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3 unusual facts about Fernando Ruiz de Castro


Álvaro Pires de Castro

As a result, he was the half-brother of the powerful Galician nobleman Fernando Ruiz de Castro, the Castilian queen Juana de Castro (wife of King Peter of Castile) and the controversial Inês de Castro, mistress and consort of King Peter I of Portugal.

Fernando Ruiz de Castro

Fernando Ruiz de Castro (d. Bayonne, 1377), nicknamed toda la lealtad España ("all the loyalty of Spain"), was a Galician nobleman of the House of Castro and prominent military figure.

Divorced from his first wife, in 1367 he married Eleanor Enriquez, Lady of Melgar, widow of Alonso de Guzmán and daughter of Enrique Enriquez and his wife, Urraca Ponce de Leon.



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