Eleanor of Castile

Events

Date of Birth: late 1241.

The date is given by Parsons (Eleanor of Castile p. 9 and ODNB). Salazar y Acha (p. 268) gives 1240.

Date of Death: 28 November 1290.

Place of Death: Harby near Lincoln.

The date and place are given by Parsons (ODNB).

Relationships

Father: Fernando III “el Santo”, king of Castile and León (1201 - 1252).

The relationship is given by Parsons (1995, p. 255; ODNB) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 268).

Mother: Jeanne de Dammartin-Ponthieu (died 1279).

The relationship is given by Parsons (1995, p. 255; ODNB) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 268).

Spouse: Edward I, King of England (1239 - 1307). Married 1 November 1254 in Las Huelgas.

The date and place are given by Prestwich (Edward I, p. 20). Salazar y Acha (p. 268) gives 12 October 1254.

Children:

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

Katherine (born 1261 - 1263, died September 1264)

Joan (Jan 1265 - September 1265)

John (July 1266 - August 1271)

Henry (May 1268 - October 1274)

Eleanor (June 1269 - August 1298) married (1) Alfonso III, King of Aragon by proxy 15 August 1290 in Westminster Abbey (not consummated); married (2) Henri III, count of Bar, 20 September 1293 in Bristol.

daughter (about 1271 - 1271 or 1272)

Joan “of Acre” (1272 - April 1307) married (1) Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford, 30 April 1290; married (2) Ralph de Monthermer 1297.

Alphonso (November 1273 - August 1284)

Margaret (March 1275 - about 1333) married Jean de Brabant 8 July 1290.

Berengaria (May 1276 - 1277 or 1278)

child (January 1278 - 1278)

Mary (March 1279 - 1332) became a nun.

Elizabeth “of Rhuddlan” (August 1282 - 5 May 1316) married (1) Jan I van Holland 18 January 1297 in Ipswich; married (2) Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford and Essex 14 November 1302 in Westminster Abbey.

Edward “of Caernarvon” (Edward II of England) (25 April 1284 - murdered 21 September 1327) married Isabelle de France 22 January 1308 in Boulogne-sur-Mer.

References

Morris, Marc. A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain. (London : Hutchinson, 2008).

Parsons, John Carmi. Eleanor of Castile (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995).

Parsons, John Carmi. “Eleanor (1241 - 1290)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Prestwich, Michael. Edward I. (University of California Press, 1988).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).