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  • Name Éléonore de Provence 
    Suffix Reine Consort d'Angleterre 
    Nickname Queen consort of England 
    Born 1223 
    Address:
    Aix-en-Provence
    Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
    France 
    Christened Amesbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Christening Amesbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening (Provence line) Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Amesbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Amesbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening Countess of Provence Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Occupation Queen Consort of England, Countess of Provence, Queen of England, Queen, regentes Engeland, Queen Consort 
    Died 24 Jun 1291  Amesbury Abbey Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Amesbury
    Amesbury, Wiltshire
    England 
    Buried 11 Sep 1291  Abbey of St. Mary Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Address:
    Amesbury
    Amesbury, England
    United Kingdom 
    Notes 
    • {geni:about_me} https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Provence






      http://genealogics.org/getperson.php?personID=I00002879&tree=LEO

      http://www.friesian.com/lorraine.htm#provence









      http://www.friesian.com/lorraine.htm#savoy





      Born in Aix-en-Provence, Eleanor was the second eldest daughter of '''Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence''' (1198–1245) and '''Beatrice of Savoy''' (1205–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva. All four of their daughters became queens.

      Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes.

      On June 22 1235, Eleanor was bethrothed to '''King Henry III of England''' (1207–1272) and wed to him on January 14, 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom. Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated.

      Eleanor was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine. After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.

      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry, as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France. She often wore parti-coloured cottes (a type of tunic), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps.

      Eleanor and King Henry had five children together:

      # Edward I (1239–1307)
      # Margaret of England (1240–1275)
      # Beatrice of England (1242–1275)
      # Edmund Crouchback (1245–1296)
      # Katharine (25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257)


      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules. Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.


      ='''Eleanor as Queen'''=

      Eleanor was a confident consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign.

      Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, and helped raise troops in France for Henry's cause.

      In 1272 King Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. Eleanor remained in England as Dowager Queen, and raised several of her grandchildren—Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor mourned him dearly, and his heart was buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory.

      Eleanor retired to a convent but remained in touch with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Margaret of France.

      Eleanor died on in June of 1291 in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury, England. She was buried on September 11, 1291 in the Abbey of St. Mary. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory.









      [http://www.medievalqueens.com/queen-eleanor-of-provence.htm]




      http://web.me.com/abacusinfo/English_Queens_Consort/8._Eleanor_of_Provence.html]




      Eleanor of Provence was born in 1223 at Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.3 She was the daughter of Raimond Berengar V, Comte de Provence and Beatrice di Savoia.2 She married Henry III, King of England, son of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Isabella d'Angoulême, on 14 January 1236 at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England.3 She died on 24 June 1291 at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3 She was buried at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3
      As a result of her marriage, Eleanor of Provence was styled as Queen Consort Eleanor of England on 20 January 1236.3 She was a nun on 7 July 1284 at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3
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      Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291[1]) was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Henry III of England from 1236 until his death in 1272.

      Although she was completely devoted to her husband, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

      Eleanor was the mother of five children including the future King Edward I of England. She also was renowned for her cleverness, skill at writing poetry, and as a leader of fashion.
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      http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/towns/amesbury.shtml

      '''Interesting Note (found on this page):''' "In 1287, King Edward's mother, Eleanor of Provence, also took her vows and was later buried here. The precise location of her grave remains unknown, making her the only Queen of England without a known grave."
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      Eleanor of Provence

      Queen consort of England
      Tenure 14 January 1236 – 16 November 1272
      Coronation 14 January 1236

      Spouse Henry III of Winchester
      Issue
      Edward I Longshanks
      Margaret, Queen of Scots
      Beatrice of England
      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Leicester and Lancaster
      Katherine of England
      House House of Aragon (by birth)
      House of Plantagenet (by marriage)
      Father Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
      Mother Beatrice of Savoy
      Born c. 1223
      Aix-en-Provence
      Died 24/25 June 1291
      Amesbury
      Burial Abbey of St Mary and St Melor in Amesbury


      Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291[1]) was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Henry III of England from 1236 until his death in 1272.

      Although she was completely devoted to her husband, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

      Eleanor was the mother of five children including the future King Edward I of England. She also was renowned for her cleverness, skill at writing poetry, and as a leader of fashion.

      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second eldest daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1205–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva. All four of their daughters became queens. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes.[2] Piers Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life".[3] On 22 June 1235, Eleanor was bethrothed to King Henry III of England (1207–1272).[1] Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (already twelve) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.

