Castilian Civil War

The First Castilian Civil War
	Part of the Hundred Years' War
	; Battle of Nájera, from a fifteenth-century manuscript, the English and Pedro are on the left while the French and Henry are on the right.
Date	1351–1369
Location	Crown of Castile
Result	Victory for Henry of Trastámara
Belligerents
Forces of Henry of Trastámara; Kingdom of France ; Crown of Aragon	Forces of Peter of Castile ; Kingdom of England ; Kingdom of Navarre ; Kingdom of Majorca ; Emirate of Granada ; Duchy of Aquitaine; Others; Elite European mercenaries
Commanders and leaders
Henry of Trastámara ; Bertrand du Guesclin	Peter of Castile †; Edward, the Black Prince

The Castilian Civil War was a war of succession over the Crown of Castile that lasted from 1351 to 1369. The conflict started after the death of king Alfonso XI of Castile in March 1350. It became part of the larger conflict then raging between the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of France: the Hundred Years' War. It was fought primarily in Castile and its coastal waters between the local and allied forces of the reigning king, Peter, and his illegitimate brother Henry of Trastámara over the right to the crown.

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