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Speaker 1: a live show, right, you better write to I Heart

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Speaker 1: the kids are doing it these days. Hashtags. Get a

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Speaker 1: hashtag going live show, ridiculous romance hashtag in that order,

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Speaker 1: something TikTok campaign or something. You get some gen zs

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Speaker 1: in here to help us out. Well, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the show. I'm Eli, I'm Diana. Do we say that already?

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Speaker 1: Who knows we've now we've said it. That's usually how

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Speaker 1: we meet people to write. Yeah, I do introduce myself

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Speaker 1: five or six times, well because I don't know about you.

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Speaker 1: Now it's weird. By the way, my name is. I'm

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Speaker 1: mean they're all related, you know, of course, because that's

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Speaker 1: That's what I was like. Every time I was looking

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Speaker 1: to tell this other crazy piece that's crazy. We're teasing

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Speaker 1: Eli's dear mother, Barbara Banks, Hey love her, big fan

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Speaker 1: Could you could say that in a way, Well, she

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Speaker 1: Welcome to another Royals edition of ridiculous romance. Hey, their French,

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Speaker 1: There's no matchmaking a romantic tips, It's just about ridiculous relationships.

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Speaker 1: In Alfonso the eleven had been King of Castile for

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Speaker 1: But only two years later, Alfonso decided to have his

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Speaker 1: which is adorable for a little nine year old girl

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Speaker 1: Princess Leiah and Obi wan vibes, are y'all watching Obi

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Speaker 1: WANs very good. I'm liking it. Everything he really does.

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Speaker 1: It really does help, alright, So Alfonso decides he's going

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Speaker 1: And as soon as she and Constanza arrived in Portugal,

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00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:38,960
Speaker 1: Peter the first only head eyes for in Yes. Oh jeez, Peter,

419
00:27:39,080 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 1: you're no better than Alfonso. Poor Constanza. She's like, everywhere

420
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:47,320
Speaker 1: I go, I get rejected. I've been in two prisons,

421
00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: married by proxy, married annulled. I've had it all over

422
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: the place. Everybody's fighting war is over me without asking

423
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,120
Speaker 1: me my opinion on the matter at all. And then

424
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: I finally get to go hang out with this guy

425
00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:01,479
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be married to who's king and he

426
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:07,040
Speaker 1: falls from my maiden. She's like, what's the matter with Constanza? Right?

427
00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:12,320
Speaker 1: Isn't Constanza good enough for anyone? You are enough, Constanza

428
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: are enough? Constanza? Damn it? Well, Peter. The first affection

429
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:21,320
Speaker 1: for in Yes seemed to be very mutual, and they

430
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 1: embarked on a passionate love affair. Why don't they just

431
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,879
Speaker 1: marry the woman they're in love with? These kings, you know,

432
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:29,560
Speaker 1: they're not always allowed to do what they want to

433
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:32,520
Speaker 1: do so. At this point, of course, Peter is still

434
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,200
Speaker 1: the heir to the throne. He's not king yet. His father,

435
00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:39,520
Speaker 1: Alfonso the fourth is still the King of Portugal. But

436
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:42,800
Speaker 1: it's not long before Peter is showing a preference for

437
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:48,560
Speaker 1: his mistress over his betrothed, just like Alfonso the eleventh,

438
00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:51,040
Speaker 1: the King of Castile. These two guys got a lot

439
00:28:51,080 --> 00:28:54,760
Speaker 1: in common in that regard. Damnit Peter. His dad must

440
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: have been so annoyed by this, right because Don Juan

441
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:00,959
Speaker 1: is like, is there another motherfucker trying to dishonor my daughter? Constanza?

442
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: All Right, you know what I do when my daughter

443
00:29:02,920 --> 00:29:08,800
Speaker 1: is dishonored, I start conspiring. So Alfonso the King of

444
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: Portugal is concerned about how his son's infatuation with his

445
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 1: mistress is going to affect his alliance with Don Juan

446
00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 1: in Castile. So he exiled in yes, to Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque,

447
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:29,480
Speaker 1: New Mexico. I guess there's Albuquerque in Portugal. O g Albuquerque.

448
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: But Peter the horny Prince, his passion was not quenched. Now.

449
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: He and Constanza gave birth to a son named Louise

450
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: In and Constanza tried to kind of scotch the affair

451
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,360
Speaker 1: by making in Yez the boy's godmother. This is some

452
00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: this is some deep legal trickery, because according to the

453
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: Catholic Church, her being his godmother basically made her family.

454
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:59,200
Speaker 1: So for Peter and in Yes to get it on

455
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: is religiously considered incest. She's like, I'm gonna pull that

456
00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:12,440
Speaker 1: moral kinship card. But this kid, Louise died after only

457
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: eight days, which apparently caused a little whispering among the

458
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: court that perhaps in Yes had something to do with that.

459
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:26,960
Speaker 1: Maybe they were in a speculation station. Well do you

460
00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: think that in Yes killed a baby? I okay, that's

461
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:37,600
Speaker 1: dark killed. That sounds crazy, not beneath some of these royals.

