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Pedro the Cruel (1334-69) King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Pedro married Blanche of Bourbon in 1353, and in 1354 married Juana de Castro He abandoned both women after less than three days. The friends of both joined Pedro's brothers to begin his travails.
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. III (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 62. (Death of Dom Pedro, drawn by Conrad Ermish.)
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