Eleanor Princess of Castile 
Eleanor Princess of was born in 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain. Eleanor Princess of's father was Ferdinand III "The Saint" King of Leon & Castile and her mother was Joan de Dammartin , of Ponthieu. Her paternal grandparents were Alfonso IX King of Leon and Berengaria of Castile; her maternal grandparents were Simon II de Dammartin , Count of Aumale and Marie Countess of Ponthieu. She had a half-brother named Alfonso X "The Wise" King of Leon &. 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]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.1137 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.22 Aug 1188 in Benavente, Zamora, Castile, Spain
- b.1110 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain d.2 FEB 1148/49 in Palencia, Leon, Spain
- b.15 Aug 1166 in Zamora, Leon, Spain d.24 Sep 1230 in Villaneuva de Sarria, Lugo, Spain
- b.25 Jul 1109 in Villa de Guimar, Brag, Spain d.06 Dec 1185 in Coimbra, Portugal
- b.~ 1149 in Coimbra, Portugal d.16 Oct 1178 in Villadoiid, Spain
- b.1125 in Chambery, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France d.04 Nov 1157
- b.19 Aug 1201 in Leon, Spain d.30 May 1252 in Seville, Spain
- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.1135 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.31 Aug 1158 in Toledo, Castile, Spain
- b.1110 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain d.2 FEB 1148/49 in Palencia, Leon, Spain
- b.11 Nov 1155 in Coimbra, Portugal d.06 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Castile, Spain
- b.1133 in Pampina, Navarre, Spain d.24 Jun 1158
- b.~Jun 1180 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine d.08 Nov 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spaine
- b.24 Aug 1113 in Anjou, France d.07 Sep 1151 in Chateau, Eure-et-Loire, Normandy, France
- b.5 MAR 1132/33 in Le Mans, Maine, France d.06 Jul 1189 in Chinon near Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
- b.FEB 1102/03 in London, Middlesex, England d.10 Sep 1167 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
- b.13 Oct 1161 in Domfront, Normandy, France d.25 Oct 1214 in Las Huelgas, Brugos, Spain
- b.1099 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrenees, France d.09 Apr 1137 in Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- b.1123 in Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Gironde, Aquitaine, France d.31 Mar 1204 in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Touraine, France
- b.~ 1105 in Chatellerault, Vienne, Poitou, France d.AFT MAR 1130/31
- b.1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain d.28 Nov 1290 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.1110 in Dammartine, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.> 1181 in Norton, Stow, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1138 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.19 Sep 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1115 in France d.< 1147
- b.~ 1172 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.21 Sep 1239 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1085 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.1162 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1145 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France d.Oct 1200 in London, Middlesex, England
- b.~ 1115 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Argonne/Lorraine, France d.AFT 20 JAN 1182/83 in Clermont, Beauvais, Oise, Picardy, France
- b.1216 in Dammartin, Seine-et-Marne, Ile-de-France, France d.15 MAR 1278/79 in Abbeville, France
- b.~ 1140 in Montreuil, Pas-de-Calais, France d.1191 in Acre, Palestine
- b.1179 in Ponthieu, Somme, Picardy, France d.04 Oct 1221 in Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France
- b.~ 1155 in St. Pol, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d.> 1204
- b.17 Apr 1199 in Aumale, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.Sep 1250 in Normandy, France
- b.1121 in Reims, Marne, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France
- b.~ 1170 in Paris, Seine, Ile-de-France, France d.1220 in Castile, Spain
- b.1 MAR 1104/05 in Toledo, Castile, Spain d.21 Aug 1157 in La Fresneda, Teruel, Castile, Spain
- b.~ 1144 in Castile, Spain d.04 Oct 1160 in (in child birth)
- b.1110 in Barcelona, Aragon, Spain d.2 FEB 1148/49 in Palencia, Leon, Spain
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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 four daughters, named Edward II Plantagenet King of, Eleanor, Joan "of Acre", Margaret and Elizabeth.
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Children
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.
Margaret Plantagenet , Princess of England
Margaret was born on September 11th, 1275 in Windsor Castle, Berkshire, England. She died at the age of 43 in 1318 in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.
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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