1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to Noble Blood, a production of I Heart Radio 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:09,880 Speaker 1: and Grim and Mild from Aaron Mankey listener discretion advised. Hey, 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:12,720 Speaker 1: this is Danish Schwartz. Before we begin, just a quick 4 00:00:12,760 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: reminder that I wrote a book that's coming out in February. 5 00:00:16,200 --> 00:00:19,479 Speaker 1: It's called Immortality, a Love Story, and it's the sequel 6 00:00:19,520 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: to the book I wrote called Anatomy, a love story 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: all about a young woman who wants to be a 8 00:00:23,680 --> 00:00:27,560 Speaker 1: surgeon in the early eighteen hundreds in Scotland, and a 9 00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:30,960 Speaker 1: lot of characters actually that I've covered on this podcast 10 00:00:31,080 --> 00:00:36,320 Speaker 1: appear in Immortality. 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On a night in the year 21 00:01:12,319 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: thirteen sixty King Pedro the First of Portugal sat down 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: in his castle's dining hall in sent o m for 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: what he expected to be an especially satisfying meal. Servants 24 00:01:25,200 --> 00:01:29,399 Speaker 1: walked in with platters piled high with assorted meats, while 25 00:01:29,440 --> 00:01:32,920 Speaker 1: bottles of wine were being brought forth for the king's approval. 26 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: Though despite the extravagant spread, it quickly became apparent to 27 00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:42,200 Speaker 1: all in the room that the king didn't have much 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:46,600 Speaker 1: interest in the feast laid out before him. Between the 29 00:01:46,840 --> 00:01:51,360 Speaker 1: softly taken footsteps of servers and the muted clatter of 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,120 Speaker 1: cutlery against serving dishes, the air that was hanging in 31 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:59,160 Speaker 1: the dining hall that evening was charged with a layer 32 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 1: of antis A patient Those in the room attempted to 33 00:02:03,880 --> 00:02:07,960 Speaker 1: maintain the facade of normalcy, but at the center of 34 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,600 Speaker 1: it all, the king sat motionless, his vacant gaze unmoving 35 00:02:14,120 --> 00:02:19,120 Speaker 1: as plate after plate of untouched food arrived in front 36 00:02:19,160 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 1: of him. Perhaps the king wasn't looking at his plate 37 00:02:24,160 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: so much as he was staring at the knife next 38 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:32,160 Speaker 1: to it, watching the metal glint invitingly in the flickers 39 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:36,760 Speaker 1: of candlelight around the room. Or maybe he was distracted 40 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:41,320 Speaker 1: by the empty chair next to him the space that 41 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,200 Speaker 1: had once upon a time been reserved for his queen, 42 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,799 Speaker 1: his beloved, and as de Castro, the woman who continued 43 00:02:49,880 --> 00:02:53,360 Speaker 1: to hold his heart, even if he could only see 44 00:02:53,400 --> 00:02:58,400 Speaker 1: her in the negative spaces that, even five years after 45 00:02:58,520 --> 00:03:04,760 Speaker 1: her death persist did inexorably like an opened wound. Whatever 46 00:03:04,960 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: was holding the King's attention during that dinner, the audible 47 00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:13,520 Speaker 1: trail of footsteps echoing from beyond the dining hall quickly 48 00:03:13,600 --> 00:03:18,160 Speaker 1: shifted his focus back into the present, His eyes locked 49 00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:22,520 Speaker 1: onto the door with newfound excitement, just as the entry 50 00:03:22,560 --> 00:03:26,280 Speaker 1: gave way and his guards at long last brought in 51 00:03:26,360 --> 00:03:30,040 Speaker 1: the final two dinner guests that the king had been 52 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: waiting for that evening, though really King Pedro had been 53 00:03:35,440 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 1: waiting for these two men for the better part of 54 00:03:39,040 --> 00:03:44,200 Speaker 1: five years. The two guests in question were Alvaro Gonzales 55 00:03:44,280 --> 00:03:47,920 Speaker 1: and Pero Coilo, two of the men responsible for the 56 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:51,840 Speaker 1: brutal murder of the King's beloved and as to Castro 57 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:57,280 Speaker 1: in thirteen fifty five. After years of searching, King Pedro 58 00:03:57,360 --> 00:04:00,720 Speaker 1: had finally managed to track two of the assas essence down, 59 00:04:01,160 --> 00:04:05,119 Speaker 1: bringing them back to Portugal to stand trial for their crimes. 60 00:04:05,960 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: Of course, the main perpetrator in his love's murder was 61 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:15,680 Speaker 1: Pedro's own father, King Alfonso the Fourth, but considering that 62 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:19,320 Speaker 1: the late king had died in thirteen fifty seven, there 63 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 1: was little more Pedro could do to punish his father 64 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:27,080 Speaker 1: from this side of the earthly plane. Gonsalves and Quelo, however, 65 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:31,800 Speaker 1: were still very much alive in offense that King Pedro 66 00:04:32,520 --> 00:04:37,760 Speaker 1: sought to rectify personally. There was little struggle from the 67 00:04:37,800 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: men as the armed guards marched them into the hall. 68 00:04:42,240 --> 00:04:45,640 Speaker 1: After all, upon their return to Portugal, a trial had 69 00:04:45,680 --> 00:04:49,920 Speaker 1: swiftly concluded that both men were guilty of murder. Their 70 00:04:49,920 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: fates had been sealed from that moment, their deaths assured. 