462
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: But here's my thought. Here's my thought. Maybe she didn't

463
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: kill this baby. She was just like, you know, I've

464
00:30:44,520 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: got him in a little in his little uh bed here,

465
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:52,280
Speaker 1: and I'm going down by the river and let me

466
00:30:52,320 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: just set you down for a second while I picked

467
00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:59,480
Speaker 1: some flowers. Oh where is that baby? I just set

468
00:30:59,560 --> 00:31:01,920
Speaker 1: him down a little floating bed right at the edge

469
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: of the river, and he's just gone, you clumsy, Oh

470
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: my god. And yes, wow, she hold him in his arms. Yeah,

471
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: and still yeah, so this is my godson. I have

472
00:31:18,440 --> 00:31:24,600
Speaker 1: to make sure that his raft is extra floaty justin case. Yeah,

473
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: I wanted to be prepared. I don't know. I'm also like, well,

474
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: I think I think Peter and Constanza were like second cousins,

475
00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: so you know, at some point the babies are going

476
00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:41,280
Speaker 1: to have some health issues and they're not going to

477
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: live very long, so it could just be that. Yeah,

478
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,760
Speaker 1: but you know, ship, I love to accuse people on murder,

479
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: so this speculation train well, and it's true. At the

480
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: end of the day, we can definitely see why people

481
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:01,280
Speaker 1: thought this, why these whisperings were happening at court, because

482
00:32:01,600 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 1: it's it wouldn't have been the craziest thing to happen.

483
00:32:06,200 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: People did it frequently. I guess, like it was just

484
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: shenanigans with the babies and the lineages and everything just

485
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,720
Speaker 1: was so common. That's why they had so many. Yeah,

486
00:32:16,880 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: you know, I guess so they were like, just in

487
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: case when I have twelve heirs to the throne, so

488
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: that you know, they can't get through all of them

489
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 1: scatter into the winds. You'll never find them all. All

490
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:31,680
Speaker 1: my bastards litter this kingdom. So yeah, her little scheme

491
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: to make in Yes the godmother did not work. But

492
00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: in thirty five can Stanza gave birth to the heir Ferdinand.

493
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 1: That was good news. And then in thirteen forty nine

494
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,880
Speaker 1: she died giving birth to a daughter. Also died only

495
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,400
Speaker 1: a few days later. That's very sad. So that is

496
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: very sad. Again, not an uncommon story in medieval times

497
00:32:54,200 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: particularly um. But yeah, she died and Peter was mingle

498
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: and he was not ready to mingle. Alfonso really wanted him.

499
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,280
Speaker 1: He was like getting him on tinder and like check

500
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: all these bibs. His dad, Yeah, his dad really was

501
00:33:11,960 --> 00:33:15,120
Speaker 1: just like you need to remarry? Sure, I mean, yeah, yeah,

502
00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,520
Speaker 1: do you need to remarry? Um, of course you do.

503
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:19,760
Speaker 1: You're a young king. You got the queen, makes sense.

504
00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:24,360
Speaker 1: But instead of being tempted by any of these royal honeys,

505
00:33:24,840 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 1: he moved in within yes, and started living with her

506
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: in secret, and then she started having children with him.

507
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: I mean she gave birth to their first son in

508
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,960
Speaker 1: thirteen fifty. They named him Afonso, and that just feels

509
00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: a little bit like a rost to me, because he's

510
00:33:40,240 --> 00:33:43,920
Speaker 1: like my legitimate son with my wife, who you approve of.

511
00:33:44,720 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: I'm naming Ferdinand hat but my first son, with my

512
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: illegitimate with my illegitimate mistress, who you don't approve of,

513
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: I'm naming her after you. It just feels like appointed

514
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: name to pick. Wow. However, that kid did die shortly

515
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: after his children. But then she had two other sons

516
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:13,319
Speaker 1: and a daughter between thirteen fifty one and thirteen fifty four,

517
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: and they were doing great. In fact, her sons were

518
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,719
Speaker 1: healthier than Peter's legitimate air Ferdinand and Afonso knew that

519
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: that was going to be a problem in the near future. Okay,

520
00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:28,120
Speaker 1: it's like my my grandson, heir to the throne, he's

521
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:31,320
Speaker 1: not doing so hot, and you got these other kids

522
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: turning around with your mistress. Either he's going to die

523
00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: of natural causes, are they're going to think he's weak

524
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:42,600
Speaker 1: enough to overthrow because he is. And a lot of

525
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: that concern came from the fact that over in Castile

526
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: in thirteen fifty Alfonso the King had finally died and

527
00:34:50,640 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: his legitimate son with Maria, Peter of Castile, had Peter

528
00:34:55,719 --> 00:35:00,160
Speaker 1: alert this is our second Peter Peters he inherited the throne.

