Beatrice of Portugal – Wikipedia

Beatrice Fernandez of Burgundy ( Beatriz In Spanish, in Asturian, Aragonese, Portuguese, Galician, Basque and German, Beatriu in Catalan, Beatrix on Flemish, Bliss in French and Beatrice in English; Coimbra, December 1372 – Madrigal, after 1409), queen consort of Castile and León from 1383 to 1390 and Regina de jure of Portugal and Algarve from 1383 to 1385.

She was the third -born daughter of the King of Portugal and Algarve, Ferdinand I and his wife, Eleonora Telles de Menezes.

He was the last sovereign of the Capeinti House of Burgundy, at his death he took over the House of Aviz.

In 1379, his father, King Ferdinand, after the death of the male children, had designated the half -brother, John, son of the king of Portugal Pietro I the executioner and his third wife, Inés de Castro, as his heir; But the mother, the queen consort, Eleonora Telles de Menezes, claiming Beatrice’s interests opposed and Giovanni was forced to escape to Castile ^[first]

Fearing the growing power of the Kingdom of Castile, after the death of Henry II of Trastamara (1379), the father, King Ferdinando he attached with the uncle of the king of England, Riccardo II, the Duke of Lancaster, Giovanni, who, By the right of marriage, I am ambyheed to the Castiglia crown ^[first] , and, in July 1380, Beatrice with Edoardo fidanz ^[first] , son of Giovanni’s brother, the count of Cambridge Edmondo, who had the command of the English invasion troops of Castile.
After Ferdinando and the British allies had attacked, the new king of Castile, John I of Trastamara sent the Castilian fleet to the mouth of the Tagus and, in March 1382, placed the siege in Lisbon. The city resisted and, in August of the same year, in Elvas, a peace was signed, unbeknownst to the English ally, which overturned the alliances and to guarantee the agreement, the heir to the throne of Portugal, Beatrice was promised in marries to Ferdinand, the youngest of the children of Giovanni I ^[first] ; Being, however, on August 13, the wife of Giovanni I, Eleonora d’Aragona, who replaced her son, in the marriage contract died, ^[first] .
The wedding contract provided for the clause that until a son of Beatrice had reached the age of 14, in the event of Ferdinando’s death the regency would have been of the mother queen, Eleonora Telles de Menezes.
Beatrice, future queen of Portugal married Giovanni I of Trastamara, in April 1383, in the Cathedral of Badajoz.

In October 1383, on the death of Ferdinand of Portugal, as per premarital agreements, Queen Eleonora assumed the regency ^[2] of the Kingdom of Portugal on behalf of Beatrice, who had happened to the father as a queen ^[first] .
But in Portugal not everyone accepted the situation as the regent had a fame of adulterous (with the count of Ourém, Giovanni Fernandez Andeiro) and also if Beatrice was pressing to Giovanni di Castiglia, they would have found a foreign king.
In this situation of discontent, two people of real rank, half brothers of the deceased King Ferdinand, were indicated as worthy of being able to climb the throne of Portugal and therefore contend for the throne to Beatrice:

A group of nobles, including Nuno Álvares Pereira, in December 1383, proclaimed Giovanni di Aviz defender of the Kingdom And the latter, in addition to decreasing its execution, assassinated Filocastigliano Andeiro, also for his scandalous conduct with the regent, and after decreasing the deposition of the queen, Beatrice ^[first] , became the guidance of the revolt against the regent ^[2] .

The regent, Eleonora, retired to Santarem, a city faithful to her, in January 1384, called Giovanni di Castiglia to his aid, which invaded Portugal and entering Santarem, claimed the kingdom on behalf of his wife ^[first] , Beatrice, and took over from Eleonora Telles de Menezes in the government of Portugal.

In March, Giovanni put the siege in Lisbon ^[first] , ma, a los gimmicks, Il 6 APRILE 1384, Venne Sconfitto da Nuno Álvares Pereira ^[first] .
While the city of Porto, after joining the autonomist cause (Anticastigliana), first rejected an attack of Castilian troops from the guided galicia of the archbishop of Compostela, then sent, to the aid of Lisbon, a squadron that, forced the Castilian block on Tagus, the siege broke, in the month of August of that same year.

Among the besiegers, the plague had spread and when his wife Beatrice filed Giovanni returned to Castile, in September, while Eleonora remained in Santarem to continue the civil war (known as Crisis of 1383-1385 or how Interregnum ).

In April 1385, the Polite Portuguese were summoned to Coimbra, to decide the succession to the crown: the autonomists were divided between the defender of the Kingdom , Giovanni di Aviz and the other Giovanni, the Duke of Valencia de Campos (a Leonese fief). Between the two brothers -in -law of the regent Giovanni di Aviz was chosen, who, in addition to having fought in the civil war, also had the support of Nuno Álvares Pereira, who therefore, on April 6th ^[first] , became king and assumed the name of John I.
In the spring of 1385, Giovanni I of Castile sent the fleet to the mouth of the Tagus who placed the blockade in Lisbon, while he, after suffering a defeat in Trancoso in May 1385 ^[first] , in June, invaded Portugal with an army of 32,000 men, between Castilian and French. The king of Portugal could oppose only 6,500 men (including 200 English archers), all on -tandered, conducted by Nuno Álvares Pereira; The clash took place on August 14, 1385 in Aljubarrota ^[first] , Alcobaça and the victory was so clear that the Portuguese entered Castile and, on October 15, the Castilians also defeated in Valverde.

After the defeat of the Castilian weapons, Beatrice accepted the situation and lived in Castile as a queen consort until 1390, when her husband Giovanni I of Castile died of a fall from the horse.

Beatrice received the lordship of Medina del Campo, Cuéllar, Olmedo and Arévalo in their prerogative.

He died, in Madrigal, kingdom of Castile, after 1409, at the age of about 40 years, and was buried in the city of Toro, in the convent of the Holy Spirit, founded by her.

Beatrice in Giovanni gave a son: ^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

• Michele di Castiglia (1384-1385), which was heir to the throne of Portugal

• Edgar Prestage, Portugal in the Middle Ages , in Cambridge University Press – History of the medieval world , vol. VII, pp. 576–610, Garzanti, 1999