71 00:04:54,320 --> 00:04:58,119 Speaker 1: All that was left was to face their sentence, though 72 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,800 Speaker 1: I imagine their sense of res all all but crumbled 73 00:05:01,880 --> 00:05:07,640 Speaker 1: upon hearing their king's plans for them. That evening, as 74 00:05:07,680 --> 00:05:11,720 Speaker 1: the men were held helplessly at the King's mercy, Pedro 75 00:05:12,000 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: looked down at the killers with the same cold stare 76 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:20,839 Speaker 1: they had likely given his beloved Inez before repeatedly running 77 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:26,160 Speaker 1: their swords through her chest. The vacant expression that the 78 00:05:26,279 --> 00:05:28,919 Speaker 1: king had held at the beginning of the meal was 79 00:05:29,080 --> 00:05:34,520 Speaker 1: long gone. Vengeance was now clearly burning through all other 80 00:05:34,680 --> 00:05:38,800 Speaker 1: thoughts behind his eyes. For the murder of his wife, 81 00:05:39,360 --> 00:05:44,479 Speaker 1: Pedro's punishment was as simple as it was brutal. The 82 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:49,480 Speaker 1: men were to have their hearts cut out of their chests. 83 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,520 Speaker 1: For a moment. No one moved two, stunned by the 84 00:05:54,600 --> 00:05:58,520 Speaker 1: king's decree to see it put into action. For only 85 00:05:58,760 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: a moment, though then the guards descended upon the men, 86 00:06:03,880 --> 00:06:06,600 Speaker 1: and the room could do nothing but watch on in 87 00:06:06,680 --> 00:06:10,680 Speaker 1: horror as the stones on the dining room floor were 88 00:06:10,720 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: painted in crimson, the walls echoing an endless echo of 89 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: the criminal's blood curdling screams. When the bodies were finally 90 00:06:20,279 --> 00:06:27,160 Speaker 1: relieved of their now unbeating hearts, the hall likewise fell silent. 91 00:06:28,040 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: The only sound was then the scrape of knife on 92 00:06:32,240 --> 00:06:36,800 Speaker 1: plait as King Petrow finally dug into the dinner in 93 00:06:36,880 --> 00:06:40,840 Speaker 1: front of him. If Pedro noticed a change in the air, 94 00:06:41,279 --> 00:06:44,120 Speaker 1: he did not let on. But then again, maybe he 95 00:06:44,160 --> 00:06:47,919 Speaker 1: had found comfort in the grotesque display of violence he 96 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: had enacted. His in nas may have been gone, but 97 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 1: at least now he wasn't the only man to know 98 00:06:55,360 --> 00:06:59,200 Speaker 1: how it felt to live without a heart in his chest. 99 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:19,840 Speaker 1: I'm Dana Schwartz and this is noble blood. Outside of Portugal, 100 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 1: the infamous love story of Pedro the First and an 101 00:07:23,320 --> 00:07:28,200 Speaker 1: esde Castro rarely finds its way into popular discourse. With 102 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:32,160 Speaker 1: so few primary sources on the subject, let alone English 103 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: translations of scholarship available for public consumption, it makes sense 104 00:07:36,760 --> 00:07:39,680 Speaker 1: that the tale of these two ill fated lovers remains 105 00:07:40,240 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 1: outside of Portugal relatively unknown, but within Portugal itself, the 106 00:07:45,800 --> 00:07:48,440 Speaker 1: legend of their love story and the ties they have 107 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,400 Speaker 1: to Portugal's medieval history makes them household names. To better 108 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,000 Speaker 1: understand the context during which their story takes place, I 109 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:00,120 Speaker 1: want to give you a very brief summary of what 110 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: was happening in Portugal, or more accurately, the Kingdom of 111 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:08,920 Speaker 1: Portugal in the fourteenth century. During this time, the Iberian Peninsula, 112 00:08:09,160 --> 00:08:12,640 Speaker 1: or what we today typically think of as Spain and Portugal, 113 00:08:12,960 --> 00:08:15,680 Speaker 1: was comprised of four kingdoms, which for the sake of 114 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: time I won't go into too deeply, except for the 115 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: two which relate to that of our lovers, the Crown 116 00:08:21,640 --> 00:08:26,200 Speaker 1: of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal. By thirteen forty, 117 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:30,480 Speaker 1: the two kingdoms could only be described as having a 118 00:08:30,560 --> 00:08:36,280 Speaker 1: begrudgingly tolerable relationship Back in thirty eight, King Alfonso the 119 00:08:36,320 --> 00:08:39,960 Speaker 1: fourth of Portugal had sent his daughter Maria of Portugal 120 00:08:40,320 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: to be married to the King of Castile, which, rather 121 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: than unifying their kingdoms as one might hope a marriage, 122 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 1: would only serve to create a larger rift between them. 123 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:55,479 Speaker 1: This was largely due to Alfonso the Fourth receiving reports 124 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:59,480 Speaker 1: that his daughter was being mistreated by the King of Castile, who, 125 00:08:59,679 --> 00:09:03,800 Speaker 1: quite after their union, began to pretty immediately take up 126 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,360 Speaker 1: with a mistress. In retaliation, Alfonso the Fourth arranged for 127 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 1: his son Pedro the First of Portugal to marry a 128 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: Castilian noble woman named Costanza Manuel. For those curious as 129 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:21,000 Speaker 1: to why this specific union would be considered a retaliation, 130 00:09:21,600 --> 00:09:26,600 Speaker 1: Costanza was, funnily enough, the King of Castile's first wife. 131 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:30,120 Speaker 1: Costanza's father had arranged her marriage with the Castilian king 132 00:09:30,360 --> 00:09:33,360 Speaker 1: when she was just nine years old, which meant that 133 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:36,600 Speaker 1: when the previously mentioned daughter of Alfonso the Fourth of 134 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:40,600 Speaker 1: Portugal was presented as another possible wife for him, the 135 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:45,080 Speaker 1: king promptly annulled their unconsummated marriage so he could wed 136 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 1: Maria of Portugal instead. So really, in other words, Costanza 137 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:53,880 Speaker 1: was the jilted first wife of the King of Castile, 138 00:09:54,040 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: who then chose Alfonso's daughter instead. It's a little complicated, 139 00:09:59,080 --> 00:10:02,360 Speaker 1: but I think you the basic picture. Cut to a 140 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,679 Speaker 1: few years later, and the King of Castile is suddenly 141 00:10:05,720 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 1: faced with the consequences of his actions in the form 142 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: of his current and former father in law's deciding to 143 00:10:12,640 --> 00:10:16,160 Speaker 1: unite their collective hatred of him with the strategic marriage 144 00:10:16,160 --> 00:10:19,880 Speaker 1: between his own ex wife, Constanta Manuel and the future 145 00:10:19,960 --> 00:10:24,040 Speaker 1: King of Portugal, Pedro the First. Now, I'm going to 146 00:10:24,200 --> 00:10:27,760 Speaker 1: fast forward a bit because the ensuing war and ultimate 147 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:31,679 Speaker 1: peace treaty don't exactly serve the story in any significant way. 148 00:10:31,960 --> 00:10:35,600 Speaker 1: But from this web of marriages and political ally ship, 149 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,600 Speaker 1: I think the two most important points to take away 150 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:43,240 Speaker 1: from this are one, regardless of treatise, tensions between the 151 00:10:43,280 --> 00:10:46,880 Speaker 1: Crown of Castile and the Kingdom of Portugal, we're fraying 152 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: dangerously thin. And two, in thirteen forty, Alfonso's son Pedro 153 00:10:53,880 --> 00:10:58,720 Speaker 1: would marry Costanza Manuel, which is where our story truly begins, 154 00:10:58,840 --> 00:11:02,800 Speaker 1: because when Constanza arrived in Portugal, she did so with 155 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:06,880 Speaker 1: her lady in waiting, a Galician noblewoman by the name 156 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: of Inez de Castro. Now, unfortunately for poor Costanza neither 157 00:11:13,360 --> 00:11:18,480 Speaker 1: her first nor second marriage were destined to be fairytale romances. 158 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:21,840 Speaker 1: In fact, almost as soon as she arrived at court 159 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,560 Speaker 1: with Annez and how Pedro all but cast her aside 160 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:28,960 Speaker 1: in favor of her lady in waiting. He of course 161 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:32,480 Speaker 1: still performed his marital duties so as to secure himself 162 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:35,600 Speaker 1: an heir to the Portuguese throne. But that was about 163 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:39,680 Speaker 1: the extent of Pedro and his wife's relationship. As you 164 00:11:39,720 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: can probably imagine, poor Costanza was less than thrilled with 165 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: this development. Yes, she was set to become the future 166 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,840 Speaker 1: Queen of Portugal and her son would one day become king, 167 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:55,280 Speaker 1: but she played this game once before. One annulment later, 168 00:11:55,440 --> 00:11:59,240 Speaker 1: and Costanza knew all too well how precarious her seemingly 169 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,520 Speaker 1: cemented place in court really was. So in an effort 170 00:12:03,679 --> 00:12:06,960 Speaker 1: to keep Annez from continuing her affair with Pedro, in 171 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:11,720 Speaker 1: thirteen forty four, Costanza made a strategic decision and named 172 00:12:11,720 --> 00:12:17,160 Speaker 1: Inez her newborn child's godmother. Now this may seem counterintuitive, 173 00:12:17,559 --> 00:12:20,840 Speaker 1: doesn't it make Annez and her husband even closer, But 174 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: in the context of medieval Portuguese and Catholic traditions, naming 175 00:12:26,040 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: someone a godparent to their child essentially made them family, 176 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: which meant that in one move, Costanza changed Pedro and 177 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:38,719 