Afonso IV

Afonso IV

▪ king of Portugal
byname  Afonso The Brave,  Portuguese  Afonso O Bravo 
born Feb. 8, 1291, Lisbon
died May 28, 1357, Lisbon

      seventh king of Portugal (1325–57).

      Afonso IV was the son of King Dinis and of Isabella, daughter of Peter II of Aragon. Afonso resented his father's generosity toward two illegitimate sons and in 1320 demanded to be given power, remaining in open revolt until May 1322. His mother reconciled them, but the conflict broke out again. When Dinis died, Afonso succeeded to the throne, but the quarrel was transferred to Castile, which sheltered his half brother. However, when the Marinid sultan of Morocco invaded Spain in 1340, Afonso IV led a force that joined Alfonso XI of Castile in the victory of the Salado River near Tárifa (Oct. 30, 1340).

      In 1355 Afonso ordered the murder of Inês de Castro (Castro, Inês de), the Galician mistress of his heir, the future Peter I, because he feared the influence of her family in Portugal. Peter rebelled, but Afonso finally was reconciled with him before his death.

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