Pero Niño (1378–1453) was a Castilian privateer at the service of Henry III the Sufferer active in the

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and the Atlantic during the first decade of the 15th century. He later served 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

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. Later in 1405–1406, he led an Atlantic campaign, raiding English settlements close to

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, and Poole Harbour. He took part in a military campaign against the Nasrid Kingdom of Granada, fighting for the then regent of Castile

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, brother of 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.

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