Constanza Manuel

For other people named Constance of Castile, see Ins very quickly, and the two conducted an aair that
Constance of Castile (disambiguation).
lasted until Constances death in 1345. The scandal of
this aair caused Afonso to banish Ins from court, but
Constanza Manuel of Villena (1315/1323 13 Novem- this did not end the relationship, and the two began living
together in secret.
ber 1345) was the daughter of Juan Manuel, Prince of
Villena (12821348), called el escritor (the writer), Constance died on the 13 November 1345, weeks afDuke of Peael, and his second wife Constance of ter giving birth to her son and future King of Portugal,
Aragon, a daughter of James II of Aragon.
Fernando. She was buried four years later in Santarm,
While still a child she became the rst wife of future King Portugal. Her husband presumably married Ins after
Alfonso XI of Castile (131150), also a child at the time, Constances death; however, Ins was later murdered on
the orders of King Afonso. Peter became King twelve
in Valladolid. The marriage was annulled in 1327.
years after Constances death in 1357.
They had three children:

Early life and rst marriage

3 Children

Constance was a Castilian noblewoman, whose exact date

of birth is unknown, occurring sometime between 1315
and 1323. Constance was a paternal great-granddaughter
of King Ferdinand I of Castile. Her maternal grandparents were James II of Aragon and his second wife Blanche
of Anjou.

Maria (1342 aft. 1375), married to Infante Ferdinand of Aragon, son of Alfonso IV of Aragon.
Louis (1344).
Ferdinand I of Portugal (31 October 1345 29 October 1383), 9th King of Portugal.

In Valladolid on 28 November 1325, the young Constance married Alfonso XI of Castile, they were married
for only two years when Alfonso had the marriage dissolved and remarried to Maria of Portugal, who gave him
a son, Peter of Castile.[1]

4 Ancestry

Constance was imprisoned in a castle in Toro while her

father waged war against Alfonso XI until 1329. Eventually, the two reached a peaceful accord after mediation
by Juan del Campo, Bishop of Oviedo; this secured Constances release from prison.

5 References
[1] Castile and Leon, Medieval Lands

6 Bibliography

Second marriage

Pretel Marn; Rodrguez Llopis, Miguel (1989). El

seoro de Villena en el siglo XIV (PDF) (in Spanish). Albacete: Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses
Don Juan Manuel, Excma. Diputacin de Albacete. ISBN 84-600-2900-X.

Afonso IV quickly learned that his daughter Maria was

being mistreated by her husband King Alfonso (Constances ex-husband). Constances father had been rebued by the king when she was rejected in favor of the
Portuguese infanta. Feeling as though his daughter was
being dishonored, Afonso was glad to enter into an alliance with Juan Manuel and married his son and heir,
Peter, to Constance. They married on 24 August 1339 in
Lisbon.

Rodrigues Oliveira, Ana (2010). Rainhas medievais

de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias,
quatro sculos de Histria (in Portuguese). Lisbon:
A esfera dos livros. ISBN 978-989-626-261-7.

When Constance arrived in Portugal, Ins de Castro, the

daughter of an aristocratic Castilian land-owner, accompanied her as her lady-in-waiting. Peter fell in love with
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