Princess Leonor ^{2 3 4}

   Another name for Leonor was Eleanor.

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ8-HJ.

  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 León, Countess of Ponthieu [Royalty for Commoners, 3rd ed., R. W. Stuart, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1998]

  Noted events in her life were:

• She worked as a Princess of Castile & Leon.

Leonor married King Edward I Of England, son of King Henry Plantagenet III Of England and Queen Eleonore Of England, on 18 Oct 1254 in Burgos, Burgos, , Castilla y León, Spain.¹ (King Edward I Of England was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England ¹, christened on 21 Jun 1239 in Westminster, London, Middlesex, England, died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-The-Sands, Cumberland, England ¹ and was buried on 28 Oct 1307 in Westminster Abbey, Westminster, Middlesex, England.)

  Marriage Notes:

Abey of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile ⁶