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  CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
She was great-granddaughter of John I of Castile and his wife Eleanor of Aragon, a sister of Kings John I of Aragon and Martin I of Aragon.
She was also great-granddaughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and his second wife Constance of Castile, a daughter of Pedro of Castile.
Her paternal grandparents were King Henry III of Castile and Katherine of Lancaster of the House of Lancaster, a half sister of King Henry IV of England.
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  Constance of Castile - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Constance of Penafiel (1323–1345), wife of Alfonso XI of Castile and Pedro I of Portugal.
Constance of Castile (1354-1394), wife of John of Gaunt.
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Constance
Betrothed (1166) to Constance, heiress of Brittany, he was recognized as heir to the duchy in 1169 and succeeded to it on the death of her father.
She went (1340) to Portugal as a lady in waiting to Constance of Castile, wife of the heir to the Portuguese throne, Dom Pedro (later Peter I).
Northern Bias in Constance Fenimore Woolson's Rodman the Keeper: Southern Sketches.
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 Constance of Castile -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Constance of Penafiel or Constance Princess of Castile (Spanish Constanza) (1323 - November 13 1345) was the daughter of Juan Manuel "El Scritor" de Castile, Duke of Penafiel, and Constanza of Aragon.
She was the second wife of (additional info and facts about Pedro I of Portugal) Pedro I of Portugal, marrying on August 24 1339 in (Capital and largest city and economic and cultural center of Portugal; a major port in western Portugal on Tagus River where it broadens and empties into the Atlantic) Lisbon.
Constance of Castile, Queen Constanza, (1354-June 1394), was claimant of the Castilian throne after the death of her father (additional info and facts about Pedro the Cruel) Pedro the Cruel.
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 Medieval Royalty - Person Page 2
Constance of Castile was the daughter of King Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon, Galice and Bèrengère de Barcelone.
She was the daughter of Louis VII of France and Constance of Castile.
King Alfonso VII of Castile and Leon, Galice was born in 1105.
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 RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE
Sancha of Castile (Infanta of Castile) was born on September 21, 1164.
Ferdinand IV (KING OF CASTILE AND LEON), Alfonso of Castile (Infant of Castile), Enrique of Castile (Infant of Castile), Pedro de Castile (Regent of Castile), Felipe de Cabrera of Castile,
Urraca of Castile (Countess of Castile) was born in 1081.
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 Urraca of Castile Summary
Constance was the second of the king's wives, both of them French, a reflection of the monarch's wish to strengthen his territorial claims.
Urraca of Castile (1082 – March 8 1126) was Queen of Castile and León from 1109 to her death.
She was the daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile by his second wife, Constance of Burgundy.
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 RAUL N. LONGORIA'S GENEALOGY DATABASE
Henry III became King of Castile and Leon in 1390 upon the death of his father, John I. His father arranged his marriage to Catherine, the daughter of John of Gaunt, as a means to end the conflict between the two men.
John of Gaunt married Blanche, the heiress of Lancaster, in 1359 and thus became Earl of Lancaster in 1361 and Duke of Lancaster in 1362.
His expediition was unsuccessful, but John of Gaunt and John I of Castile reached a truce in 1388 by agreeing to the marriage of John of Gaunt's daughter, Catherine, with Henry III, the 9-year old son of John I of Castile.
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 CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He was the son of Henry III of Castile and his wife Katherine of Lancaster, daughter of John of Gaunt by Constance of Castile, daughter of King Pedro of Castile (known as 'Pedro the Cruel').
He succeeded his father on December 25, 1406, at the age of a year and ten months, and united in his person the claims of Pedro the Cruel and of Henry of Trastamara.
It was one of the many misfortunes of Castile that the long reign of John II—forty-nine years—should have been granted to one of the least capable of her kings.
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 COUNCIL OF CONSTANCEUnder Pope John XXIII
Gregory XII sent to Constance as his representatives his protector Carlo Malatesta, the Lord of Rimini, and the Dominican cardinal, John Domenici—to Constance indeed, but not to the General Council assembled there by the authority, and in the name, of John XXIII.
This holy synod of Constance is compelled to act against these men as against spurious and illegitimate sons, and to cut away their errors from the Lord's field as if they were harmful briars, by means of vigilant care and the knife of ecclesiastical authority, lest they spread as a cancer to destroy others.
The most holy general synod of Constance notes what was previously agreed upon at Narbonne concerning the church's unity and the admission to this synod of the cardinals of the obedience of Peter de Luna, called Benedict XIII in his obedience.
