Inês de Castro
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Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as the lover and posthumously recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal.
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![The Coronation of Inês de Castro in 1361, by Pierre-Charles Comte, 1895[12]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Le_Couronnement_d%27In%C3%A8s_de_Castro_en_1361_-_Pierre-Charles_Comte_-_MBA_Lyon_2014_%28cropped%29.JPG/1280px-Le_Couronnement_d%27In%C3%A8s_de_Castro_en_1361_-_Pierre-Charles_Comte_-_MBA_Lyon_2014_%28cropped%29.JPG)
The Coronation of Inês de Castro in 1361, by Pierre-Charles Comte, 1895[12]
Inês de Castro with Her Children at the Feet of Afonso IV, King of Portugal, Seeking Clemency for Her Husband, Don Pedro. Painting by Eugénie Servières, 1822
Murder of Inês de Castro. Painting by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro, ca. 1901/04
Catharine Trotter Cockburn's play Agnes de Castro (1695)
The popular legend of the hand-kissing ceremony at the coronation of Inês de Castro on a cigarette labelIn their orbit 10
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Inês de Castro was a Galician noblewoman and courtier, best known as the lover and posthumously recognized wife of King Pedro I of Portugal. The dramatic circumstances of her relationship with Pedro, which was forbidden by his father Afonso IV of Portugal, her murder at the orders of Afonso, Pedro's bloody revenge on her killers, and the legend of the coronation of her exhumed corpse by Pedro, have made Inês de Castro a frequent subject of art, music, drama and poetry through the ages.
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