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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2024
Doctor Martim do Sém returned to Castile so that they could all discuss the truce process, in accordance with the message that he brought with him from the king. Leaving aside the lengthy arguments that both parties put forward concerning the issue, as well as the hateful conditions the Castilians stooped so low as to impose, a ten-year truce was finally agreed on. There were a number of clauses inserted in the document, and we will briefly mention the following:
That King Enrique and his heirs would not wage war on the side of Queen Beatriz nor of that prince who styled himself King [of Portugal], nor would the former consent to their waging it with troops either from a different nation or of their own: and should they seek to wage it, that he would do everything in his power to prevent it.
Likewise, that all the places that had been taken by whatever means should be returned by one kingdom to the other. That is, by Portugal to Castile: Badajoz, Tuy, Salvatierra [de Miño] and San Martín; and by Castile to Portugal: Bragança, Vinhais, Piconha castle, Miranda [do Douro], Penamacor, Penha Garcia, Segura and Noudar. These should be returned in the following manner: on designated days after the proclamation of the present truce, the men listed below should be handed over as hostages into the charge of the constable or of whoever should be empowered, on the river bank between Villanueva and Olivença. These men were: Álvaro Pérez de Guzmán, Lord Chief Justice of Seville; the Marshal Diego Fernández, Chief Provincial Governor of Córdoba; and Gómez Suárez, the eldest legitimate son of Lorenzo Suárez, the Master of Santiago. By the twenty-first day after the men were delivered, the King of Portugal should hand over the town of Badajoz to the aforementioned Master of Santiago, freely and without impediment.
Within two months of Badajoz being handed over, the King of Castile should hand over Bragança, Vinhais, Piconha and Noudar, having first dismantled whatever war fortifications and structures which might have been put in place in the towns by those who were in power, and having removed any remaining property of theirs.
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