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Biography of Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 1241-1290

Paternal Family Tree: Ivrea

Maternal Family Tree: Etienette Countess Provence and Arles

1254 Wedding of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile

1272 Death of Henry III

1274 Coronation Edward I

1290 Death of Eleanor of Castile

1290 Eleanor Crosses

1299 Edward I and Margaret of France Wedding

1307 Death of King Edward I

On 30 Nov 1219 [her father] Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon (age 20) and Elisabeth Hohenstaufen Queen Consort Castile Queen Consort Leon (age 14) were married in Burgos [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort Castile, Queen Consort Leon. He the son of [her grandfather] Alfonso IX King Leon (age 48) and [her grandmother] Berengaria Ivrea I Queen Castile (age 40). They were fourth cousins. He a great grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

In Oct 1237 [her father] Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon (age 38) and [her mother] Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon (age 17) were married in Burgos [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort Castile, Queen Consort Leon. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Simon Dammartin (age 57) and [her grandmother] Marie Montgomery Countess Ponthieu (age 38). He the son of [her grandfather] Alfonso IX King Leon and [her grandmother] Berengaria Ivrea I Queen Castile (age 58). They were second cousin once removed. He a great grandson of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

In 1241 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England was born to Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon (age 42) and Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon (age 21) at Burgos [Map]. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

1254 Wedding of Edward I and Eleanor of Castile

On 01 Nov 1254 King Edward I of England (age 15) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 13) were married at Abbey of Santa Maria la Real de Huelgas [Map]. She the daughter of Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon and Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon (age 34). He the son of King Henry III of England (age 47) and Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 31). They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Liber de Antiquis Legibus 1255. 23 Jun 1255. This year, upon the Feast of Saint Eldreda [23 June] which was on a Sunday, the sister (age 14) of the [her half-brother] King of Spain (age 33), wife of Sir [her husband] Edward (age 16), eldest son of his lordship the [her father-in-law] King (age 47), came to London, and a countless multitude of Bishops, Earls, Barons, Knights, and citizens, went forth from the City to meet her, as also his lordship the King, in person; the City of London being most nobly tapestried and arrayed.

On 25 Oct 1265 [her brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 20) was created 1st Earl of Leicester.

On 13 Jul 1266 [her son] John Plantagenet was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 27) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 25).

In 1267 [her brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 21) was created 1st Earl Lancaster.

On 06 May 1268 [her son] Henry Plantagenet was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 28) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 27) at Windsor Castle [Map].

On 08 Apr 1269 [her brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 24) and Aveline Forz 6th Countess Albemarle and Lancaster were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of William Forz 4th Earl Albemarle and Isabella Redvers 8th Countess Devon and Albemarle (age 31). He the son of [her father-in-law] King Henry III of England (age 61) and [her mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 46). She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 18 Jun 1269 [her daughter] Eleanor Plantagenet was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 30) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 28) at Windsor Castle [Map].

On 20 Aug 1270 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 31) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 29) sailed from Dover, Kent [Map] to Tunis [Map] via Sicily [Map]. On arrival at Sicily [Map] King Charles Capet of Sicily (age 43), brother of the recently deceased King Louis IX of France (age 56), had signed a treaty with the Emir so Edward returned to Sicily [Map].

Before 09 May 1271 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 31) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 30) sailed from Palermo [Map] and travelled to Acre [Map] arriving on 09 May 1271. They were later joined by [her brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 26), John "The Red" Capet I Duke Brittany (age 53) and Teobaldo Visconti Archdeacon of Liège (age 41) (who would become Pope a month later).

In Apr 1272 [her daughter] Joan of Acre Countess Gloucester and Hertford was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 32) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) at Acre [Map].

On 22 Sep 1272 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 33) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) left Acre [Map] for Sicily [Map] where he spent the winter convalescing. Whilst there he learned of the death of his father [her father-in-law] King Henry III of England (age 64), his uncle Richard of Cornwall 1st Earl Cornwall and his eldest son [her son] John Plantagenet.

Death of Henry III

On 16 Nov 1272 [her father-in-law] King Henry III of England (age 65) died at Westminster [Map]. His son [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 33) succeeded I King of England. Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 31) by marriage Queen Consort England.

