 1244 - 1290 (46 years)
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| Name |
Eleanor Of Castile And Leon |
| Prefix |
Princess |
| Birth |
1244 |
Of, Burgos, Burgos, Spain  |
| Gender |
Female |
| Death |
29 Nov 1290 |
Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England |
| Person ID |
I3394 |
Cecilie Family |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
| Father |
King Fernando III Of Castile And Leon, b. 5 Aug 1201, Leon, Leon, Spain d. 30 May 1252, Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain (Age 50 years) |
| Mother |
Jeanne De Dammartin, b. Abt 1216, Dammartin, France d. 15 Mar 1279, Abbeville, France (Age 63 years) |
| Marriage |
1237 |
Burgos, Burgos, Spain |
| Family ID |
F22487 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
King Edward I Plantagenet Of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster, London, England d. 8 Jul 1307, Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years) |
| Marriage |
18 Oct 1254 |
Burgos, Burgos, Spain |
| Children |
| | 1. Eleanor Plantagenet Of England, b. 1269 d. 1298 (Age 29 years) |
| | 2. Joan |
| | 3. Joan Of Acre Plantagenet, Princess Of England, b. Mar 1272, Acre, Palestine d. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years) |
| | 4. John |
| | 5. Henry |
| | 6. Julian |
| | 7. Joan |
| | 8. Alfonso, b. 24 Nov 1273, Bordeaux d. 19 Aug 1284, Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England (Age 10 years) |
| | 9. Margaret |
| | 10. Berengaria |
| | 11. Mary |
| | 12. Alice |
| | 13. Princess Elizabeth Of England, b. 7 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England (Age 33 years) |
| | 14. King Edward II Of England, b. 25 Apr 1274, Carnarvon Castle, Carnarvon , Wales d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Gloucester, Gloucester, England (Age 53 years) |
| | 15. Beatrice |
| | 16. Blanche |
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| Family ID |
F1111 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
8 Dec 2010 |
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| Notes |
- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Eleanor of Castile (1246 - 28 November 1290) was the first queen consort of Edward I of England. Eleanor was born in Castile, Spain, the daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon and his second wife, Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu. Her given name was Leonor (she was called Eleanor in England). She married Edward, the son of Henry III of England, in October 1254 at Burgos and became queen in 1272 when his father died and he became king. Theirs was one of the most successful royal marriages of all time, and she often accompanied her husband on his military campaigns, giving birth to his fourth son (later King Edward II of England) at Caernarfon in 1284, immediately after the conquest of Wales. She gave birth to sixteen children all told, six of whom survived into adulthood, but only two or three of whom outlived their parents.
Eleanor died on November 28, 1290, at Nottingham (believed actually Harby, Nottinghamshire rather than the city), and her body was returned to London for burial at Westminster Abbey. Such was Edward's devotion to her that he erected memorial crosses at each overnight stop. Three of these "Eleanor crosses" are still landmarks today, although the most famous at Charing Cross (from which its name derives) is a copy. He did not remarry for nine years, to Margaret of France, in 1299.
The locations of the 12 crosses were as follows: Lincoln, Grantham, Stamford, Geddington, Northampton, Stony Stratford, Woburn, Dunstable, St Albans, Waltham, Westcheap, and Charing.
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- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 2:83 (Reliability: 3).
- [S1328] Schwennicke, Detlev, ES, (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt Verlag, 1980-), 2:63 (Reliability: 3).
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