María Díaz (Padilla) de Padilla (1318 - 1361)

Born 1318 in Sevilla, Seville, Andalucia, Spain

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Descendants

Died Jul 1361 at about age 43 in Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain

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Maria Padilla was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.

Biography

María de Padilla: (1334 -- August 1361)

Vitals

Maria de Padilla^[1][2][3] or María Díaz de Padilla^[4]

d. July/Aug 1361 Sevilla^[5]

Parents

p. Juan García de Padilla, 1st Lord of Villagera and María Fernández de Henestrosa^[6]

Royal Mistress

mistress of Pedro I, King of Castile^[7][8] Issue: at least 4:

1. Beatriz (born 1354),
2. Constance (1354--1394) m. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster.^[9]
3. Isabella (1355--1394) m. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
4. Alfonso, crown-prince of Castile (1359 - 19 Oct 1362).

Sources

1. ↑ Jun 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson. Pedigree Resource File CD 49 Publication: (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 2002); Ancestral File (TM) Author: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SAINTS Publication: June 1998
2. ↑ Jun 20, 2011 by Michael Stephenson. LDS Endowment: 01 OCT 1992. hofundssonAnces.ged
3. ↑ Some of her ancestry is suspect: see "Genealogist: Almost Everyone on Earth Descended From Royalty," Monday, July 3, 2006, AP.
4. ↑ Wikipedia
5. ↑ Wikipedia: possibly Plague; age: 26/7
6. ↑ relative of Juan Fernández de Henestrosa, who mediated an apparent pardon to Fadrique Alfonso of Castile, a half-brother and rival of María de Padilla's lover Pedro I.
7. ↑ married in secret in 1353. Repudiated by force. Status: Mistress. summer 1353 Pedro denied marriage to María to marry Blanca of Bourbon, but his relationship with María continued.
8. ↑ Gen-Medieval-L Archives: Turton in his Plantagenet Ancestry [1928], p. 35, extends her ancestry back four generations, citing as his source the 1572 work of F. Rada y Andrada, Cronica de los tres Ordoñes. Turton's account is the only one I have ever seen on the Padillas. Are the three generations of Padillas preceeding Juan Garcia de Padilla (died 1355) no longer acceptable and if not, why not?
9. ↑ Issue: Catherine of Lancaster m. Henry III of Castile to reunify claim to succession that may have passed via Constance.

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II. page 121 PEDRO I OF CASTILE-LEON, King of Castile, 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir, born at Burgos 30 August 1334. He married 1st at Valladolid 3 June 1353 BLANCHE (or BLANCA) OF BOURBON. Immediately following their wedding, he deserted Blanche for his mistress, MARIA DIAZ DE PADILLA. He and Maria had one son, Alfonso, and three daughters, Beatriz, Constance (or Constanza), and Isabel. In 1354 he asked the Bishops of Avila and Salamanca to annul his marriage to Blanche of Bourbon. He subsequently married (2nd) at Cuellar probably in March 1354 JUANA DE CASTRO. He soon abandoned Juana. His long term mistress, Maria Diaz de Padilla, died at Seville in July 1361, and was buried at the monastery of Santa Clara de Astudillo. In 1362 the Cortes accepted Pedro's claim that he had married his deceased mistress, Maria de Padilla, in a clandestine ceremony prior to his 1st marriage to Blanche of Bourbon, by which act Maria's children were formally acknowledged as Pedro's legitimate heirs. The following year, his son by Maria, namely Alfonso, having died, the Cortes of Bubierca acknowledged Maria's three surviving daughters as Pedro's heirs. PEDRO I, King of Castile and Leon, was slain at Montiel 23 March 1367/8 by his illegitimate brother, Enrique, Count of Trastamara. His former wife, Juana, died at Galicien 21 August 1374.

children of Pedro I of Castile-Leon, by Maria Diaz de Padilla:

1. CONSTANCE (or CONSTANZA) OF CASTILE-LEON, married JOHN OF GAUNT, K.G. Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester.
2. ISABEL OF CASTILE-LEON, married
3. EDMUND OF LANGLEY, K.G., Duke of York

Links

• Dillon, Sir John Talbot, The history of the reign of Peter the Cruel, king of Castile and Leon, Volume 1. W. Richardson, 1788 - Castile (Spain)
• Storer, Edward. Peter the Cruel, the life of the notorious Don Pedro of Castile, together with an account of his relations with the famous Maria de Padilla by Storer, Edward, 1880-1944. Publisher London, John Lane; New York, John Lane company. Published 1911.
• Griffiths, Ralph, 1790. Dillon's History of the Reign of Peter the Cruel, King of Castile & Léon, p. 187 The Monthly Review
• Wikipedia: María de Padilla

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