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; -6.850933 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
class=notpageimage| 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.