Wedding Ines de Castro Bashny.Net

When a simple servant of the Spanish queen went to Portugal, she did not know what would become a national hero of the country, it will devote plays and movies, and Bryullov perpetuate the Spaniard in the picture - "The death of Ines de Castro" that kdpv.
But first things first. In 1339, at the insistence of his father, the future king Don Pedro I married Constance of Castile, Queen of Castile. The marriage was short-lived, as well as feelings of a young man who fell in love with his bride maid - Ines de Castro. Their secret relationship lasted five years until in 1345 did not die during childbirth Queen Constance.





Soon Don Pedro takes passion to the royal castle, where Ines gives birth to four children. But his father, the king of Portugal, Afonso was categorically disagree with the choice of his son. When Pedro goes into the campaign, the king sends assassins to eliminate Ines. This moment is depicted in the picture Bryullova.
Heartbroken son starts a civil war against his father, who soon dies, and Pedro became king of Portugal. First he finds the killer and personally Inez pulls their hearts. And announces the upcoming wedding. June 25, 1361 the body of Ines de Castro was raised from the grave and dressed in wedding gowns. The ceremony takes place in the castle, and she is the future queen on the throne. Her face is open, his hands too. All court counts and barons, according to tradition, forced to bow to the dead body of Ines and kiss the hand of a dead queen. The first is made king.



After the death of King Pedro I was buried in the cathedral next to his beloved. Their tombs are opposite one another, so that every year, the day of the dead, to rise to face each other.