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King Peter I of Castile—Peter the Cruel, …
Years: 1366 - 1366
King Peter I of Castile—Peter the Cruel, as he is called by his subjects—abandons and imprisons his wife, arousing the opposition of the nobility led by his illegitimate half brother, Count Henry of Trastamara, who, with Aragonese backing, challenges Peter’s right to rule.
Charles V of France also sends troops into Spain in support of Trastamara, who overthrows Peter.
Peter then turns to English king Edward III, who dispatches an expeditionary force led by his son Edward, the Black Prince.
Edward defeats the Franco-Aragonese-Castilian forces at Nájera in 1367, then departs for England; Trastamara promptly starts a new round of civil war.
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Years: 1366 - 1366
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