Peter I of Portugal

Peter I (1320–1367), called the Just, was the son of Afonso IV and Beatrice of Castile. In 1340 his wife Constanza Manuel arrived in Portugal with her lady-in-waiting Inês de Castro, and Peter fell in love with Inês, making her exiled brothers his closest advisers. This alarmed Afonso, who in 1355 had Inês beheaded at Coimbra.

Peter revolted, but in an August 1356 truce swore to obey his father and pardon the killers, and he became king in May 1357. Two killers who had fled to Castile were handed over and tried in 1361. Fernão Lopes says he tore out their hearts with his own hands.

Legend has it that he had Inês exhumed and crowned queen; certainly he moved her to Alcobaça, where their two tombs face each other to see each other at the Last Judgment. He died at Estremoz in 1367.