Title: Nuno Álvares Pereira
Description: This book describes the life of Nuno Álvares Pereira, a Portuguese general of great success who had a decisive role in the 1383-1385 Crisis that assured Portugal's independence from Castile. He later became a mystic, was beatified in 1918 and was canonised in 2009. 
Nuno Álvares Pereira was the perfect Christian warrior sworn to uphold the values of faith, loyalty, courage, and honour.
Subjects: History, biography, nobility, war, warrior, soldier, Carmelites, Christian saints, saint, Portugal, Nobility, Biography
Places: Portugal, Lisbon, Aljubarrota, Atoleiros, Valverde
People: Nuno Álvares Pereira (1360-1431), king John I of Portugal, king John I of Castile
Time periods: Age of Discoveries, 1383-1385, 1360-1431, The Middle Ages, 1383-1385 Crisis, 14th century, 15th century