Eleanor Of Castile




Leonor De Castillla knowns as Eleanor of castile . She was born in 1241 in Burgos ,Castile in spain and died in 1290 at Harby Nottinghamshire. Leonor De Castille was Spanish , daughter of Eleanor was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife, Joan of Ponthieu..In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward , 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, her devotion to Edward helped bring out his better qualities; after her death, his rule became somewhat arbitrary.

The story that Eleanor saved Edwards 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.

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