Before Apr 1273 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 33) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 32) were hosted by his old friend the recently appointed Pope Gregory X (age 43) at his Court in Orvieto [Map] at which Edward was awarded a tenth of the clergy for three years to pay for his recent Crusade.

After Apr 1273 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 33) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 32) travelled to Gascony to deal with the revolt of Gaston VII Viscount of Béarn (age 48). They stayed in Gascony for a year.

On 24 Nov 1273 [her son] Alfonso Plantagenet was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 34) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 32) in Bayonne [Map]. Their ninth child. He was named after Eleanor's half-brother [her half-brother] Alfonso X King Castile X King Leon (age 52) who was also the child's godfather and attended his christening.

On 02 Aug 1274 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 35) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 33) arrived at Dover, Kent [Map] after an absence of four years. They travelled to London via Tonbridge Castle [Map], home of [her future son-in-law] Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford (age 30) and Reigate Castle, Surrey [Map], home of John Warenne 6th Earl of Surrey (age 43).

Coronation Edward I

On 19 Aug 1274 [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 35) was crowned I King of England at Westminster Abbey [Map]. Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 33) was crowned Queen Consort England.

King Alexander III of Scotland (age 32) and [her sister-in-law] Margaret Queen of Scotland (age 33) attended.

Letters. 14 Oct 1274. Note. The year could be 1274-1279. Letter XV. Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 33) to Robert Burnell Lord Chancellor (age 35).

Eleanora, by God's grace qaeen of England, lady of Ireland, and duchess of Aquitaine to lord Robert Burnell, sends loving greeting.

We require and affectionately entreat you to give counsel and assistance to this affair, that the transgression injuriously committed against the bearer of these presents, the servant of the lady Constance1 our cousin, which Master John Painter Clarell will shew you, may be reasonably redressed. For the confidence which we have in your benevolence is the cause why we so often direct to you our prayers on behalf of our friends. And do you for love of us give such diligence in this affair, that we may henceforth be bound to you by special favour. Given at Guildford [Map], xiiij day of October.

1. There is much discussion among historians as to which Constance is being referred to here. Also which Eleanor wrote the letter: Eleanor of Provence or Eleanor of Castile..

On 26 Feb 1275 [her sister-in-law] Margaret Queen of Scotland (age 34) died at Cupar Castle, Cupar. She was buried at Dunfermline Abbey [Map].

On 15 Mar 1275 [her daughter] Margaret Plantagenet Duchess Brabant was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 35) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 34) at Windsor Castle [Map].

On 03 Feb 1276 [her brother-in-law] Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet 1st Earl of Leicester 1st Earl Lancaster (age 31) and Blanche Capet Queen Navarre (age 28) were married. She by marriage Countess Lancaster. She the daughter of Robert Capet Count of Artois and Matilda Reginar Countess Saint Pol (age 52). He the son of [her father-in-law] King Henry III of England and [her mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England (age 53). They were second cousin once removed. She a great x 2 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

On 11 Mar 1279 [her daughter] Mary Plantagenet was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 39) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 38) at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire [Map].

On 16 Mar 1279 [her mother] Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon (age 59) died.

On 07 Aug 1282 [her daughter] Princess Elizabeth of Rhuddlan Countess Essex, Hereford and Holland was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 43) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 41) at Rhuddlan Castle [Map].

On 25 Apr 1284 [her son] King Edward II of England was born to [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 44) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 43) at Caernarfon Castle [Map].

Archaeologia Volume 29 Section XIII. On the Death of Eleanor of Castile (age 48), Consort of [her husband] King Edward the First (age 50), and the Honours paid to her Memory. By the Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A.

Read 11th March, 1841.

The Society has already published, in the third volume of the Vetusta Monumenta, engravings of the three Crosses which alone remain of the twelve that were erected by the King in memory of his Queen. An historical discourse is also there given on the circumstances under which these beautiful structures were erected, the work of Mr. Gough, assisted by Sir Henry Englefield. This discourse contains nearly everything which was then known on the subject, and has been the source from whence later accounts have been derived. What I now propose to do is to make some material additions to what was then known on the subject, and to correct some important misconceptions; and, in doing this, to make some small addition to the knowledge we possess concerning the arts and artists of the period, and particularly to assert for England, against Walpole and others, the claim of having produced by the hands of native artists most of the beautiful works of sculpture and architecture which are connected with the name and memory of this Queen.

