Genealogy John Muijsers » Eleanor van Engeland (1269-1298)

Personal data Eleanor van Engeland 

• She was born on June 18, 1269.
• Profession: gravin van Bar.
• She died on August 29, 1298, she was 29 years old.
• A child of Eduard I van Engeland and Eleonora van Castilië

Household of Eleanor van Engeland

She is married to Henry Iii van Bar.

They got married on September 20, 1293, she was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Edward i van Bar  ????-1336 

Notes about Eleanor van Engeland

Eleanor of England (18 June 1269 – 29 August 1298) was an English princess, the eldest surviving daughter of King Edward I of England[1] and his first wife, Queen Eleanor of Castile.[2]

What evidence exists for her 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. On one Pentecost Eve, Henry and Eleanor were given two partridges for their dinner, for a special treat.[3]

For a long period Eleanor was betrothed to King Alfonso III of Aragon.[4] 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 Charles I of Naples, and despite the Aragonese ruler's repeated pleas that Edward I 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 the French nobleman, Henry III, Count of Bar on September 20, 1293,[5] and had two children:

Edward I, Count of Bar
Joan
According to Kenneth Panton, Eleanor is credited with a daughter called Eleanor (b.1285), who supposedly married a Welshman named Llywelyn ap Owain.[6]

She was buried in Westminster Abbey.

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