Eleanor of England ( October 13, 1162 - October 31, 1214 ) - Queen of Castile and Toledo, wife of Alfonso VIII . Eleanor's parents were Henry II Plantagenet and Alienora of Aquitaine .
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| Birth | October 13, 1162 Domfront Castle, Normandy | ||||||
| Death | October 31, 1214 (52 years old) | ||||||
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| Kind | Plantagenets | ||||||
| Father | Henry II Plantagenet | ||||||
| Mother | Alienora Aquitaine | ||||||
| Spouse | Alfonso VIII | ||||||
| Children | , , , , , , , , and | ||||||
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Biography
Eleanor was born in the castle of Domfron , in Normandy , and was baptized by Henri de Marcy. She was the sixth child and second daughter of King Henry II and Alienora, Duchess of Aquitaine. She was given such a name in honor of her mother, whose name "Eleanor" (or Alienor) had not been seen before, possibly connected with the Greek name Elena . According to another version, it comes from the Occitan language , and Eleanor simply means "another Aenor", that is, Eleanor of Aquitaine got her name from her mother, whose name was Aenor .
Family
Eleanor was the younger uterine sister of Mary Champagne and Alix of France. She was also the younger sister of William, Henry the Young , Matilda Plantagenet , Richard I the Lionheart and Jeffrey II Plantagenet, Duke of Brittany . She was also the elder sister of Queen John of England and King John of the Landless .
Children
Surviving children from the marriage of Eleanor and Alfonso VIII [1] :
- Berengaria the Great (1180–1246), Queen of Castile
- Sancho (1181—?)
- Sancha (1182–1184)
- Urraca (1186–1220) Wife of Alfonso II of Portugal .
- Blanca of Castile (1188-1252), wife of Louis VIII , king of France .
- Ferdinand (1189-1211)
- Mafalda (1191-1204)
- Eleanor (1200 [2] —1244) Wife of Jaime I of Aragon .
- Constance (c. 1202 [2] —1243)
- Enrique I (1204-1217), successor to Alfonso VIII on the royal throne of Castile.
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ Gerli, 2013 , p. 63.
- ↑ 1 2 Shadis, 2009 , p. four.
Literature
- Gerli, E. Michael. Medieval Iberia: An Encyclopedia . - Routledge, 2013 .-- 952 p. - ISBN 113677162X , 9781136771620.
- Shadis, Miriam. Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages . - Springer, 2009 .-- 251 p. - ISBN 0230103138 , 9780230103139.
- Fraser, Antonia. The Middle Ages, A Royal History of England. University of California Press, 2000. ISBN 0-520-22799-9 .
- Gillingham, John. “Events and Opinions: Norman and English Views of Aquitaine, c.1152 — c.1204.” The World of Eleanor of Aquitaine: Literature and Society in Southern France between the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries , edd. Marcus Bull and Catherine Léglu. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2005. ISBN 1-84383-114-7 .
- Rada Jiménez, Rodrigo. Historia de los hechos de España .
- Weir, Alison. Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy. London: Vintage Books, 2008. ISBN 0-09-953973-X .
- Wheeler, Bonnie, and Parsons, John Carmi. Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. ISBN 0-230-60236-3 .