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Pero Niño
Pero Niño (1378–1453) was a Crown of Castile, Castilian privateer at the service of Henry III of Castile, Henry III the Sufferer active in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic during the first decade of the 15th century. He later served John II of Castile, John II. Biography He was born in 1378. After fighting in the , he took part in the Castilian-Portuguese war between 1396 and 1399. He led a Mediterranean naval expedition in 1404–1405, getting to attack Tunis. Later in 1405–1406, he led an Atlantic campaign, raiding Guyenne, English settlements close to Bordeaux, Jersey, and Poole Harbour. He took part in a military campaign against the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, fighting for the then regent of Castile Ferdinand I of Aragon, Ferdinand, brother of Henry III of Castile, Henry III, in Ronda and Setenil. He died on 17 January 1453. ''El Victorial'', a biographical chronicle on Pero Niño, was written by Gutierre Díaz de Games circa 1435–1448. References Bibliograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Of Castile
The Crown of Castile was a medieval polity in the Iberian Peninsula that formed in 1230 as a result of the third and definitive union of the crowns and, some decades later, the parliaments of the kingdoms of Castile and León upon the accession of the then Castilian king, Ferdinand III, to the vacant Leonese throne. It continued to exist as a separate entity after the personal union in 1469 of the crowns of Castile and Aragon with the marriage of the Catholic Monarchs up to the promulgation of the Nueva Planta decrees by Philip V in 1715. In 1492, the voyage of Christopher Columbus and the discovery of the Americas were major events in the history of Castile. The West Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea were also a part of the Crown of Castile when transformed from lordships to kingdoms of the heirs of Castile in 1506, with the Treaty of Villafáfila, and upon the death of Ferdinand the Catholic. The discovery of the Pacific Ocean, the Conquest of the Aztec Empir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
