Henry III of Castile

Family: Castile · Role: eldest son of the king of Spain · First appears: Richard II 31

Life events

• c. 1386 · A truce allowed the English forces to return home by sea or through France.(Richard II 31)
  • With: John of Gaunt
  • “Howbeit a truce was granted, in such wise as it might be at the Englishmens choise to returne into their countrie, either by sea or by land, thorough France.”
• c. 1386 · Henry III of Castile concluded peace with John of Gaunt to secure a dynastic marriage and end territorial claims.(Richard II 31)
  • With: John of Gaunt
  • “When the king of Spaine vnderstood of that treatie, he began to doubt, least if that marriage tooke place, it might turne to his disaduantage; and therefore to be at quietnesse with the duke of Lancaster, whose puissance he doubted, and whose wisdome he perfectlie vnderstood, by politike meanes and earnest sute, at length concluded a peace with him on this wise.”
• c. 1386 · Henry III of Castile agreed that his eldest son should marry Katherine of Lancaster.(Richard II 31)
  • With: Katherine of Lancaster
  • “That his eldest son Henrie should haue in mariage the ladie Katharine daughter to the duke of Lancaster, begot on his wife the duchesse Constance, and be intituled price of Austurgus.”
• c. 1386 · Henry III of Castile agreed to pay John of Gaunt annual sums and a substantial lump sum.(Richard II 31 · 📍 Baionne in Gascoigne)
  • With: John of Gaunt
  • “it was agreed, that the said duke should receiue yearelie the summe of ten thousand marks, to be paid to him, or to his assignes in the citie of Baionne in Gascoigne, during the terme of the liues of the said duke and duchesse; and further to haue in hand the summe of two hundreth thousand nobles.”

Richard II 31

• engaged with Katherine of Lancaster “That his eldest son Henrie should haue in mariage the ladie Katharine daughter to the duke of Lancaster, begot on his wife the duchesse Constance”
• with John of Gaunt (The king of Spain concluded a peace with John of Gaunt.) “to be at quietnesse with the duke of Lancaster, whose puissance he doubted, and whose wisdome he perfectlie vnderstood, by politike meanes and earnest sute, at length concluded a peace with him”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.