Eleanor Plantagenet 
Eleanor was born in 1215 in Gloucester, England.1 Eleanor's father was John Lackland and her mother was Isabella Taillefer. Her paternal grandparents were Henry II de Anjou Plantagenet and Eleanor de Aquitaine; her maternal grandparents were Alymer de Valence and Alice de Courtenay. She had two brothers and two sisters, named Henry III, Richard, Joan and Isabella. She had a half-sister named Joanna of England. She died at the age of 60 on April 13th, 1275 in Montargis Abbey, France.1 General Notes
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_FA1 PLAC Despite vowing perpetual chastity upon widowhood, she married Simon de Montfort.
_FA2 PLAC Interred: Montargis Abbey, France.
_FA3 DATE Jun 1259 PLAC Held up treaty with France as she refuses to renounce her Angevin cla ims.
_FA4 PLAC Did so as Henry owed her significant dower rights.
_FA5 PLAC Louis IX sets aside 15,000 marks he owes Henry to take her case to arbitration.
_FA6 PLAC She then signed as heir to King John her renunciation of her Angevin lands.
_FA7 DATE Aug 1265 PLAC Aft her husbands defeat, she refused to yield Dover Castle to Princ e Edward. _FA8 PLAC Smuggled sons Amaury & Richard to safety in France.
_FA9 DATE 18 Oct 1265 PLAC She surrendered Dover to Edward due to treachery within & siege wi thout. _FA10 PLAC Henry III (her brother) exiled her to France. She & daghter leave 28 Oct.
_FA11 PLAC Henry also refused her permission to see her wounded son Guyere she left.
_FA12 PLAC Sole executor of her husband Montfort's estate & will.
_FA13 PLAC Became a nun upon Montfort's death at Montargis Abbey, France.
_MDCL Blonde, blue eyes. Dropsy.REF: " Falls the Shadow" Sharon Kay Penman: After Evesham, E leanor retired to a covent at Montargis Abbey which Simon's elder sister had founded. The Ab bey is south of Paris. While there, she won the sympathy & support of Louis & Marguerite, muc h to Henry & Eleanor's (Eleanor Berenger, Henry's wife, was Marguerite Berenger, Louis's wife 's sister) chagrin. Louis & Marguerite requested Henry to restore Eleanor's dower rights to h er Pembroke estates, but Henry remained obdurate. Louis's welcome extended to her sons & daug hter too. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd also extended the alliance he made with Simon to her & Simon' s sons & offered herself & her family refuge in Wales. In May 1266, both her sons Guy & Bra n were reunited with her & her daughter at Montargis. Guy had escaped from Dover Castle (h e had been severely wounded at Evesham, then kept in close confinement), where sentiment ra n very strongly in favor of Earl Simon.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1043 in Of, Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Of, Anjou, France
- b.1092 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Plains of Acre, Palestine
- b.1048 in Of, Montfort Amaury, Ile De France, France d.14 FEB 1116/17 in ,Fontevrault, France
- b.24 Aug 1113 in ,,Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau-du-Loir, Eure-et-Loire, France
- b.~ 1060 in Of, Maine, France d.11 Jul 1110
- b.~ 1096 in ,,Maine, France d.1126 in ,,Maine, France
- b.~ 1055 in Of, Chateau Du Loire, France d.1099
- b.25 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, Sarthe, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Calvados, France d. in Hermenbraville, S-Infr, France
- b.~Sep 1068 in ,Selby, Yorkshire, England d.01 Dec 1135 in ,St Denis, Seine-St Denis, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.<05 Aug 1102 in Winchester, England d.10 Sep 1169 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.1031 in Of, Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland d.13 Nov 1093 in Alnwick Castle, Northumberland, England
- b.Oct 1079 in Dunfermline, Fifeshire, Scotland d.01 May 1118 in ,Westminster, Middlesex, England
- b. in Of, Wessex, England d.16 Nov 1093 in Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh, Mid-Lothian, Scotland
- b.24 Dec 1166 in Oxford, Oxford, Oxford, England d.19 Oct 1216 in Newark, Newark, Nottingham, England
- b.~ 1026 in ,Aquitaine, France d.25 Sep 1086
- b.22 Oct 1071 in Aquitaine, France d.10 FEB 1126/27
- b.1050 d.1104
- b.1099 in St. Jacques Compostelle, Aquitaine, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Galicia, Spain
- b.1040 in of Toulouse, Aquitaine d.1094 in Battle of Huesca
- b.1073 in Toulouse, France d.28 Nov 1117
- b.1058 in Mortaigne, S-Mnch, France d.> 1080
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin, Gironde, Aquitaine d.01 Apr 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Fontevrault, Anjou, France
- b.1046 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France d.1092
- b.1075 in Chastellerault, Vienne, France d.1136
- b.1054 in of Thouars, Deux-Sevres, France d.1093
- b.1103 in Chatellerault, Vienne, France or Aquitaine, France d.MAR 1129/30 in Talmont, France
- b.1049 in of Isle Bouchard, France d.> 1097
- b.1079 in of Isle Bouchard, France d.> 1119
- b.1053 in of Isle Bouchard, France
- b.1215 in Gloucester, England d.13 Apr 1275 in Montargis Abbey, France
- b.1065 in ,Algouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Apr 1118 in France
- b.1089 in ,Algouleme, Aquitaine, France d.16 Nov 1140 in Bouteville, France
- b.1066 in Benauges, France
- b.1125 in ,Angouleme, Aquitaine, France d.07 Aug 1179 in Messina, Sicily, Italy
- b.1054 in of Montgomery, Montgomeryshire, Wales d.1123 in Charroux, France
- b.~ 1109 in LaMarche, Normandy
- b.~ 1070 in LaMarche, Normandy d.1116
- b.1160 in Angoulme, Charente, France d.1202 in Limoges, France
- b.~ 1080 in France d.~ 1137
- b.1120 in France d.> 1201
- b.1089 in Of, Perche, France d.08 May 1144 in siege of Rouen, France
- b.1105 in of Perche, Normandy d.18 May 1143
- b.1086 d.25 Nov 1120 in sinking of the White Ship, Barfleur, Manche, France
- b.1180 in Angoulme, Charente, France d.31 May 1246 in Fontrevrault, M-Lr, France
- b.<23 May 1052 in ,Reims, Champagne, France d.29 Jul 1108 in ,Melun, Isle De France, France
- b. in Paris, Seine, France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau Bethizy, Paris, Seine, France
- b.1054 in of Vlaardingen, Zuid Holland, the Netherlands d.1094 in Montreuil-sur-Mer
- b.~ 1125 in Montargis, France d.10 Apr 1183 in Palestine
- b.1062 in Maurienne, France d.17 Oct 1103
- b.1092 in Savoie, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.~ 1070 in of Bourgogne, France d.> 1133
- b.1160 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.1218 in France
- b.1069 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.> 1127 in ,,France
- b.1100 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.> 1161 in France
- b.1073 in Nevers, Nievre, France d.> 1127 in France
- b.~ 1127 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.14 Sep 1205 in Sutton, Berkshire, England
- b.1085 in Of Yerre, S-O, France d.> 1138 in Donjon Csl, Corbeil, S-O, France
- b.~ 1113 in Courtenay, Loiret, France d.> 1158
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