Both nations claimed it under differing interpretations of the Treaty of Tordesillas.
War once set a-going, Padilla went down to Tordesillas to see the queen.
Here we found the French in some force, their main body having retired across the Duero to Tordesillas.
Tordesillas , on the Douro, owes its existence to the junction of roads which cross the river by its noble bridge.
Padilla hurried back, hearing his wife was ill, and in his absence the Imperial army sacked Tordesillas.
