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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.
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Simon de Montfort. Eleanor's seal as Countess of Leicester. Seven years later, she met Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester. According to Matthew Paris, Simon was attracted to Eleanor's beauty and elegance as well as her wealth and high birth.
Eleanor de Montfort. Buchmalerei aus dem 13. Jahrhundert. Eleanor de Montfort (auch Alienor de Montfort) (* um 1258; † 19. Juni 1282) war eine englische Adlige, die durch Heirat Fürstin von Wales wurde.
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.
Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c. 1208 – 4 August 1265), later sometimes referred to as Simon V de Montfort to distinguish him from his namesake relatives, was an English nobleman of French origin and a member of the English peerage, who led the baronial opposition to the rule of King Henry III of England, culminating in the Second ...
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.
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Eleanor of Montfort was the last child born to King John of England and Isabella of Angoulême. She was made countess of Leicester and, as a young woman, married one of her father's baronial supporters, William Marshal of Pembroke.