529
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: So Peter, the son of Alfonso and Maria, King of Castile,

530
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: and then you've got Peter the first uh, the son

531
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:16,440
Speaker 1: of the king of Portugal, Peter Castile, Peter Portugal, Peter Portugal,

532
00:35:16,680 --> 00:35:23,880
Speaker 1: Peter Castile. Love it. But Alfonso's illegitimate son with his mistress.

533
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: Remember Eleanor was Henry Trastamara we talked about earlier. He

534
00:35:29,520 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: immediately threw his hat in the ring. He pulled a

535
00:35:31,920 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 1: Rendley Marathi and he was like, actually I should be king,

536
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,480
Speaker 1: and Castile was thrown into a civil war. Now Alfonso

537
00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: is looking at this and he's like, this is exactly

538
00:35:41,640 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 1: what I'm worried about. My grandson, my you know, half grandchild.

539
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,560
Speaker 1: What is that? My my illegitimate grandchildren with the mistress.

540
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,600
Speaker 1: Once my son Peter takes the throne in Portugal, all

541
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be fighting over who inherits next.

542
00:35:57,760 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: Alfonso himself had had the similar struggle against his own

543
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 1: bastard brothers when he came to power, and it might

544
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:06,919
Speaker 1: be the reason he himself never had a mistress more

545
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: trouble than their worth. He apparently broke a long tradition

546
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: of Portuguese kings by not having any legitimate children at all.

547
00:36:14,719 --> 00:36:18,640
Speaker 1: And it's they think that it's because he and his

548
00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: Queen Beatrice got along super well. Oh been super in

549
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,440
Speaker 1: love or they just respected each other a lot. And

550
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 1: he seriously was like, I do not want y'all to

551
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:33,000
Speaker 1: be dealing with these half brothers running around trying to

552
00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,560
Speaker 1: cause strife. Unlike my predecessors and my son. I know

553
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: where babies come from, and I'm not going to go

554
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: start doing that right. But you know, the more immediate

555
00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:49,080
Speaker 1: problem here was that in Yez's brothers, who were two

556
00:36:49,120 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: powerful Galician noblemen, were becoming his son, Peter's most trusted advisers.

557
00:36:56,600 --> 00:37:01,040
Speaker 1: This is Peter, Prince of Portugal. He started giving these

558
00:37:01,040 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: two guys important positions at court. He's like, hey, you

559
00:37:05,560 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: guys are my are my mistress's brothers? Yeah, whatever you

560
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: want getting here, hang out, tell me what to do.

561
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,200
Speaker 1: The de Castro brothers are here. Time for a party now.

562
00:37:16,320 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: These guys were allied with Henry Trostamara, who was hiding

563
00:37:21,520 --> 00:37:24,360
Speaker 1: out in Portugal because he'd been exiled by his brother,

564
00:37:25,080 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: and Afonso, the King of Portugal, worried that once he

565
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: himself died, the Portuguese throne was going to fall into

566
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:37,479
Speaker 1: Castilian hands because you've got these two, uh, basically pro

567
00:37:37,760 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: Henry Castilians who want to overthrow Peter the King of Castile.

568
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: They wanted, they're they're they're saying Henry has the right

569
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:52,000
Speaker 1: to the throne, and their buddies with Peter Portugal. So

570
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,919
Speaker 1: it's Justo's whole thing was that the Castilian lands would

571
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: become Portuguese, not that the Portuguese lands would go Castilians,

572
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: just the opposite. I said, Oh that planning for nothing.

573
00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:08,479
Speaker 1: So many weddings. Now, At first, he was so sure

574
00:38:08,560 --> 00:38:11,719
Speaker 1: that Peter's infatuation would burn itself out that he just

575
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,719
Speaker 1: did the tender thing right. He's just like telling him

576
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,439
Speaker 1: about royal princess. As the royal princess. He's like, marry

577
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:19,120
Speaker 1: this one, what about this one? What about this one?

578
00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: She's hot, she's from a special place that we need,

579
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:24,480
Speaker 1: I don't know whatever, and this one's a powerful marriage,

580
00:38:24,680 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: let's do it. And Peter's basically like, oh, father, I'm

581
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: only too happy to remarry. I'll do it today if

582
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: you like, but I'll only marry and yes, Dick Castro

583
00:38:36,600 --> 00:38:39,239
Speaker 1: and Afonso is like, god damn it, Peter, No, she's

584
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: the only person I won't let you marry. Basically, so

585
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: finally he realized he's fighting a losing battle. Peter is

586
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: not going to give up in Yes, he just needed

587
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:50,239
Speaker 1: to get rid of it, Yes, and he needed to

588
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: do it fast. So he decided to take a page

589
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:59,120
Speaker 1: out of his daughter's book. Maria. That's right, because back

590
00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:03,840
Speaker 1: in thirteen fifty, when Alfonso the eleventh had died, Maria

591
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: wanted revenge on her husband's mistress because she was the favorite,

592
00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,240
Speaker 1: you know, and she didn't like that ship. She felt rejected. Yeah, Eleanor,

593
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,800
Speaker 1: she's like Eleanor Duguzman is not is her son and

594
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:20,080
Speaker 1: on grata around here, and so she threw her son,

595
00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:24,320
Speaker 1: had Eleanor arrested, and then in thirteen fifty one ordered

596
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 1: her execution, and in that way she was revenged upon

597
00:39:28,160 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: the mistress who her husband liked better than because I

598
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 1: guess she couldn't kill the husband, so she had to

599
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,799
Speaker 1: kill someone about it. Fury, they say, that's what they say.

