King D. Pedro I and Wives (Constança of Aragon, Inês de Castro and Teresa Lourenço)

Juanita · Jan 9, 2010

Elsa M. said:
The most ironic thing about this story is that, despite every attempts to get Inês children away from the Portuguese throne, one of her great-granddaughters, Dona Leonor of Aragon, would end up getting married to King Dom Duarte...
After everything, all the kings from the 2.nd Dynasty descend from her

Part of her family became, later, related to our colonies in India, some members were actually "vice-reis" (don't know the correct translation into english... litterally is vice-king

). I believe it is quite interesting when you see that the rest of her family became very related to Portugal in general.
Besides these paintings, we can't forget what Luis de Camões wrote about her, in Os Lusíadas (here: http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/lus/lusbk03.htm#fr_266 , p. 97 and next. I must say that it does sound much better in portuguese but it doesn't get any smaller ahah

)

rominet09 · Jan 9, 2010

Thank you for bringing to us the details of this sad but extraordinary story !

crownprincessrhey · Jan 15, 2010

i'm sorry..i find it disturbing kissing a corpse....

Lady Ann · Jan 15, 2010

Oh what a wonderful touching story.. history is the best form of entertainment the mind can truly have. Thank you for sharing it with us.

Wisteria · Jan 15, 2010

Juanita said:
Part of her family became, later, related to our colonies in India, some members were actually "vice-reis" (don't know the correct translation into english... litterally is vice-king ). I believe it is quite interesting when you see that the rest of her family became very related to Portugal in general.
Besides these paintings, we can't forget what Luis de Camões wrote about her, in Os Lusíadas (here: The Lusiad: Book III , p. 97 and next. I must say that it does sound much better in portuguese but it doesn't get any smaller ahah )

The term is Vice-roy Juanita. :flowers:

Actually there are quite a few of her descendants still around in Portugal.
Perhaps kissing the hand was a bit grisly but you can´t blame King Pedro when you think that she had her throat slit in front of her children and he loved her dearly.

Lumutqueen · Jan 15, 2010

What a beautiful and tragic love story.

Juanita · Jan 15, 2010

Wisteria said:
The term is Vice-roy Juanita. Actually there are quite a few of her descendants still around in Portugal.
Perhaps kissing the hand was a bit grisly but you can´t blame King Pedro when you think that she had her throat slit in front of her children and he loved her dearly.

Thanks

Yes, we are quite a few and some of us came from India

King Pedro made the portuguese nobility kiss her hand so they would sware their loyalty to the King, at least my teacher of History said so

ladybelline · Jan 15, 2010

I knew the love story of Inès de Castro and King Pedro from the French tragedy The Dead Queen (La Reine morte), by Henry de Montherlant. It was recently adapted for TV with the original text. So tragic! :sad: