Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
4. PREFACE xiii
5. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xix
6. Sponsors xxiv
7. TRANSLATORS’ NOTE xxv
8. ABBREVIATIONS xxix
9. INTRODUCTION
10. 1 Fernão Lopes: the Father of Portuguese Historiography 3
11. 2 Fernão Lopes and the Writing of a Late Medieval Portuguese History 11
12. 3 The Chronicle of King Pedro of Portugal: Historical Context 54
13. THE CHRONICLE OF KING PEDRO OF PORTUGAL
14. Prologue 69
15. Chapter 1 Concerning the reign of King Pedro, the eighth king of Portugal, and about the qualities that he possessed 71
16. Chapter 2 How the King of Castile sent for the body of Queen Maria, his mother, and concerning the letter he sent to the King of Portugal, his uncle 73
17. Chapter 3 Concerning the letters that the Pope and the King of Aragon sent to the King of Portugal upon the death of the king his father 75
18. Chapter 4 How King Pedro dealt with judicial decisions in his house 77
19. Chapter 5 Concerning some of the things King Pedro ordered for the good of justice and for the benefit of his people 79
20. Chapter 6 How the king had two of his criados beheaded for robbing and killing a Jew 81
21. Chapter 7 How the king had wanted to subject a bishop to torture for sleeping with a married woman 83
22. Chapter 8 How the king had one of his squires castrated for sleeping with a married woman 85
23. Chapter 9 How the king ordered the wife of Afonso André to be burnt, and concerning other acts of justice he ordered to be carried out 86
24. Chapter 10 How the king had ordered the admiral to be put to death, and concerning the letter which the Doge and the Council of Commoners of Genoa wrote pleading for him 88
25. Chapter 11 Concerning the coins that King Pedro had minted and the value of gold and silver at that time 89
26. Chapter 12 How kings went about accumulating wealth and adding to it 92
27. Chapter 13 How King Pedro of Castile began to amass a vast fortune 94
28. Chapter 14 How King Pedro of Portugal made João Afonso Telo a count and dubbed him a knight, and the great feast that he gave for him 95
29. Chapter 15 The pacts that the King of Castile and King Pedro of Portugal signed and how the King of Portugal promised to support him against Aragon 97
30. Chapter 16 Concerning certain people the King of Castile had put to death, and how he married Princess Blanche of Bourbon and then abandoned her 100
31. Chapter 17 How the quarrel first began between King Pedro of Castile and his brother, Count Enrique [de Trastámara], and why the count left the kingdom 103
32. Chapter 18 How and why the war between Castile and Aragon began 108
33. Chapter 19 How the King of Castile entered the kingdom of Aragon, and what he did that year 110
34. Chapter 20 How King Pedro had his brother Don Fadrique, the Master of Santiago, put to death in the alcazar of Seville 112
35. Chapter 21 How the king departed from Seville to seize his brother, Don Tello, intending to kill him, and how he killed his cousin, Prince Joan 114
36. Chapter 22 How the year-long truce between the kings came to be broken, and how King Pedro assembled a fleet to wage war on Aragon 116
37. Chapter 23 How the Cardinal of Boulogne came to make peace between the King of Castile and the King of Aragon but could not get them to agree 118
38. Chapter 24 How the King of Castile asked for help in the form of galleys from the King of Portugal and then left with his fleet to make war on Aragon 120
39. Chapter 25 How the Admiral of Portugal left with the ten galleys, how King Pedro disbanded his fleet, and other matters 122
40. Chapter 26 How the Cardinal of Boulogne wanted to make peace between the kings but could not, and how King Pedro’s men fought the count and defeated him 123
41. Chapter 27 How King Pedro of Portugal said that Dona Inês had been his acknowledged wife, and the manner in which the marriage took place 125
42. Chapter 28 Concerning the testimony given by a number of people about the marriage of Dona Inês and concerning the arguments delivered by Count João Afonso in that regard 126
43. Chapter 29 Reasons against the foregoing advanced by a number of those who were there and who doubted this marriage very much 129
44. Chapter 30 How the Kings of Portugal and Castile agreed to hand over to each other several people who thought they were living in safety in their kingdoms 132
45. Chapter 31 How Diogo Lopes Pacheco avoided being captured, and how the others were handed over and forthwith cruelly put to death 133
46. Chapter 32 Concerning a number of things which King Pedro of Castile ordered to be done, and how he made peace with the King of Aragon after invading his kingdom 136
47. Chapter 33 Concerning a number of incursions which the King of Castile made that year into the emirate of Granada and how, after the Red Emir had sought his protection, believing himself to be safe, the king had him killed 138
48. Chapter 34 Concerning the agreements which the King of Castile reached with the King of Aragon when he invaded his kingdom, and how he later came to disregard them 140
49. Chapter 35 How King Pedro again invaded Aragon, this time with a fleet of ships and galleys, and what he did there 142
50. Chapter 36 How Count Enrique invaded Castile with numerous companies and was proclaimed king, and how King Pedro ordered the abandonment of all the Aragonese townships which he had captured 145
51. Chapter 37 How the King of Castile sent a daughter of his to Portugal, and how he left Seville out of fear of the people of the city 147
52. Chapter 38 How the King of Castile informed his uncle that he had entered his kingdom, and how the latter excused himself from seeing him and giving him aid 148
53. Chapter 39 How the King of Castile departed from Coruche and left Portugal, and concerning those who were sent to accompany him 150
54. Chapter 40 How King Pedro arrived in Galicia, killed the Archbishop of Santiago and departed for England 152
55. Chapter 41 How King Enrique arrived in Seville, and concerning the alliance he made with the King of Portugal 153
56. Chapter 42 How the King of Portugal sent his ambassadors to the house of the Prince of Wales to defend himself against the charges King Pedro was making against him 155
57. Chapter 43 How Dom João, the son of King Pedro of Portugal, was made the Master of Avis 157
58. Chapter 44 How Dona Inês was translated to the Monastery of Alcobaça, and concerning the death of King Pedro 159
59. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED 162