600
00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: Someone said that. And Alfonso, her father, was like m

601
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:50,239
Speaker 1: brutal but effective, so he had in yes, imprisoned in

602
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: a convent in thirteen fifty four, and in thirteen fifty

603
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 1: five he ordered her execution. Damn. So he just copied

604
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: what Maria did to Eleanor definitely, and yes, so yeah,

605
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 1: three guys went to the convent and and yes, was

606
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:09,640
Speaker 1: beheaded in front of one of her young children, which

607
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: is pretty fucked up. I don't know why they couldn't

608
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: just drag the kid away or like take her somewhere.

609
00:40:14,000 --> 00:40:16,719
Speaker 1: These guys are not good at their jobs. Terrible. So

610
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: when Peter heard this, Peter Portugal, of course he was

611
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: in rage, incandescent with rage. His love of his life

612
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,480
Speaker 1: and also, you killed her in front of one of

613
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 1: my kids with her. That is not cool, very uncool.

614
00:40:32,040 --> 00:40:35,040
Speaker 1: So he put himself in charge of the army and

615
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: he launched an offense against his father, but it was

616
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 1: quashed within a year and they were reconciled with one another.

617
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:48,960
Speaker 1: And shortly after, in thirty seven, Afonso died and Peter

618
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 1: the First became the king of Portugal. And now he

619
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: could have it all his way, and we will find

620
00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: out what way that was right after this, Right back,

621
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,799
Speaker 1: welcome back to the show, everybody. Okay, So Peter Portugal

622
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:17,240
Speaker 1: is king. Now he's super mad that his his beloved

623
00:41:17,719 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: mistress has been killed. And now he's king. His dad's

624
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,000
Speaker 1: out of the picture. He's in charge, so he immediately

625
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,759
Speaker 1: went and told everyone that he had married in Yes,

626
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:32,360
Speaker 1: in secret in thirteen fifty four, and that their children

627
00:41:32,360 --> 00:41:35,719
Speaker 1: were actually legitimate and in Yes was the rightful Queen

628
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:41,720
Speaker 1: of Portugal. Oh wow, really, everyone said, are you sure?

629
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:43,799
Speaker 1: Let me can? I can? You can? I talk to

630
00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:48,000
Speaker 1: your supervisor about that. No, I'm the king. No one's

631
00:41:48,040 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: above me, So there is no proof at all that

632
00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 1: any wedding took place. But he's the king, you know. Again,

633
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: who's who's gonna question that? So everyone just kind of

634
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 1: had to take his word for it. Only later on

635
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:04,840
Speaker 1: it actually was litigated because the illegitimate son was like

636
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,520
Speaker 1: vying for the throne and was like, well, if you

637
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,560
Speaker 1: let you're not legitimate because you're from this illegitimate strain.

638
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,879
Speaker 1: They never married, And then they said no, I mean

639
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,440
Speaker 1: it was legitimate enough that they inherited. So at this

640
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,440
Speaker 1: point and anyway, it turned into a whole litigation like

641
00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: a long time later later on. Yeah, so they're kind

642
00:42:23,680 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: of like, basically they're married posthumously because everyone agreed that

643
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,920
Speaker 1: they were married sort of, but there probably was the

644
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,799
Speaker 1: ceremony or any paperwork. If you believe it hard enough,

645
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:37,680
Speaker 1: it's true, it's true. So in thirteen sixty Peter Portugal

646
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: dug up and yes this body and transported it in

647
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 1: a grand procession to be royally intooped. He ended up

648
00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:49,319
Speaker 1: having matching marble coffins made for them both, and they

649
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,799
Speaker 1: were elaborately decorated with the story of their love. I

650
00:42:52,840 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: wonder if I wonder if Constanza made an appearance and

651
00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:59,799
Speaker 1: there at all her out, but they did include the

652
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: b heading. Oh man, it was very true to life.

653
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: So perhaps constanzas in there somewhere, like with a big

654
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: X circle Constanza, I know, right, And maybe he had

655
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,520
Speaker 1: no ill will towards Constanza was I just love this lady.

656
00:43:18,560 --> 00:43:22,400
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Well you're fine, thanks for having my kids,

657
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 1: right Constanza pen through enough for real. So these tombs

658
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:29,600
Speaker 1: are like elaborately decorated. They've got the story of their

659
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 1: love all carved out in them, and the words until

660
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:35,399
Speaker 1: the End of the World were carved into the top,

661
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: which is quite romantic. Romantic, and these tombs are placed

662
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,800
Speaker 1: facing one another, the idea of being at the last judgment.

663
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,240
Speaker 1: These two will rise from the dead facing one another.

