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59 - How King Fernando and King Enrique revised certain clauses of the Treaty of Alcoutim

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2024

Amélia Hutchinson
Affiliation:
University of Georgia
Juliet Perkins
Affiliation:
King's College London
Philip Krummrich
Affiliation:
Morehead State University, Kentucky
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The King of Castile left Toro after the Cortes were over and journeyed through his kingdom till he reached the town of Tuy. At that time, King Fernando was in his city of Oporto, from where he dispatched as his envoys to King Enrique a great nobleman from his household, who was a trusted counsellor and a man of great standing, and Afonso Domingues, who was a knight of his Royal Council. They were to deal with a number of recurrent doubts and matters of contention between him and the King of Castile, not only in respect of the [intended] marriage to Princess Leonor, the daughter of the King of Castile, whom King Fernando had undertaken to marry, but also with regard to the townships which were to be transferred between them, not to mention the hostages who were to be handed over as guarantees of the treaty, as had been extensively set down in the peace agreement which we have described and which was drawn up in the township of Alcoutim.

After the envoys had come before the King of Castile and had declared the purpose of their embassy, they signed a further pact and agreement concerning a number of doubts and matters of contention which because of that treaty had arisen once more. The first matter, on which they agreed at once, was that King Fernando be dispensed from marriage to Princess Leonor and that he should totally renounce the donation which the King of Castile had made, on the grounds of the marriage to his daughter, of Ciudad Rodrigo, Valencia de Alcántara, Monterrey and Allariz; moreover, any rights, possessions or property which he held already therein he should hand over to the King of Castile by a given date, together with other castles which also belonged to King Enrique and still sided with King Fernando, such as Arahujo, Cabrera, Alba de Aliste and others.

King Enrique should cede to the King of Portugal the city of Bragança, which was held by García Álvarez de Osorio, as well as the castle on the hill at Miranda do Douro and any others which had been placed under his command after war had broken out between them.

As for the great nobleman, he was to take responsibility for all the relevant townships of both realms and to make contractual arrangements for them to be handed over to the respective monarchs.

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The Chronicles of Fernão Lopes
Volume 2. The Chronicle of King Fernando of Portugal
, pp. 107 - 109
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2023

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