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 King Alphonso (Alfonso) Jimeno VI of Castile & Leon & Constance CAPET   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
King Alphonso (Alfonso) Jimeno VI of Castile and Leon and Constance CAPET
King Ferdinand Jimeno I of Castile and Leon
King Alphonso (Alfonso) Jimeno VI of Castile and Leon
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John of Gaunt PLANTAGENET King of Castile and Leon
Marriage: John of Gaunt PLANTAGENET King of Castile and Leon in 9/1371 in Roquefort, Landes, FRA
Queen married John of Gaunt PLANTAGENET King of Castile and Leon, son of Edward III King of England and Philippa OF HAINAULT, in 9/1371 in Roquefort, Landes, FRA.
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 JOHN OF GAUNT, DUKE OF LANCASTER - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN OF GAUNT, DUKE OF LANCASTER   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
John was not the man to be forced into treason to his family, but the impossibility of the position at home made his foreign ambitions more feasible.
The conquests of the previous year were lost, and when Juan renewed his offers, John of Gaunt agreed to surrender his claims to his daughter by Constance of Castile, who was to marry Juans heir.
Then in 1395 he went to take up the government of his duchy; thanks chiefly to his lavish expenditure his administration was not unsuccessful, but the Gascons had from the first objected to government except by the crown, and secured his recall within.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Council of Constance
Lodi, 9 December, 1413, for 1 November, 1414, at Constance, a free city of the empire, on Lake Constance.
It is to be noted that of the twelve cardinals present at Constance only seven or eight assisted at the fifth session, and they solely to avoid scandal (among the absent was d'Ailly).
Council of Constance may truly be said to close the medieval and to open the modern period.
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 August 14
He solved the Moorish problem by allying with Castile (he married Beatrice who was the daughter of Sancho IV of Castile) to beat them pesky Moors at the battle of Salado.
I think dad was upset because Peter was originally married to Constance of Castile in another effort to keep things cool with the Castilians.
Castile was having quite enough of these amorous Portuguese.
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 Fernando I
Fernando, or Ferdinand I, King of Portugal, sometimes referred to as "el Gentil" (the Gentleman), son of Pedro I of Portugal (who is not to be confounded with his Spanish contemporary Pedro the Cruel), succeeded his father in 1367.
On the death of Pedro of Castile in 1369, Ferdinand, as great-grandson of Sancho IV by the female line, laid claim to the vacant throne, for which the kings of Aragon and Navarre, and afterwards John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster (married in 1370 to Constance, the eldest daughter of Pedro), also became competitors.
But before the union could take place the former had become passionately attached to Leonora Tellez, the wife of one of his own courtiers, and having procured a dissolution of her previous marriage, he lost no time in making her his queen.
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 GENUKI: Dukes of Great Britain (L-Z)
He took part with his brother, the Black Prince, in his Spanish expedition; married soon after Constance of Castile, and assumed the title of King of Castile; invaded France in 1373, and marched unopposed from Calais to Bordeaux; and succeeded his brother as Governor of Gascony.
In 1380 he invaded Scotland, and during his absence his palace at London was attacked and burnt by the insurgents under Wat the Tyler.
He afterwards made an attack on Castile in alliance with the King of Portugal; but closed the war by marrying his daughter to the son of the King of Castile; and returned to England in 1389.
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 Kings, Queens, Presidents and First Ladies
Constance married Alain IV of Brittany [18122] [MRIN: 6123].
King Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks" [18077] was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster and died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burh by Sands near Castile at age 68.
Eleanor was born in 1241 in Castile and died on 29 Nov 1290 in Herdby, Lincolnshire at age 49.
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 Capetian Kings
[2] Constance of Castile abt 1153, daughter of Alphonso VII, King of Leon and Castile, and Berengaria of Barcelona.
Constance of Burgundy b 1046, of Dijon, France, d abt Feb 1092/93, prob Castile, Spain.
She md Alfonso VI, King of Castile, 8 May 1081, Cote d'Or, France, son of Fernando I, King of Castile, and Sancha of Leon.
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 John of Gaunt — Infoplease.com
John of Gaunt finally agreed to peace in 1388, transferred his claims to his daughter by Constance of Castile, and married her to the future Henry III of Castile.
John I, Spanish king of Castile and León - John I John I, 1358–90, Spanish king of Castile and León (1379–90), son and...
Henry III, Spanish king of Castile and León - Henry III Henry III, 1379–1406, Spanish king of Castile and León (1390–1406),...
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 Gaunt
Constance was the eldest daughter and co-heir of Pedro, King of Castile and Leon.
Gaunt coveted the throne of Castile in the right of Constance, but eventually had to abandon his claim in return for 600,000 gold francs.