664
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 1: They be the first thing they see and they rise

665
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: from the dead, which is creepy. And his zombies look

666
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 1: look like always. Um. It does seem that Peter Portugal

667
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,440
Speaker 1: never remarried either, Um, though he did have another illegitimate child,

668
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,760
Speaker 1: John of Avis in thirty seven, with a woman named Teresa.

669
00:44:15,000 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: We'll get back to John of Avis in a little bit.

670
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 1: Legend has it that Peter didn't stop at a grand

671
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 1: funeral procession for in Yes, though he also had her

672
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: decaying body dressed in royal coronation clothes and jewels, and

673
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:34,440
Speaker 1: had her propped up on the throne and made nobles

674
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: like come in and kiss her hands and give her

675
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:40,840
Speaker 1: all the royal treatment and subjugation that she was denied

676
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: in life. Now, apparently this story only appears in a

677
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:48,720
Speaker 1: play that was written in fifteen seventy seven. Of course,

678
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: so many years after the occasions of this story. So

679
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,640
Speaker 1: it's not likely that that is true. You know, that's

680
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:59,440
Speaker 1: not something that's out of bounds for royal to do.

681
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 1: It's you happened, But I'm not sure that actually happened here. Um. However,

682
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 1: Peter and and Yes is doomed love and his struggle

683
00:45:07,120 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: with his father, and like all these great themes, you know,

684
00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: naturally inspired over twenty operas and countless authors and playwrights

685
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: and stuff, and they nearly always include this legend, this

686
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: motif and because that's that's good storytelling, honest. A weekend

687
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:30,360
Speaker 1: at Bernie's like decaying corpse in a beautiful velvet cown. Yeah,

688
00:45:30,560 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: that that really puts a punch at the hand that

689
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: some noble has to be like, right, there's rings on it,

690
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: you know, it's true. They're like for the stage. It's perfect.

691
00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: It's reminding me of we're watching The Great right now,

692
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,760
Speaker 1: we're in the middle of season one. Yeah, it's reminded

693
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: me of that with his mother's corpse, all those fancy

694
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: clothes Royally Royal, Oh Royals is so crazy. So Peter

695
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,680
Speaker 1: Port should go here is also still super piste about

696
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:06,520
Speaker 1: this woman being executed, and he's looking for those three

697
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: executioners themselves, and in thirteen sixty one, through some super sleuthing,

698
00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:15,240
Speaker 1: he found them. One of the three managed to escape,

699
00:46:15,239 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: but the other two were put on trial, where Peter

700
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: declared them guilty. I'm like, he put them on trial

701
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,840
Speaker 1: just to talk to them in public because he was

702
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: the judge sangaroo court. Yeah, yeah, I already knew what

703
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: I was going to do with you when I went

704
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: looking for you. Yes. He said in court that they

705
00:46:35,320 --> 00:46:38,799
Speaker 1: had ripped his heart out when they killed in Yes,

706
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,359
Speaker 1: so that it was only fair for him to do

707
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:47,359
Speaker 1: the same with them, And according to contemporary accounts, he

708
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 1: ripped their hearts out of their chests with his bare hands,

709
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: one of them straight through the front and one of

710
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 1: them from the back. Total collima moment. That is crazy,

711
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: and I love it and I hate it. How do

712
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: you like just punch your way through somebody's I'm going

713
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: to go ahead and say I don't think no, I

714
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: don't think it can happen. I mean, maybe he like

715
00:47:17,000 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: carved him open and then pulled the hearts out to

716
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 1: make his point about pulverizing his heart. But I don't

717
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:25,880
Speaker 1: think that's how they died. I feel like he must

718
00:47:25,880 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: have posthumously removed them. Maybe not, but ipetially from the back,

719
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: like you have to get Well, here's the thing. I

720
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,520
Speaker 1: dressed it up in my mind as we're reading it,

721
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 1: that he's just like like that scene in Dumb and Dumber,

722
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: he's just punching right through their chest. But when you

723
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: when you point out that, like maybe he did it

724
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 1: after like carving them a bit, then they might have

725
00:47:49,960 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: still been alive. He was very mad, he was they

726
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: did something very fucked up. He was very upset with them. Well,

727
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: this nasty action earned him his nickname Peter the Cruel,

728
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 1: which is one of those where I'm like, I guess

729
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,239
Speaker 1: that sounded way worse back then, because I'd be like,

730
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:16,360
Speaker 1: Peter the brutally horrific heart grabbing monster, Peter the heart pulverizer,

731
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:21,400
Speaker 1: Peter the Cruel, Peter the Cleaver. Yeah, Peter the Cruel

732
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 1: sounds like he like Pete on somebody's stoop or something sometime,

733
00:48:25,560 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 1: or like, you know, he just he was. He was unlikable.

734
00:48:29,040 --> 00:48:31,080
Speaker 1: He was like unpleasant to be around because he was

735
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:36,239
Speaker 1: kind of insulting, like a rude dude, Peter the Rude.

