Eleanor Princess of Castile 
Eleanor Princess of was born in 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. She died at the age of 46 on November 28th, 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England. She was buried on December 16th, 1290 in Westminster Abbey, London, England.General Notes
Eleanor OF CASTILE, Spanish LEONOR DE CASTILLA (b. 1246--d. Nov. 28, 1290, Harby, Nottinghamshire, Eng.), queen consort of King Edward I of England (ruled 1272-1307). Her devotion to Edward helped bring out his better qualities; after her death, his rule became somewhat arbitrary. Eleanor was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu.
In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward, son of England's King Henry III. In honour of the event, her half brother, Alfonso X of Castile, transferred to Edward his claims to Gascony. When Henry III's baronial opponents seized power in England in 1264, Eleanor was sent for safety to France; she returned in October 1265, after Edward had crushed the rebels.
Eleanor accompanied Edward on a crusade from 1270 to 1273. The story that she saved his life at Acre (now in Israel) by sucking poison from a dagger wound is evidently apocryphal. After Edward ascended the throne, Eleanor was criticized for allegedly mistreating the tenants on her lands. Upon her death, Edward erected the famous Eleanor Crosses--several of which still stand--at each place where her coffin rested on its way to London. [Encyclopaedia Britannica CD '907]
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Queen of England, Princess of Castile and LeÛn, Countess of Ponthieu [Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., R. W. Stuart, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1998]
Eleanor Princess of and Edward I Plantagenet "Longshanks" King O were married in a religious ceremony on October 18th, 1254 in Burgos, Spain. They had a son and three daughters, named Edward II Plantagenet King of, Eleanor, Joan "of Acre" and Elizabeth.
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Eleanor Plantagenet , Princess of England
Eleanor was born on June 17th, 1264 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England. She died at the age of 54 in 1318 in Ghent, Flanders now Belgium. She was buried in Collegiate Church of St Gudule, Brussels, Belgium.
Joan "of Acre" Plantagenet , Princess of England
Joan "of Acre" was born in 1272 in Acre, Hazafon, Palestine. She died at the age of 35 on April 23rd, 1307 in Clare, Suffolk, England. She was buried on April 26th, 1307 in Austins Friars, Clare, Suffolk, England.
Elizabeth Plantagenet , Princess of England
Elizabeth was born in August 1282 in Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales. She died at the age of 33 on May 5th, 1316 in Quendon, Essex, England. She was buried on May 23rd, 1316 in Walden Abbey, Hertfordshire, England.
Edward II Plantagenet King of England
Edward II Plantagenet King of was born on April 25th, 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales. He died at the age of 43 on September 21st, 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England (murdered). He was buried in Gloucester Cathedral.
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