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May 17, 2023 · Eleanor of Castile was the daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and León, by his second wife, Jeanne de Dammartin, the heiress to the county of Ponthieu. Her exact date of birth is unrecorded, although she and her two brothers were alive by the completion of the Castilian chronicle, De rebus Hispaniae libri IX , in 1243.
Sep 15, 2014 · Amberley Publishing Limited, Sep 15, 2014 - History - 416 pages. Eleanor of Castile, the remarkable woman behind England’s greatest medieval king, Edward I, has been effectively airbrushed from history; yet she had one of the most fascinating lives of any of England’s queens. Her childhood was spent in the centre of the Spanish reconquest ...
1241 - 1290. Eleanor of Castile, or Leonor as she was known in early life, was born in 1241, the second of five children of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Joan of Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu. She was named for her father's maternal grandmother, Eleanor of England, the daughter of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, who married Alfonso ...
Eleanor of Castile. Eleanor of Castile was the first queen consort of King Edward I. She was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu. In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward, son of England's King Henry III. In honour of the event, her half brother, Alfonso X of Castile, transferred to Edward his claims ...
Eleanor’s association with Lincoln is one of mere happenstance. She is regarded as Lincoln Cathedral’s queen, because of her being interred, at least in part (her viscera, minus the heart), in a tomb within the cathedral following her death in 1290. The story of the procession conveying her body from Lincoln to Westminster, an act of ...
Joanna of Castile. Eleanor of Austria (15 November 1498 – 25 February 1558), also called Eleanor of Castile, was born an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen consort of Portugal (1518–1521) and of France (1530–1547). She also held the Duchy of Touraine (1547–1558) in dower.
Eleanor was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England. In 1221 at Ágreda, Eleanor married King James I of Aragon; she was nineteen and he was fourteen. [3] The next six years of James's reign were full of rebellions on the part of the nobles. By the Peace of Alcalá of 31 March 1227, the nobles and the king came to terms.
