Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
Kevin Patrick Mostyn Family - Person Sheet
NameEleanor Of Castile Queen Of England, 21G Grandmother
FatherFernando III King Of Castile & León (1199-1252)
MotherJohanna Of Ponthieu DE DAMMARTIN Countess Of Aumâle (-1279)
Spouses
1Edward 'Longshanks' PLANTAGENET King Of England, 21G Grandfather
FatherHenry III PLANTAGENET King Of England (1207-1272)
MotherEleanor Of Provence BERENGER Queen Of England (~1217-1291)
ChildrenEleanor (1264-1297)
Joan Of Acre (1272-1307)
Elizabeth Of Rhuddlan (1282-~1316)
Edward* II (1284-1327)
Web Notes notes for Eleanor Of Castile Queen Of England
From "Debrett's Kings and Queens of Britain" by David Williamson, ISBN 0-86350-101-X, p.73:
crowned at Westminster Abbey 19 Aug 1274
Body buried at Westminster Abbey, heart buried in Blackfriars Church, London.
She was only about 10 when married to the 15 year old Edward of Westminster at Las Juelgas in 1254. Such child marriages were commonplace in Europe in the Middle Ages and the brides were usually consigned to their husbands' families to complete their education. The marriages were not consummated until the bride reached a suitable age, usually 14 or 15, and in Eleanor's case it seems to have been 18 or 19, as the first of her 15 children was born when she was 20.
Through her mother, an heiress, she brought Ponthier and Montreuil to her husband's dominions.
Edward and Eleanor were inseparable throughout their married life. In 1270 she accompanied him on a crusade, in the course of which she is said to have sucked the poison from Edward's wounded arm after an assassination attempt with a poisoned dagger. Eleanor's 5th and 6th children were born in the Holy Land, the younger being Joan of Acre, so called from her birthplace. Joan's 2d marriage, years later, to the squire of her first husband was to so anger their father that in a fit of rage he threw his crown on the fire and the bill for its repair ('when the King's grace was pleased to throw the coronet upon the fire') is still extant.
In 1290 news of the death of Margaret of Scotland, the "Maid of Norway" sent Edward hastening north, leaving the Queen, who had but recently given birth to her 15th child, an infant which did not survive, to follow at a more leisurely pace. She had reached Lincolnshire when she fell ill with a fever and was lodged at Herdeby, near Grantham in the house of one Master Weston. She grew worse and messengers were sent to recall the King, but before he arrived Eleanor had died.
Edward's grief was expressed by the erection of Eleanor crosses at each place where the Queen's body rested overnight on its journey to London. 13 of these once existed, but only those of Northampton and Waltham survive of the originals. Elsewhere replicas have been built, notably at Banbury and at Charing Cross, the last place where the cortege halted on its sad progress to Westminster. Eleanor lies at the feet of her father-in-law, Henry III.
Queen consort of Edward I of England and daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile. At her marriage (1254) she brought to Prince Edward the territories of Ponthieu and Montreuil and claims to Gascony. She went with Edward on the crusade of 1270–72 to the Holy Land, where she supposedly saved his life after he had been wounded. On their return they were both crowned (1274), Henry III having died in 1272. After her death Edward had crosses erected to mark the stages of her funeral procession from Nottinghamshire to London.
crowned at Westminster Abbey 19 Aug 1274
Body buried at Westminster Abbey, heart buried in Blackfriars Church, London.
She was only about 10 when married to the 15 year old Edward of Westminster at Las Juelgas in 1254. Such child marriages were commonplace in Europe in the Middle Ages and the brides were usually consigned to their husbands' families to complete their education. The marriages were not consummated until the bride reached a suitable age, usually 14 or 15, and in Eleanor's case it seems to have been 18 or 19, as the first of her 15 children was born when she was 20.
Through her mother, an heiress, she brought Ponthier and Montreuil to her husband's dominions.
Edward and Eleanor were inseparable throughout their married life. In 1270 she accompanied him on a crusade, in the course of which she is said to have sucked the poison from Edward's wounded arm after an assassination attempt with a poisoned dagger. Eleanor's 5th and 6th children were born in the Holy Land, the younger being Joan of Acre, so called from her birthplace. Joan's 2d marriage, years later, to the squire of her first husband was to so anger their father that in a fit of rage he threw his crown on the fire and the bill for its repair ('when the King's grace was pleased to throw the coronet upon the fire') is still extant.
In 1290 news of the death of Margaret of Scotland, the "Maid of Norway" sent Edward hastening north, leaving the Queen, who had but recently given birth to her 15th child, an infant which did not survive, to follow at a more leisurely pace. She had reached Lincolnshire when she fell ill with a fever and was lodged at Herdeby, near Grantham in the house of one Master Weston. She grew worse and messengers were sent to recall the King, but before he arrived Eleanor had died.
Edward's grief was expressed by the erection of Eleanor crosses at each place where the Queen's body rested overnight on its journey to London. 13 of these once existed, but only those of Northampton and Waltham survive of the originals. Elsewhere replicas have been built, notably at Banbury and at Charing Cross, the last place where the cortege halted on its sad progress to Westminster. Eleanor lies at the feet of her father-in-law, Henry III.
Queen consort of Edward I of England and daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile. At her marriage (1254) she brought to Prince Edward the territories of Ponthieu and Montreuil and claims to Gascony. She went with Edward on the crusade of 1270–72 to the Holy Land, where she supposedly saved his life after he had been wounded. On their return they were both crowned (1274), Henry III having died in 1272. After her death Edward had crosses erected to mark the stages of her funeral procession from Nottinghamshire to London.