In October 1254 aged just 15, he married Eleanor (Leonor), daughter of Ferdinand III, King of Castile and Leon ... width 1.10. height 1.65. In the Abbey archives is a document of AD.1280 to which is ...

Eleanor, Countess of Bar, daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile, was buried in Westminster Abbey but the location is unknown. She was born in June 1269 and in 1293 married in Bristol ...

This was secured, however, by the arranged marriage of Henry’s son Edward to Eleanor, the half sister of Alphonso, the King of Castile. Sounds a bit like a soap opera doesn’t it? When we ...

Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), died at Harby in Notts. in 1290. The Queen's body was taken to Lincoln and thence to London for burial at Westminster Abbey.