      Eleanor was married to King Henry III of England on 14 January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom.[4] Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. She was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine.[5] After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.[6]

      Eleanor and Henry together had five children:

      Edward I (1239–1307), married Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290) in 1254, by whom he had issue, including his heir Edward II; he married Margaret of France in 1299, by whom he had issue.
      Margaret of England (1240–1275), married King Alexander III of Scotland, by whom she had issue.
      Beatrice of England (1242–1275), married John II, Duke of Brittany, by whom she had issue.
      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245–1296), married Aveline de Forz in 1269, who died four years later without issue; married Blanche of Artois in 1276, by whom he had issue.
      Katharine (25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257)
      Four others are listed, but their existence is in doubt as there is no contemporary record of them. These are:

      Richard (1247–1256)
      John (1250–1256)
      William (1251–1256)
      Henry (1256–1257)

      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry,[4] as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France.[3] She often wore parti-coloured cottes (a type of tunic), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps. Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, "into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe".[3]

      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules.[7] It was because of her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249.[citation needed] Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.[8]

      Eleanor was a loyal and faithful consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign.[9] Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On 13 July 1263, she was sailing down the Thames on a barge when her barge was attacked by citizens of London.[10] Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown. In addition to the queen-gold other such fines were levied on the citizens by the Queen on the thinnest of pretexts.[11] In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas Fitzthomas, the Mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.

      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. She remained in England as Dowager Queen, and raised several of her grandchildren—Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor went into mourning and gave orders for his heart to be buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory.

      She retired to a convent; however, remained in contact with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Margaret of France.

      Eleanor died on 24/25 June 1291 in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury, England. She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory.[12]

      References/Notes :

      ^ a b Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Provence
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, pp. 125–26
      ^ a b c Costain, The Magnificent Century, p.140
      ^ a b Costain, The Magnificent Century, p.127
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, p.129
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, pp. 129–30
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, p. 142
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, p. 167
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, pp.130–140
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, pp. 253–54
      ^ Costain, The Magnificent Century, pp. 206–07
      ^ Howell, Eleanor (Eleanor of Provence) (c.1223–1291), queen of England"

      Bibliography
      Margaret Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-century England, 1997
      Howell, Margaret (2004), "Eleanor (Eleanor of Provence) (c.1223–1291), queen of England", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8620, retrieved 2010-12-14
      FMG on Eleonore Berenger of Provence
      The Peerage: Eleanor of Provence: [1]
      Thomas B. Costain, The Magnificent Century, Doubleday and Company, Garden City, New York, 1959

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      Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24 June 1291) was Queen consort of England as the spouse of King Henry III of England from 1236 until his death in 1272.
      Although she was completely devoted to her husband, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.
      Eleanor was the mother of five children including the future King Edward I of England. She also was renowned for her cleverness, skill at writing poetry, and as a leader of fashion.
      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1205–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva. Her three sisters also married kings. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes. Piers Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life". On 22 June 1235, Eleanor was betrothed to King Henry III of England (1207–1272). Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (already twelve) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.
      Marriage and issue:
      Eleanor was married to King Henry III of England on 14 January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom. Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. She was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine. After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.
      Eleanor and Henry together had five children:
      1.Edward I (1239–1307), married Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290) in 1254, by whom he had issue, including his heir Edward II; he married Margaret of France in 1299, by whom he had issue.
      2.Margaret of England (1240–1275), married King Alexander III of Scotland, by whom she had issue.
      3.Beatrice of England (1242–1275), married John II, Duke of Brittany, by whom she had issue.
      4.Edmund "Crouchback", 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245–1296), married Aveline de Forz in 1269, who died four years later without issue; married Blanche of Artois in 1276, by whom he had issue.
      5.Katharine (25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257)
      Four others are listed, but their existence is in doubt as there is no contemporary record of them. These are:
      1.Richard (1247–1256)
      2.John (1250–1256)
      3.William (1251–1256)
      4.Henry (1256–1257)
      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry, as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France. She often wore parti-coloured cottes (a type of tunic), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps. Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, "into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe".
      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules. It was because of her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249. Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.
      Unpopularity:
      Eleanor was a loyal and faithful consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign. Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On 13 July 1263, she was sailing down the Thames when her barge was attacked by citizens of London. Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown. In addition to the queen-gold other such fines were levied on the citizens by the Queen on the thinnest of pretexts. In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas Fitzthomas, the Mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.
      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. She remained in England as queen dowager, and raised several of her grandchildren—Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor went into mourning and gave orders for his heart to be buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory.
      She retired to a convent; however, remained in contact with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Margaret of France.
      Eleanor died on 24/25 June 1291 in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury, England. She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. The exact site of her grave at the abbey is unknown making her the only English queen without a marked grave. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory.



      Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291[1]) was Queen consort of England, as the spouse of King Henry III of England, from 1236 until his death in 1272.

      Although she was completely devoted to her husband, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

      Eleanor was the mother of five children including the future King Edward I of England. She also was renowned for her cleverness, skill at writing poetry, and as a leader of fashion.


      Queen consort of England
      Tenure 14 January 1236 – 16 November 1272
      Coronation 14 January 1236
      Spouse Henry III of England
      Issue Edward I of England
      Margaret, Queen of Scots
      Beatrice of England
      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster
      Katherine of England
      House House of Barcelona (by birth)
      House of Plantagenet (by marriage)
      Father Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence
      Mother Beatrice of Savoy
      Born c. 1223
      Aix-en-Provence
      Died 24/25 June 1291
      Amesbury
      Burial Abbey of St Mary and St Melor in Amesbury


      Family

      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1205–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva. Her three sisters also married kings. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes.[2] Piers Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life".[3] On 22 June 1235, Eleanor was betrothed to King Henry III of England (1207–1272).[1] Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (already twelve) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.


