Eleanor of Castile, Queen Consort of England

1240 - 1290  (50 years)

• Name	Eleanor of Castile  [1]
  Suffix	Queen Consort of England
  Birth	1240  [2]
  Gender	Female
  Alternate birth	1241	Burgos, Castile, Spain   [3]
  Alternate birth	Abt 1241  [4]
  Death	28 Nov 1290	Hardby, Nottinghamshire, England   [3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
  Burial	Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [2, 8, 10]
  Person ID	I7488	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	16 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	St. Fernando III, King Of Castile, León, Galicia, Toledo, Córdoba, Jaén, and Seville,   b. Between Jun 1201 and Jul 1201, En route between Salamanca and Zamora d. 30 May 1252, Seville, Andalusia, Spain (Age ~ 50 years)
  Mother	Jeanne de Dammartin,   b. Abt 1220   d. 15 Mar 1279, Abbeville, Somme, Picardy, France (Age ~ 59 years)
  Marriage	Bef 31 Oct 1237	Burgos, Castile, Spain   [4, 11, 12]
  Family ID	F3808	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward I, King of England,   b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-by-Sands, Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years)
  Marriage	18 Oct 1254	Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile, Spain   [2, 4, 6, 13, 14]
  Children	+ 1. Joan of Acre,   b. 1272, Acre, Palestine d. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years) + 2. Margaret of England,   b. 15 Mar 1275, Windsor, Berkshire, England d. Aft 11 Mar 1333, Brabant (Age > 58 years) + 3. Elizabeth of England,   b. 7 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire, Wales d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England (Age 33 years) + 4. Edward II, King of England,   b. 25 Apr 1284, Caenarfon, Gwynedd, Wales d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England (Age 43 years)
  Family ID	F1704	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2019

  
  

• Notes

  Countess of Ponthieu. Eleanor of Castile, first wife of Edward I, was a daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile, Leon, and Galicia, and the French noblewoman Jeanne de Dammartin, suo jure Countess of Ponthieu. Although her marriage (in 1254) to then-prince Edward was a political match designed to affirm English control of Gascony, the couple were unusually close; she even accompanied Edward on the Fourth Crusade, where he was wounded at Acre in Palestine. She was notably well-educated and maintained her own scriptorium, the only one in northern Europe at the time. Her preference for Spanish-style home decorations, kitchen utensils, and personal comforts had a great influence on English domestic life. She brought a considerable personal fortune to her marriage, and increased it all her life through shrewd purchases of lands and manors. Although this had a negative effect on her personal popularity, her husband always encouraged her in it. Her heart was buried in the Dominican priory of Blackfriars in London, along with that of her son Alphonso. Her entrails were buried in Lincoln Cathedral.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2172] Donald Lines Jacobus, "Descents from the Cid." The American Genealogist 9:99, 1932. [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. [S160] Wikipedia. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013. [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. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963., date only. [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., misidentifies the county as Lincolnshire. [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. [S4969] Douglas Richardson, "A Royal Ancestry for Mary (Cooke) Talcott of Hartford, Connecticut." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 148:225, 1994., year only. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963. [S849] G. Andrews Moriarty, "The Plantagenet Descent from the Cid." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 117:94, April 1963., year only. [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., "prior to 20 November". [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. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998., year and town only.