Ferdinand of Portugal, Lord of Eça
Ferdinand of Portugal (), later of Eça or Eza ( – Eza?), was the son of Portuguese Infant João, Duke of Valencia de Campos. João, was a son of king Peter I of Portugal with powerful and literary famous for several centuries in several European languages, Galician lady Inés de Castro, "the Queen who ruled after her death". His father, Infante John, Duke of Valencia de Campos, (Coimbra 1349-Salamanca 1397), buried there, had been legitimized as Infant of Portugal, and became Duque de Valencia de Campos in Castile through his marriage to one of the bastards  of bastard king Henry II of Castile. Fernando's father John, had married in 1376, (1st marriage), Castilian lady Maria Téllez de Menezes, assassinated shortly after in 1378 by her husband, who had been alerted of her apparent unfaithfulness. Then, he married again in Valencia de Campos in 1378 Constanza de Castilla, Lady of Valencia de Campos, illegitimate daughter of bastard King Enrique II of Castile, who was therefore the step mother of orphaned Fernando of Portugal, thus becoming consort duke of Valencia de Campos. Life. He was the 1st Lord of Eza in Galicia, from where he took his  surname, corrupted in Portuguese into Eça, and which was given to him by Fadrique de Castilla, 1st Duke of Arjona who died in prison. Marriages and issue. It is said Fernando was married or perhaps lived with many wives, all of them alive. Other sources say he married six times, having three or four of them alive at once, but only the name of the sixth wife is known. Apparently, this sixth one, was Isabel Dávalos, daughter of Pedro López Dávalos, Adelantado of Murcia, and granddaughter of Ruy López Dávalos, Constable of Castile . By her he had: With Leonor de  Teive, daughter of João de Teive and Brites de Horta, he had: "By another" he had: "By another": "By others": All from different women, "it is said that" he had 42 children, between sons and daughters. End of life. In the end of his life he repented and started wearing a rope of the Habit of Saint Francis of Assisi, with which he was buried and which appears in the Coat of Arms of his family in purple with the look of a carbuncule.