Henry II of Castile
His father later made him Count of Trastámara and lord over Lemos and Sarria in Galicia, and the towns of Cabrera and Ribera, which constituted a large and important heritage in the northwest of the peninsula.He became convinced that his father's lover was the instigator of the uprisings, so he ordered Eleanor to be incarcerated and finally executed in Talavera de la Reina.The attack combined Henry's Castillian allies, the Aragonese and the French (a company of Bertrand du Guesclin's mercenaries, expelled by Peter of Castile, who had taken refuge in Guyenne).Peter of Castile fled north to Bordeaux, the capital of the English dominions in France, where Edward, the Black Prince held court.Despite the fact that the army suffered so badly from dysentery that it is said that one out of every five Englishmen would not return home,[4] on 3 April 1367 an Anglo-Gascon army, led by Edward and his younger brother, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, met the Castilian forces (supported by French mercenaries under Bertrand du Guesclin).For most of his reign he had to fight off the attempts of John of Gaunt, a son of Edward III of England, to claim the Castilian throne in right of Constance.In his domestic policy he started to rebuild the kingdom, sped up the transformation of the royal administration; and held numerous courts.[8] In order to pay Bertrand du Guesclin's mercenaries, he imposed a war contribution of twenty thousand gold doubloons on the already heavily oppressed community of Toledo, and issued an order to take all the Jews of Toledo as prisoners, to give them neither food nor drink, and if they still refused to raise this enormous sum, to sell their property, both movable and immovable, at auction.He made Don Joseph Pichon his chief tax-collector (contador major), and appointed several Jews farmers of the taxes.The inscription translates to:[11] Here lies the most adventurous and noble knight and king, the sweetly remembered Don Henry, son of the late noble king Don Alfonso, who came from Benmarin and ended his life in Santo Domingo de la Calzada, he just died gloriously on the XXX day of May, in the year of our saviour Jesus Christ MCCCLXXIX.There is a recumbent statue of Henry II on top of the tomb.It depicts the king wearing his royal robes, with his sword in his left hand and his girdle decorated with the lions of Castile.
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