Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira, OCarm was a very successful Portuguese general who had a decisive role in the 1383–1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic and was beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1918, and canonised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009.
Nuno Álvares Pereira
Nuno Álvares Pereira
The Battle of Aljubarrota
Statue of Nuno Álvares Pereira atop the portal of Santo Condestável church, Lisbon
1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum
The 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum was a civil war in Portuguese history during which no crowned king of Portugal reigned. The interregnum began when King Ferdinand I died without a male heir and ended when King John I was crowned in 1385 after his victory during the Battle of Aljubarrota.
The Battle of Aljubarrota by Jean de Wavrin
The Siege of Lisbon in the Chronicles of Jean Froissart