      Marriage & Issue

      Eleanor was married to King Henry III of England on 14 January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom.[4] Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. She was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine.[5] After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.[6]

      Eleanor and Henry together had five children:

      Edward I (1239–1307), married Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290) in 1254, by whom he had issue, including his heir Edward II; he married Margaret of France in 1299, by whom he had issue.

      Margaret (1240–1275), married King Alexander III of Scotland, by whom she had issue.

      Beatrice (1242–1275), married John II, Duke of Brittany, by whom she had issue.

      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245–1296), married Aveline de Forz in 1269, who died four years later without issue; married Blanche of Artois in 1276, by whom he had issue.

      Katherine (25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257)


      Four others are listed, but their existence is in doubt as there is no contemporary record of them. These are:

      Richard (1247–1256)
      John (1250–1256)
      William (1251–1256)
      Henry (1256–1257)

      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry,[4] as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France.[3] She often wore parti-coloured cottes (a type of tunic), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps. Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, "into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe".[3]

      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules.[7] It was because of her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249.[citation needed] Her youngest child, Katherine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.[8]


      Unpopularity

      Eleanor was a loyal and faithful consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign.[9] Though Eleanor and Henry supported different factions at times, she was made regent of England when her husband left for Normandy in 1253.[10] Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On 13 July 1263, she was sailing down the Thames when her barge was attacked by citizens of London.[11] Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown. In addition to the queen-gold other such fines were levied on the citizens by the Queen on the thinnest of pretexts.[12] In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas Fitzthomas, the Mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.


      Later life

      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. She remained in England as queen dowager, and raised several of her grandchildren—Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor went into mourning and gave orders for his heart to be buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory. In 1275 Eleanor's two remaining daughters died Margaret 26th February and Beatrice 24th March.

      She retired to a convent; however, she remained in contact with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Margaret of France.

      Eleanor died on 24/25 June 1291 in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury, England. She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. The exact site of her grave at the abbey is unknown making her the only English queen without a marked grave. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory.[13]


      In fiction

      Eleanor is the protagonist of The Queen From Provence, a historical romance by British novelist Jean Plaidy which was published in 1979. Eleanor is a main character in the novel Four Sisters, All Queens by author Sherry Jones, as well as in the novel The Sister Queens by Sophie Perinot.

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      Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 – 24/25 June 1291[1]) was Queen consort of England, as the spouse of King Henry III of England, from 1236 until his death in 1272.

      Although she was completely devoted to her husband, and staunchly defended him against the rebel Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester, she was very much hated by the Londoners. This was because she had brought a large number of relatives with her to England in her retinue; these were known as "the Savoyards", and they were given influential positions in the government and realm. On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

      Eleanor was the mother of five children including the future King Edward I of England. She also was renowned for her cleverness, skill at writing poetry, and as a leader of fashion.

      Family[edit]
      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the second daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198–1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1205–1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Margaret of Geneva. Her three sisters also married kings. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes.[2] Piers Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life".[3] On 22 June 1235, Eleanor was betrothed to King Henry III of England (1207–1272).[1] Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (already twelve) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.

      Marriage and issue[edit]
      Eleanor was married to King Henry III of England on 14 January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom.[4] Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. She was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine.[5] After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.[6]

      Eleanor and Henry together had five children:

      Edward I (1239–1307), married Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290) in 1254, by whom he had issue, including his heir Edward II; he married Margaret of France in 1299, by whom he had issue.
      Margaret (1240–1275), married King Alexander III of Scotland, by whom she had issue.
      Beatrice (1242–1275), married John II, Duke of Brittany, by whom she had issue.
      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245–1296), married Aveline de Forz in 1269, who died four years later without issue; married Blanche of Artois in 1276, by whom he had issue.
      Katherine (25 November 1253 – 3 May 1257)
      Four others are listed, but their existence is in doubt as there is no contemporary record of them. These are:

      Richard (1247–1256)
      John (1250–1256)
      William (1251–1256)
      Henry (1256–1257)
      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry,[4] as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France.[3] She often wore parti-coloured cottes (a type of tunic), gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps. Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, "into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe".[3]

      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu in Hampshire for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules.[7] It was because of her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249.[citation needed] Her youngest child, Katherine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.[8]

      Unpopularity[edit]
      Eleanor was a loyal and faithful consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign.[9] Though Eleanor and Henry supported different factions at times, she was made regent of England when her husband left for Normandy in 1253.[10] Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On 13 July 1263, she was sailing down the Thames when her barge was attacked by citizens of London.[11] Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown. In addition to the queen-gold other such fines were levied on the citizens by the Queen on the thinnest of pretexts.[12] In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas Fitzthomas, the Mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.

      Later life[edit]
      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. She remained in England as queen dowager, and raised several of her grandchildren—Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor went into mourning and gave orders for his heart to be buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory. In 1275 Eleanor's two remaining daughters died Margaret 26th February and Beatrice 24th March.

      She retired to a convent; however, she remained in contact with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Margaret of France.

