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The House of Castro is an Iberian noble lineage, beginning mainly in the kingdoms of Castile, Galicia, and Portugal. Though its exact origins are disputed, the House of Castro became one of the most powerful families of the Spanish and Portuguese nobility .
In 2017, playable versions of both Caper in the Castro and Murder on Mainstreet were hosted online through the Internet Archive. [9] In 2019, the game was exhibited at Schwules Museum in Berlin, during the Rainbow Arcade, the first exhibit on the history of LGBTQ video games. [8]
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Fernando Rodríguez [a] de Castro (1125–1185) was a Castilian nobleman, statesman and military leader who made his career in León. He was the leader of the House of Castro during the civil wars that followed the death of Sancho III of Castile and the succession of the infant Alfonso VIII .
The battle was the high point of a series of struggles for power between the Lara and Castro families following the death of Sancho III of Castile in August 1158 and the accession of his young son, Alfonso VIII. [3] Initially, a regency under was established under Gutierre Fernández de Castro, Fernando's uncle.
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She was born into the House of Castro as the daughter of Pedro Fernández de Castro and Isabel Ponce de León. She was the sister of Fernando Ruiz de Castro [1] and the half-sister of Inês de Castro [2] and Álvaro Pires de Castro. Among her advisors were her uncle-in-law Enrique Enríquez the Younger and Men Rodríguez de Sanabria . [2]
Fernando Ruiz de Castro became a prominent figure in the circle of King Peter of Castile, and served as lord steward and standard-bearer of the realm.During the Castilian Civil War, he was the leading partisan of Peter's camp, and continued fighting for the Petrist cause against the House of Trastámara even after the king's death in 1369.