immortalized them
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The morality of the See also:age was lax, and more especially so in See also:Spain and Portugal, where the looseness of the marriage tie and the example of the See also:Moors encouraged See also:polygamy
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Pedro's connexion See also:par amours with Inez would of itself have aroused no opposition
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He might even have married her, after the See also:death of his wife in childbirth in 1345
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According to his own assurance he did marry her in 1354
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But by that See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time the rising See also:power of the Castro See also:family had created the most brutal hatred among their rivals, both in Spain and Portugal
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Alvaro Gonzales, Pedro Coelho, and Diogo See also:Lopes See also:Pacheco persuaded the king, Alphonso, that his See also:throne was in danger from an See also:alliance between his son and the Castros, and with all the brutality of the age they urged the king to remove the danger by murdering the poor woman
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The old king listened, refused, wavered and ended by yielding
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He went ia See also:secret to the See also:palace at Coimbra, where Inez and the in ante resided, accompanied by his three familiars, and by others who agreed with them
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The beauty and tears of Inez disarmed his See also:resolution, and he turned to leave her; but the gentlemen about him had gone too far to recede
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Inez was stabbed to death and was buried immediately in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of See also:Santa See also:Clara
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The infante raised at once the See also:flag of revolt against his father, and was only appeased by the concession of a large See also:share in the See also:government
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The three murderers of Inez were sent out of the See also:kingdom by Alphonso, who knew his son too well not to be aware that the vengeance would be tremendous as the See also:crime
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They took See also:refuge in See also:Castile
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In 1357, however, Alphonso died, and the infante was crowned king of Portugal
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Peter the Cruel, his See also:nephew, reigned over Castile; and the murderers were given up' as soon as required
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Diogo Lopes escaped through the gratitude of a See also:beggar to whom he had formerly done a kindness; but Coelho and Gonzales were executed, with horrible tortures, in the very presence of the king
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The See also:story of the See also:exhumation and See also:coronation of the See also:corpse of Inez has often been told
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It is said that to the dead See also:body, crowned and robed in royal raiment, and enthroned beside the king, the assembled nobles of Portugal paid See also:homage as to their See also:queen, See also:- SWEARING (O. Eng. swerian, to swear, originally to speak aloud, cf. andswerian, to answer, Ger. schworen, Dan. svaerge, &c., all from root sorer-, to make a sound, cf. " swarm," properly the buzzing of bees, Lat. susurrus)
swearing fealty on the withered hand of the corpse
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The gravest doubts, however, exist as to the authenticity of this story; Fernao Lopes, the Portuguese See also:Froissart, who is the See also:great authority for the details of the death of Inez, with some of the actors in which he was acquainted, says nothing of the ghastly ceremony, though he tells at length the See also:tale of the funeral honours that the king bestowed upon his wife
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Inez was buried at Alcobaga with extraordinary magnificence, in a See also:tomb of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white See also:marble, surmounted by her crowned statue; and near her See also:sepulchre Pedro caused his own to be placed
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The See also:monument, after repeatedly resisting the violence of curiosity, was broken into in 1810 by the See also:French soldiery; the statue was mutilated, and the yellow See also:hair was cut from the broken See also:skeleton, to be preserved in reliquaries and blown away by the See also:wind
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The See also:children of Inez shared her See also:habit of misfortune
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From her See also:brother, however, Alvaro See also:Perez de Castro, the reigning house of Portugal directly descends
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See Fernao Lopes, Chronica del Rey Dom Pedro (1735); See also:Camoens, Os Lusiadas; See also:Antonio See also:Ferreira's Ines de Castro,—the first See also:regular tragedy of the See also:Renaissance after the Sofonisba of Trissino; Luis Velez de See also:Guevara, Reinar despues de morir, an admirable See also:play ; and See also:Ferdinand See also:Denis, Chroniques chevaleresques de l'Espagne et du Portugal
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