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Catherine of Lancaster ( Castilian: Catalina; 31 March 1373 [1] – 2 June 1418) was Queen of Castile by marriage to King Henry III of Castile. She governed Castile as regent from 1406 until 1418 during the minority of her son. Queen Catherine was the daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his second wife, Constance of Castile ...
Apr 1, 2021 · In 1378, Constance received the honor of being appointed the fourth Lady of the Garter. Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster died on March 24, 1394, aged 39–40, at Leicester Castle in Leicestershire, of England. She was buried at the Church of the Annunciation of Our Lady of the Newarke, in Leicester, England, which was destroyed in the ...
Sancha of Castile (21 September 1154/5 – 9 November 1208) was the only surviving child of King Alfonso VII of Castile by his second wife, Richeza of Poland. [1] On January 18, 1174, she married King Alfonso II of Aragon at Zaragoza; [2] they had at least eight children who survived into adulthood. A patroness of troubadours such as Giraud de ...
Eleanor of England ( Spanish: Leonor; c. 1161 [1] – 31 October 1214 [2] [3] ), was Queen of Castile and Toledo [4] as wife of Alfonso VIII of Castile. [5] [6] She was the sixth child and second daughter of Henry II, King of England, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. [7] [8] She served as Regent of Castile during the minority of her son Henry I for 26 ...
Alfonso XI of Castile. Mother. Maria of Portugal. Alabaster sculpture of Peter, 1446. Peter ( Spanish: Pedro; 30 August 1334 – 23 March 1369), called Peter the Cruel ( el Cruel) or the Just ( el Justo ), [a] was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea.
Manuel of Castile and Beatrice of Savoy, in a 17th-century Portuguese painting series depicting the ancestors of the Manuel family (Ficalho Palace, Serpa, Portugal) Family. He married twice. His first wife, whom he married in 1260 in Soria was Constance of Aragon, daughter of James I of Aragon. Two children were born of this marriage:
From this union, which lasted until Constance's death in 1093, six children were born, but only one reached adulthood: Urraca (c. 1080 – 8 March 1126), successor of her father in the thrones of León and Castile, who married firstly Raymond of Burgundy and secondly King Alfonso I of Aragon.
