ough the gratitude of a
beggar to whom he had formerly done a kindness; but Coelho and Gonzales
were executed, with horrible tortures, in the very presence of the king.

The story of the exhumation and coronation of the corpse of Inez has
often been told. It is said that to the dead body, crowned and robed in
royal raiment, and enthroned beside the king, the assembled nobles of
Portugal paid homage as to their queen, swearing fealty on the withered
hand of the corpse. The gravest doubts, however, exist as to the
authenticity of this story; Fernao Lopes, the Portuguese Froissart, who
is the great authority for the details of the death of Inez, with some
of the actors in which he was acquainted, says nothing of the ghastly
ceremony, though he tells at length the tale of the funeral honours that
the king bestowed upon his wife. Inez was buried at Alcobaca with
extraordinary magnificence, in a tomb of white marble, surmounted by her
crowned statue; and near her sepulchre Pedro caused his own to be
placed. The monument, after repeatedly resisting the violence of
curiosity, was broken into in 1810 by the French soldiery; the statue
was mutilated, and the yellow hair was cut from the broken skeleton, to
be preserved in reliquaries and blown away by the wind. The children of
Inez shared her habit of misfortune. From her brother, however, Alvaro
Perez de Castro, the reigning house of Portugal directly descends.

See Fernao Lopes, _Chronica del Rey Dom Pedro_ (1735); Camoens, _Os
Lusiadas_; Antonio Ferreira's _Ines de Castro_,--the first regular
tragedy of the Renaissance after the _Sofonisba_ of Trissino; Luis
Velez de Guevara, _Reinar despues de morir_, an admirable play; and
Ferdinand Denis, _Chroniques chevaleresques de l'Espagne et du
Portugal_.

CASTRO, JOAO DE (1500-1548), called by Camoens _Castro Forte_, fourth
viceroy of the Portuguese Indies, was the son of Alvaro de Castro, civil
governor of Lisbon. A younger son, and destined therefore for the
church, he became at an early age a brilliant humanist, and studied
mathematics under Pedro Nunez, in company with the infante Dom Luis, son
of Emanuel the First, with whom he contracted a life-long friendship. At
eighteen he went to Tangier, where he was dubbed knight by Duarte de
Menezes the governor, and there he remained several years. In 1535 he
accompanied Dom Luis to the siege of Tunis, where he had the honour of
refusing knighthood and reward at the