He was with his eldest brother, the Black Prince, at the battle of Najera in Spain in 1367 (following which Pedro of Castile regained his throne) and the recapture of Limoges in France in 1370.
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 The Genealogy Website of Adams/Simpson - pafg207 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He married Constance Perez Castile Leon in 1370 in,Rochefort-sur-Me,,France.
Constance Perez Castile Leon was born in 1354 in,,,Spain.
John Plantagenet [Parents] was born on 28 May 1340 in Abbaye de St Bav,Ghent,,Belgium.
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 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster Summary
After the death of his first wife in September 1369, he married Constance of Castile in 1372, surrendered his title of Earl of Richmond, and assumed the title of king of Castile.
After he married his daughter Catherine to Henry of Castile, he gave up the claims to the kingship of that country, and after effecting a reconciliation between the Duke of Gloucester and Richard, Lancaster retired from active politics.
In 1371, John married Constance of Castile, daughter of King Peter I of Castile, thus giving him a claim upon the kingdom of Castile, which he would pursue unsuccessfully.
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 Encyclopedia: William I of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
1080), betrothed to (1) Harold of Wessex, (2) Alfonso VI of Castile
Wessex was one of the seven major Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy) that preceded the Kingdom of England.
Alfonso VI (before June 1040 - July 1, 1109), nicknamed the Brave, was king of León from 1065 to 1109 and king of Castile since 1072 after his brothers death.
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 Castro, Ines de. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
After Constance died (1345), he established a household with her at Coimbra, where she bore him four children.
Dom Pedro, overcome with grief and anger, led a rebellion against his father; but peace was restored, and the prince promised to forgive the murderers.
When he became (1357) king, however, he extradited two of the advisers from Castile and executed them horribly; the third escaped.
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 THE CHAUCERS IN SPAIN: FROM THE WEDDING TO THE FUNERAL
This conflict was to be the origin of John of Gaunt's claim to the Crown of Castile and Leon because, as it is well known, he married Constance of Castile, Pedro's daughter in 1371, and this was his most important link to Spain.
It is well known, however, that John of Gaunt lost interest in Constance of Castile after returning from Spain in 1389.
During the early 1380s, Philippa probably shared her life between the household of her husband and that of the Duchess Constance, who spent more time with her husband now that his hopes of a throne in Spain were his main political ambition.
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 Ancestors of Sarah Kathleen Shingleton Raimund Comte de Bourgogne, d'Amans, Galicia & Coimbr
Marriage: Urraca Alfonsez Queen of Castile and León in 1095 in Toledo, Spain
Raimund married Urraca Alfonsez Queen of Castile and León, daughter of Alfonso VI King of Castile and León and Constance Capet de Bourgogne, in 1095 in Toledo, Spain.
(Urraca Alfonsez Queen of Castile and León was born Btw 1081 and 1082 in Burgos, Spain
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 King Alfonso VI "The Valiant" of Castille and Leon
King Alfonso VI "The Valiant" of Castille and Leon
King Alfonso VI "The Valiant" of Castille and Leon & Princess Constance de Bourgogne
King Alfonso VI "The Valiant" of Castille and Leon & Ximena Nunez de Guzman
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 Ancestors of Sarah Kathleen Shingleton Berenguela Berenger de Barcelona
Marriage: Emperor Alfonso VII King of Castile and León in Nov 1128 in Saldana, Spain
Berenguela married Emperor Alfonso VII King of Castile and León, son of Raimund Comte de Bourgogne, d'Amans, Galicia and Coimbr and Urraca Alfonsez Queen of Castile and León, in Nov 1128 in Saldana, Spain.
(Emperor Alfonso VII King of Castile and León was born on 1 Mar 1103 in Castile, Spain,
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 PETRO (1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Pedro IV, King of Castile and Leon from 1350 to 1369, was known as Pedro the Cruel.
His illegitimate brother, known as Henry the Bastard, instigated an insurrection against him, and Pedro sought aid from Edward, Prince of Wales, who was in Bordeaux at the time.
In 1371, John of Gaunt married Constance of Castile, Pedro's daughter, and styled himself "King of Castile." Chaucer's wife Philippa was assigned to her household, and he may have learned the story from her.
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 I21537: John of Gaunt (Dk. of Lancaster) (MAR 1340 - 3 FEB 1399)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He commanded a division of the English army, led by the Black Prince, that defeated the army of Henry (later Henry II, king of Castile and Len) at Najera in 1367.
1396), daughter of Peter the Cruel (king of Castile and Len), John laid claim to the throne of Castile.
In 1386 John invaded Castile, but was defeated by John I, king of Castile and Len.
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