Battle of Trancoso

The Battle of Trancoso was fought on 29 May 1385 between the Kingdom of Portugal and the Crown of Castile.

Battle of Trancoso
Part of 1383–1385 Crisis
Date 29 May 1385 Location Trancoso, Portugal Result Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal	Crown of Castile
Commanders and leaders
Gonçalo Vasques Coutinho Martim Vasques da Cunha João Fernandes Pacheco	Juan Rodriguez de Castañeda
Strength
About 300 men	About 600 men
Casualties and losses
Unknown	400 dead 6 out of 7 captains killed

Following the coronation of João of Aviz, John I of Castile sent an army into the Portuguese region of Beira in retaliation for Portuguese defiance, where they committed all the kinds of atrocities. The city of Viseu was pillaged and burned, but when the Castilians were returning to Castile with their plundered loot and the prisoners they had taken, a Portuguese army met them, dismounted and assumed a defensive formation. The Castilians exhausted themselves in attack but ended up being utterly routed, with very high casualties among their ranks, and with six of their seven captains killed. The Portuguese released all those taken captive by the Castilians and recovered all the pillage taken from their towns.

See also

• History of Portugal
• House of Avis
• Nuno Álvares Pereira
• Hundred Years War
• Battle of Trancoso (1140)

References

• Jean Froissart, Sainte-Palaye (Jean-Baptiste de La Curne, M. de La Curne de), Chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries,: from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV. (1839)
• João Gouveia Monteiro, Aljubarrota-1385-A Batalha Real (2003) ISBN 972-8799-04-7
• Pereira Felix, Abridgement of the History of Portugal (2009)
• H. V. Livermore, A new History of Portugal (1966)
• H. Morse Stephens, Portugal A History (1891) ISBN 978-1-4400-8356-3