Comtesse De Ponthieu Eleanor de Castille

1223 - 1291  (68 years)

• Name	Eleanor de Castille
  Title	Comtesse De Ponthieu
  Born	1223	Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Cote D'azur, France
  Gender	Female
  History	Source <http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/CASTILE.htm#Leonordied1290MEdwardIEngland>: "Infante don FERNANDO de León, son of ALFONSO IX King of León & his second wife Infanta doña Berenguela de Castilla (Monte de Valparaíso [30 Jul/5 Aug] 1201-Seville 30 May 1252, bur Seville, Cathedral Santa María). ... m secondly (Burgos 1237, [before Aug]) as her first husband, JEANNE de Dammartin, daughter of SIMON de Dammartin Comte d'Aumâle & his wife Marie Ctss de Ponthieu ([1220]-Abbeville 16 Mar 1279, bur monastery of Valoires). ... King Fernando III & his second wife had five children: ... 12. Infanta doña LEONOR de Castilla y León (1240-Herdeby, Lincolnshire 29 Nov 1290, bur Westminster Abbey). The Annales Londonienses record the marriage "circa translationem beati Edwardi regis apud Boures" in 1254 of "Edwardus filius regis Henrici" and "Alienoram iuvenculam…sororem regis Hispanniæ". This marriage was first proposed in 1253 in connection with settlement of the Spanish claim to Gascony, according to Matthew of Paris who refers to her as "sororem suam uterinani" in reference to "rex Hispaniæ" but does not give her name. She accompanied her husband on crusade 1270/72. Crowned Queen 19 Aug 1274 at Westminster Abbey. She succeeded her mother in 1279 as Ctss de Ponthieu, in place of her nephew Jean de Ponthieu Comte d'Aumâle, as the closer direct relation. The Continuator of Florence of Worcester records the death "IV Kal Dec apud Herdeby in comitatu Lincolniensi" of "Alienora regina Angliæ domini regis consors". m (Burgos 18 Oct 1254) as his first wife, EDWARD Earl of Chester, son of HENRY III King of England & his wife Eléonore de Provence (Palace of Westminster 17/18 Jun 1239-Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland 8 Jul 1307, bur Westminster Abbey). He succeeded his father in 1372 as EDWARD I "Longshanks" King of England. King Edward I & his first wife had sixteen children: 1. ELEANOR (Windsor Castle [17 Jun] 1264 or 1269-Ghent 12 Oct 1297, bur Westminster Abbey) 2. JOAN (Paris or Abbeville, Ponthieu Summer 1265-in France before 7 Sep 1265, bur Westminster Abbey). 3. JOHN (Windsor Castle or Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire or Winchester 10 Jun or 10 Jul 1266-1-3 Aug 1271, bur Westminster Abbey). 4. HENRY (Windsor Castle 13 Jul [1267/68]-Merton, Surrey or Guildford Castle, Surrey 14 Oct 1274, bur Westminster Abbey). 5. ALICE (Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire ---- aged 12). 6. JULIAN [Katherine] (Acre, Palestine 1271-Acre, Palestine 28 May or 5 Sep 1271, bur [Church of the Friars Preachers, Bordeaux). 7. JOAN "of Acre" (Acre, Palestine Spring 1272-Clare Manor, Suffolk 23 Apr 1307, bur 26 Apr 1307 Priory Church of the Austin Friars, Clare, Suffolk). ... 8. ISABELLA (Woodstock Palace, Oxfordshire or Windsor Castle or Marlborough Castle, Wiltshire [12/15] Mar 1274-1279, bur Westminster Abbey). 9. ALFONSO (Bayonne or Bordeaux or in Maine 24 Nov 1275-Windsor Castle 19 Aug 1284, bur Westminster Abbey). 10. BERENGARIA (Kennington Palace, Surrey 1 May [1277]-[1277/79], bur Westminster Abbey). 11. MARY (Windsor Castle 12 Mar or 22 Apr 1278-Amesbury Abbey before 8 Jul 1332, bur Amesbury Abbey). 12. MARGARET (Windsor Castle 11 Sep [1279/80]-1318 or after 11 Mar 1333, bur Brussels, Saints Michael and Gudula). 13. ELIZABETH (Rhuddlan Castle, Flintshire Aug 1282-Quendon, Essex [5] May 1316, bur Walden Abbey, Essex). ... 14. EDWARD "of Caernarvon" (Caernarvon Castle 25 Apr 1284-murdered Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire 21 Sep 1327, bur Gloucester Cathedral). ... 15. BEATRICE (in Gascogne or Aquitaine after Aug 1286-young). 16. BLANCHE ([1289/90]-young)." Eleanore married Edward I OF ENGLAND, , " Hammer Of The Scots" [1405] [MRIN: 641], son of King Henri III Plantagenet OF ENGLAND, Duc D'aquitaine [2140] and Eleonore DE PROVENCE [2141], on 18 Oct 1254 in Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain. (Edward I OF ENGLAND, , " Hammer Of The Scots" [1405] was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, England, died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-On-Sands, Cumberland, England and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.)
  Died	26 Jun, 1291	Amesbury, Wiltshire, England age 68
  Buried	11 Sept, 1291	Abbey de St. Mary and St. Melor, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England
  Person ID	I179	Ellie Wood Keith
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Infante Don Fernando III, 'The Saint', King of Castille & Leon,   b. 1201, Leon, Spain ,   d. 30 May, 1252, Seville, Andalousie, Spain  (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	putative
  Mother	Jeanne de Dammartin, Comtesse D'aumale & de Ponthieu,   b. 1220, France ,   d. 18 Mar, 1279, Abbeville, Picardie, France, age 59  (Age 59 years)
  Relationship	putative
  Family ID	F93	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Edward I 'Longshanks', King of England 1272-1307,   b. 17 Jun, 1239, Westminster Palace, London, England ,   d. 7 Jul, 1307, Burgh-On-Sands, Cumberland, England age 68  (Age 68 years)
  Children	+ 1. Edward II, King of England 1307-1327,   b. 25 Apr, 1284, Caemarfon Castle, Gwynedd, Wales, England ,   d. Abt 21 Sept, 1327, Berkeley Castle, Gloucester, England  (Age 43 years)  [putative]
  Last Modified	12 May 2017
  Family ID	F84	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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