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13th-century English princess and countess of Bar
Eleanor of England
(18 June 1269 ? 29 August 1298) was the eldest surviving daughter of
Edward I of England
and his first wife,
Eleanor of Castile
.
What evidence exists for Eleanor's early years suggests that while her parents were absent on Crusade between 1270 and 1274, she became very close to her paternal grandmother,
Eleanor of Provence
, with whom she continued to spend a good deal of time. She was also close to her sickly brother
Henry
.
For a long period Eleanor was betrothed to King
Alfonso III of Aragon
.
Alfonso's parents were under papal interdict, however, because of their claims to the throne of
Sicily
, which were contrary to the papal donation of the Sicilian throne to Count
Charles I of Anjou
, and despite the Aragonese ruler's repeated pleas that Edward send his daughter to them for marriage, Edward refused to send her as long as the interdict remained in place. In 1282, he declined one such request by saying that his wife and mother felt the girl, who had just turned 13, was too young to be married, and that they wanted to wait another two years before sending her to Aragon. Alfonso died before the marriage could take place.
Eleanor subsequently married Count
Henry III of Bar
on 20 September 1293,
and had two children:
Eleanor is sometimes credited with a daughter named Eleanor (b. 1285), who married a
Welshman
named Llywelyn ap Owain and was an ancestress of
Owain Glyndwr
and
Owen Tudor
,
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but this claim is now considered dubious.
[7]
Eleanor died at
Ghent
on 29 August 1298. Eleanor was buried in
Westminster Abbey
, but the location of her grave in the Abbey is unknown.
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Ancestors of Eleanor of England, Countess of Bar
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References
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- ^
"The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with Pedigrees of Royal Descents in Illustration"
(PDF)
. Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D., Ulster King of Arms. 1876. p. 51
. Retrieved
8 October
2022
.
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Burke, John Bernard (1844).
"Heraldic illustrations, by J. And J. B. Burke"
. p. 23.
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See
Alison Weir
's
Britain's Royal Families
, page 82
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"Eleanor, Countess of Bar"
.
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Selby, Walford Dakin; Harwood, H. W. Forsyth; Murray, Keith W. (1895).
The genealogist
. London: George Bell & Sons. pp.
30
?31.
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- Illegitimate:
Joan, Lady of Wales
- Richard FitzRoy
- Oliver FitzRoy
- Geoffrey FitzRoy
- John FitzRoy
- Henry FitzRoy
- Osbert Gifford
- Eudes FitzRoy
- Bartholomew FitzRoy
- Maud FitzRoy
- Isabel FitzRoy
- Philip FitzRoy
- William de Forz
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- Illegitimate: Edmund Leboorde
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