Speaker 1: and As his relationship from an extramarital affair to scandalous 178 00:12:38,880 --> 00:12:44,080 Speaker 1: lye incestuous. It was a simple and effective solution that 179 00:12:44,200 --> 00:12:47,800 Speaker 1: could have even worked had her son not tragically passed 180 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:52,240 Speaker 1: away just eight days after he was born. As it was, 181 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:56,120 Speaker 1: her son's death brought further suspicion upon Inez by the 182 00:12:56,160 --> 00:13:00,079 Speaker 1: Portuguese court. King Alfonso the Fourth was not blind to 183 00:13:00,160 --> 00:13:03,480 Speaker 1: what was happening between his son and his wife's lady 184 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:07,400 Speaker 1: in waiting, and though he had been unhappy with his 185 00:13:07,480 --> 00:13:11,360 Speaker 1: son's choice and mistress, he had initially dismissed the affair, 186 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:14,280 Speaker 1: hoping it was simply lust and it was clouding his 187 00:13:14,320 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: son's judgment only temporarily. However, after the death of Costanza's 188 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:23,640 Speaker 1: firstborn son, the son to which Anez had been made godmother, 189 00:13:24,160 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: the son keeping Pedro and Anez a part, Alfonso was 190 00:13:28,960 --> 00:13:32,720 Speaker 1: now powerless to stop the rumors that began to stir 191 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:40,000 Speaker 1: at court. How had the child died, hadn't poor Constanza 192 00:13:40,280 --> 00:13:44,400 Speaker 1: named that Harlot the godmother wasn't at all a bit 193 00:13:44,679 --> 00:13:49,920 Speaker 1: too convenient? For years, King Alfonso had allowed Pedro to 194 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,280 Speaker 1: carry on with Anez, but as the rumor mill continued 195 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:56,720 Speaker 1: to speculate, the king decided it was finally time to 196 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,680 Speaker 1: take action, and he banned and As from court. And 197 00:14:00,760 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: that should have been it, at least it would have 198 00:14:03,600 --> 00:14:06,960 Speaker 1: been if their affair had simply been driven by lust. 199 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:11,239 Speaker 1: But when Annez was driven away from court, the strength 200 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:15,640 Speaker 1: of her and Pedro's love, if anything, became more apparent. 201 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: In some versions of their story, While Annez was away, 202 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,760 Speaker 1: Pedro wrote to her through small messages, which he sent 203 00:14:23,880 --> 00:14:27,800 Speaker 1: through a channel of water that went between their two residences. 204 00:14:28,080 --> 00:14:32,480 Speaker 1: To Alfonso's dismay, the distance between the two did nothing 205 00:14:32,560 --> 00:14:36,040 Speaker 1: to diminish their devotion to one another, a fact that 206 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:40,920 Speaker 1: became all too apparent when in thirteen forty nine, Constanza 207 00:14:41,000 --> 00:14:45,400 Speaker 1: Manuel died at just thirty three years old from complications 208 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: following the birth of her fourth child. As the country 209 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:54,000 Speaker 1: mourned the loss of their Infanta or princess, King Alfonso 210 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: really should not have been that surprised to find that 211 00:14:57,840 --> 00:15:02,160 Speaker 1: his son had almost immediately left court to find Inez, 212 00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:06,600 Speaker 1: without any marital obligations now barring him from seeing her, 213 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:11,080 Speaker 1: Pedro and Inez were finally free to be together, and 214 00:15:11,200 --> 00:15:15,600 Speaker 1: together they were. They weren't married. Their relationship would never 215 00:15:15,680 --> 00:15:19,280 Speaker 1: be accepted by King Alfonso, but Pedro and Inez would 216 00:15:19,320 --> 00:15:23,720 Speaker 1: go on to have three healthy children. They were happy together, 217 00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,240 Speaker 1: at least until thirteen fifty four, when they're happily ever 218 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:36,120 Speaker 1: after came to an abrupt and brutal end when it 219 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:39,360 Speaker 1: came to his son. King Alfonso the Fourth of Portugal 220 00:15:39,640 --> 00:15:43,960 Speaker 1: was running out of options for years following Costanza's death, 221 00:15:44,240 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: Alfonso attempted to find another suitable marriage for his son, 222 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:52,080 Speaker 1: but Pedro refused to hear a word of it. Meanwhile, 223 00:15:52,120 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: Alfonso's royal advisers reported back rumors that had been floating 224 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:01,760 Speaker 1: around court. People couldn't help but compare the sickly and 225 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:06,280 Speaker 1: weak son Ferdinand, that Pedro had had with his wife Costanza, 226 00:16:06,680 --> 00:16:11,080 Speaker 1: a legitimate son, with the three strong and healthy but 227 00:16:11,280 --> 00:16:16,480 Speaker 1: illegitimate children that Pedro had with Annez. Equally troubling were 228 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:21,440 Speaker 1: the rumors that Inez's Castilian brothers were spending considerable time 229 00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: in the Prince's ear, tempting him to intercede on their 230 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:31,400 Speaker 1: behalf in Castilian Civil War. Surely, Anez was poisoning Pedro 231 00:16:31,600 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: with these thoughts biasing the prince in favor of Castile. 