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Apr 18, 2024 · Eleanor of Castile (1241 – 28 November 1290) was the first queen consort of Edward I of England. She was also Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband.
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Birth
Eleanor of Castile (in Spanish Leonor de Castilla) was probably the second child and only daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon, and his second wife, Jeanne de Dammartin, later Countess of Ponthieu and Aumale. Her birth date is not recorded in any source, and it has often been thought to be about 1244, as she is described as still a child in a number of chronicles of the time, when she married in 1254; perhaps aged about 10. However she was definitely born before 31 March 1243,...
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There is little record of Eleanor's life in England until the 1260s, when the Second Barons' War, between Henry III and his barons, divided the kingdom. It is untrue that she was sent to France to escape danger during the war; she was in England throughout the struggle ... supporting Edward. She even imported archers from her mother's county of Ponthieu. Rumours that she was seeking fresh troops from Castile led the baronial leader, Simon de Montfort, to order her removal from Windsor Castle...
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"Castile and Leon" is the English translation for a governmental authority, within the country of Spain, which was created by statute in 1983. So, the place is correct (my bad - sorry!). At least it pinpoints the city of her birth and identifies it as it is known today. I think, however, that the consensus on the G2G discussions has been to name places as they were at the time of the event in the language the people who lived there spoke. True or not true? Personally, when I run into the issu...
By 1270, the kingdom was pacified and Edward and Eleanor left to join his uncle Louis IX of France on the Eighth Crusade. Louis died at Carthage before they arrived, however, and after they spent the winter in Sicily, the couple went on to Acre in Palestine, where they arrived in May 1271. Eleanor gave birth to a daughter, known as "Joanna of Acre"...
Location: 'Harby' (near Lincoln)'Eleanor Crosses': Thirteen once existed, but only those of Northampton & Waltham survive.Eleonor lies at the feet of Henry III. Her heart is buried in Blackfriars Church, London; and her entrails buried at Lincoln Cathedral.(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) Eleanor died at Harby (Nottinghamshire) on 28 November 1290. Her remains were interred in three locations - body at Westminster, entrails (viscera) at Lincoln Cathedral and heart at Blackfriars priory in London. In addition, twelve commemorative crosses were erected to mark to journey of the queen's body from Linco...
Parsons, John Carmi, 'Eleanor of Castile', soc.genealogy.medieval, discussion list, 4 September 1998, http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/1998-09/0904927642...G. W. Watson, "The Seize Quartiers of Eleanor (of Castile) Queen Consort to Edward I." The Genealogist New Series XI (1895) Internet Archive Table XIII p. 31, Additions to table XIII pp....Strickland, Agnes. 1902(?),Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest. Vol 2. Philadelphia: George Barrie & Sons. Digital image. Internet Archive. https://archive.org/details/cu31924...- Female
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Eleanor of Castile (1241 28 November 1290) was the first Queen consort of Edward I of England. Eleanor was born in Castile, Spain, daughter of Fernando III, King of Castile and Leon and his second wife, Jeanne, Countess of Ponthieu.
When Eleanor of England Queen of Castile was born on 13 October 1162, in Normandy, France, her father, Henry II King of England, was 29 and her mother, Aliénor d'Aquitaine Reine consort de France et d’Angleterre, was 39. She married Rey Alfonso VIII de Castilla in September 1180, in Diócesis de Tarazona, Spain.
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Eleanor de Castile : Family tree by Tim DOWLING (tdowling) - Geneanet. Sosa : 10,337,959. Born in 1240 - Burgos, Castile, Spain. Deceased 29 November 1290 - Herdeby (near Grantham), Lincolnshire, England,aged 50 years old. Parents. Ferdinand de Castile, King 1201-1252. Johanna de Dammartin, Countess 1216-1279.
Eleanor of Castile She was born about 1241 and died at Harby in Nottinghamshire in November 1290. Her body was embalmed and Edward erected stone memorial crosses at the places where her funeral procession rested on its way back to London, from Lincoln to Charing Cross.
