Eleanor of England

Events

Date of Birth: 31 October 1162.

Place of Birth: Domfront, Normandy.

The date and place are given by Cawley. Turner (p. 139) gives the date as September 1161. Martínez Diez and González (1:187) give 1160.

Date of Death: 31 October 1214.

Place of Death: Burgos.

The date and place are given by Martínez Diez (p. 297).

Place of Burial: las Huelgas Reales de Burgos.

The place is given by Martínez Diez (p. 298).

Relationships

Father: Henry II, king of England.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 43) and by Turner (p. 139).

Mother: Éléonore d’Aquitaine.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 43) and by Turner (p. 139).

Spouse: Alfonso VIII “el Noble”, king of Castile.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (p. 43), by González (1:185-193), and by Turner (pp. 194-195).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Berenguela (1180 - 8 November 1246) married (1) Konrad von Staufen, duke of Swabia; married (2) Alfonso IX, king of León.

Sancho (5 April 1181 - 26 July 1181).

Sancha (March 1182 - 1184 or 1185).

Enrique (1184 - before January 1184).

Urraca (1186 or 1187 - 3 November 1220) married Afonso II “o Gordo”, king of Portugal.

Blanca (1188 or 1189 - 27 November 1252) married Louis VIII, king of France.

Fernando (29 November 1189 - 14 October 1211).

Mafalda (1191 - 1204).

Leonor (about 1200 - 1244) married Jaime I “el Conquistador”, king of Aragon.

Constanza (about 1202 - 1243), nun, later abbess.

Enrique I (14 April 1204 - 6 June 1217), king of Castile, married Mafalda de Portugal.

References

Cawley, Charles. ELEANOR in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cokayne, G.E., and G.W. Watson. The Seize Quartiers of the Kings and Queens of England. (1896).

González, Julio. El reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII (Madrid, 1960).

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. Alfonso VIII, Rey de Castilla y Toledo (Burgos: Editorial la Olmeda, S.L., 1995).

Turner, Ralph V. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England (Yale University Press, 2009).