232 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:41,120 Speaker 1: Up until this point, King Alfonso had at best tolerated 233 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:43,960 Speaker 1: and as his presence in his son's life. But with 234 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,080 Speaker 1: threats to the Portuguese line of succession coming into question, 235 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,480 Speaker 1: plus the ever growing potential for an all out civil 236 00:16:52,480 --> 00:16:56,000 Speaker 1: war that could possibly end with the Kingdom of Portugal 237 00:16:56,080 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 1: in the hands of the Castilian crown, Alfonso could no 238 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,640 Speaker 1: longer a forward to ignore this young woman who had 239 00:17:02,680 --> 00:17:07,199 Speaker 1: stolen his son's heart, and so, at the urging of 240 00:17:07,240 --> 00:17:11,840 Speaker 1: his royal advisers, King Alfonso, along with a traveling party 241 00:17:11,920 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: that included both Alvaro Gonzales and Paroquelo, made their way 242 00:17:16,600 --> 00:17:21,320 Speaker 1: to Combra to carry out the assassination of Annez de Castro. 243 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:28,480 Speaker 1: It's impossible to say exactly how events unfolded in Coimbra 244 00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:33,560 Speaker 1: that day. Later, dramatization of Ineza's death would imply that 245 00:17:33,640 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 1: in As sat at King Alfonso's feet begging for her life. 246 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: Some would say the king began to sympathize with her 247 00:17:41,520 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: as one of her children was in the room with them, 248 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:48,280 Speaker 1: watching on in terror, helpless to stop what would inevitably 249 00:17:48,400 --> 00:17:52,400 Speaker 1: come to pass. For no matter if an As sat 250 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,879 Speaker 1: at the king's feet, nor if she pleaded for her life, 251 00:17:56,440 --> 00:18:00,119 Speaker 1: the end result remained the same. In the fame Is 252 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:05,280 Speaker 1: Portuguese epic poem, Ois Lucida's author Louise vas Jacomas wrote 253 00:18:05,359 --> 00:18:09,240 Speaker 1: of her death quote, Thus, Annez, while her eyes to 254 00:18:09,320 --> 00:18:13,200 Speaker 1: have an appeal, resigned her bosom to the murdering steel, 255 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:18,680 Speaker 1: that snowy neck was stained with, spouting gore another sword. 256 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:23,400 Speaker 1: Her lovely bosom tore so from her cheeks. The roses 257 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:28,600 Speaker 1: died away and pale in death. The beauteous Annez lay. 258 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:35,040 Speaker 1: On January seven, fifty five, Ines de Castro, mother of 259 00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:39,000 Speaker 1: three and the great love of Pedro of Portugal's life, 260 00:18:39,400 --> 00:18:42,240 Speaker 1: was stabbed to death by the order of Pedro's father, 261 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:46,480 Speaker 1: King Alfonso the Fourth. The king may not have swung 262 00:18:46,560 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: the blade that took an As his life, but when 263 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:53,760 Speaker 1: news of his father's betrayal finally reached Pedro, none of 264 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:57,520 Speaker 1: that mattered. All that mattered was that his anst was gone, 265 00:18:57,920 --> 00:19:00,840 Speaker 1: that she had been brutally taken from the earth at 266 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,880 Speaker 1: the hands of his own father, and he was going 267 00:19:03,920 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: to make him pay. If Alfonso had hoped, and as 268 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,280 Speaker 1: his absence would quell Pedro's desire to begin a civil war, 269 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:16,480 Speaker 1: he was sorely mistaken. Within days of her death, Pedro 270 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:19,320 Speaker 1: had summoned an army to go to war against his 271 00:19:19,359 --> 00:19:23,120 Speaker 1: own father. It was only at the urging of the 272 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: only existing neutral party between them, Pedro's mother and Alfonso's wife, 273 00:19:28,280 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: Queen Beatrice, that the two men were able to stop 274 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:35,560 Speaker 1: the fighting. At the queen's behest, father and son signed 275 00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,840 Speaker 1: a treaty of peace between them. But if this episode's 276 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: introduction was anything to go by, I'm guessing you already 277 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: know that the piece was just about the last thing 278 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:50,680 Speaker 1: on Pedro's mind. It wouldn't be until two years later, 279 00:19:50,920 --> 00:19:55,400 Speaker 1: in thirteen fifty seven, when Alfonso died and Pedro ascended 280 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:58,800 Speaker 1: to the Portuguese throne, that the young king could begin 281 00:19:58,960 --> 00:20:02,800 Speaker 1: to enact his re venge and at long last find 282 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:07,600 Speaker 1: the justice he longed for. For Aness. His first order 283 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:11,640 Speaker 1: of business tracking down the men responsible for her murder. 