| | | | |king of Portugal. ----------------------------+---------------------------------------- ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ----------------------------+---------------------------------------- | 1290. A university founded at Ferdinand IV, king of |Lisbon, which was transferred to Castille. |Coimbra in 1308. The Portugueze |language underwent several improvements; |and the celebrated romance |of _Amadis de Gaul_ was written |by Vasco Lobeira. The French |have endeavoured, though in vain, |to attribute it to one of their nation. | 1319, institution of the ordre of |Christ. | 1340. Famous battle of _Tarisa_ |or _Celdona_, in which, according |to the Spanish historians, more than Alphonso XI, king of |200,000 Moors were slain. Castille. | 1355, the king causes the celebrated Second wife of Pedro IV, |Inez de Castro to be put to king of Arragon. |death. | | 1361. Don Pedro gave orders for |the body of Inez de Castro, to be |taken up, and removed with all the |pomp due to royalty, to the royal |monastery of Alcobaça, there to be Ferdinand of Arragon, |interred under a white marble Marquis of Tortosa. |monument, on which she is represented |with a crown on her |head. | Jane, natural daughter of | Henry II, k. of Castille. | Maria Tellez, and, secondly,| Constance, natural | daughter of Henry | II, king of Castille. |