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ALPHONS0 IV . was See also:

born in 1290, and in 1325 succeeded his See also:father, Dionis, whose See also:death he had hastened by his intrigues and rebellions. Hostilities with the Castilians and with the See also:Moors occupied many years of his reign, during which he gained some successes; but by consenting to the barbarous See also:murder of Inez de See also:Castro, who was secretly espoused to his son See also:Peter, he has fixed an indelible stain on his See also:character. Enraged at this barbarous See also:act, Peter put himself at the See also:head of an See also:army and devastated the whole of the See also:country between the See also:Douro and the Minho before he was reconciled to his father. See also:Alphonso died almost immediately after, on the 12th of May 1357.

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