Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota

Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota
Part of Luso-Castillian War
Kingdoms of the Iberian peninsula in the 14th century
Date 1336 Location Villanueva de Barcarrota, Badajoz province, Spain 38°31′03″N 6°51′03″W / 38.517415°N 6.850933°W / 38.517415; -6.850933Coordinates: 38°31′03″N 6°51′03″W / 38.517415°N 6.850933°W / 38.517415; -6.850933 Result Victory for Castile
Belligerents
Kingdom of Castile	Kingdom of Portugal
Commanders and leaders
Enrique Enríquez the Younger, Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Coronel, Pedro Ponce de León the Elder	Pedro Afonso de Sousa
Location of Barcarrota in Spain

The Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota was fought in 1336 near the town of Villanueva de Barcarrota in Extremadura between troops of the Kingdom of Portugal led by Pedro Afonso de Sousa, and troops of the Kingdom of Castile led by Enrique Enriquez the Younger, who led the forces of the Bishop of Jaén, assisted by Juan Alonso Pérez de Guzmán y Coronel and Pedro Ponce de León the Elder, who led forces sent by the city of Seville. The Portuguese were defeated. As a result, Afonso IV of Portugal, who was besieging the city of Badajoz, ordered the siege to be lifted and returned with his troops to Portugal.

The Battle of Villanueva de Barcarrota took place during the 1336 war in which King Afonso IV of Portugal and his Castilian allies, Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena, and Juan Núñez III de Lara, opposed King Alfonso XI of Castile.

In 1335 a dispute arose between Juan Manuel of Villena and Alfonso XI, King of Castile, in which Juan Núñez III de Lara, lord of Lara and Vizcaya was involved. Some years earlier a marriage had been arranged between Constanza Manuel, daughter of Juan Manuel of Villena, and Prince Pedro of Portugal, son of Afonso IV of Portugal. However, the union was opposed by the kings of Castile and Aragon, as they considered Prince Peter of Portugal was still betrothed to Blanche of Castile, daughter of the late Peter of Castile, Lord of Cameros (1290-1319) and Maria of Aragon. Due to a malady of Blanche of Castile, neither Afonso IV of Portugal nor his son Pedro wanted to be held to that marriage.