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Eleanor of England

Female 1162 - 1214  (51 years)


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  • Name Eleanor of England 
    Alternate birth Between 1161 and 1162  [1
    Alternate birth 1161  [2
    Birth 13 Oct 1162  Domfront, Normandy, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6, 7
    Gender Female 
    Death 21 Sep 1214  [8
    Alternate death 25 Oct 1214  Burgos, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 7, 9, 10
    Burial Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 5, 7
    Siblings 7 siblings 
    Person ID I6693  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 31 Jul 2022 

    Father Henry II, King of England,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays-de-la-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Mother Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England,   b. 1122   d. 1 Apr 1204 (Age 82 years) 
    Marriage 18 May 1152  Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Gironde, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 11, 12
    Family ID F2200  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alfonso VIII, King of Castile, Toledo, and Extramadura,   b. 11 Nov 1155, Soría, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Sep 1214 (Age 58 years) 
    Marriage Sep 1170  Burgos, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location  [7, 13, 14, 15
    Children 
    +1. Berenguela I of Castile, Queen Of Castile & Toledo,   b. Abt 1180   d. 8 Nov 1246, Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 66 years)
    +2. Urraca of Castile,   b. Between 1186 and 1187   d. 3 Nov 1220, Coimbra, Portugal Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 34 years)
    +3. Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France,   b. Bef 4 Mar 1188, Palencia, Castile, Spain Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Nov 1252, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 64 years)
    Family ID F4641  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 7 Jun 2019 

  • Notes 
    • Also called Leonor.

      "Of all Eleanor of Aquitaine's daughters, her namesake was the only one who was enabled, by political circumstances, to wield the kind of influence her mother had exercised. In her own marriage treaty, and in the first marriage treaty for her daughter Berengaria, Eleanor was given direct control of many lands, towns, and castles throughout the kingdom. She was almost as powerful as Alfonso, who specified in his will in 1204 that she was to rule alongside their son in the event of his death, including taking responsibility for paying his debts and executing his will. It was she who persuaded him to marry their daughter Berengaria to Alfonso IX of León. Troubadours and sages were regularly present in Alfonso VIII's court due to Eleanor's patronage." [Wikipedia]

  • Sources 
    1. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart.

    2. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.

    3. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    4. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only.

    5. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.

    6. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963., date only.

    7. [S858] Szabolcs de Vajay, "From Alfonso VII to Alfonso X: The First Two Centuries of the Burgundian Dynasty in Castile and Leon -- A Prosopographical Catalogue in Social Genealogy, 1100-1300." Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday ed. Lindsay L. Brook. Salt Lake City: Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy, 1989.

    8. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963.

    9. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013., date only.

    10. [S764] Nathaniel L. Taylor, "Dynastic Chronology: Western Europe, X - XIII Centuries.", year only.

    11. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., date only.

    12. [S91] The Henry Project: The Ancestors of King Henry II of England, by Stewart Baldwin, Todd A. Farmerie, and Peter Stewart., year only.

    13. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., date only.

    14. [S846] Spanish-language Wikipedia.

    15. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963., year only.