Succession that followed (1475–1479). Completely changing his policy, Carrillo joined the camp led by the king of Portugal, which supported the claim to the Castilian throne by his niece, princess Joanna la Beltraneja, against the claim of Isabella I. The war was long and cruel, but at the start of 1479 an offensive by the Catholic Monarchs definitively defeated the Portuguese and forced Carrillo to submit and accept the imposition of royal garrisons in all the fortresses he controlled, though he did hold onto his post as archbishop of Toledo. On 12 May 1481 he condemned the existence of radical guilds and associations in Toledo that organized along racial lines and excluded Jewish converts to the Catholic faith. He died in the archepiscopal palace of Alcalá de Henares. Issue While still young, he had two illegitimate sons: Troylos Carrillo, later count of Agosta Lope Vasquez de Acuña References Bibliography Guillermo Mireki, Apuntes genealógicos y biográficos de don Alfonso Carrillo de Acuña, Arzobispo de Toledo, Anales Toledanos vol. XXVIII, Instituto de Estudios Toledanos, Toledo, 1991 (pp. 55–76). External links The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church 15th-century Castilian cardinals Archbishops of Toledo 1410 births 1482 deaths 15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Castile