Inês de Castro

Inês De Castro

Inês Peres de Castro (Inés Pérez in Castilian and Galician; 1325 – 7 January 1355) was a Galician noblewoman born of a Portuguese mother. She is best known as lover and posthumously exhumed and declared lawful wife of King Peter I of Portugal, and therefore Infanta of Portugal by order of Peter himself, as she died before he acceded to the throne.

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