Azulejo panel depicting the Battle of Valdevez at the São Bento railway station, Porto
Date
Summer of 1140 or 1141
Location
Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal
Result
Portuguese victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Portugal
Kingdom of León
Commanders and leaders
Afonso I of Portugal
Alfonso VII of León
The Battle of Valdevez (Portuguese: Torneio de Arcos de Valdevez) took place at Arcos de Valdevez on the banks of the river Vez between the Kingdom of León and the Kingdom of Portugal in the summer of 1140 or 1141.[1] It is one of only two pitched battles that Alfonso VII of León is known to have fought, and the only of the two not coincident with a siege. His opponent at Valdevez was his cousin Afonso I of Portugal. An armistice signed after the battle eventually became the Treaty of Zamora (1143), and ended Portugal's first war of independence. The area of the battle became known as the Veiga or Campo da Matança, the "field of killing".
^The former date comes from the Chronicon Lusitanum, which places it in the Spanish era 1178.
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