Battle of Trancoso
Battle of Trancoso | |||||||
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Part of 1383–1385 Crisis | |||||||
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About 300 men | About 600 men | ||||||
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Unknown |
400 dead[1] 6 out of 7 captains killed |
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[]
- History of Portugal
- House of Avis
- Nuno Álvares Pereira
- Hundred Years War
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
Notes[]
- Battles involving Castile
- Battles involving Portugal
- 1385 in Europe
- Conflicts in 1385
- Battles of the 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum
- Portuguese history stubs
- Battle stubs
- Spanish battle stubs