Eleanor (Leonor) of Castile, Countess de Ponthieu b. 1244 Castile, Spain d. 29 Nov 1290 Herdeby, Near Grantham, Lincolnshire: Cook Ancestry

1244 - 1290 (46 years)

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Name	Eleanor (Leonor) of Castile [1]
Suffix	Countess de Ponthieu
Born	1244	Castile, Spain
Gender	Female
Acceded	16 Nov 1272
	Queen Consort of England
	was the first Queen Consort of Edward I of England 16 November 1272 \endash 28 November 1290
Coronation	19 Aug 1274
	Queen Consort of England
Acceded	1279
	Countess of Ponthieu
	was Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband.
Name	Joana
_FSFTID	LC5J-YK4
_FSLINK	https://familysearch.org/tree/#view=ancestor&person=LC5J-YK4
Died	29 Nov 1290	Herdeby, Near Grantham, Lincolnshire
Buried	Westminster Abbey, London, England
Notes	Acceded: 19 AUG 1274, Westminster Abbey, London, England «b»http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01262«/b» «b»http://www.rpi.edu/~holmes/Hobbies/Genealogy/ps03/ps03_410.htm«/b» 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. Eleanor went with Edward on crusade in 1270; they were crowned 19 Aug 1274. She was one of the best-liked queens in British history. Her brother reigned as King Alfonso X (1252-84). "Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) pp. 110-30 states she d. at Grantham, England. She was age 10 when she married. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Castile «i»Has ancestry chart in Wikipedia «/i»
Person ID	I2559	Glenn Cook Family
Last Modified	26 Jan 2015

Father	Ferdinand III (St.) of Castill, King of Castilla, b. 5 Aug 1201, Castile, Spain , d. 30 May 1252, Seville, , Andalucía, Spain (Age 50 years)
Mother	Johanna (Joan) de Dammartin, Countess Ponthieu, b. 1216, Abbeville, France , d. 15 Mar 1279, Abbeville, France (Age 63 years)
Relationship	Step
Married	1237	Abbey of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castilla
Family ID	F1225	Group Sheet

Family Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet, King of England, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace, London, England , d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-On-The-Sands, Near Carlisle, Cumberland, England (Age 68 years)

Married 18 Oct 1254 Abbey of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile

Children

	1. Princess Eleanor Plantagenet, Queen of Aragon, b. 17 Jun 1264, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England , d. 12 Oct 1297, Ghent, Flanders (Age 33 years)
	2. Joan Plantagenet, b. 1265, d. 7 Sep 1265 (Age 0 years)
	3. John Plantagenet, b. 10 Jul 1266, d. 1 Aug 1272 (Age 6 years)
	4. Henry Plantagenet, b. 13 Jul 1268, d. Abt 14 Oct 1274 (Age 6 years)
	5. Julian (Catherine) Plantagenet, b. 1271, Holy Land , d. Yes, date unknown
	6. Princess Joan of Acre Plantagenet, b. 1272, Acre, Palestine , d. 23 Apr 1307, Clare, Suffolk, England (Age 35 years)
	7. Alfonso Plantagenet, 1st Earl Chester, b. 24 Nov 1273, Bayonne, in Gascony , d. 19 Aug 1284, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England (Age 10 years)
	8. Isabel Plantagenet, b. Abt 1274, d. Yes, date unknown
	9. Margaret Plantagenet, Duchess of Brabant, b. 11 Sep 1275, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England , d. 1318, Brussels, Brabant, Belgium (Age 42 years)
	10. Berengaria Plantagenet, b. 1276, d. Between 1277 and 1279 (Age 1 years)
	11. Mary Plantagenet, Nun at Amesbury, b. 11 Mar 1278, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England , d. Bef 8 Jul 1332, Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England (Age 54 years)
	12. Alice Plantagenet, b. 12 Mar 1279, d. 1291 (Age 11 years)
	13. Princess Elizabeth (Isabel) Plantagenet, Countess of Hereford And Essex, b. 7 Aug 1282, Rhuddlan Castle, Carnarvon, Flint, Wales , d. 5 May 1316, Quendon, Essex, England (Age 33 years)
	14. Edward II of Caernarvon Plantagenet, King of England, b. 25 Apr 1284, Caernarvon Castle, Wales , d. 21 Sep 1327, Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire (Age 43 years)
	15. Beatrice Plantagenet, b. 1286, Aquitaine, France , d. Young
	16. Blanche Plantagenet, b. 1290, d. 1290 (Age 0 years)

Last Modified 19 Jun 2013

Family ID F439 Group Sheet

Photos
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Leonor (Eleanor) of Castile

Sources

[S36] Directory of Royal Genealogical Data, Brian Tompsett, Dept of Computer Science, University of Hull, England([email protected]), (This work is Copyright b 1994-2002 Brian C Tompsett).