      Eleanor died on 24/25 June 1291 in Amesbury, eight miles north of Salisbury, England. She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St Mary and St Melor, Amesbury on 9 December. The exact site of her grave at the abbey is unknown making her the only English queen without a marked grave. Her heart was taken to London where it was buried at the Franciscan priory.[13]


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      Eleanor of Provence, the queen of Henry III of England, was his loyal marriage-partner for thirty-six years. Strong-willed, ambitious and practical, she played a major role in ruling the kingdom during the volatile thirteenth century. So why is she so little remembered in the roster of medieval queens? Probably because Henry filled his reign with so many miscalculations and disasters that not even a strong helpmeet could avert them. If Eleanor had been a reigning queen instead of a queen-consort, things might have been different.

      As daughter of Count Raymond of Provence, Eleanor grew up steeped in the sunny, pleasure-loving culture of Southern France. She was acquainted with the nobility of the Mediterranean world. When she married Henry she brought from her birthplace her taste for the good life and her familiarity with many influential players on the European stage. Eleanor also brought her relatives to install in important offices in England. This didn't endear her to Henry's barons or to the English people, who mistrusted foreigners.

      What Henry, an ambitious but ineffective king, lacked in willpower Eleanor more than made up for. Like her two predecessors on the English throne, Isabella of Angoulême and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Eleanor of Provence was fiercely ambitious for her children and supremely self-confident in exercising her power.

      She was intimately involved in Henry's battles. These included excursions to France to fight for the Continental lands the French and English had been squabbling about for decades. At home, Henry and Eleanor had rebellious barons to contend with. When Henry was captured by his own barons and forced to agree to their terms for reforms, Eleanor went to France and raised a formidable army to free her husband. But her invasion fleet was wrecked before it reached England. Her son Edward (later Edward I), as combative as his mother, fought off the rebels and rescued his father.

      After Henry died in 1272 Eleanor became Queen Dowager, but she never gave up her active role in promoting the royal family's interests. Only after fourteen years did she take off her crown and don the veil at the nunnery of Amesbury. There she lived a quiet, pious life until her death in 1291.

      Queen Eleanor of Provence was beautiful, resourceful, clever-and unpopular. Her foreign airs and entanglements, her influence on her husband and her imperious manner could not endear her to the English. The chronicler summed up her contradictory qualities after her death: "the generous and devout virago."
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      Another property that became associated with English queens was the convent of Barking, which was granted to Matilda of Boulogne in the next reign and provided Eleanor of Provence with five months' worth of revenues during her widowhood.

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      Birth: 1222
      Aix-en-Provence
      Departement des Bouches-du-Rhône
      Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
      Death: Jun. 25, 1291
      Amesbury
      Wiltshire Unitary Authority
      Wiltshire, England

      British Monarch. Some historians place her birth in 1217. The daughter of Raymond Berengar, count of Provence, and Beatrice of Savoy, Eleanor married King Henry III of England in 1236. By all accounts, the union was a happy one, and the couple had 9 children, only four of whom survived to adulthood. Eleanor was a vigorous and incisive woman who held much influence over Henry, as did her unpopular family members. This caused severe conflict between Henry and his barons. During the rise of Simon de Montfort in 1264, Eleanor raised an army of French mercenaries for the defense of her husband and son. Upon the death of Henry in 1272, Eleanor retired to a life in the veil in the Convent at Amesbury, though she never took the final vows. Until her death of old age, she was consulted many times in matters of state by her son Edward I. *Note: Eleanor's heart was entombed at Grayfriar's Church, London. (bio by: Kristen Conrad)

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      Parents:
      Raimond Bérenger IV de Provence (1198 - 1245)
      Beatrice of Savoy (1198 - 1266)

      Spouse:
      King Henry (1207 - 1272)

      Children:
      Edward I (1239 - 1307)*
      Margaret Plantagenet (1240 - 1275)*
      Béatrice d'Angleterre (1242 - 1275)*
      Edmund Plantagenet (1245 - 1296)*
      Richard of England (1247 - 1250)*
      John of England (1250 - 1252)*
      Katherine of England (1253 - 1257)*
      Henry of England (1260 - 1260)*

      Siblings:
      Marguerite de Provence (1221 - 1295)*
      Eleanor of Provence (1222 - 1291)
      Sanchia of Provence (1225 - 1261)*
      Beatrice de Provence (1234 - 1267)*

      *Calculated relationship

      Burial:
      St Mary & St Melor Churchyard
      Amesbury
      Wiltshire Unitary Authority
      Wiltshire, England