On 30 Apr 1290 [her son-in-law] Gilbert "Red Earl" Clare 7th Earl Gloucester 6th Earl Hertford (age 46) and [her daughter] Joan of Acre Countess Gloucester and Hertford (age 18) were married at Clerkenwell [Map]. She by marriage Countess Gloucester, Countess Hertford. The difference in their ages was 28 years. She the daughter of [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 50) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 49). He the son of Richard de Clare 6th Earl Gloucester 5th Earl Hertford and Maud Lacy Countess Gloucester and Hertford. He a great x 4 grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England.

On 08 Jul 1290 [her son-in-law] John "Peaceful" Reginar II Duke Brabant (age 14) and [her daughter] Margaret Plantagenet Duchess Brabant (age 15) were married. She the daughter of [her husband] King Edward I of England (age 51) and Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 49). He the son of John Reginar I Duke Brabant (age 37) and Margaret Dampierre Duchess Brabant. He a great x 4 grandson of King Stephen I England.

Annals of Dunstable. 27 Nov 1290. In the same year, on the 5th day before the Kalends of December [27 Nov 1290], Eleanor (age 49), Queen of England and consort of the king, of Spanish descent, died, who had acquired many and excellent estates. Her body passed through us [Dunstable Priory [Map]], and she rested for one night. And two precious cloths, namely baudekins, were given to us. We received twenty-four pounds and more of wax.

Eodem anno, quinto kalendas Decembris, obit Elianora regina Angliæ et consors regis, Hyspana genere, quæ plura et optima maneria adquisivit. Corpus ipsius per nos transiit, et una nocte quievit. Et dati sunt nobis duo panni pretiosi, scilicet baudekyns. De cera habuimus quater-viginti libras et amplius.

Archaeologia Volume 29 Section XIII. The Queen (age 49) died of a lingering disease, a slow fever. Wikes says, "modicæ febris igniculo contabescensd [wasting away from a mild fever]." We see therefore why the more quiet situation of Harby Manor should be chosen for her rather than Clipston, where the Court and Parliament were to be held. I have not seen any positive evidence respecting the time when the Queen first took up her abode at this obscure place. The latest date at which I find the King and Queen together is late in the month of August, when a certain sum was paid to a messenger for carrying joint letters of the King and Queen from Northampton to the Earl of Gloucester. On the 18th of October 13s. 4d. was paid to Henry de Montepessulano for syrops and other medicines bought for the Queen's use at Lincoln. In that interval I conclude she was placed at Hardby, and probably about the 11th of September, when it appears the King was there.

Note d. Gale, p. 121. Wikes states that she died at Grantham. It is difficult to account for positive assertions like this in writers who are in the main deserving of credit. Langtoft says, That ilk sere pe quene died in Lyndseie. (p. 248.) This is worth notice, as assisting to determine the ancient limits of the district called Lindsey.

Death of Eleanor of Castile

Archaeologia Volume 29 Section XIII. It appears from two circumstances that the Queen's (age 49) death took place in the evening. First her anniversary was celebrated on the eve of the feast of Saint Andrew, which according to the ordinary mode of calculation would be the 29th of November; while the King's letter to the Abbot of Clugni, published in the Foedera, which is by far the most authoritative evidence for the day of her death, states that she died on the 4th of the kalends of December, which would be the 28th of Novemberf; but if the ecclesiastical day is to be reckoned from evening to evening, then the eve of Saint Andrew would include the evening of the 28th. Secondly, there are writs tested on the 28th, as if public business was transacted on the morning of that day. Then public business for a time ceased. No writs are found tested on the 29th or 30th, or on the 1st day of December.

It may be worth observing how differently the precise day of the Queen's death is stated by different writers:

Matthew of Westminster and the Annals of Dunstable, 5 kal. Dec. November 27. Thomas Wikes, 4 kal. Dec. November 28.

Walsingham and Trivet, 4 id. Dec. December 10.

Holinshed, Saint Andrew's Even.

Stowe, November 28.

Gough in the Vetusta Monumenta, November 20.

This list of diseordances may serve to shew how errors will creep in, and how vain it is to expect the highest conceivable accuracy in the multitude of minute statements of historical writers. There is a general aceuracy quite consistent with occasional slight deviations, and honest and honourable men know how to jadge of them.

