Castilian Civil War of 1351–1369
| First Castilian Civil War | |||||||
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| Part of the Hundred Years' War | |||||||
Battle of Nájera, from a fifteenth-century manuscript, the English and Pedro are on the left while the French and Henry are on the right. | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
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Pedristas Portugal Navarre Granada |
Enriquistas Aragon Supported by: France | ||||||
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Peter of Castile Edward the Black Prince John of Gaunt John Chandos Jean III de Grailly James IV of Majorca |
Henry of Trastámara Peter IV of Aragon Bertrand du Guesclin Tello Alfonso of Castille Alfonso of Ribagorza | ||||||
The First Castilian Civil War was a war of succession over the Crown of Castile that lasted from 1351 to 1369. The conflict started after the death of king Alfonso XI of Castile in March 1350. It became part of the larger conflict then raging between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France: the Hundred Years' War. It was fought primarily in Castile and its coastal waters between the local and allied forces of the reigning king, Peter, and his illegitimate brother Henry of Trastámara over the right to the crown.