      Maintained by: Find A Grave
      Originally Created by: Kristen Conrad
      Record added: Jan 26, 2004
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    • The young girl traveling from the south of France to be married to an unknown bridegroom in the rigorous of an English winter must, one feels, have possessed a strength of character above the average. Eleanor, who became Henry III's queen in January 1236, was the second of four beautiful sisters, the daughters of Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence, himself one of the last great Provencal poets, whose court was renowned for its patronage of the troubadours. All the girls made brilliant marriages: Margaret to St Louis IX, King of France; Eleanor to Henry III; Sanchia to Henry's brother, Richard of Cornwall, King of the Romans; and Beatrice to Charles of Anjou, King of Naples.
      Henry III had first negotiated for the hand of Joan, Countess of Ponthieu, whose daughter Eleanor was years later to become the wife of his son Edward. However, having heard from his brother Richardof the beauty and vivacity of the Provencal ladies, he cancelled his suit and made proposals for the hand of Eleanor which were finally accepted after some haggling about her dower. This was necessarily limited because Henry's mother was still alive and in full possession of her jointure, which could only be dowered to Eleanor in reversion.
      Eleanor journeyed through France, visiting the court of her sister Queen Margaret en route, landed at Dover, and proceeded to Canterbury where she was married to the King by Edmund Rich. Sixteen days later she was crowned at Westminster Abbey. Henry had spared no expense in having the Palace of Westminster refurbished for his young queen, installing refinements of plumbing, window-glazing and astandard of general comfort hitherto unknown in this country. Instructions remain for chambers in the Palace to 'be painted a good green color, like a curtain.' The Queen's coronation was an occasion of great display and a large equestrian procession escorted the sovereigns from the Tower to Westminster in a splendid cavalcade.
      Henry was a loving and faithful husband and the couple's married life remained a completely happy one. However, the Queen's popularity suffered when her Savoyard uncles visited England and were generously entertained, the King extracting money for that purpose from the Jews with threats of expulsion. The marriage of the Queen's sister Sanchia to the King's brother Richard was another occasion of great display, for which the Jews were again obliged to furnish funds.
      On the death of Edmund Rich in 1240, Eleanor procured the Archbishopric of Canterbury for her uncle, Boniface of Savory, writing to the Pope herself to assure the nomination.
      Boniface's attempts to institute a visitation of the province of Canterbury were strongly resented, and there was an unseemly brawl when he visited St Bartholomew's Priory in the diocese of London and was told by the monks that they would only accept a visitation from their own bishop. Boniface lost his temper, personally assaulted the sub-prior, and encouraged his attendants to beat the monks savagely. The King refused to listen to the monks' complaint and the people of London chased Boniface into Lambeth Palace, where he was forced to lie low until they had calmed down.
      The Queen's extravagances continued to excite the hostility of the Londoners for many years and, even after she received the reversion of the dower lands on the death of Isabella of Angouleme in 1240, she and Henry still found it necessary to raise funds by every possible means. In 1252, when Henry went to France to deal with a revolt in Gascony, Eleanor was constituted joint-regent with her brother-in-law Richard. She attempted to extract the payments of Aurum Reginae (queen-gold, a right to every tenth mark paid to the King for various purposes) from her old enemies the citizens of London, and had the sheriffs committed to prison on their refusal to pay.
      In the words of Agnes Strickland, Eleanor 'loved power well, but pleasure better', and in 1254 she accompanied her son Edward to Spain to take part in the festivities to celebrate his marriage to theInfanta of Castile. On the way back, Henry, Eleanor and the young couple were invited to stay at the French court by Eleanor's sister and brother-in-law. After a long and pleasant sojourn the King and Queen finally returned to England in January 1255 after an absence of nearly a year.
      Throughout the civil war Eleanor was active in support of her husbanded and son, raising money on her jewelry to aid their cause. 'This noble virage', as Matthew of Westminster termed her, was in France when the victory of Evesham was won and rejoined her husband and son as soon as a favorable wind would allow.
      On Henry III's death Eleanor exercised the regency until her son Edward returned. She had the sorrow of losing her daughters, the Queen of Scots and the Duchess of Brittany, who both died in 1275. In 1280 she retired to the Benedictine convent of Amesbury, where she intended to take the veil - not, however, until the Pope had given her permission to retain her dower. This being finally granted, she was professed a nun and assumed the religious habit on 7 July 1284. Two of her granddaughters made their profession at the same time.
      Eleanor continued to take an interest in the affairs of her widely dispersed family and lived on at Amesbury unti 1291, dying after a short illness at the age of about sixty-seven with her son the King at her bedside. Eleanor's is not a very sympathetic character, being strong-willed, avaricious and pleasure-loving, but she was a loyal wife and mother, and her religious vocation appears to havebeen genuine.
    • BIOGRAPHY: QUEENS OF ENGLAND, AUTHOR: NORAH LOFTS, PUBLISHER: DOUBLEDAY & SONS 1977
      Eleanor of Provence was one of the most hated of the Queens of England, always regarded as a foreigner. Her mistake lay in her refusal to be assimilated and in her flagrant preference for foreigners - and this just at a time when the English were becoming aware of themselves as one people.
      She was able to continue her misguided policy because she had so much influence over Henry III. It needed very little in the way of beauty or strength of character to gain ascendancy over Henry who was remarkably a weak-willed man; so weak of will that some people regarded him as half-witted.
      Eleanor is said to have been beautiful and, in a literary way if in no other, she was clever. She was producing poetry in the romantic Provencal style while she was very young. It was in fact one of her poems which led to her becoming Queen of England. She wrote a poem about an ancient, half-mythical hero of Cornwall and sent it, as a compliment, to Henry's younger brother, Richard of Cornwall, who appreciated such things. Henry appreciated them too. Knowing this and seeing his brother aged twenty-nine with five abortive attempts to find a bride behind him, Richard commended Eleanor to Henry. And that was typical. Many men married women chosen for them, by parents, by political circumstances; few marry a wife selected by their younger brother.
      Politically it was a good choice, in keeping with the deluded belief of the day - that blood kinship made for happy relationship in other spheres; Eleanor's elder sister was Queen of France.
      Eleanor landed at Dover accompanied by an impressive train of attendants. Wise kings in those days sent the bride's friends home, if not immediately, then as soon after the coronation as possible. Henry did not. He and Eleanor were married at Canterbury in January 1236 and then she went to London to be crowned.
      It was a different coronation from that of her predecessor. Henry, like his father John, liked to be well-dressed himself, but he liked all about him to be well-dressed too. He spent lavishly. He was at once greedy to get and ready to give. Eleanor's coronation was marked by vast expenditure, but also by considerable gifts to the poor. She was young and pretty and, briefly, popular.
      But the foreigners who had come with her stayed, and were joined by others. Any remunerative or honorable office that fell vacant was immediately bestowed upon a foreigner. At the dock known as Queenhythe, by tradition a perquisite of the Queen of England, foreign ships were given precedence over English ones. One can imagine the discontent amongst the merchants of London.
      From the point of view of child-bearing, Eleanor was satisfactory. Edward, who was to be Edward I, was born at Westminster in 1239. He was named for the last undisputed King of England, Edward the Confessor; and that was a popular choice. But whatever popularity the birth of the heir and his name evoked, it was immediately cancelled out of Henry's hint that this was an occasion for valuable gifts. One noble said, "Heaven gave us this child, but the King sells him to us."
      In Henry's defense, and therefore Eleanor's, it must be said that much of the money which was gathered by gifts or taxes was well spent. Westminster Abbey was rebuilt and Westminster Hall transformed from a stark, utilitarian building into a palace. And an orphanage was established and endowed. Eleanor bore another son, Edmund, and several daughters; once the royal children were weighed and their weight in silver given to the poor.
      Eleanor lived through a civil war, short but savage, during which both her husband and her son Edward were taken prisoner by the rebel barons. Both were released unharmed and the worst thing she suffered was to be pelted, when she attempted to leave the Tower of London where she was at the time, with clods of mud and filth from the streets. Irony here, for when she came to London for her coronation, Henry had ordered all London streets to be swept clean.
      Henry died in 1272. His lasting faith and devotion to his wife is proved by his will, made years earlier and never revoked. He appointed her Regent.
      Regent she was never to be, for Edward, her eldest son, was thirty-three and a hardened man of war. He had been on Crusade; he had learned from one experience in the civil war not to be too impetuous. And he never forgave what one might call the mob-element of London for throwing filth at his mother. She saw him crowned, and when she retired, as so many royal widows did, to a convent, he visited her as often as his busy, very busy life permitted.
      Not, on the whole, an unhappy story; she may not have endeared herself to the citizens of London or to those of high rank who had been supplanted by her foreign favorites, but her family relationships had been happy; a devoted husband, loving children and a fair length of days. She lived to hear of Edward's conquest of Wales. And she died at the end of a long, downward slide, called "failing health".
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      French Éléonore De Provence queen consort of King Henry III of England(ruled 1216/72); her widespread unpopularity intensified the severeconflicts between the King and his barons.
      Eleanor's father was Raymond Berengar IV, count of Provence, and hermother was the daughter of Thomas I, count of Savoy. The marriage ofEleanor and Henry (January 1236) was designed to further the King'scontinental ambitions. Eleanor soon alienated the barons by having herSavoyard and Provençal uncles installed in high offices in England.
      After rebel barons captured Henry and took over the government in May1264, Eleanor
      became the leader of the royalist exiles in France. She raised aninvasion force, but her fleet was wrecked at Sluis, Flanders.Nevertheless, the rebels were crushed in August 1265, and Eleanor thenreturned to England. Upon the death of Henry and the accession of her sonEdward I, she retired to a nunnery at Amesbury.

