{"id":"leonor-teles","type":"person","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonor-teles","language":"en","name":"Leonor Teles","name_en":"Leonor Teles","name_ne":null,"description":"Portuguese queen (1350-1386)","headline":"Portuguese queen (1350-1386)","also_known_as":[],"summary":"Leonor Teles was queen consort of Portugal by marriage to King Ferdinand I, and regent of Portugal. She was one of the protagonists, along with her brothers and her daughter Beatrice, of the events that led to the succession crisis of 1383–1385, which culminated in the defeat of her son-in-law King John I of Castile and his armies in the Battle of Aljubarrota. Called \"the Treacherous\" by her subjects, who execrated her on account of her adultery and treason to her native country, she was dubbed by historian Alexandre Herculano as \"the Portuguese Lucrezia Borgia\".","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"born","label":"Born","values":[{"text":"1350","date":"1350"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P569"}},{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369458"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P19"}},{"key":"died","label":"Died","values":[{"text":"27 April 1386","date":"1386-04-27"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P570"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Tordesillas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q286004"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Kingdom of Portugal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45670"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"monarch","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q116"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P106"}},{"key":"spouse","label":"Spouse","values":[{"text":"João Lourenço da Cunha","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19895508"},{"text":"Ferdinand I of Portugal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q108442","start":"1371"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P26"}},{"key":"positions","label":"Positions held","values":[{"text":"regent","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q477406"},{"text":"Queen Consort of Portugal","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58799308"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747#P39"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Teles","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747"],"faq":[{"q":"When was Leonor Teles born?","a":"Leonor Teles was born on 1350 in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro."},{"q":"What positions has Leonor Teles held?","a":"Positions held by Leonor Teles include: regent; Queen Consort of Portugal."}],"related":[{"name":"Gyanendra of Nepal","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/gyanendra-of-nepal"},{"name":"Ferdinand II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Berengaria of Castile","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/berengaria-of-castile"},{"name":"John II of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/john-ii-of-aragon"},{"name":"Pope Adrian VI","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pope-adrian-vi"},{"name":"Ferdinand I of Aragon","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ferdinand-i-of-aragon"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/leonor-teles-eed7e71f6d.jpg","width":150,"height":174,"license":"Public domain","credit":null,"page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonore_Teles_de_Menezes.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Leonor Teles","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonor_Teles","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q237747","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q237747","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Leonore Teles de Menezes.jpg (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonore_Teles_de_Menezes.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Leonor Teles, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Leonore Teles de Menezes.jpg, Public domain.","cite":"\"Leonor Teles\". DigiNepal. Last updated 10 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/leonor-teles. Retrieved 14 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-10T06:57:45Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-14","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonor-teles","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/leonor-teles","ne":null}}