Archaeologia Volume 29 Section XIII. The corpse (age 49) was opened and embalmed. The heart was reserved to be deposited, probably at her own desire, in the church of the Friars Predicants in London. What else was removed was interred in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin in the Minster at Lincoln [Map]. Writs are found tested by the [her husband] King (age 51) at Lincoln on the 2nd and 3rd of December. On the 5th they are tested at Casterton, which is on the road from Grantham to Stamford; on the 9th at Northampton; on the 13th at Saint Alban's and London. It is manifest, therefore, that the funeral procession, in which the King was personally present, must have set out very soon after the death. It would seem that the body was taken from Hardby to Lincoln, and that the procession set out from Lincoln on the morning of the 4th.

Chronicle of Robert Fabyan 1290. In this. xx. yere, and begynnynge of the mayres yere, and also of y kynges. xx. yere, that is to meane vpon the euyn of seynt Andrewe, or the. xxix. day of Nouembre [Note. Most sources say 28 Nov 1290; see Discussion in Archæologia 29], dyed quene Elyanore (age 49) the kynges wyfe, and was buryed at Westmynster, in the chapell of seynt Edwarde, at ye fete of Henry the thirde, [where she hathe, ii. wexe tapers brennynge vpon her tumbe, both daye and nyglu, whiche so hath contynued syne the day of her buryinge to this present daye.] This geutyll waman, as before is towched in the. xxxviii. yere of kynge Henry the thirde, was suster vnto the [her half-brother] kyng of Spayne: by whom kynge Edwarde had. iiii. sones, that is to saye, [her son] lohn, [her son] Henry, [her son] Alphons, and [her son] Edwarde (age 6), whiche Edwarde succedyd his fader, by reason that the other, iii. dyed before theyr fader; also he had by her v. doughters: the firste, [her daughter] Elianore (age 21), was maryed vnto [her future son-in-law] Wyllyam [Henry] erle of Barre (age 31); the seconde, [her daughter] lohane of Acris (age 18), was maryed as before is sayd vnto y [her son-in-law] erle of Glouceter (age 47); the thirde, [her daughter] Margarete (age 15), was maryed to the dukes [her son-in-law] sone of Braban (age 15); the iiii. [her daughter] Mary (age 11) by name, was made a menchon at Ambrysbury; and the v. named [her daughter] Ely/abeth (age 8), was maryed vnto y [her future son-in-law] erle of Holande (age 6); and after his deth she was maryed vnto [her future son-in-law] Humfrey Boherum erle of Hereforde (age 14).

On 28 Nov 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (age 49) died at Harby Manor. Her viscera were buried at Lincoln Cathedral [Map].

Chronicle of Thomas Wikes. On the 4th before the Kalends of December [28 Nov 1290], Eleanor (age 49), Queen, wife of King Edward, after suffering from a mild fever, wasting away from the heat, and freed from her prison, paid the fatal debt of death. Her body was carried in stages and buried in London in Westminster Abbey, with the Bishop of Lincoln, on behalf of the Archbishop of Canterbury, conducting the burial rites on the Sunday before the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle, that is, on the 16th of December. Indeed, the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to attend the funeral rites because, due to a certain dispute between him and the Abbot of the place, he had placed the latter under interdict. Also, another noteworthy event, not to be passed over in silence but rather to be perpetually remembered, occurred this year.

Quarto Kal. Decembris Alianora Regina Domini Regis Edwardi conjux apud Grantham modicæ febris igniculo contabescens, carcere resoluta, fatale mortis debitum solvit; corpus ejus per dietas delatum sepultum est London in Ecclesia Westmonsteriensi, Domino Lincoln vice Domini Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis exequente officium sepulturæ, Dominica proxima ante festum Sancti Thomæ Apostoli, viz. xvi. Kal. Januarii: quippe Dominus Cantuariensis noluit ipsis exequiis interesse, quia in quadam contentione inter ipsum & Abbatem loci supposuerat interdicto. Aliud quoque plerunque notabile non sub silentio prætereundum, sed potius perpetuæ commemorandum memoriæ contigit hoc anno.

