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{{Short description|Portuguese infante}}
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{{Infobox noble
| name         = Denis of Portugal
| title        = Lord of Villar-Dompardo<br />Lord of Cifuentes, Escalona y Alvar de Tormes 
| image        = 
| caption      = 
| alt          = 
| spouse-type  = Spouse
| spouse       = Joan of Castile, Lady of Cifuentes
| issue        = {{nothing}}
| issue-link   = #Family
| issue-pipe   = see...
| noble family = [[Portuguese House of Burgundy]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = [[Peter I of Portugal|Peter I]]
| mother       = [[Inês de Castro]]
| birth_date   = 1353{{Sfn|Rodrigues Oliveira|2010|p=262}}
| birth_place  = [[Coimbra]], [[Kingdom of Portugal]]
| death_date   = {{circa|1403}}
| death_place  = [[Crown of Castile]]
| burial_date  = 
| burial_place = [[Santa María de Guadalupe Monastery]]
}}

'''Denis of Portugal''' ([[Portuguese language|Portuguese]]: 'Dinis' or 'Diniz' {{IPA|pt|diˈniʃ|}}), occasionally surnamed '''Castro'''{{sfn|Fernandes|2006|p=268 fn. 30}} (1353 &ndash; {{circa|1403}}), was an [[infante]] of [[Portugal]]. He was the son of Portuguese King [[Peter I of Portugal|Peter I]] and a [[Kingdom of Galicia|Galician]] noblewoman named [[Inês de Castro]] who had arrived in Portugal as a maid of princess [[Constance of Peñafiel|Constance of Castile]], recently married to [[Peter I of Portugal|Pedro I]] (Heir Prince at the time). Peter and Inês were not married at the time of Denis birth but Peter had him and his siblings [[legitimized]] once he became king.

==History==
Considering Denis an ''[[Infante|Infante of Portugal]]'' is a debatable subject. Some historians consider him a natural son of Peter I, so the title Infante of Portugal could never be attributed to him. Other opinions refer that after the death of Inês de Castro, ordered by Pedro's father King [[Afonso IV of Portugal]], the Prince after inheriting the throne admitted that he had married Inês secretly, and because of that she was a lawful Queen of Portugal.

After the death of his mother Denis left Portugal to Castile with his brother but during the [[1383–85 Crisis]] he was one of the claimants to the throne along with [[Beatrice of Portugal]] (his niece), [[John I of Portugal|John, Master of Aviz]] (his half-brother) and John (his brother).
Although he managed to be acclaimed King in the city of [[Santarém, Portugal|Santarém]] his connections with Castile eventually lost him the throne and at the time of the [[Battle of Aljubarrota]] he was already out of the country like his brother [[John, Duke of Valencia de Campos|John]].

==Family==
He married in 1372 Joan of Castile, 2nd? Lady of [[Cifuentes, Guadalajara|Cifuentes]], born c. 1360, illegitimate daughter of [[Henry II of Castile]] by Juana, 1st? Lady of Cifuentes, born c. 1340, by whom he had:

* Pedro de Portugal, called «de Colmenarejo»,{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=291, n. 250}} married to María de Toledo, daughter of Fernando Álvarez de Toledo el Viejo, 1st Lord of Higares{{sfn|Caviró Martínez|2018|pp=363-364}} and Teresa Vázquez de Ayala,{{sfn|Caviró Martínez|2018|pp=357}} 3rd Lady of Pinto;
* Beatriz de Portugal (died 1470),{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=130}} unmarried and without issue.

Illegitimate children:

* Fernando de Portugal,{{sfn|Molina Martínez|1983|p=38}} ''Comendador'' of Oreja, married to María de Torres, daughter of Fernán Ruiz de Torres and Inés de Solier;{{sfn|Molina Martínez|1983|p=38}}{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=291, n. 251}}
* Juan de Portugal;{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=291}}
* Beatriz de Portugal, nun;{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=291}}
* Inés de Portugal, nun.{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=291}}

He died in about 1403.{{sfn|Olivera Serrano|2005|p=130}}

==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Denis, Infante of Portugal'''
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|4= 4. [[Afonso IV of Portugal]]
|5= 5. [[Beatrice of Castile (1293–1359)|Beatrice of Castile]]
|6= 6. [[Pedro Fernández de Castro]]
|7= 7. Aldonça Lourenço de Valadares
|8= 8. [[Denis of Portugal|Denis I of Portugal]]
|9= 9. [[Elizabeth of Aragon]]
|10= 10. [[Sancho IV of Castile]]
|11= 11. [[María de Molina]]
|12= 12. [[Fernando Rodríguez de Castro (died 1304)|Fernando Rodríguez de Castro]]
|13= 13. [[Violante Sánchez of Castile|Violante Sánchez de Castilla]]
|14= 14. Lourenço Soares de Valadares
|15= 15. Sancha Nunes de Chacim
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==Citations==
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==References==
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* {{cite magazine |last=Fernandes |date=2006 |first=Fátima Regina |title=Estratégias de Legitimação Linhagística em Portugal nos Séculos XIV e XV |magazine=Revista da Faculdade de Letras: História |lang=pt |series=III<!--not the same as number/issue--> |volume=7 |pages=263–284 |publisher=University of Porto |issn=0871-164X |url=http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3416.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140107215606/http://ler.letras.up.pt/uploads/ficheiros/3416.pdf |archive-date=7 January 2014 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book |last=Olivera Serrano |date=2005 |first=César |title=Beatriz de Portugal: La pugna dinástica Avís-Trastámara |language=es |isbn=978-84-00-08343-4 |url=http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/18247/1/OLIVERA,%20Beatriz%20de%20Portugal.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110313115819/http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/18247/1/OLIVERA,%20Beatriz%20de%20Portugal.pdf |archive-date=13 March 2011 |url-status=live }}
* {{cite book|last= Rodrigues Oliveira|first= Ana|title= Rainhas medievais de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História|language= PT |publisher= A esfera dos livros |location= Lisbon|year= 2010|isbn= 978-989-626-261-7}}
* {{cite book|last= Caviró Martínez|first= Balbina| title= Las "magníficas señoras" y los linajes toledanos|publisher= Ediciones Hidalguía|location= Madrid|year= 2018|language=es|isbn= 978-84-947842-6-2}}
* {{Cite book|last=Molina Martínez|first=Miguel |title=Andalucía y América en el siglo XVI: Actas de las II Jornadas de Andalucía y América (volume II)|publisher=Escuela de estudios hispano-americanos|location=Seville|year=1983|language=es|isbn=84-00-05666-3}}
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[[Category:People from Coimbra]]
[[Category:People of the 1383–1385 Portuguese interregnum]]
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[[Category:Children of Peter I of Portugal]]

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