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EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile (daughter of Fernando III Leon (the Saint) Alfonsez and Jeanne (Joan, Joana) de Dammartin)2763, 2764, 2765, 2766, 2767, 2768, 2769, 2770, 2771 was born 1244 in Burgos, Castile, Spain2772, 2773, 2774, and died 12902775, 2776, 2777. She married Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenet on October 18, 1254 in Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile2778, 2779, 2780, 2781, son of Henry III Plantagenet and EleanorBerenger (Provence, of Provence).

 Includes NotesNotes for EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile:
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!Accompanied Prince Edward on the Seventh Crusade. During their absenc e from England, Henry III died (1272). Upon their return she and Edwar d were crowned at Westminster. [Funk & Wagnalls]

BURR, FOSTER LINE

!1st wife of Edward I, King of England. [Ped. of Charlemagne, p. 105]

!Death date may be 28 Nov 1290 at Grantham, England. [Ped. of Charlemag ne, p. 231]

!Magna Charta Barons, p. 226

!Edward I gave his beloved Queen Eleanor Leeds Castle in Kent, with its s uperb moat, it has feminine beauty as well as great intrinsic strength. E dward acquired it in 1272 and made it over to Queen Eleanor as part of h er dower. He also remodelled the gatehouse and built a new wall with D -shaped turrets. Leeds is on an island, with elaborate water-defences. L eeds was built at the junction of three roads, and originally with a tr iple barbican to overlook them. It has a complicated building history, a nd many of the apparently medieval defences were put up in the nineteen th century. Restored and grandly furnished, it is now a conference cen ter. [Castles of England, Scotland and Wales, p. 78, 81, 86]

!Caernarfon, 24 Apr 1284 -- Queen Eleanor has her fourth son, Edward. [ Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 62]

!She was 54 when she died and her husband Edward commemorated her life b y erecting elaborate memorial crosses at each of the 12 places where he r funeral cortege stopped overnight on its long journey from Harby in N ottinghamshire where she died to Westminster Abbey. This had been an a rranged marriage which turned out to be one of genuine affection. Elea nor was only 9 when she married her 15-year-old prince. She grew up to b ecome a striking dark-haired woman who loyally followed her husband in h is travels. She went with him on his journeysto the Holy Land, Wales a nd Gascony. They had 15 children, 11 daughters and 4 sons; the last ch ild, a girl, was born and died in the year prior to Eleanor's death. S even daughters and one son, Edward, survived her. Four of the children w ere born on their travels, including two in Palestine. She was a
cultured woman, hiring scribes to write books and fond of tapestries wi th which she like to decorate her rooms in the palace. She could also b e a tough landlady, imposing heavy taxes on her tenants and eager to in crease her property. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 64]

Her 11th child was born at Caernarfon on 25 April 1284. [A History of W ales, p. 166]

Granted Peveril Castle as part of her dower. [Peveril Castle, p. 21]

Dau. of Ferdinand III of Castile and Queen Joanna; m. Edward I Plantage net. [WFT Vol 2 Ped 976]

Below and to the right of the great east window in Lincoln Cathedral, w ith its 1855 Ward adn Hughes stained glass showing the life of Christ w ith related Old Testament salvation stories, is Eleanor of Castile's vi sceral tomb. Ten years after attending the dedication of the Angel Choi r, Queen Eleanor died in Harby, near Lincoln. Her distraught husband ha d her viscera interred at Lincoln, and on each stop along their route t o London he instructed a cross to be erected, begining at Cross o' Clif f hill in Lincoln and ending at Charing Cross. Her heart was buried in B lackfriars in London, and her body rests in a tomb at Westminster Abbey . To mark the 600th anniversary of Eleanor's death, her monument was re stored in 1890. The base is a copy of the original, and the effigy is a r eplica of the medieval bronze figure by William Torel on Eleanor's tomb i n Westminster Abbey. [Lincoln Cathedral, p. 29]

Dau. of Ferdinand III, king of Castile. In 1254 she married the future E dward I of England at Las Huelgas, near Burgos in Castile. In return Fe rdinand granted Edward his lands and rights in Ponthieu and Montreuil a nd relinquished his claims to Gascony. Eleanor bore Edward 16 children, o nly 7 of whom survived to adulthood, and accompanied him on all his tra vels until her death. In 1270 she went on crusade with Edward in the Ho ly Land and is said to have lamented so loudly when he was wounded by a M uslim poisoned dagger that the doctors ordered her to leave the room. E dward's devotion to his wife was shown by the magnificent Eleanor cross es he built to her memory along the route her cortège followed from Lin coln to Westminster. [The Plantagenet Encyclopedia, p. 70]

Eleanor of Castile saved the life of her crusading husband aftre he was s truck down by an assassin's poisoned dagger at Acre. Edward's love for t his noble, stately woman, with her long, dark, Spanish tresses and calm G othic features, proved the guiding star of his life, the happiest part o f which was spent with her at Leeds Castle. 'My harp is turned to mourn ing,' he wrote after she died, 'in life I loved her dearly, nor can I c ease to love he in death.' At every place where her bier rested on its j ourney to Westminster, he raised a cross in her memory, the name of the l ast of which, the chèe reine (or Charing) cross, has survived in that o f the London thoroughfare where Dr. Johnson maintained that the full ti de of human existence was best to be encountered. [Leeds Castle, p. 4]

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More About EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile:
Ancestral File Number: 8XJ8-HJ.2781
Date born 2: 1241, Castile, Burgos, Spain.2782, 2783, 2784
Burial: December 17, 1290, Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.2785, 2786, 2787
Description: striking, dark haired.2788, 2789
Died 2: November 28, 1290, Hareby, Grantham, Lincolnshire, England.2790, 2791, 2792
Died 3: November 29, 1290, Herdeby, Lincolnshire, England, GB.2793, 2794, 2795
Owned: Maidstone, Kent, England.2796, 2797, 2798
Record Change: February 12, 20062798
Title (Facts Pg: of Castile.2799, 2800

More About EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile and Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenet:
Marriage: October 18, 1254, Las Huelgas, near Burgos, Castile.2801, 2802, 2803, 2804

 Includes NotesMarriage Notes for EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile and Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenet:
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# ID: I577685889
# Name: Edward I PLANTAGENET
# Given Name: Edward I
# Surname: PLANTAGENET
# Sex: M
# Birth: 7 Oct 1239 in Westminster, London, England
# Death: 7 Jul 1307 in England
# Change Date: 10 May 2004
# Note: King of England.

Father: Henry III PLANTAGENET b: 1 Oct 1206/1207 in England
Mother: Eleonore (Leonore, Eleanor) BERENGER b: Abt. 1223 in England

Marriage 1 Elenora DE CASTILLA b: Abt. 1240 in Burgos, Burgos, Spain

* Note: _UIDD4246AEE48115349BD418CB00D1088294D2C

Children

1. Edward II PLANTAGENET b: 25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caerna rvon, Caernarvonshire, Wales
2. Joan PLANTAGENET b: 1272

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Children of EleanorCastile, de - Berenger, of Castile and Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenet are:
  1. +EDWARD II PLANTAGENET, b. April 25, 1284, Caernarvon, Wales2805, 2806, d. September 21, 1327, BERKLEY CASTLE, GLOUCESTER, ENG2807, 2808.
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