Eleanor Crosses

After 28 Nov 1290 Eleanor of Castile's (deceased) body was taken from Harby, Nottinghamshire [Map] to Westminster Abbey [Map]. At each of the locations at which her body rested overnight [her former husband] King Edward I of England (age 51) commissioned the building of an Eleanor Cross. Three remain. The best example being at Geddington, Northamptonshire [Map].

On 04 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Grantham [Map].

On 05 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Queen's Cross, Stamford.

Source Stamford Local History Society, Ken Coles 1980.

Stamford’s cross stood for approximately 350 years, and to confirm this we have two eye-witnesses. The first was Captain Richard Symonds of the Royalist army, who visited Stamford briefly on his way from Newark to Huntingdon on Saturday August 22nd 1645. He wrote the following in his diary, "In the hill before ye into the towne stands a lofty large cross, built by Edward I in memory of Eleanor whose corps rested there coming from the north. Upon the top of this cross these three shields shields are often carved: England; three bends sinister; a bordure (Ponthieu); Quarterly Castile and Leon".

The second eye-witness is Richard Butcher, Town Clerk. In his survey of Stamford of 1646 he says the following: "Near unto the York highway and about twelve score paces from the town gate which is called Clement Gate, stands an ancient crosse of freestone of very considerable fabric, having many ancient scrutcheons or arms insculped in the stone about it as the arms of Castille and Leon quartered being the paternal coat of the King of Spain and divers other hatchments belonging to that crown which envious time hath so defaced that only the ruins appear to my eye and therefore not to be described by my pen"

Later Evidence On January 16th 1745 William Stukeley wrote to a fellow antiquarian: "Our surveyor of the turnpike road opened up a tumulus half a mile north of Stamford on the brow of a hill by the roadside and there discovered the foundations of the Queen’s Cross, the lower most tier of the steps in tact and part of the second, tis of Barnack stone, hexagonal, the measure of each side thirteen feet so the diameter was thirty feet. It stood on a grassy heath called by the towns people Queens Cross."

In another letter dated 21st December 1754 he wrote that Mr Wying surveyor of the turnpike, was opening a quarry on the left hand side of the road from Stamford to Great Casterton and that he took away a carved stone from part of the pinnacle and other pieces which he put in his Barnhill garden. He says the cross ‘stood on a delicate eminence called Anemone Hill’. He also wrote to the Mercury quite soon after this, on December 26th 1745, reporting the discovery of the remains of a cross ‘on a grassy cliff on the left hand from Stamford to Brigcasterton’.

In 1993 a fragment of Purbeck marble with a rose carved on one of its surfaces was found in the garden of Stukeley House, 9 Barn Hill, Stamford, the home in the 1740s of noted antiquary, William Stukeley. The appearance of this fragment accorded with a description of the upper shaft of the Stamford Eleanor Cross Stukeley claimed to have found in December 1745 on Anemone Hill (upper Casterton Road). Further research confirmed the fragment to be part of Stukeley’s find and that he had almost certainly discovered the site of the Stamford Eleanor Cross. This discovery places the Stamford Eleanor Cross in the Foxdale area of Casterton Road, map reference TF01910758 +/- 20 m. and not at the junction of Empingham and Casterton Roads as previously thought.

On 06 Dec 1290 and/or 07 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Geddington, Northamptonshire [Map].

On 08 Dec 1290 or 07 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Hardingstone, Northamptonshire.

On 09 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Stony Stratford, Buckinghamshire [Map]. The cross here was built between 1291 and 1293 by John of Battle at a total recorded cost of over £100.

On 10 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Woburn, Bedfordshire. Work on the cross here started in 1292 and was complete in ealy 1293.

On 11 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Dunstable Priory [Map]. See Annals of Dunstable.

On 12 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at St Albans, Hertfordshire [Map].

On 13 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire [Map].

On 14 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at the site of the Cheapside Cross [Map] where, thereafter, a Cross was constructed. The Cross, built at an original cost of £300, was one of the most elaborate of the twelve Eleanor Crosses.

On 15 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) body rested at Charing Cross [Map].

On 17 Dec 1290 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England (deceased) was buried at the Chapel of St Edward the Confessor, Westminster Abbey [Map].

In 1291 Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England gave 100s to Rhuddlan Friary [Map] and to each of the other four Dominican houses in Wales.