736
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:40,879
Speaker 1: He ripped my heart out, how rude. Medieval times must

737
00:48:40,920 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: have been dark as ship and they're like, well he

738
00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:45,799
Speaker 1: just ripped a couple of guys hearts. Sound that kind

739
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:47,800
Speaker 1: of deserved it. I guess he's just a little rude.

740
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 1: That's cruel. Yeah, it's not like he's terrible, right, Yeah, Well,

741
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: Peter the Cruel is actually a nickname that he shares

742
00:48:57,600 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 1: with his nephew, Peter of Castile. For him, you mean

743
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: Maria and Alfonso's son, King of Castile, that's right, who

744
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 1: is currently fighting for control of Castile against his illegitimate

745
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,160
Speaker 1: brother Henry trust Tomorrow, the son of Eleanor. So they're

746
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: both named Peter, they're both neighboring country rulers at the

747
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: same time in history, and they're both nicknamed the Cruel.

748
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,400
Speaker 1: Shouldn't there have been like a database for nicknames? Exactly?

749
00:49:25,680 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: Where's the brand awareness? Where is where is the cohesion?

750
00:49:31,560 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: I thought we were overloaded with wands in the beginning,

751
00:49:33,880 --> 00:49:36,279
Speaker 1: but it turns out there's Peters all over the place. Yeah,

752
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 1: you got one, and I got Peters a million to Peter,

753
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:49,600
Speaker 1: Peter to Jane. So Peter of Castile got the nickname

754
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:54,239
Speaker 1: Peter the Cruel because some of his Catholic clergy sided

755
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: with Henry of trust Amara, so in thirteen sixty six

756
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:03,480
Speaker 1: he ordered their executions, and thereafter his detractors painted him

757
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 1: as a murderer of pious clergyman and worse than that,

758
00:50:08,160 --> 00:50:14,879
Speaker 1: a pro Jewish king. What horrible because they were super Catholic, right,

759
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:21,080
Speaker 1: very anti Semitic time um, and Peter of Castile was actually,

760
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: by medieval standards friendly to his Jewish subjects Harrison. Henry

761
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:30,240
Speaker 1: of trust Amara loved a pogrom and he would costly

762
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: be just executing Jewish people, and Peter would try to

763
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: suppress them, so that they were using that against him,

764
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: to call him the king of the Jews and like

765
00:50:40,040 --> 00:50:42,839
Speaker 1: turn Catholics against him, because he was like, what if

766
00:50:42,840 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: I don't do that? Exactly, So Peter of Castile's supporters

767
00:50:48,680 --> 00:50:51,920
Speaker 1: call him Peter the Just instead of Peter the Cruel,

768
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,440
Speaker 1: which funnily enough, is also something he has in common

769
00:50:56,480 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 1: with Peter of Portugal. They were both Peter the Cruel

770
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:05,080
Speaker 1: depending on how you're talking to So thanks a lot, guys,

771
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:09,839
Speaker 1: You were not creative with these names. Did anybody ever

772
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: see him in the same room at the same time?

773
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:18,600
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Well he was his own nephew, Oh

774
00:51:18,640 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: my god. So anyway, yeah, Peter of Castile was losing

775
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,239
Speaker 1: a lot of allies. Over the years, more and more

776
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,520
Speaker 1: noblemen were recognizing Henry trust Amara as the true king

777
00:51:30,640 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 1: of Castile. You mean, the big asshole with no claim

778
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:37,320
Speaker 1: to power who was like a bigot and an anti

779
00:51:37,360 --> 00:51:43,080
Speaker 1: semi managed to get more, uh loud and violent followers

780
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 1: to join up with him. Weirdly, yes, who knew weirdly,

781
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:51,719
Speaker 1: it's almost like you could learn something from history. Almost.

782
00:51:51,880 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: But we'll come on, who wants to do that? Um?

783
00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 1: And I don't want to act like Peter of Castile

784
00:51:57,160 --> 00:52:00,239
Speaker 1: was like a perfect something like that. He's certainly did

785
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:03,319
Speaker 1: some crazy ship too, but um, but I don't think

786
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:06,840
Speaker 1: I'm certainly more on the side of Peter the just

787
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,560
Speaker 1: if he was like, why don't we just not kill

788
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: all these Jewish people for no reason? So anyway, finally

789
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:18,000
Speaker 1: in thirteen sixty nine, Peter of Castile decided to confront

790
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:21,200
Speaker 1: his brother on the battlefield and they had an epic battle,

791
00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: and Henry won, and so Peter hold up in a fortress.

