Alfonso XI de Castilla, "El Justiciero", Un Rey Entre Dos Mujeres y con Dos Familias a la Vez.

Alfonso was a king who would eventually be nicknamed "The Just" for taking justice into his own hands. He was also known for his fight against the Muslims during the Reconquista of the Iberian Peninsula, but undoubtedly, this monarch would truly go down in history for his turbulent love life. He had two families, one by dynastic duty and another by love, which caused great resentment and a thirst for revenge among his legitimate family. Can a king's love condemn his entire kingdom to civil war? 🏰💔 Alfonso XI of Castile, nicknamed "The Just," was an iron-willed monarch who subdued the nobility with swift executions and sabotaged the Muslims in the historic Battle of Salado, but his private life was a veritable powder keg. While his legitimate wife, Queen Maria of Portugal, and his heir, Prince Pedro, lived confined and humiliated in a wing of the Alcázar of Seville, the king openly shared his life, his campaigns, and his decisions of state with his great love, Leonor de Guzmán. With her, he had ten children whom he showered with honors, while completely ignoring the future Pedro I "The Cruel," who grew up peeking through the latticework, accumulating a hatred that would change the history of Spain forever. ⚔️👑 Join us to the tragic summer of 1492, when Alfonso XI's obsession with recovering Gibraltar led him to ignore the warnings of his physicians. Locked in his tent surrounded by bonfires of rosemary and thyme, the king succumbed to the Black Death, leaving his lover at the mercy of a queen thirsting for revenge. A chronicle of passion, jealousy, plague, and the birth of the Trastámara dynasty! In this video you will discover: The suffocating protection method of his grandmother María de Molina. 🛌 The sheets scented with thyme and his obsession with caring for his animals. 🐻🦅 The divided Alcázar: the double life of the Castilian court. 🏰 The fateful siege of Gibraltar and the respect shown by Muslims in his death. 💀🌙 The channel has already produced biographies of some of the figures mentioned in this video: María de Molina:    • María de Molina, Reina Consorte de Castill...   Leonor de Guzmán:    • Leonor de Guzmán, "La Favorita", el gran a...   María de Portugal:    • María de Portugal, "La Fermosíssima María"...   Inés de Castro:    • Inés de Castro, la reina cadáver.   Alfonso X "The Wise":    • Alfonso X de Castilla, Alfonso el Sabio   Pedro I "The Cruel":    • Pedro I de Castilla, el cruel.   Henry II of Castile:    • Enrique II de Castilla, El Rey Fratricida,...   Photos: All images in the video are either royalty-free or licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. -Kings of Castile: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... -Infante Philip of Castile: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... -Eleanor of Castile: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... Become Become a member of this channel to enjoy exclusive benefits:    / @biopicchannel   #AlfonsoXI #HistoryOfSpain #PedroITheCruel #LeonorDeGuzman #TheTrastámara #BlackDeath #MiddleAges #Reconquista #HistoricalCuriosities #HistoricalBiographies #biopicchannel