      To cite this page: "Eleanor" Encyclopædia Britannica
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    • (Research):Berenger, Eleanor of Provence Born: ABT 1217, Aix-en-Provence, France Acceded: 20 JAN 1236, Westminster Abbey, London, England Died: 24 JUN 1291, Amesbury Abbey, Wiltshire Interred: Convent Church,Amesbury Notes: After King Henry died she tooks the veil at Amesbury. The Complete Peerage vol.IV,p.320-321,note c. Father: Berenger, Raymond V of Provence, Count of Provence 4th, b. 1198 Mother: de Savoie, Beatrice Married 14 JAN 1236, Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent to , Henry III, King of England Child 1: , Edward I (Longshanks), King of England, b. 17 JUN 1239 Child 2: , Margaret, b. 29 SEP 1240 Child 3: , Beatrice, b. 25 JUN 1242 Child 4: Plantagenet, Edmund Crouchback Leicester, Earl of Leicester, b. 16 JAN 1245 Child 5: , Richard, b. ABT 1247 Child 6: , John, b. ABT 1250 Child 7: , William, b. ABT 1252 Child 8: , Katherine, a Mute, b. 25 NOV 1253 Child 9: , Henry, b. AFT 1256
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    • REFERENCE: 1935
    • Eleanor's father was Raymond Berengar IV, count of Provence, and her mother was the daughter of Thomas I, count of Savoy. The marriage of Eleanor and Henry (January 1236) was designed to further the King's continental ambitions. Eleanor soon alienated the barons by having her Savoyard and Provençal uncles installed in high offices in England.
      After rebel barons captured Henry and took over the government in May1264, Eleanor became the leader of the royalist exiles in France. Sheraised an invasion force, but her fleet was wrecked at Sluis, Flanders. Nevertheless, the rebels were crushed in August 1265, and Eleanor then returned to England. Upon the death of Henry and the accession of her son Edward I, she retired to a nunnery at Amesbury.
    • Eleanor became a nun at Amesbury on 7 July 1284.
    • Eleanor's father was Raymond Berengar IV, count of Provence, and her mother was the daughter of Thomas I, count of Savoy. The marriage of Eleanor and Henry (January 1236) was designed to further the King's continental ambitions. Eleanor soon alienated the barons by having her Savoyard and Provençal uncles installed in high offices in England.
      After rebel barons captured Henry and took over the government in May1264, Eleanor became the leader of the royalist exiles in France. Sheraised an invasion force, but her fleet was wrecked at Sluis, Flanders. Nevertheless, the rebels were crushed in August 1265, and Eleanor then returned to England. Upon the death of Henry and the accession of her son Edward I, she retired to a nunnery at Amesbury.
    • Eleanor's father was Raymond Berengar IV, count of Provence, and her mother was the daughter of Thomas I, count of Savoy. The marriage of Eleanor and Henry (January 1236) was designed to further the King's continental ambitions. Eleanor soon alienated the barons by having her Savoyard and Provençal uncles installed in high offices in England.
      After rebel barons captured Henry and took over the government in May1264, Eleanor became the leader of the royalist exiles in France. Sheraised an invasion force, but her fleet was wrecked at Sluis, Flanders. Nevertheless, the rebels were crushed in August 1265, and Eleanor then returned to England. Upon the death of Henry and the accession of her son Edward I, she retired to a nunnery at Amesbury.
    • NOTES: She is buried in Covent Church, Amesburt; heart buried in Church of Friars Minors (Minories), London.
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    • NOTES: She is buried in Covent Church, Amesburt; heart buried in Church of Friars Minors (Minories), London.
    • After King Henry died she took the veil at Amesbury.
    • Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence] (c.1223-1291), queen of England, consort of Henry III, was born in Provence, the second of four daughters of the count, Raymond-Berengar (V) (1209-1245), and his wife, Beatrice (d. 1265), the daughter of Thomas, count of Savoy. The births of two sons-probably twins-preceded the births of the four daughters, but the boys died very young. The beauty of the daughters, who all became queens, was legendary. Marguerite, the eldest, married Louis IX of France (1234), Sanchia married Richard, first earl of Cornwall, brother of Henry III (1243), and Beatrice, the youngest, married Charles, count of Anjou (1246). Sanchia and Beatrice eventually became queens of Germany and Sicily respectively. By her marriage to Henry III at Canterbury on 14 January 1236, and her coronation at Westminster six days later, Eleanor of Provence acquired the titles of queen of England, lady of Ireland, duchess of Normandy and Aquitaine, and countess of Anjou. The ineffectual titles to Normandy and Anjou were dropped after the treaty of Paris in 1259.

