Lady Eleanore Berenger of Provence 
Eleanore was born in 1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France.1 Eleanore's father was 4th Count of Provence Raymond Berenger V and her mother was Beatrice of Savoy. Her paternal grandparents were Count of Provence Alphonso Berenger II and Garsinde de Sabran; her maternal grandparents were Count of Savoy Thomas de Maurienne I and Beatrix Faucigny. She had two sisters named Marguerite and Beatrice. She was the second oldest of the three children. She died at the age of 69 on June 24th, 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England. She was buried on September 11th, 1291 in Ambresbury Monastery, Wiltshire, England.2 1 General Notes
Eleanor of Provence (born c. 1217 - died 1291) was Queen Consort of King Henry III of England.
Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the daughter of Raymond Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198-1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1206-1266), the daughter of Tomasso, Count of Savoy and his second wife Margaret. Eleanor's sister, Marguerite (1221-1295), married Louis IX, King of France and became Queen of France.
When she was 13 years old, Eleanor was married to Henry III, King of England (1207-1272) in January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his impoverished kingdom. The dynastic match became a true partnership, but her first year in London the despised foreign queen in her barge on the Thames was threatened by a London mob and fled to the bishop of London's palace for safety.
She was a confident consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign. She stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. Eleanor retired to a convent but remained in touch with her son.
Eleanor died in 1291 Amesbury, England.
The couple had nine children, four of whom survived: Edward I (1239 - 1307) Margaret (born 19.9. 1240) Beatrice (born 25.6. 1242) Edmund (born 14.3. 1245)
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.11 Nov 1080 d.19 Aug 1131
- b.1113 d.08 Aug 1162
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- b.May 1152 d.25 Apr 1196
- b.24 Apr 1086 in Huesca, Aragon, Spain d.16 Aug 1157 in Heusca
- b.1135 d.17 Oct 1174 in Barcelona, Spain
- b.1097 in Poitiers, France d.1159
- b.1174 d.Feb 1209
- b.1067 in Bourgogne, France d.24 May 1107 in Grajal
- b.01 Mar 1105 d.21 Aug 1157 in Fresneda
- b.1082 d.1126
- b.21 Sep 1164 d.09 Nov 1208 in Sijena
- b.1130
- b.1198 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.19 Aug 1245 in France
- b.1080 d.1158
- b.1130 d.1180
- b.1085 in Sabran, Gard, Languedoc, France
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- b.1110
- b.1140 d.Apr 1192
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- b.1180 d.1209
- b.1110 d.1150
- b.1137 d.13 Oct 1210
- b.1110 d.1152
- d.1190
- b.1098 d.20 Oct 1168
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- b.1222 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhone, France d.24 Jun 1291 in Ambresbury, Wiltshire, England
- b.1062 in Savoy, France d.23 Sep 1104
- b.1092 in Savoie, France d.01 Apr 1148
- b.1070 in Savoy, France d.1153
- b.01 Aug 1136 in Savoie, France d.04 Mar 1188 in France
- b.1050 d.21 Dec 1125
- b.1098 in Albon, Drome, France d.1145
- b.20 Mar 1177 in Carbonierres, Savoy, France d.20 Jan 1233 in Aoste, Isere, France
- b.1097 in Vienne, France d.27 Sep 1155
- b.1132 in Vienne, France d.15 Sep 1184
- b.1090 in Traves, Haute-Saone, France
- b.1156 d.08 Apr 1230
- b.1088 in Salins, Seine-et-Marne, France
- b.1114 in Salins, Seine-et-Marne, France d.1200
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- b.1201 in Chambery, Savoie, France d.Dec 1266 in France
- b.1050 in Geneva, Switzerland d.1125
- b.1104 in Geneva, Switzerland d.26 Jun 1178 in Geneva, Switzerland
- b.1086 in Geneva, Switzerland d.1134
- b.1130 d.25 Jul 1195
- b.1086 in Cuiseaux, Saone-Et-Loire, France
- b.1110 in Cuiseaux, Saone-Et-Loire, France d.01 Jul 1137
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- b.1180 in Geneva, Switzerland d.08 Apr 1257 in Pierre-Chatel, France
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- b.1108
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- b.1138
- b.1112
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Details of Eleanore's family with Henry Plantagenet of England III
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