792
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: So Henry sent an envoy named Bertrand to get Clon

793
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,520
Speaker 1: to open up negotiations with Peter of Castile, you know,

794
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:39,480
Speaker 1: to like negotiate his surrender. And Peter offered to get

795
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:44,440
Speaker 1: Clon two hundred thousand gold coins and several towns to

796
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 1: betray Henry, you know, help him out. That's a pretty

797
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 1: good deal. That's a lot of money, that's a lot

798
00:52:51,880 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: of towns, So do get Cloon immediately went back to

799
00:52:55,719 --> 00:52:58,439
Speaker 1: Henry and told him all about the deal, and got

800
00:52:58,480 --> 00:53:00,719
Speaker 1: Henry to give him even more goal in property to

801
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: double across Peter Man classic, Hey, if somebody ever offers

802
00:53:08,320 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: you a bribe to go against the person who hired

803
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:14,000
Speaker 1: you in the first place, go back to the person

804
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 1: who hired you and say, hey, he's gonna offer me more.

805
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 1: You want to the value here? So did get Klan

806
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: tells Peter he'll accept the deal, and he leads him

807
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:27,040
Speaker 1: into his tent to get it all agreed upon. But

808
00:53:27,120 --> 00:53:32,080
Speaker 1: when Peter Castile enters the tent, Henry is there ship

809
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:36,319
Speaker 1: and they stare at each other and they realize they

810
00:53:36,320 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: don't know who each other is. They don't recognize each other.

811
00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: It's kind of hilarious because, according to the historian Lopez

812
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 1: the Ayala, they just kind of stood there looking at

813
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 1: each other for a minute until get Clown was like,

814
00:53:48,440 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: this is your enemy. And King Henry is like, wait,

815
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:55,000
Speaker 1: are you Peter? Are you Peter of Castile? And Peter

816
00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: said yes, I am, I am he And so King

817
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: Henry runs over heads him in the face with a

818
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: knife and then stabbed him until he died, and then

819
00:54:04,680 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 1: he left his body out in public for three days

820
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:12,120
Speaker 1: to be abused and humiliated by anyone who wanted to

821
00:54:13,040 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 1: just cruel and Henry the cruel. Henry went on to

822
00:54:17,040 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 1: rule Castile until thirteen seventy nine. Back in Portugal, Afonso's

823
00:54:22,320 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: predictions came true when Peter the First died in thirteen

824
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:30,520
Speaker 1: sixty seven. His legitimate son Ferdinand became the king, but

825
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:34,799
Speaker 1: then he died in three probably from being poisoned. So

826
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,320
Speaker 1: Afonso was like, he's weak and somebody's going to kill him. Boom.

827
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:41,759
Speaker 1: He got it exactly right. And when Ferdinand died he

828
00:54:41,800 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: only had one daughter living, so he didn't have an

829
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:48,319
Speaker 1: heir to the throne. Whoever she married would basically be

830
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,480
Speaker 1: the king of Portugal, right, So it was like a

831
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:56,120
Speaker 1: hot political issue. Was a raffles serious serious, They're like, fuck,

832
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:58,799
Speaker 1: what dick is going to come in here? Yeah? And

833
00:54:58,840 --> 00:55:02,719
Speaker 1: I'm sure I certainly wonder if it was up to her,

834
00:55:02,920 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: Like they were like, you choose the next king of

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Speaker 1: Portugal for whatever you like best, Princess, I don't think so. Well,

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Speaker 1: apparently she did have a preference. She wanted to marry

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Speaker 1: Henry trust Tomorrow's son John, and Ferdinand had basically been

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Speaker 1: teslain with John of Castile ever since he became King

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Speaker 1: of Castile. Of course, so he's like no. He says

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Speaker 1: no a bunch of times, but he finally lets her

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Speaker 1: have her way and says, okay, she's going to marry

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Speaker 1: John of Castile. Now, Ferdinand said all this before he died,

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Speaker 1: okay um, And he figured it was just a good

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Speaker 1: way for to like cease hostilities with Castile Portugal and

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Speaker 1: Castile will be cool again. Marriage worked before, right, it'll

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Speaker 1: work again. Marriage always works out great for these guys. Great.

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Speaker 1: But then Ferdinand died and Peter, the first illegitimate children

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Speaker 1: Ferdinand's half brothers, said well they should get the throne

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Speaker 1: instead of John of Castile, of course, and yes, his

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Speaker 1: sons John and Denny both thought they should get it,

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Speaker 1: and so did Teresa's son, John of Avis. Don't forget him,

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Speaker 1: the one who came along after, and yes, was killed.

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Speaker 1: Now they tustled for a while in the Crisis of

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Speaker 1: three to five, and eventually the Castilian army was not

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Speaker 1: just defeated, it was annihilated, and there was an undisputed

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Speaker 1: king of Portugal, John of Aviz. John ends up being

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Speaker 1: like this is like at the end, it came a throne.

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Speaker 1: What's his name? Ends up being king and like him.

