This article deals with two unlikely political figures who emerged during the most important phase of the War of the Two Pedros (1356–1366), the sea war of 1359 during which the Castilian king, Pedro I (1350–1366/69), attacked the Valencian, Catalan and Majorcan coasts only to be repelled by the Aragonese sovereign, Pere III (1336–1387). The first of these figures was Pere III's third wife, Elionor of Sicily, who, as one of the only Aragonese queens of that time to receive a formal coronation, was a true political helpmate to her husband. As Governor of Catalonia and royal lieutenant, Elionor took it on herself to arrange for the coastal defense of Catalonia and Valencia while her husband was pursuing his Castilian enemy into Majorcan waters, She raised these military units by enforcing emergency taxes on Catalonia. Elionor was also a strong supporter for her husband's naval campaigns and repeatedly took it on herself to spread the news of these exchanges. The other unlikely figure to emerge during the naval crisis was Bishop Berenguer of Gerona who received authority to gather even larger tax amounts than did the queen when in the same year of 1359 he was elected as the first president of the Catalan Deputació, a permanent parliamentary body of Catalonia which remained in session to fully carry out the directives of Catalonian Corts. In some ways, then, these largely forgotten figures helped the badly pressed Crown of Aragon to stand once again against its much stronger Castilian opponent.