Eat Your Heart Out, Don Juan
While Dom Pedro I was a prince, he fell in love with Inês de Castro, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman and lady-in-waiting to his first wife. Pedro's father, Afonso IV, objected to the romance, however, fearing that an alliance would leave the Portuguese throne vulnerable to Spanish domination. In spite of this, Pedro fled with Inês to Bragança, where they were married in secret. Afonso had Inês killed soon afterwards.
Two years later, when he assumed the throne, Pedro personally removed the hearts of the men who had slit his young wife's throat and proceeded to eat them, earning the name Pedro the Cruel. He then had Inês's body exhumed, dressed meticulously in royal robes, and placed on the throne as his queen. According to legend, he even made his court kiss her rotting hand.
She was eventually entombed in the king's favorite monastery, the Mosterio de Santa maria de Alcobaça, where the king later joined her in a tomb directly opposite. The inscription on the tombs reads: "Até ao fim do mundo" (until the end of the world). This is a testament to Pedro's belief that they would eventually reunite face to face at the moment of the resurrection.