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Speaker 1: Where did he come from? That really came out of

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Speaker 1: left field, no one guessed. John of Levis and the

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Speaker 1: message boards. Wow, what there's just so many like illegitimate

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Speaker 1: children having around own and causing havoc and strife and

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Speaker 1: deciding there it should be in charge. And all these marriages,

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Speaker 1: they were all the same. I know, what was what

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Speaker 1: was the big deal? Titles? Titles, titles, Land and Gold. Ye,

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Speaker 1: you know, can't we can't we all just get along,

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Speaker 1: get together, share what we got, you know? No, no, Well,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't even get into the fact that the

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Speaker 1: Black Plague is happening this whole time, and so is

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Speaker 1: the Hundred Years War. They had to do all this

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Speaker 1: in masks, in tight fittings, and they managed it. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: that is that is the story of of Peter the

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Speaker 1: First of Portugal and in yes to Castro, as well

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Speaker 1: as Alfonso Alfonso, Peter of Castile, Eleanora Gusman, Maria of Portugal.

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Speaker 1: Who else, Oh, Henry of Chustama and John Avevies. Wow,

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Speaker 1: what a bunch of people. It's a whole lot of people,

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00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:10,560
Speaker 1: I know. It is a lot in too in one

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00:58:10,600 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 1: week to be giving you all these royal names to

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00:58:14,520 --> 00:58:17,960
Speaker 1: keep straight, and so many mistresses and this and that,

880
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: but it was such a fun story to go through insane.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again to Barbara for the suggestion, because it was

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Speaker 1: a lot of fun to take a Portuguese history rabbit

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Speaker 1: hole deep dive. I don't know a lot about Portugal,

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I haven't really looked in at their

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Speaker 1: history much. This is pretty fascinating, I know. And apparently

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Speaker 1: this story of Peter and Yes is like taught. It's

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00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: a very it's like the Romeo and Juliet also by

888
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:47,680
Speaker 1: the fifth grade, everybody knows it. It's very like common story.

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00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:50,960
Speaker 1: There's all these operas and everything exactly, and so they're

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Speaker 1: even like it's amazing how much it's it's permeated even

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Speaker 1: beyond Portugal. But it's like they're like, we're still waiting

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Speaker 1: for I guess the Meo and Juliet telling of it

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00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: that makes it iconic for everyone. Such a it is

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Speaker 1: kind of a similar thing like family struggle against true love,

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Speaker 1: and that's sort of yeah, I want to go to

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Speaker 1: Portugal now, already want to go back to Spain because

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Speaker 1: we had such a great time. Honey, alert, honey, an alert, um,

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Speaker 1: so please let us know if you got a spot

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Speaker 1: we can crash in Portugal um, or just tell us

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Speaker 1: what you thought of this episode, because this was a

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Speaker 1: cookie one. I'm really curious if people how well you

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00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:35,040
Speaker 1: followed all these names and stuff. Let us know about that,

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00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: because it took me a second. But I think we

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Speaker 1: I think we got through it. I think we made

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Speaker 1: it make sense. I hope so again, it's just especially

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Speaker 1: I was like so in it, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: I know that Alfonso and Alfonso are going to be

908
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: the most confusing thing about this story. And then I

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Speaker 1: got to Peter of Portugal and Peter of Castile having

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00:59:52,400 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: the exact same nicknames and nickname options that I was like,

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Speaker 1: I I'm gonna have to go over this one a

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01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 1: few times. And I left out a bunch of people

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Speaker 1: they almost married too for other reasons. It's just wild

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Speaker 1: because one of one of them almost married this girl

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Speaker 1: who then they said she was insane and confined her

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01:00:15,000 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: away and says she was mentally ill and too mentally

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Speaker 1: ill to be a queen, and another one who was

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Speaker 1: supposed to marry a princess from England, which would have

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Speaker 1: allied them with you know, totally different. It would have

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01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,360
Speaker 1: been a completely different history. She got the Black plague

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Speaker 1: because at the time it wasn't in Spain, and so

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Speaker 1: they weren't taking it very seriously. And her and like

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Speaker 1: a bunch of her entourage died, Like you were like,

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Speaker 1: I didn't even get into that story. And then but

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Speaker 1: I didn't tell you who they were or who they

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Speaker 1: were going to marry. I tried to save some details.

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Speaker 1: I wonder why just Peter of Castile didn't go to

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Speaker 1: Peter of Portugal or vice versa and just be like,

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Speaker 1: you know, we're not so different and I were virtually identical.

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Speaker 1: Well apparently go ahead, Well he did go. He was

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Speaker 1: like when he fled Castile, when Henry was kind of

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01:01:14,240 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: like about to take over and he fled Castile, he

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Speaker 1: sought refuge with his uncle, but he was coldly received.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know why, but he was not a fan.

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Speaker 1: I guess they're not fans of each other, I guess,

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Speaker 1: or maybe it's just Castile and Portugally just like, fuck you,

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Speaker 1: I don't like you because you're from there. The sign

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Speaker 1: says no Peter's Peter of Castile was also fighting with Aragon,

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Speaker 1: who was also a Peter, so it was called the

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Speaker 1: War of Two Peters Aragon, so it's yes. It was

941
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Speaker 1: like he was fighting a war with Henry trost Mara

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Speaker 1: and Peter of Aragon, the War of two Peters. Do

943
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Speaker 1: you think Alfonso ever went to Alfonso and said, come on, dude,

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Speaker 1: just take the l well now, I hope he did well. Yes,

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