Eleanor of Castile (died 1244)

Queen of Aragon from 1221 to 1229

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Eleanor of Castile

Coat of arms of Eleanor of Castile

Queen consort of Aragon
Tenure| 6 February 1221 - April 1229

Born| 1200
Died| 1244
Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas near Burgos
Spouse| James I of Aragon
Issue| Alfonso of Bigorre
House| Castilian House of Ivrea
Father| Alfonso VIII of Castile
Mother| Eleanor of England

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Eleanor of Castile[1] (1200[2][3]—1244) was Queen of Aragon by her marriage to King James I of Aragon.

## Queenship

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Eleanorʻs seal

Eleanor was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England. In 1221 at Ágreda, Eleanor married King James I of Aragon; she was nineteen and he was fourteen.[3] The next six years of James's reign were full of rebellions on the part of the nobles. By the Peace of Alcalá of 31 March 1227, the nobles and the king came to terms. The couple had a son, Alfonso,[4] who married Constance of Béarn.[5] Eleanor's marriage to James was annulled in 1230, and the agreement prohibited her from remarrying.[6] Their son, Alfonso, was declared legitimate, but he pre-deceased James.

## Monastic life

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Eleanor became a nun after the annulment. She went to the Abbey of Santa María la Real de Las Huelgas to join her elder sister Berengaria who had retired from ruling Castile and Leon, and their other sister Constance, who was long a nun there. All three sisters died there, Constance in 1243, Eleanor in 1244, and Berengaria in 1246.[7] All are buried in the abbey.

## Burial

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Eleanor was buried in the Monastery of Las Huelgas in Burgos. Her remains were deposited in a tomb which is now located in the Nave of Santa Catarina of the Gospel, and lies between the tomb containing the remains of Philip, son of Sancho IV and María de Molina, which is placed to the right, and the tomb containing the remains of Peter, brother of Philip.

During work on the monastery in the middle of the twentieth century it was found that the remains of Eleanor, mummified and in good condition, lay in her tomb of limestone; the roof had two slopes and was smooth, although in the past was polychrome. Her coffin was wooden and devoid of cover, although there were still remnants of its shell and lysed cross made of studded gold braid, as well as clothing that was buried with the queen, among which highlighted three brocade garments in Arabic, which Manuel Gómez Moreno considered similar to those found in the grave of her grandnephew Philip.

## References

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1. ^ Spanish: Leonor de Castilla
2. ^ González González, Julio El reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII. 3 vol. Madrid, 1960 Volumen I pág 211
3. ^ a b Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2007) Alfonso VIII: rey de Castilla y Toledo (1158-1214). Ediciones Trea, S.L. 272 págs. ISBN 978-84-9704-327-4 pág 51
4. ^ Bisson 1991, p. 200.
5. ^ Linehan 2011, p. 85.
6. ^ Shadis 2010, p. 71.
7. ^ Shadis 2010, p. 4.

## Sources

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* Bisson, Thomas N. (1991). The Medieval Crown of Aragon: A Short History. Oxford University Press.
* Linehan, Peter (2011). Spain, 1157-1300: A Particle Inheritance. Wiley-Blackwell.
* Shadis, Miriam (2010). Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-312-23473-7.

Eleanor of Castile

Castilian House of Ivrea

Cadet branch of the Anscarids

Born: circa 1202 Died: circa 1244

Royal titles
Vacant

Title last held by

Marie of Montpellier |  Queen consort of Aragon
1221-1229  | Vacant

Title next held by

Violant of Hungary

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Royal consorts of Aragon

House of Jiménez|

* Ermesinda of Bigorre
* Agnes
* Isabella of Urgell
* Felicia of Roucy
* Agnes of Aquitaine
* Bertha
* Urraca of León
* Agnes of Aquitaine
* Ramon Berengeur IV of Barcelona

House of Barcelona|

* Sancha of Castile
* Maria of Montpellier
* Eleanor of Castile
* Violant of Hungary
* Constance II of Sicily
* Isabella of Castile
* Blanche of Anjou
* Marie of Lusignan
* Elisenda of Montcada
* Eleanor of Castile
* Maria of Navarre
* Eleanor of Portugal
* Eleanor of Sicily
* Sibila de Fortià
* Violant of Bar
* Maria de Luna
* Margaret of Prades

House of Trastámara|

* Eleanor of Alburquerque
* Maria of Castile
* Juana Enríquez
* Isabella I of Castile
* Germaine of Foix

House of Habsburg|

* Isabella of Portugal

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Infantas of Castile

1st generation|

* Urraca, Lady of Zamora
* Elvira, Lady of Toro

2nd generation|

* Urraca I of Castile and León
* Elvira, Queen of Sicily

3rd generation|

* Sancha

4th generation|

* Constance, Queen of France
* Sancha, Queen of Navarre
* Sancha, Queen of Aragon

5th generation|

* none

6th generation|

* Berengaria I of Castile
* Urraca, Queen of Portugal
* Blanche, Queen of France
* Eleanor, Queen of Aragon

7th generation|

* Berengaria, Latin Empress of Constantinople

8th generation|

* Eleanor, Queen of England
* Maria, Queen of Castile

9th generation|

* Berengaria, Lady of Guadalajara
* Beatrice, Marchioness of Montferrat
* Violant, Lady of Biscay
* Violant, Lady of Elche

10th generation|

* Isabella, Queen of Aragon and Duchess of Brittany
* Beatrice, Queen of Portugal
* Constance, Queen of Castile
* Joanna, Queen of Castile

11th generation|

* Eleanor, Queen of Aragon
* Blanche
* Blanche, Princess of Villena
* Maria

12th generation|

* Isabella

13th generation|

* Constance, Duchess of Lancaster
* Isabella, Duchess of York
* Eleanor, Queen of Navarre

15th generation|

* Maria, Queen of Aragon
* Catherine, Duchess of Villena

16th generation|

* Catherine, Princess of Asturias
* Eleanor, Princess of Asturias
* Isabella I of Castile

17th generation|

* Joanna, Queen of Portugal
* Isabella, Queen of Portugal
* Joanna I of Castile and Aragon
* Maria, Queen of Portugal
* Catherine, Queen of England

18th generation|

* Eleanor, Queen of Portugal and France
* Isabella, Queen of Denmark-Norway
* Maria, Queen of Hungary
* Catherine, Queen of Portugal

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