Castilian attack on Gravesend

Henry II of Castile was crowned king of Castile after defeating his half-brother in the first Castilian civil war. The new Trastámara king joined with the French under Jean de Vienne in a series of naval attacks and incursions into England. During these attacks, the towns of Dartmouth, Folkestone, Hastings, Lewes, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Rottingdean, Rye, Southampton, Wight, and Winchelsea were looted, and many were burned. In 1379, Henry II died and left his throne to his son, Juan I of Castile, who soon ordered a naval raid in 1379 against the Kingdom of England. == Sequence of events==

The raiding fleet, a combined Spanish-French fleet of 20 galleys under the command of Fernando Sánchez de Tovar , which previously departed from Seville in late 1379/early 1380, arrived in the Thames Estuary in early summer of 1380. Before it moved to attack the eastern English seaboard, the islands of Jersey and Guernsey were also subject to raids by the fleet. with some sources even claiming that the fleet advanced to within sight of the English capital of London. At Gravesend, Castilian soldiers disembarked and proceeded to loot the town and set it ablaze. == References ==