Eleanor of Castile
1241 – 1290
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Eleanor of Castile came to England at about thirteen to marry the future Edward the First, and by every account theirs was a real marriage: she travelled with him on crusade, bore him at least fourteen children, and when she died at Harby in Nottinghamshire in 1290 he had her body carried in state to Westminster and raised a cross at every place it rested overnight. One of them, at Charing, gave its name to Charing Cross. She was a daughter of Ferdinand the Third of Castile and Leon, and her mother's people were the counts of Ponthieu. Through her daughter Elizabeth of Rhuddlan she stands in this family's direct line, and the castle and lion of Castile and Leon that appear on the seal of Elizabeth, Lady Bardolf, are hers.
Research notes
(Standard, undisputed royal genealogy of the houses of Castile and Leon, entered 26 Jul 2026 under the project's relaxed rule for standard royal accounts; prompted by the seal of Elizabeth, Lady Bardolf, Boutell's Heraldry fig. 299, which displays the castle and lion of Castile and Leon.) ELEANOR OF CASTILE (c.1241-28 Nov 1290), dau. of FERDINAND III, King of Castile and Leon, by his 2nd wife JOAN, Countess of Ponthieu; m. Edward I of England (I99750) at Burgos 1254; mother of ELIZABETH 'of Rhuddlan' (I99749, our line, b. 1282 at Rhuddlan, so within her lifetime; Eleanor d. 1290). ADDED 26 Jul 2026: her absence was found by the website chat while checking the claims in the Lady Bardolf seal post; Elizabeth of Rhuddlan previously had a father and no mother in this file. Brings the royal houses of CASTILE and LEON into the direct line. Direct ancestress.