After the recent death of our king Pedro I, Enrique de Trastámara occupies the throne of Castilla.

The last 23 March, Pedro the Righteous, who lasts 16 years ruling Castilla, has been murdered in Montiel by his stepbrother, Enrique de Trastámara, and this ends the Castilian Civil War and gives the throne to the new king, Enrique. Now that the war is over, is the moment to explain what has given rise to it and why.

Pedro was the only son of María de Portugal and Alfonso XI de Castilla, who had other 10 children with his lover, Leonor de Guzmán. Legally, the succession of the throne should be for Pedro, but though, at the king’s death, one of the ten stepbrothers of Pedro, Enrique, had possibilities to rule. Nonetheless, the throne was occupied by Pedro, but he never couted on much support. He had the support of the musilims and french, since he was committed with a descendent of the king of France, but as he finally rejected her, he got enemy with France, and they also supported his stepbrother, who kept wishing the throne of Castilla.

In 1366, Enrique de Trastámara saw himself with enough support, and decided attack Pedro. Looking for an army, Pedro got allied with the Black Prince, who sent his army in exchange for he paying the expenses. Since Pedro didn’t pay what he should, the army didn’t defend him, and Pedro went to the kingdom of Granada looking for support. After he joined an army, Pedro started his return to Castilla, but Enrique’s army went to meet him, and it was provocated the Battle of Montiel, in Ciudad Real. There, they locked Pedro, and then, a mate of Enrique cheated on him so he could take him to the place where camped the army of his stepbrother, and there he has been murdered by Enrique de Trastámara.

Now his body lies in the Castle of Montiel, maybe one day he will be transfered to another place. RIP.

Onte, 3 de outubro de 1483, Pedro Pardo de Cela Aguiar e Ribadeneira máis coñecido como don Pedro Pardo de Cela foi executado xunto co seu fillo Pedro diante da catedral mindoniense. Este naceu no ano 1425 en Betanzos, nunha aldea de Lugo, e finou con tan só 58 anos.

Antes de conseguir o título de mariscal foi un señor feudal que ao morrer o seu irmán, herdou todas as propiedades e privilexios da familia. No 1441 casou con Isabel de Castro, filla do Conde de Lemos, que viñera co seu tío á cidade de Mondoñedo, onde era bispo e Pardo de Cela, meiriño. Cando este falece 4 anos despois, Pardo de Cela trasladase a Viveiro onde chega a ser alcalde, obtendo no 1474 o título de mariscal, aínda que dous anos despois foi destituído da alcaldía polos Reis Católicos e expulsado por estes mesmos de Viveiro, prohibíndolle a súa entrada. Os reis querían a morte de Pardo de Cela xa que nunca acatara as ordes do seu poder eclesial e por ser poderoso.

Onte, a súa muller asistiu enseguida a unha audiencia coa súa prima obtendo así un indulto condicional para os tres nobres galegos condenados a morte. Fronte a multitude que esperaba o indulto para o seu señor, o último defensor da soberanía do Reino de Galicia, foi decapitado Pardo de Cela facendo que a súa cabeza rodara ata a porta da Catedral.

O vindeiro martes, será enterrado dentro da Catedral de Mondoñedo co bispo mindoniense.

Máis información en:

https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_Pardo_de_Cela

A few days ago ended the civil war, which intermittently faced the members and supporters of the House of Lancaster against the House of York between 1455 and 1487, after the English were expelled from France. This was developed in England on the occasion of the succession to the throne between these two partisans. It received the name of the War between the Two Roses in reference to the roses that identified both contenders, the Lacncaster a red rose and the York a white rose. It was also called War between Cousins.
In the course of the Hundred Years’ War, the Plantagenet dynasty lost the support of the English people due to the defeats suffered by Richard IV against the knight Duguesclin. This favored the arrival of the family of Lancaster to the throne of England, whose first representative was Henry IV. After the war in France, and due to new military failures and loss of territories, the popular discontent turned against the Lancaster and his descendant Henry Vl (1422-1471).
As this last monarch suffered from periods of mental imbalance, he took over as regent his wife Queen Margaret of Anjou, of French origin. As the representatives of the York family objected, there were several disturbances, and the government remained in the hands of regents until the Parliament granted the title of “protector and defender of the kingdom” to Duke Richard of York. As the Lancasters opposed this appointment, there was a civil war that lasted thirty years, The War between the Two Roses.
This war was characterized by its extreme cruelty. It began the 22 of May in 1455 , when Ricardo, the Duke of York, confronted Enrique Vl, of the Lancaster house. Being the loser of Lancaster’s house, Ricardo defeated her again at the Battle of Northampton. The army of York, directed by Ricardo, helped by the treason between the leaders Lancaster, managed to capture to the king Enrique I, taking it prisoner to London. Ricardo was recognized king, but shortly after was killed in the battle of Wakefield, in December 1460. Ricardo was succeeded by his son Eduardo who proclaimed himself sovereign as Edward IV (1461-1483), ruling with great energy. Then the brother of the latter, Ricardo III, who committed numerous crimes and abuses, reason why the nobility supported Enrique Tudor, who defeated and killed the despot at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485.
The War of the Two Roses was won by Enrique Tudor, who was crowned as Henry VII (descendant of the Lancaster), initiating the Tudor dynasty. The new monarch, has put an end to the dynastic problems by marrying Isabel of York, daughter of Edward IV.