The Battle of Trancoso was fought on 29 May 1385[2] between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile.

Following the coronation of João of Aviz, John I of Castile sent an army into the Portuguese region of Beira in retaliation for Portuguese defiance, where they committed all the kinds of atrocities.[3] The city of Viseu was pillaged and burned,[4] but when the Castilians were returning to Castile with their plundered loot and the prisoners they had taken, a Portuguese army met them, dismounted and assumed a defensive formation. The Castilians exhausted themselves in attack but ended up being utterly routed,[5][6] with very high casualties among their ranks, and with six of their seven captains killed.[7] The Portuguese released all those taken captive by the Castilians and recovered all the pillage taken from their towns.[8]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Stephens, p.111
  2. ^ Monteiro, p.28
  3. ^ Pereira Felix, p.116
  4. ^ Pereira Felix, p.116
  5. ^ H. V. Livermore, p.102
  6. ^ Pereira Felix, p.116
  7. ^ Froissart, p.160
  8. ^ Froissart, p.160

References

  • Jean Froissart, Sainte-Palaye (Jean-Baptiste de La Curne, M. de La Curne de), Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries,: from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. (1839)
  • João Gouveia Monteiro, Aljubarrota-1385-A Batalha Real (2003) ISBN 972-8799-04-7
  • Pereira Felix, Abridgement of the History of Portugal (2009)
  • H. V. Livermore, A new History of Portugal (1966)
  • H. Morse Stephens, Portugal A History (1891) ISBN 978-1-4400-8356-3


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Trancoso
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