Art of war

Aljubarrota battle, and is influence in the 1383-85 Portuguese Crown crisis
Final Assignment – Art of War

Author: Sérgio Manuel Marques Gomes, University: Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Wrocław, January 2011

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Aljubarrota battle, and is influence in the 1383-85 Portuguese Crown crisis

January 2010

Abstract
The present document is an essay produced for the subject “Art of War”, ministered at the Uniwersytet Wrocławski in the 2010-11 turn. As a matter of final presentation and final essay, reporting on my work on the subject, I decided to write about one of the most important battles in the Portuguese history, the battle of Aljubarrota, during the 1383-1385 Crown succession crisis, in which the Portuguese army defeated the joint army of the Kingdom of Castile, Kingdom of France and some Italian allies.

Sérgio Gomes Wrocław, January 2011

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Aljubarrota battle, and is influence in the 1383-85 Portuguese Crown crisis

January 2010

A – Comprehensive map for contextualization

Fig. 1 – The Kingdoms on Iberia Peninsula XII-XV century.

I – Context of the political situation

After the recognition of the Kingdom of Portugal by the Pope Alexander III in 1179, Portugal faced considerable growth, economical and geographical, during the following two centuries. When in 1367, D. Fernando ascended the throne, he found the kingdom in a very safe situation. However, he involved the Kingdom in a series of Wars against the Kingdom of Castile, and let himself get influenced by the Queen D. Leonor Teles and her followers, launching the Kingdom in a very bad economical situation. In the end of D. Fernando reign, the standard of leaving has dropped significantly.

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Aljubarrota battle, and is influence in the 1383-85 Portuguese Crown crisis

January 2010

After the third war with Kingdom of Castile in 1382, D. Leonor Teles, the Count João Fernandes Andeiro and many other