      The distinctive troubadour culture of the Midi, notably secular in tone, may have prompted Eleanor's later delight in reading romances, but it was in England as a young queen that her religious sensitivity was nurtured. Her medical care and early moral guidance were entrusted to the learned and urbane Nicholas of Farnham, later bishop of Durham (d. 1257), and she was on terms of friendship with the reforming bishops Robert Grosseteste (d. 1253) and Richard Wyche (d. 1253), and with the scholarly Franciscan Adam Marsh (d. 1259). Her major religious benefactions were prompted by personal associations: the hospital of St Katharine by the Tower, which was given additional endowment by Eleanor and a new charter in 1273, in memory of her husband, and the Dominican priory at Guildford which she founded in memory of her grandson Henry. She was also patron and benefactor of the Cistercian nunnery of Tarrant (Dorset), and an enthusiastic patron of the Franciscans.

      It is likely that Eleanor bore only five children, the first four before she was twenty-two: the future king, Edward I (1239-1307); Margaret (1240-1275), who married Alexander III of Scotland; Beatrice, who was born in 1242 at Bordeaux and who married Jean, eldest son of Jean (I), duke of Brittany; and Edmund (1245-1296), later earl of Lancaster. Katharine (b. 1253) was disabled and to the grief of both her parents died in 1257. Eleanor was an attentive mother, strongly protective of her children's interests, and she spent time with them at Windsor when they were young. Later they became the vehicles of her own ambition.

