Eleanor of Castile (? [1] [2] - 1244 ) - Queen of Aragon , the first wife of Jaime I , daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor of England . Her sister Berengaria the Great became Queen of Castile, as their brother Enrique I did not leave any heirs. The other sister, Blanca of Castile [3] , became the wife of Louis VIII , king of France .
| Eleanor of Castile | |||||||
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| Leonor de castilla | |||||||
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| Predecessor | Maria de Montpellier | ||||||
| Successor | Yolanda Hungarian | ||||||
| Birth | is unknown | ||||||
| Death | 1244 Royal Monastery of Las Huelgas | ||||||
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| Kind | and | ||||||
| Father | Alfonso VIII | ||||||
| Mother | Eleanor English | ||||||
| Spouse | Jaime I | ||||||
| Children | Alfonso Bigorra | ||||||
Content
Marriage
In 1221 , in Agred , Eleanor married Jaime I. She was nineteen, he was fourteen years old [2] . The next six years of Jaime's reign were full of revolts of the nobles. In the Alcalá peace on March 31, 1227, the nobles and the king came to an agreement. The marriage was not concluded for love, but for political reasons, like the union of Aragon and Castile.
In marriage, Eleanor gave birth to a son:
- Alfonso [4] [5] , married to Constance de Moncada , Countess of Bigorra.
In 1230, the marriage was dissolved, and the divorce agreement prohibited Eleanor from remarrying [6] . Alfonso was recognized as the rightful heir, but part of his father’s inheritance was appropriated by the children of Jaime from his second marriage with Yolanda of Hungary.
Later years
Eleanor became a nun after the divorce and settled in the abbey of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas , where she reunited with her older sister Berengaria, who left the courtyard of Castile and Leon, and another sister, Constance, who became a nun long before Togo. All three sisters died in the monastery: Costancia in 1243 , Eleanor in 1244 and Berengaria in 1246 [7] . They are all buried in the abbey.
Burial
After her death, Eleanor's body was buried in the monastery of Las Huelgos in Burgos . Her remains were identified in the grave, which is now in the nave of Santa Catarina, and is located between the grave containing the remains of Filipe , son of Sancho IV and Maria de Molina, and the grave of Pedro , brother of Filipe.
During work in the monastery in the middle of the 20th century, it was found that the remains of Eleanor were mummified and in good condition, being in a grave made of limestone. Her coffin was wooden and devoid of ornaments, although inside the coffin were found the remains of a cross with gold casting and brocade robes with Arabic script, which, according to archaeologist Manuel Gomez Moreno, are similar to those found in the grave of Filipe , the son of Eleanor III ’s nephew Fernando III .
Pedigree
Notes
- ↑ González González, Julio El reino de Castilla en la época de Alfonso VIII . 3 vol. Madrid, 1960 Volumen I pág 211
- ↑ 1 2 Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2007) Alfonso VIII: rey de Castilla y Toledo (1158-1214) . Ediciones Trea, SL 272 págs. ISBN 978-84-9704-327-4 pág 51
- ↑ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium , “ Henricum qui iuvenis obiit et quinque sorores, prima Berengaria ... secunda Urraca, tertia regina Francie, quarta Alienor, quinta Constantia monialis ”
- ↑ Family of Eleanor
- ↑ Crónica de San Juan de la Peña
- ↑ Shadis, 2010 , p. 71.
- ↑ Shadis, 2010 , p. four.
Literature
- Shadis, Miriam. Berenguela of Castile (1180–1246) and Political Women in the High Middle Ages. - Palgrave Macmillan, 2010 .-- ISBN 978-0-312-23473-7 .