Henry II of Castile and León has…

Henry II of Castile and León has for most of his reign had to fight off the attempts of John of Gaunt, a son of Edward III of England, to claim the Castilian throne in right of his second wife, Pedro's daughter.

At his death on May 29, 1379 at Santo Domingo de la Calzada, his twenty-one-year-old son by his wife Juana Manuel of Castile, daughter of Juan Manuel, Duke of Penafiel, head of a younger branch of the royal house of Castile, succeeds him as John I.