Henry supervising the beheading of his rival Peter, from the Grandes Chroniques de France. The Grandes Chroniques de France is a royal compilation of the history of France, its manuscripts remarkably illuminated

Henry II (January 13, 1334 Sevilla - May 29, 1379 Santo Domingo de la Calzada), better known as Henry of Trastámara (Enrique de Trastámara), 1st Conde de Trastámara, before his coronation, was the illegitimate son of Alfonso XI of Castile and Eleanor of Guzmán, half brother to Peter of Castile. Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks Seville ( Spanish: Sevilla, see also different names) is the artistic cultural and financial capital of southern Spain. Events 363 - Roman Emperor Julian defeats the Sassanid army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Santo Domingo de la Calzada is a municipality in La Rioja, Spain situated on the banks of the Oja River. The House of Trastámara was a Dynasty of kings in the Iberian Peninsula, which governed in Castile from 1369 to 1504, Alfonso XI of Castile (Salamanca August 13, 1311 &ndash Gibraltar March 26/27 1350 was the king of Castile and León, the son of Eleanor of Guzman (ca 1310 &ndash 1351 was a Mistress of King Alfonso XI of Castile. Peter (or Pedro; August 30, 1334 &ndash March 23, 1369) sometimes called the Cruel ( el Cruel) or He took the throne after defeating and killing Peter in the Castilian Civil War (1366–1369). For the other conflict sometimes called the 'Castilian Civil War' see War of the Castilian Succession.

As head of a band of mercenaries, and with the aid of Bertrand du Guesclin, he drove Pedro from his throne in 1366. Bertrand du Guesclin (c 1320 &ndash 13 July 1380) known as the Eagle of Brittany, was a Breton Knight and French military commander He was, however, defeated the next year at the Battle of Nájera (Navarette), and Pedro was restored. Henry defeated Pedro at the Battle of Montiel and then murdered him in 1369. The Battle of Montiel was fought in 1369 between Franco-Castilian forces and an alliance of pro-English forces led by the Portuguese Henry then went to war against Portugal and England in the Hundred Years' War. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Hundred Years' War (Guerre de Cent Ans was a prolonged conflict lasting from 1337 to 1453 between two royal houses for the French throne vacant with the extinction of the senior For most of his reign he had to fight off the attempts of John of Gaunt, a son of Edward III of England, to claim the Castilian throne in right of his second wife, Pedro's daughter. John of Gaunt 1st Duke of Lancaster (second creation 1st Duke of Aquitaine (6 March 1340 &ndash 3 February 1399 was a member of the House of Plantagenet, the third Edward III (13 November 1312 &ndash 21 June 1377 was one of the most successful English monarchs of the Middle Ages.

On 27 July 1350, Henry married Juana Manuel, the daughter of Juan Manuel, Duke of Peñafiel, head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile. Events 1214 - Battle of Bouvines: In France, Philip II of France defeats John of England. Juana Manuel of Castile (1339 &ndash 27 March 1381 was from 1369 the Queen consort of Castile. Don Juan Manuel ( Escalona, 5 May 1282 - Peñafiel, 13 June 1348 is one of the most important Spanish medieval writers nephew of Alfonso X el Sabio They had three children: John (1358–1390), Eleanor (1361–1425), wife of Charles III of Navarre, and Joanna (1367–1374). John I ( August 24, 1358 &ndash October 9, 1390) (in Spanish: Juan I) was the king of Castile, was the Eleanor of Castile (after 1363 - 27 February 1416) was an Infanta of Castile and the Queen consort of Navarre. Charles III (1361 Nantes &ndash 8 September 1425, Olite) called the Noble, was King of Navarre from 1387 to his death

Henry was the first ruler since King Ergica to use Anti-Semitism as a political tool in Spain. Egica, Ergica, or Egicca (c 610 &ndash 702 was the Visigoth King of Hispania (the Iberian Peninsula) from 687 until Antisemitism (alternatively spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism; also rarely known as judeophobia) is the Prejudice against or hostility Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This led to an end to the convivencia, and a period of riots and pogroms, and can be seen as sowing the seeds of the persecution of the Jews by the Spanish Inquisition, beginning a hundred years later. La Convivencia ("the Coexistence" is a term used to describe the situation in Spanish history from about 711 to 1492 &ndash concurrent with the Riots are a form of Civil disorders characterized by disorganized groups lashing out in a sudden and intense rash of Violence, Vandalism or other A pogrom is a form of Riot directed against a particular group whether ethnic religious or other and characterized by destruction of their Homes Businesses PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ The Spanish Inquisition started and was established in 1478 by Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile to maintain