Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as the lover and posthumously-recognized wife of King Peter I (Portuguese: Pedro I) of Portugal.
Based on a true tale from medieval Portugal, the Pedro and Inês myth is one of the most frequently adapted historical stories of all time – and no wonder. It really does have a lot, from passionate young love to the coronation of a corpse.
the following is believed to be broadly true, taken from a chronicle written by the Portuguese historian Fernão Lopes around 1440: in around 1340, Prince Pedro I fell in love with his wife's lady-in-waiting, Inês de Castro, whose father was a Spanish nobleman.
Pedro's father, the Portuguese King Afonso IV, did not approve and exiled Inês. But after Pedro's wife died, Inês returned to Portugal and lived with Pedro, and they had four children.
Afonso and his advisers were not happy, and in 1355 Afonso decided Inês's presence was too much of a political risk to the royal Portuguese line and had her killed. She was buried in the city of Coimbra, while Pedro swore revenge, and led an uprising against his own father, kicking off a civil war within Portugal.
When Pedro then took the crown, after Afonso's death in 1357, he then tracked down Inês's two assassins and ripped out their hearts.
Pedro also vowed to make Inês queen of Portugal, even in death. Grand tombs were crafted for them both, at the monastery of Alcobaça – and in 1360, several years after her death, Pedro dug up Inês's decomposing body and grandly took it in a procession from Coimbra to Alcobaça, where it was royally entombed, so that he would eventually be able to rest opposite her in death, always.
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