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Ferdinand of Portugal (Portuguese: Fernando), later of Eça or Eza (c. 1378 – Eza?), was the son of Portuguese Infant João, Duke of Valencia de Campos. João, was a son of king Peter I of Portugal with powerful and literary famous for several centuries in several European languages, Galician lady Inês de Castro, "the Queen who ruled after her death".
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Ferdinand of Portugal | |
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Born | c. 1378 |
Died | c. 1460 81–82) Eça, Galicia | (aged
Title | ' Lord of Eça ' |
Spouse | Isabel Dávalos |
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His father, Infante John, Duke of Valencia de Campos, had been legitimized as Infant of Portugal, and became duke of Valencia de Campos in Castile through his marriage to one of the bastards of King Henry II of Castile.
Fernando's father John, had married in 1376, (1st marriage), Portuguese lady Maria Téllez de Menezes, assassinated shortly after in 1378 by her husband, who had been alerted of her apparent unfaithfulness.
Then, he married again in Valencia de Campos in 1378 Constanza de Castilla, Lady of Valencia de Campos, illegitimate daughter of King Henry II of Castile.
He was the 1st Lord of Eza in Galicia, from where he took his surname, corrupted in Portuguese into Eça, and which was given to him by Fadrique de Castilla, 1st Duke of Arjona who died in prison.[1]
It is said Fernando was married or perhaps lived with many wives, all of them alive.[2] Other sources say he married six times, having three or four of them alive at once, but only the name of the sixth wife is known.[3][better source needed]
Apparently, this sixth one, was Isabel Dávalos, daughter of Pedro López Dávalos, Adelantado of Murcia, and granddaughter of Ruy López Dávalos, Constable of Castile. By her he had:
With Leonor de Teive, daughter of João de Teive and Brites de Horta, he had:
By another he had:
By others:
All from different women, it is said that he had 42 children, between sons and daughters.
In the end of his life he repented and started wearing a rope of the Habit of Saint Francis of Assisi, with which he was buried and which appears in the coat of arms of his family in purple with the look of a carbuncule.
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