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Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales and Lady of Snowdon (1252 – 19 June 1282) was an English noble and Welsh Princess. She was the daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England. She was also the second woman who can be shown to have used the title Princess of Wales.
Eleanor de Montfort. An influential woman at the centre of a civil war, Eleanor acted independently to protect her own interests and those of her family and her supporters. Lived: 1215–1275; Field: Woman at war; Key moment: Held Dover Castle against siege in 1265.
Eleanor's daughter, Eleanor de Montfort, was married, at Worcester in 1278, to Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Wales. She would die giving birth to their only child, Gwenllian of Wales. After the conquest of Wales, Gwenllian was imprisoned by Edward I of England, her mother's first cousin, at Sempringham priory, where she died 1337. Fiction
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Surviving documentary evidence concerning Eleanor de Montfort as a royal woman in native Wales is singular in comparison to any of her predecessors or contemporaries. Her acta are demonstrative of her aptitude for manipulating her relationship with the king of England for political capital.
Women in the Middle Ages. NY: Harper and Row, 1978. LauraYork , Riverside, California. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Eleanor of Montfort (1252–1282)Princess of Wales. Name variations: Eleanor de Mont-fort; (nickname) The Demoiselle.
Eleanor of Montfort (1215–1275) English princess, countess of Leicester, and rebel. Name variations: Eleanor of England; Eleanor de Montfort; Eleanor Plantagenet. Born in 1215 in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England; died on April 13, 1275, at Montargis convent in France; buried in Montargis, France; daughter of John also known as John ...
Eleanor de Montfort: A Rebel Countess in Medieval England, by Louise Wilkinson. London: Continuum, 2012. Pp. xvi+213. isbn: 9781847251947. $34.95. louise wilkinson has written a modest little book about the youngest sister of an English monarch, Henry III.
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