284 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,240 Speaker 1: While his men searched far and wide for any trace 285 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:19,320 Speaker 1: of the assassins, The now King Pedro the First enacted 286 00:20:19,359 --> 00:20:23,800 Speaker 1: the second order of business he had, commissioning the creation 287 00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:28,439 Speaker 1: of two tombs, one for himself and one for his 288 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: beloved Inez. After her death, Ines had been buried in Coimbra. 289 00:20:33,520 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: The location of her remains likely chosen out of convenience 290 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:43,160 Speaker 1: rather than geographical significance. But then again, Inez and Pedro 291 00:20:43,720 --> 00:20:47,720 Speaker 1: technically had no official ties to one another. They had 292 00:20:47,760 --> 00:20:50,640 Speaker 1: three children together, but in the eyes of the Catholic 293 00:20:50,760 --> 00:20:55,200 Speaker 1: Church and by extension, Portugal as a whole, and as 294 00:20:55,240 --> 00:21:01,960 Speaker 1: to Castro, technically meant nothing, which was exactly In thirteen sixty, 295 00:21:02,080 --> 00:21:05,320 Speaker 1: Pedro would announce to the world a secret that would 296 00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:11,520 Speaker 1: irrevocably alter the course of Portuguese history. A few months 297 00:21:11,600 --> 00:21:15,040 Speaker 1: after he ordered the death of and As his assassins, 298 00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:18,840 Speaker 1: with the hollow ache no doubt still lingering in his chest, 299 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:23,320 Speaker 1: Pedro revealed that seven years earlier, he and and Az 300 00:21:23,440 --> 00:21:27,840 Speaker 1: were married in a secret ceremony, meaning not only had 301 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,760 Speaker 1: his father killed the woman he loved, but the king 302 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,240 Speaker 1: had also murdered what would have been Portugal's future queen. 303 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: For centuries, the validity of Pedro's secret marriage claims have 304 00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,880 Speaker 1: been subject to debate. After all, if you're a king 305 00:21:45,960 --> 00:21:48,000 Speaker 1: and you get married in a forest and no one's 306 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:50,520 Speaker 1: around to witness it, does it still hold up in 307 00:21:50,560 --> 00:21:54,359 Speaker 1: the eyes of the Catholic Church. Some chroniclers from the 308 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:59,320 Speaker 1: time contested the union's legitimacy, but ultimately their doubt would 309 00:21:59,359 --> 00:22:03,040 Speaker 1: be a foot note in the history books, especially when 310 00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:08,240 Speaker 1: the true intentions behind the now king's posthumous wedding announcements 311 00:22:08,400 --> 00:22:12,960 Speaker 1: were revealed and the now widowed king had his late 312 00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:17,399 Speaker 1: wife exhumed from her grave on Combrian soil. With his 313 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:23,720 Speaker 1: wife's killers now brutally dead and his healthy children's legitimacy secured, 314 00:22:24,440 --> 00:22:28,359 Speaker 1: King Pedro set out to complete his final act of 315 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 1: revenge against his father. Now there comes a point in 316 00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:37,440 Speaker 1: stories like this that the mythos surrounding the facts often 317 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: begin to outshine the reality of the events themselves. Sometimes 318 00:22:42,320 --> 00:22:47,320 Speaker 1: a lack incredible sources inspires others to make up histories 319 00:22:47,359 --> 00:22:51,480 Speaker 1: of their own. Some stories that, while not exactly factual, 320 00:22:51,760 --> 00:22:55,679 Speaker 1: no doubt, make for a great story. In the case 321 00:22:55,840 --> 00:23:01,280 Speaker 1: of Pedro exhuming his wife's corpse, some say that upon 322 00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:05,080 Speaker 1: his ascension to the throne, the king was so maddened 323 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: in his all consuming grief that he ordered his men 324 00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:12,760 Speaker 1: to disenter Inez so that they could prop up her 325 00:23:12,800 --> 00:23:17,960 Speaker 1: body on the throne beside him as his queen. They 326 00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:21,679 Speaker 1: say that Pedro had her dressed in the finest robes 327 00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:26,040 Speaker 1: and laid a crown upon her head, demanding members of 328 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:30,320 Speaker 1: his court approached the throne so they could kiss what 329 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:34,200 Speaker 1: was left of in iss weathered hand as a way 330 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:38,679 Speaker 1: to pay homage to their would be queen. And to 331 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,399 Speaker 1: be fair, this maccab display of fealty is rather on 332 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,600 Speaker 1: brand for King Pedro. This is the man, after all, 333 00:23:47,680 --> 00:23:51,600 Speaker 1: who murdered his wife's killers by cutting out their hearts. 334 00:23:52,280 --> 00:23:56,840 Speaker 1: But in reality, and as his disinterment likely, had little 335 00:23:56,880 --> 00:23:59,480 Speaker 1: to do with forcing members of the court to bow 336 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:04,199 Speaker 1: at his late wife's ornately dressed corpse, and more to 337 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:07,760 Speaker 1: do with the two tombs Pedro had commissioned as soon 338 00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:10,680 Speaker 1: as he had ascended to the throne, for in the end, 339 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:15,320 Speaker 1: Pedro's final act of defiance against his father, as well 340 00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:18,240 Speaker 1: as his final act of love for his late wife, 341 00:24:18,960 --> 00:24:23,120 Speaker 1: lay within the twin tombs he planned to share with 342 00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:28,840 Speaker 1: his beloved Today, if you walked into the Cistercian Abbey 343 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:32,560 Speaker 1: of Alcobasa, you would be immediately taken in by the 344 00:24:32,640 --> 00:24:39,280 Speaker 1: incredible display of Gothic Cistercian architecture. Impossibly high, rib vaulted 345 00:24:39,359 --> 00:24:43,320 Speaker 1: ceilings would greet you as you passed through the monastery's doors. 