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Henry of Trastamara ( January 13 , 1334 Sevilla - May 29 , 1379 Santo Domingo De La Calzada ) (Enrique de Trastámara), was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI Of Castile and Eleanor Of Guzman , and half brother to Pedro I the Cruel (or the Lawful, depending on who wrote the history). He became '''Henry II of Castile''' (Enrique II de Castilla) in 1366 when, as head of a band of mercenaries, and with the aid of Bertrand Du Guesclin , he drove Peter from his throne after the battle of Montiel. He was, however, defeated the next year at the Battle Of Najera , and Peter was restored. Henry defeated Peter at the Battle Of Montiel and then murdered him in 1369 . Henry then went to war against Portugal and England in the Hundred Years' War . For most of his reign he had to fight off the attempts of John Of Gaunt , a son of Edward III Of England , to claim the Castilian throne in right of his second wife, Peter's daughter. Henry married Juana Manuel , daughter of Juan Manuel Of Castile , head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile. Their son was John I Of Castile . Henry was the first nobleman to use Anti-Semitism as a political tool in Spain . This led to an end to the convivencia, and a period of Riot s and Pogrom s, and can be seen as sowing the seeds of the persecution of the Jew s by the Spanish Inquisition , beginning a hundred years later. |
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