John married Anglican Philippa
02/14/1387 AD married
This marriage is the final step in the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance against the Franco-Castillian axis.
They married by proxy, and in keeping with a unique Portuguese tradition, the stand-in bridegroom pretended to bed the bride. The stand-in for King John I was João Rodrigues de Sá.
The marriage itself, as was usually the case for the nobility in the Middle Ages, was a matter of state and political alliance, and the couple did not meet until twelve days after they were legally married.
Philippa was considered to be rather plain, and King João I (John I) already had a mistress, Inês Peres Esteves, by whom he had three children.
Their son Afonso was ten when Philippa and John married. Philippa allowed Afonso and his sister Beatrice to be raised in the Portuguese court (the third child, Branca, died in infancy).
Their mother left the court at Philippa's command to live in a convent, and under Philippa's patronage, she became the Prioress.[
Subjects Who or What married?
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John I of Portugal (João, John of Aviz) King of Portugal 1385 â€...
Objects To Whom or What was married?
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Philippa of Lancaster Queen consort of Portuga...
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