346 00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 1: They're intimidating heights, subconsciously leading you down the nave toward 347 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: the main chapel at the structure's end. And if you 348 00:24:52,119 --> 00:24:55,200 Speaker 1: were a tourist, after finding your way to the end 349 00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,160 Speaker 1: of the monastery's pews, you would most likely notice the 350 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,640 Speaker 1: crowds acting, not gathering to view the main chapel under 351 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:07,919 Speaker 1: a halo of skylights, but gathering in two corners of 352 00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:12,720 Speaker 1: the transept on either side of you. Upon closer inspection, 353 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:18,440 Speaker 1: you would notice the onlookers gathered around two intricately carved 354 00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:23,040 Speaker 1: white stone tombs, the chamber to the right holding the 355 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,720 Speaker 1: tomb of King Pedro, the first of Portugal, and to 356 00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:31,640 Speaker 1: the left, mirroring it perfectly just steps away from her husband, 357 00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:37,280 Speaker 1: his wife Inez de Castro, in direct defiance of his father, 358 00:25:37,840 --> 00:25:41,520 Speaker 1: Pedro's final declaration of love for an Az was not 359 00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:45,159 Speaker 1: made in hate or violence, but in a gesture that 360 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:49,520 Speaker 1: married his grief with his hope for the future. By 361 00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:54,320 Speaker 1: claiming Anaz as his wife, Pedro finally had sufficient grounds 362 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:57,840 Speaker 1: to exhume her body and give her the burial she 363 00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: rightly deserved the areal of a queen. When the elaborate 364 00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: tombs he had commissioned were finished some time between thirteen 365 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,960 Speaker 1: sixty one and thirteen sixty three. Pedro had and As 366 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: his remains disinterred and brought all the way from Coimbra 367 00:26:15,080 --> 00:26:20,639 Speaker 1: to Alcabasa, a nearly seventy mile journey from there, and 368 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: as his body was put inside of one of the 369 00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:28,560 Speaker 1: two intricately carved tombs and placed in the abbey where 370 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,399 Speaker 1: she awaited the day the other matching tomb would carry 371 00:26:32,440 --> 00:26:35,200 Speaker 1: the body of her beloved and the two of them 372 00:26:35,240 --> 00:26:39,639 Speaker 1: would be together once more. But even with the inherent 373 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,159 Speaker 1: romance of matching tombs aside, what Pedro did for and 374 00:26:44,320 --> 00:26:47,920 Speaker 1: Ez goes far beyond just securing a place for their 375 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: bodies to finally be together, To briefly bring you back 376 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:55,760 Speaker 1: to the main chapel in Alcabasa for a moment. The 377 00:26:55,880 --> 00:26:59,840 Speaker 1: intricate images carved into an ASA's tomb are beautiful, yes, 378 00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,320 Speaker 1: but they serve a specific purpose as well. Scenes from 379 00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,639 Speaker 1: the life and death of Christ are carved into the 380 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:12,840 Speaker 1: side of her tomb in unspoken analogy between the two figures, 381 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,119 Speaker 1: being presented like an offering to the viewer. Both the 382 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:20,720 Speaker 1: castro and the Portuguese coat of arms adorn her final 383 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 1: resting place. But the greatest gift Pedro gave an as 384 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:29,400 Speaker 1: his legacy is perhaps the simplest addition to the otherwise 385 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,479 Speaker 1: incredibly intricate sculpture work. On the lid of her tomb, 386 00:27:34,960 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: a stone likeness of Annez herself is laid out on 387 00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 1: top of the very vessel which contains her earthly remains. 