Edward I and Margaret of France Wedding

On 10 Sep 1299 [her former husband] King Edward I of England (age 60) and Margaret of France Queen Consort England (age 20) were married at Canterbury Cathedral [Map]. She by marriage Queen Consort England. The difference in their ages was 39 years. She the daughter of King Philip III of France and Maria of Brabant Queen Consort France (age 43). He the son of [her former father-in-law] King Henry III of England and [her former mother-in-law] Eleanor of Provence Queen Consort England. They were first cousin once removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England.

Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 27) was present.

Death of King Edward I

On 07 Jul 1307 [her former husband] King Edward I of England (age 68) died at Burgh by Sands [Map] whilst on his way north to Scotland. His son [her son] King Edward II of England (age 23) succeeded II King of England. Earl Chester merged with the Crown.

Edward had gathered around him Thomas Plantagenet 2nd Earl of Leicester, 2nd Earl Lancaster, Earl of Salisbury and Lincoln (age 29), Guy Beauchamp 10th Earl Warwick (age 35), Aymer de Valence 2nd Earl Pembroke (age 32) and Robert Clifford 1st Baron Clifford (age 33) and charged them with looking after his son in particular ensuring [her grandson-in-law] Piers Gaveston 1st Earl Cornwall (age 23) didn't return from exile.

On 18 Jun 1318 [her granddaughter] Eleanor of Woodstock Plantagenet was born to [her son] King Edward II of England (age 34) and [her daughter-in-law] Isabella of France Queen Consort England (age 23) at Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire [Map]. She was named for her paternal grandmother Eleanor of Castile. Coefficient of inbreeding 2.16%.

Effigy of Eleanor, Queen of Edward the First. ELEANOR, Queen of [her former husband] Edward the First, was the daughter of [her father] Ferdinand the Third, King of Castile, and only child of his second wifea, [her mother] Joan, daughter and heiress of [her grandfather] John Earl of Ponthieu. She was married to him at Bures, in Spain, in 1254, and accompanied him to the Holy Land, where she is said to have preserved his life by sucking the poison out of a wound inflicted on him by the hand of an assassin. She bore him four sons and nine daughters, and died in attending him on an expedition towards Scotland, 27th November, 1290, at the house of Richard Weston, at Herdby, or Harby [Map], in the parish of North Clifton on the Trent, five miles from Lincoln. Her bowels were burieda in Lincoln Cathedral [Map], and her body was conveyed for interment to the Abbey Church at Westminster. At every stage where it rested the King ordered a Cross to be placed. Fifteen are enumerated as having been erected in consequence. One at Herdby, whence the procession set out; and in the chapel of which place Edward also founded a chantry for her soul. The others at Lincoln, Newark [Map], Grantham [Map], Leicester [Map], Stamford [Map], Geddington [Map], Northampton, Stony Stratford [Map], Woburn, Dunstable [Map], St. Albans, Waltham, Cheapside (London), and at the village of Charing [Map], near the Minster where she was to be entombed. Herdby, Leicester, Woburn, and Cheap, are omitted by some authorities. These Crosses were adorned with statues of the Queen. Those at Geddington, Northampton, and Waltham are extant at this day. In gothic niches in the upper part have been female figures, very similar in style to that on her tomb; on the lower, shields charged with arms of England, Castile and León Arms, and Ponthieu Arms. Edward caused a monument to be erected to her memory near that of his father in the Confessor's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, on which is placed her recumbent image of copper; and round the verge of the tomb the following inscription, in uncial letters:

ICY GYST ALIANOR IADIS REYNE DE ANGLETERRE, FEMME AL RE EDEWERD FtZ LE RE. OVNTIF DEL ALME DE LI DEV PVR SA PITE EYT MERCI. AMEN.

Sandford informs us that on a tablet of wood, hanging near her monument by an iron chain, were the following verses in Latin:

Nobilis Hispani jacet hie soror inclita regis, [A Spanish noblewoman lies here, the sister of a famous king]

Eximii consors Aleanora thori, [A great companion of Aleanora ?]

