Princess, Queen Eleanor of CASTILE
1241 - 1290 (49 years)-
Name Eleanor of CASTILE Title Princess, Queen Born 1241 Gender Female Died 27 Nov 1290 [1] Person ID I19847 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Ferdinand of CASTILE, III, b. 1201, d. May 1252, Seville, France 
(Age 51 years) Mother Jeanne de DAMMARTIN, b. 1216, d. 1279 (Age 63 years) Family ID F07532 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Edward PLANTAGENET, I, b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster, England , d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh-on-the-Sands, near Carlisle, Scotland (Age 68 years) Married 1 Nov 1254 Monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain [1] Children 1. Joan of ACRE, b. 1272, d. 10 May 1305 (Age 33 years) Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F07531 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - "Eleanor received her education from the Dominican friars who were fixtures at the Castilian court in her early years, and with whose order she would have a lifelong association. Castile was a cosmopolitan royal court, with a strong literary atmosphere, and Eleanor later showed an ease with, and interest in, historical writing and classical works . . . The terms of the Anglo-Castilian treaty agreed upon in March 1254 were that Edward of England was to be knighted by Alfonso X, marry Eleanor, raise the amount of her dower, and help to impose Castilian supremacy over Navarre . . . The royal wedding took place on 1 November at the monastery of Las Huelgas near Burgos, the chief religious site for the Castilian royal family ."
http://royaldescent.blogspot.com/2010/02/plantagenet-1-marriage-of-edward- i-and.html
Castile was a territory in north central Spain. Burgos is in northern Castile.
From Wikipedia:
"Eleanor of Castile died on 28 November 1290. Uncommon for such marriages of the period, the couple loved each other. Moreover like his father, Edward was very devoted to his queen and was faithful to her throughout their married lives -- a rarity among monarchs of the time. He was deeply affected by her death. He displayed his grief by erecting twelve so-called Eleanor crosses, one at each place where her funeral cort
- "Eleanor received her education from the Dominican friars who were fixtures at the Castilian court in her early years, and with whose order she would have a lifelong association. Castile was a cosmopolitan royal court, with a strong literary atmosphere, and Eleanor later showed an ease with, and interest in, historical writing and classical works . . . The terms of the Anglo-Castilian treaty agreed upon in March 1254 were that Edward of England was to be knighted by Alfonso X, marry Eleanor, raise the amount of her dower, and help to impose Castilian supremacy over Navarre . . . The royal wedding took place on 1 November at the monastery of Las Huelgas near Burgos, the chief religious site for the Castilian royal family ."
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Sources - [S013457] Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 34.
- [S013457] Ancestry of Jeremy Clarke of Rhode Islnad and Dungan Genealogy, Compiled by Alfred Rudulph Justice, (Philadelphia: Franklin Publishing Co., 1922), 34.