Eleanor of England (1269-1298)

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Eleanor of England ( English Eleanor ) (* June 17, 1264 or June 1269, † August 1298 or October 12, 1298) was an English king's daughter.

Life

Eleonore came from the Plantagenet family . According to some sources, she is considered to be the eldest daughter of the English heir to the throne Eduard and his wife Eleanor of Castile , but she was probably their fifth child and third daughter. She grew up in the household of her older brother Heinrich and her cousin John of Brittany , while her parents went on a crusade to the Holy Land from 1270 onwards . Her father was after the death of Eleonore's grandfather Heinrich III. English king in 1272, but her parents did not return to England until August 1274. Even after that, little is known about Eleonore's childhood. After Heinrich's death in 1274, she lived in the same household with her other siblings. When her father was in Gascony in southwest France from 1273 to 1274 , he planned to marry Eleanor to the eldest son of Prince Peter of Aragon , but the plan failed. Her father kept trying to marry her off to another European prince to improve relations. Finally, in August 1282, after lengthy negotiations, she was married to King Alfons III by proxy . married from Aragón , for which John de Vescy and Bishop Antony Bek had traveled to Aragón. Eleanor was related to her fourth degree groom, and Pope Martin IV did not issue the required dispensation . Her father and especially her mother and grandmother Eleanor of Provence prevented Eleanor from leaving England. Alfons III finally died in 1291 without Eleanor traveling to Spain. She was then married in September 1293 to Count Heinrich von Bar , who thus allied himself with the English king against the French king. In fact, Heinrich von Bar supported the English king in the war against France from 1294.

progeny

With her husband Heinrich von Bar, Eleonore had at least three children who reached adulthood:

Eleanor died before her husband and was buried in Westminster Abbey .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Cracroft's Peerage: The Early House of Plantagenet (1154-1327). Retrieved October 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Michael Prestwich: Edward I . Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 126
  3. ↑ The question is how the sources are interpreted: was she the oldest daughter or the oldest surviving daughter ( personal data on www.fmg.ac (English) )
  4. ↑ Michael Prestwich: Edward I . Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 126
  5. ↑ Michael Prestwich: Edward I . Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 126
  6. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 127
  7. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 315
  8. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 321
  9. ^ Michael Prestwich: Edward I. University of California, Berkeley 1988, ISBN 0-520-06266-3 , p. 389
personal data
SURNAME Eleanor of England
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English princess
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1264 or June 1269
DATE OF DEATH August 1298 or October 12, 1298