Pedro was so vile that he even offered to pay Edward of Woodstock, known as the Black Prince, the due ransom for Spanish prisoners taken at the battle of Najera in 1367, just so he could enjoy butchering them in revenge for supporting his half-brother and enemy, Enrique Trastamara. Pedro I of Castile, known as ‘Pedro the Cruel’, was even worse he murdered some of his half siblings and stepmother, and also probably killed his French wife, Blanche of Bourbon. The king of Aragon was not the only brutal Spanish monarch.
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