Edwardi primi Wallorum principis uxor, [The wife of Edward the First, Prince of Wales]

Cui pater Henricus tertius Anglus erat; [His father, Henry the Third, was an Englishman]

Hanc illi uxorem gnato petit; online princeps [He asks her to marry him; ? leader]

Legati munus suscipit ipse bono: [He himself undertakes the office of ambassador in good faith]Alphonso fratri placuit felix Hymeneus;

Germanam Edwardo nec sine dote dedit, [Not given to Edward without a dowry]

Dos preciara fuit nec tali indigna marito, [The gift was precious and not unworthy of such a husband]

Pontivo princeps munere dives erat; [? was rich in the role of prince]

Feminaconsilio prudens, pia, proie beata, [A prudent, pious, blessed woman]

Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum: [Who increased friendships, increasing the honor of his husband]

Disce niori. [Learn more]

Note a. In a tomb bearing her effigy of brass gilt, similar to that in Westminster Abbey, but destroyed in the Civil wars. On it was the following inscription:

HIC * SVNT * SEPVLTA * VICERA * ALIANORE * QVONDAM * REGINE * VXORIS * REGIS * EDVARDI * FILII * REGIS * HENRICI * CVIVS * ANIME * PROPICTETVR * DEVS * AMEN * PATER * NOSTER *

[Here in this sepulchre are buried the viscera of Queen Eleanor wife of King Edward I son of King Henry whose soul we give to God Amen Our Father]

Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 1241-1290 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England 1133-1189

Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England 1122-1204

Royal Ancestors of Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 1241-1290

Kings Wessex: Great x 7 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings England: Great x 2 Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 2 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of Robert "Pious" II King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 11 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Royal Descendants of Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 1241-1290

Agnes La Marck Queen Consort Navarre

King Edward II of England

Yolande of Bar Queen Consort Aragon

King Henry V of England

Philippa Lancaster Queen Consort Denmark

Mary of Guelders Queen Consort Scotland

Queen Charlotte of Savoy

King Edward IV of England

King Richard III of England

Anne Neville Queen Consort England

King Henry VII of England and Ireland

Louis XII King France

Bianca Maria Sforza Holy Roman Empress

Philip "Handsome Fair" King Castile

Germaine Foix Queen Consort Aragon

Marguerite Valois Orléans Queen Consort Navarre

King Francis I of France

Queen Anne Boleyn of England

Anne Jagiellon Holy Roman Empress

Queen Jane Seymour

Catherine Parr Queen Consort England

Anne of Cleves Queen Consort England

Mary of Guise Queen Consort Scotland

Antoine King Navarre

Queen Catherine Howard of England

Jane Grey I Queen England and Ireland

Louis VI Elector Palatine

Louise Lorraine Queen Consort France

Maria Anna Wittelsbach Holy Roman Empress

Ferdinand of Spain II Holy Roman Emperor

George Wharton

Margaret of Austria Queen Consort Spain

Eleonora Gonzaga Queen Consort Bohemia

Maria Leopoldine Habsburg Spain Queen Consort Bohemia

Marie Françoise Élisabeth of Savoy Queen Consort of Portugal

Maria Anna Neuburg Queen Consort Spain

Joseph I Holy Roman Emperor

Charles Habsburg Spain VI Holy Roman Emperor

Charles Emmanuel III King Sardinia

Louis I King Spain

Francis I Holy Roman Emperor

Louis XV King France

Elisabeth Therese Lorraine Queen Consort Sardinia

Ferdinand VI King Spain

Charles III King Spain

King George III of Great Britain and Ireland

Caroline Matilda Hanover Queen Consort Denmark and Norway

Caroline of Brunswick Queen Consort England

Ferdinand VII King Spain

King Christian I of Norway and VIII of Denmark

Maria Christina of the Two Sicilies Queen Consort Spain

Frederick VII King Denmark

Queen Louise Hesse-Kassel of Denmark

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Queen Sophia of Sweden and Norway

Victoria Empress Germany Queen Consort Prussia

King Edward VII of the United Kingdom

Alfonso XII King Spain

Brigadier-General Charles FitzClarence

Alexandrine Mecklenburg-Schwerin Queen Consort Denmark

Victoria Eugénie Mountbatten Queen Consort Spain

Louise Mountbatten Queen Consort Sweden

Philip Mountbatten Duke Edinburgh

Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom

Carl XVI King Sweden

Queen Consort Camilla Shand

Diana Spencer Princess Wales

Catherine Middleton Princess of Wales

Ancestors of Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 1241-1290

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Ivrea I Count Burgundy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Raymond Ivrea

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ettiennette Countess Burgundy

