Éléonore de Provence

Events

Date of Birth: about 1223.

The estimated date is given by Howell (ODNB).

Date of Death: 24 June 1291.

Place of Death: Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire.

The date and place are given by Howell (ODNB). Cokayne (p. 95) gives 25 June 1291.

Date of Burial: 9 September 1291.

Place of Burial: Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire.

The date and place are given by Howell (ODNB)

Relationships

Father: Raimond-Bérenger IV (about 1198 - 1245), count of Provence.

This relationship is given by Howell (ODNB), by Cox, and by Cokayne (p. 95).

Mother: Béatrice de Savoie (died 1265).

This relationship is given by Howell (ODNB), by Cox, and by Cokayne (p. 95).

Spouse: Henry III, king of England. Married 14 January 1236.

This relationship is given by Howell (ODNB) and by Cokayne (p. 95).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Edward I (17/18 June 1239 - 8 July 1307) married (1) Leonor de Castilla 1 November 1254 in Las Huelgas; married (2) Marguerite de France 8 or 9 September 1299 at Canterbury.

Margaret (29 September [or about 5 October] 1240 - 27 February 1275) married Alexander III, King of Scotland, 26 December 1251 in York.

Beatrice (25 June 1242 - 24 March 1275) married Jean de Bretagne, Earl of Richmond, in 1260. Jean succeeded as Duke of Brittany in 1286.

Edmund (16 January 1245 - 5 June 1296) married (1) Aveline de Forz in 1269; married (2) Blanche d’Artois in 1276. Edmund was created Earl of Leicester in 1265 and Earl of Lancaster in 1267.

other children

References

Cawley, Charles. “Eleonore de Provence” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Cox, Eugene L. The Eagles of Savoy: The House of Savoy in Thirteenth Century Europe. (Princeton University Press, 1974).

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

Howell, Margaret. “Eleanor (c.1223 - 1291)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press: 2004; online edition January 2008).