Eleanor of Castile († 1244)

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Eleanor of Castile ( Catalan: Elionor de Castella , Spanish: Leonor de Castilla ; † 1244 in Burgos ) was a queen of Aragon from 1221 to 1229 as the first wife of King James I the Conqueror († 1276). She was a daughter of King Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England .

Eleonore's date of birth is unknown. On February 6, 1221, she was married in Ágreda to the then thirteen-year-old King James I of Aragón. This marriage was largely mediated by her older sister Berenguela and encouraged by the Aragonese-Catalan greats, who wanted to see their king married as early as possible so that he could father numerous children very early in order to prevent an impending vacancy in the event of his possible early death . The infant Alfonso was probably born in the first days of 1228, and in February of the same year he became the sole heir of the conglomerate of the Crown of Aragón.

The marriage, however, caused the displeasure of Pope Gregory IX. because Eleanor and James I were too closely related to each other as second cousins ​​according to canon law; King Alfonso VII of Castile was their great-grandfather together. In February 1229 the Pope instructed his legate in Spain, John of Abbeville , to carry out the declaration of the marriage nullity. On April 29, 1229, the Legate convened a council of the Aragonese clergy and nobility in Tarragona to announce the refusal of a papal dispensation and thus the annulment of the marriage. However, the divorce did not affect the legitimacy of the Infante Alfons, which was recognized by the papal side. Eleanor returned to Castile after her divorce and entered the Cistercian Abbey of Santa María la Real in Las Huelgas , where she died and was buried in 1244 as the last of her parents' numerous children.

Her child from her marriage to James I of Aragón was:

Remarks

  1. ↑ Gonzalo Martínez Díez: Alfonso VIII, rey de Castilla y Toledo , in: Corona de España: Reyes de León y Castilla , Vol. 21 (1995), p. 55.
  2. ↑ Joaquim Miret i Sans, Itinerari de Jaume I “el Conqueridor”. Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona 1918, p. 37.
  3. ↑ The Book of Deeds of James I of Aragon. A Translation of the medieval catalan Llibre dels Fets , ed. by Damian J. Smith and Helena Buffery (2010), pp. 33-34.
  4. ^ Regesta Pontificum Romanorum , Vol. 1, ed. by August Potthast (1874), no.8336, p. 717.
  5. ↑ On the Council of Tarragona see Concilium Turiasonense , in: Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio vol. 23, ed. by Giovanni Domenico Mansi (1779), col. 205-207 .
  6. ↑ Historia de la Corona de Aragón: Crónica de San Juan de la Peña: Part aragonesa , ed. by T. Ximénez de Embún y Val (1876), §35, p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Eleanor of Castile
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Eleanor of Castile-England
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Castilian princess, queen of Aragon
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 1244
Place of death Las Huelgas