Battle of Trancoso
| Battle of Trancoso | |||||||
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| Part of 1383–1385 Crisis | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Kingdom of Portugal |
 Crown of Castile | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Gonçalo Vasques Coutinho Martim Vasques da Cunha João Fernandes Pacheco | Juan Rodriguez de Castañeda | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| About 300 men | About 600 men | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| Unknown |
400 dead[1] 6 out of 7 captains killed | ||||||
The Battle of Trancoso was fought on 29 May 1385[2] between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile.
Following the coronation of João of Aviz, John I of Castile sent an army into the Portuguese region of Beira in retaliation for Portuguese defiance, where they committed all the kinds of atrocities.[3] The city of Viseu was pillaged and burned,[4] but when the Castilians were returning to Castile with their plundered loot and the prisoners they had taken, a Portuguese army met them, dismounted and assumed a defensive formation. The Castilians exhausted themselves in attack but ended up being utterly routed,[5][6] with very high casualties among their ranks, and with six of their seven captains killed.[7] The Portuguese released all those taken captive by the Castilians and recovered all the pillage taken from their towns.[8]
See also
References
- Jean Froissart, Sainte-Palaye (Jean-Baptiste de La Curne, M. de La Curne de), Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries,: from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. (1839)
- João Gouveia Monteiro, Aljubarrota-1385-A Batalha Real (2003) ISBN 972-8799-04-7
- Pereira Felix, Abridgement of the History of Portugal (2009)
- H. V. Livermore, A new History of Portugal (1966)
- H. Morse Stephens, Portugal A History (1891) ISBN 978-1-4400-8356-3