Castile — Minor Figures
3 figures from Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized who appear only briefly. Each keeps their own page; this one gathers them so they can be read together.
Henry IV of Castile
king · first appears Edward IV 5
- Edward IV 5 · allies with Edward IV “king Edward concluded an amitie and league with Henrie king of Castile, and Iohn king of Aragon;”
Henry III of Castile
eldest son of the king of Spain · first appears Richard II 31
- 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”
- Richard II 31 · 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”
Alfonso VIII of Castile
king · first appears King John 4
- King John 4 · child: Blanche of Castile “with a marriage to be had betwixt Lewes the sonne of king Philip, and the ladie Blanch, daughter to Alfonso king of Castile the 8 of that name, & néece to K. John by his sister Elianor.”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.