388 00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,280 Speaker 1: What stands out about her stone counterpart is not her 389 00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:51,359 Speaker 1: serene expression, nor the items placed in her hands, but 390 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: the crown placed atop her head. When Pedro revealed his 391 00:27:56,560 --> 00:27:59,440 Speaker 1: secret marriage with an As to the world, he knew 392 00:27:59,480 --> 00:28:02,160 Speaker 1: there would be skeptics who would never see her as 393 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:06,520 Speaker 1: their queen. But in this one detail, Pedro all but 394 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:12,160 Speaker 1: wrote her legacy in stone for generations to come. As 395 00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:17,000 Speaker 1: long as stone anyone who came to the Alcabasa would 396 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:22,320 Speaker 1: see his truth. It was in Nez, not Costanza, who 397 00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:25,280 Speaker 1: was his wife. It was in Nez who was his 398 00:28:25,359 --> 00:28:30,800 Speaker 1: queen even in death. And though their individual tombs hold 399 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:36,320 Speaker 1: differing images, both are inscribed with the same words that 400 00:28:36,440 --> 00:28:42,080 Speaker 1: echo across the stone floors where they lay together, words 401 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:46,560 Speaker 1: that translate from the Portuguese to mean until the end 402 00:28:46,720 --> 00:28:58,880 Speaker 1: of the world. That's the tragic love story of Pedro, 403 00:28:59,040 --> 00:29:02,360 Speaker 1: the first of Portugue and in Nasda Castro. But stick 404 00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:05,800 Speaker 1: around to hear how their love story has evolved over 405 00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:19,120 Speaker 1: the centuries. Although the tale of Pedro and Andez has 406 00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: largely evaded English speaking audiences in pop culture, I think 407 00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:27,200 Speaker 1: it's worth it to analyze why their story, and particularly 408 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:31,280 Speaker 1: in Nez's presence as a tragic figure, has persisted in 409 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:35,920 Speaker 1: cultural iconography in Portugal and Western Europe. Of course, the 410 00:29:35,960 --> 00:29:39,080 Speaker 1: story itself has everything you could ever want in a 411 00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:44,520 Speaker 1: tragic love story slash episode of noble blood, romance, betrayal, vengeance, 412 00:29:44,640 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: his and her tombs, to say nothing of the macabre 413 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:51,760 Speaker 1: idea of a disinterred corpse sitting on a throne. But 414 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 1: in all seriousness, what I find most interesting about most 415 00:29:56,040 --> 00:29:59,880 Speaker 1: interpretations of Pedro and and AS's love story is the 416 00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,880 Speaker 1: inherent lack of an Ez that they all seem to share. 417 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: What I mean by that is, when conducting research for 418 00:30:06,720 --> 00:30:11,160 Speaker 1: this episode, I found little to no information on who 419 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,280 Speaker 1: and Asta Castro was as a person, only how she 420 00:30:14,440 --> 00:30:19,120 Speaker 1: related to Pedro's story. Other than the physical manifestation of 421 00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,480 Speaker 1: their love in their three living children, any love the 422 00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: couple shared is expressed through Pedro's grief and rage, not 423 00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 1: through any sort of interaction between the two, which does 424 00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,800 Speaker 1: make sense since the majority of their story takes place 425 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: after she dies. But that's another thing, isn't it. The 426 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:42,480 Speaker 1: love story of Pedro an Andez is not so much 427 00:30:42,520 --> 00:30:46,440 Speaker 1: about their love as it is about her death. Any 428 00:30:46,560 --> 00:30:49,760 Speaker 1: characterizations that are given to her are on the whole 429 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: that she was pious and self sacrificing, but there's little 430 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:56,680 Speaker 1: to no evidence that she was either of those things, 431 00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,440 Speaker 1: unless you assigned them as reactions she may have had 432 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:04,320 Speaker 1: to the acts of violence taken against her. It's a 433 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 1: sad truth that and As his presence in her own 434 00:31:07,360 --> 00:31:10,920 Speaker 1: story mattered more when she was a corpse than when 435 00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:14,200 Speaker 1: she was alive. But then again, it's not like treating 436 00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,400 Speaker 1: women as blank slates in which to project a man. 437 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 1: Story is something we haven't seen before. But who knows, 438 00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:25,719 Speaker 1: maybe after seven hundred years, someone will finally given as 439 00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:44,720 Speaker 1: to cast the chance to tell her own story. Noble 440 00:31:44,720 --> 00:31:47,720 Speaker 1: Blood is a production of I Heart Radio and Grim 441 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:51,160 Speaker 1: and Mild from Aaron Manky. Noble Blood is hosted by 442 00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:55,800 Speaker 1: me Danish Words. Additional writing and researching done by Hannah Johnston. 443 00:31:56,120 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 1: Hannah's Wick, Mirra Hayward, Courtney Sunder and Laurie Goodman. The 444 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:04,840 Speaker 1: show is produced by rema Il Kali, with supervising producer 445 00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:09,600 Speaker 1: Josh Thayne and executive producers Aaron Manky, Alex Williams, and 446 00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,600 Speaker 1: Matt Frederick. 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