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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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