Great x 2 Grandfather: Alfonso VII King Castile VII King Leon

Great x 1 Grandfather: Ferdinand II King Leon

Great x 2 Grandmother: Berenguela Barcelona Queen Consort Castile and Leon

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Gevaudan

Great x 3 Grandmother: Douce Gevaudan Countess Barcelona

Great x 4 Grandmother: Gerberga Arles

GrandFather: Alfonso IX King Leon

Great x 4 Grandfather: Henry "Gallant" Burgundy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Henry Burgundy Count Portugal

Great x 2 Grandfather: Afonso "Conqueror Founder Great" I King Portugal

Great x 3 Grandmother: Teresa Alfónsez Jiménez

Great x 4 Grandmother: Jimena Munoz

Great x 1 Grandmother: Urraca Burgundy Queen Consort Leon

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert "Fat" Savoy II Count Savoy

Great x 3 Grandfather: Amadeus Savoy III Count Savoy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy

Great x 2 Grandmother: Malfada Savoy Queen Consort Portugal

Great x 3 Grandmother: Mahaut Albon Countess Savoy

Father: Ferdinand III King Castile III King Leon Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Sancho III King Castile

Great x 3 Grandmother: Berenguela Barcelona Queen Consort Castile and Leon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Douce Gevaudan Countess Barcelona

Great x 1 Grandfather: Alfonso VIII King Castile

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ramiro Jiménez

Great x 3 Grandfather: García "Restorer" IV King Navarre

Great x 4 Grandmother: Cristina Rodríguez Vivar

Great x 2 Grandmother: Blanche Ramirez Queen Consort Castile

Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Aigle Lord Aigle

Great x 3 Grandmother: Marguerite Aigle Queen Consort Navarre

Great x 4 Grandmother: Juliette du Perche Chateaudun

GrandMother: Berengaria Ivrea I Queen Castile Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Fulk "Young" King Jerusalem

Great x 3 Grandfather: Geoffrey Plantagenet Duke Normandy

Great x 4 Grandmother: Ermengarde La Flèche De Baugency Countess Anjou

Great x 2 Grandfather: King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Henry I "Beauclerc" England Son of King William "Conqueror" I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Empress Matilda Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Eleanor Plantagenet Queen Consort Castile Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William "Saint" Poitiers X Duke Aquitaine

Great x 4 Grandmother: Philippa Rouerge Duchess Aquitaine

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen Consort Franks and England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Aimery Chatellerault Viscount Châtellerault

Great x 3 Grandmother: Aenor Chatellerault Duchess Aquitaine

Great x 4 Grandmother: Dangereuse Ile Bouchard Viscountess Chatellerault

Eleanor of Castile Queen Consort England 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Alberic Dammartin

GrandFather: Simon Dammartin

Great x 2 Grandfather: Renaud II Count Clermont

Great x 1 Grandmother: Mathilde Clermont

Great x 4 Grandfather: Otto Vermandois I Count Vermandois

Great x 3 Grandfather: Herbert Vermandois IV Count Vermandois

Great x 4 Grandmother: Pavia Countess Vermandois

Great x 2 Grandmother: Adelaide I Countess Vermandois

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph IV Count of Valois

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adela Valois Countess Blois and Vermandois

Mother: Joan Dammartin Queen Consort Castile and Leon

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Montgomery I Count Ponthieu

Great x 3 Grandmother: Ida Countess Ponthieu

Great x 1 Grandfather: William Montgomery IV Count Ponthieu

Great x 2 Grandmother: Beatrice St Pol Countess Ponthieu

GrandMother: Marie Montgomery Countess Ponthieu

Great x 4 Grandfather: King Philip I of France

Great x 3 Grandfather: King Louis VI of France

Great x 4 Grandmother: Bertha Gerulfing Queen Consort France

Great x 2 Grandfather: Louis VII King Franks

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humbert "Fat" Savoy II Count Savoy

Great x 3 Grandmother: Adelaide Savoy Queen Consort France

Great x 4 Grandmother: Gisela Ivrea Countess Savoy

Great x 1 Grandmother: Alys Capet Countess Ponthieu

Great x 2 Grandmother: Constance of Castile

Great x 3 Grandmother: Berenguela Barcelona Queen Consort Castile and Leon

Great x 4 Grandmother: Douce Gevaudan Countess Barcelona