Inez de Castro, who was the wife of Dom Pedro I (King of Portugal from 1357 to 1367), is often referred to as the Queen that "reigned after death." Dom Pedro's father, Alfonso IV, objected to Pedro and Inez' marriage (even though it was a morganatic marriage) because of Inez' supposed illegitimate birth. In 1355 Inez was murdered, supposedly at Alfonso's instigation, and Dom Pedro rebelled. He succeeded to the throne when Alfonso died in 1357, after which he had the body of his wife exhumed, placed on a throne and crowned. All the nobles were forced to perform obeisance to the late Queen by kissing her (by now rather withered) hand. She was then reinterred with much ceremony in a beautiful white marble sarcophagus.