      Eleanor's enterprising Savoyard uncles shaped her early role in politics. William of Savoy established her in England; Thomas, count of Flanders (r. 1237-44), and Boniface of Savoy, archbishop of Canterbury (1243-70), used her influence with the king; and Peter of Savoy (d. 1268), who came to England in 1241 and received the honours of Richmond and Pevensey from Henry III, became her close adviser. He shrewdly encouraged Eleanor to strengthen her position at court as mother of the king's heir and to keep Edward's future appanage out of the grasp of Richard of Cornwall. More dubiously, he collaborated with the queen in securing offices and rich marriages for their Savoyard kinsfolk and dependants. This aroused criticism and brought Eleanor into political collision with the king's ambitious Lusignan half-brothers, who arrived in England in 1247 and resented the large share of royal patronage already absorbed by the Savoyards.

      Eleanor accompanied Henry III on his ill-fated expedition to Poitou and Gascony in 1242-3, but when the king next left England, to suppress a serious Gascon rebellion in 1253, Eleanor remained as regent, with Richard of Cornwall as her adviser. She acquitted herself extremely well. In June 1254 she joined her husband in Gascony, and in December Henry and Eleanor were the guests of Louis IX and Queen Marguerite, in a friendly family gathering in Paris. This proved a step towards the peace between England and France later achieved by the treaty of Paris (1259).

      Eleanor's influence in this case had been constructive, but in 1254 she also became deeply committed, together with her husband, to the disastrous scheme, backed by the pope and the Savoyards, to gain the crown of Sicily for her second son, Edmund. The crippling financial conditions imposed by the papacy aggravated the rising discontent against Henry III's government in England. In 1258 discontent erupted into revolution. The queen's attitude was ambivalent. She rejoiced in the speedy eviction of the unpopular Lusignans but she deplored the severe reduction in royal power achieved by the reformers in the provisions of Oxford (1258). A significant though temporary breach between Edward and his parents added to the complex cross-currents of what became an embittered and factious struggle. From the beginning of 1260 the queen gradually came to be seen as the arch-enemy of reform. In 1261 she colluded with a small group of activists around the king to achieve a royalist revanche, and the pope released Henry III, Eleanor, and their sons from their oaths to uphold the provisions. In June 1263 the queen's opponents struck and her lands and those of her kinsmen and supporters were ravaged. Eleanor angrily opposed the terms imposed on the king by the rebels, now led by Simon de Montfort, and in a defiant attempt to reach her son Edward in Windsor Castle by river, she was halted at London Bridge, pelted with stones, and treated to a volley of coarse insults from an excited mob of Londoners, who had learned to hate all aliens and especially the queen. The experience hardened her resolve. She went to France, where she enlisted the sympathy of the French king and her sister Marguerite. Louis IX's judgment in favour of Henry III in an arbitration at Amiens in January 1264 was thought to owe much to Eleanor's influence. It provoked immediate civil war in England.

      In adversity Eleanor of Provence was indomitable. After the defeat of the royalists at Lewes in May 1264, which left Henry virtually a captive and Edward a hostage in the hands of Simon de Montfort, she assembled a formidable invasion force in Flanders. When this plan proved abortive she made Gascony her base, pressing the diplomatic offensive against Montfort with remorseless vigour and great skill. Her network of contacts, which reached out to the papacy and the French court as well as commanding material resources from Gascony, Ireland, the Welsh march, and the English refugees and exiles on the continent, helped to bring about the royalist victory at Evesham in August 1265, and she returned to England in November. Realistic and competent in financial affairs, she persuaded the pope to allocate her 60,000 (of Tours) from the tenth imposed on the English clergy in 1266, so that she might attempt to settle the extensive debts which she had incurred abroad.

      Despite her strong sense of personal obligation in money matters, Eleanor, like many of her contemporaries, was oppressive in the administration of her lands, especially those which she received from the crown in wardship. While she was consort she used the financial services of both Jews and merchants, but she dismissed all Jews from her dower towns in 1275. After Henry III's death in 1272 she had emerged as a wealthy property holder. In addition to her dower assignment, valued at 4000 a year, she enjoyed bequests from Peter of Savoy, comprising the honour of Pevensey and an annual sum of 1805 in lieu of the honour of Richmond. Even when she became a nun she retained substantial wealth in England, although surrendering her Gascon revenues. Since her lands would revert to the crown on her death she was permitted to make her will from her landed revenues, up to a sum of 10,000 marks. Eleanor was in the top band of aristocratic landowners.

      To the end of her life, in political or personal matters which concerned herself or her family, Eleanor's wishes carried considerable weight with her eldest son after he became king, although she would have liked him to be even more personally attentive to her. In July 1286 she took the veil at the prestigious priory of Amesbury (Wiltshire), a house of the order of Fontevrault, having first arranged that two of her granddaughters should precede her there. Eleanor died at Amesbury Priory on 24 June 1291 and was buried there on 9 September, after the king's return from Scotland, in the presence of a large gathering of magnates. Her heart was buried in the church of the Franciscans in London in early December. No funeral monuments have survived the dissolution. Many Englishmen hated her for her political stance, but her superb courage and practical capacity, used on behalf of her family, commanded respect, and chroniclers acclaimed her as a virago, a warrior heroine. The many letters written during her widowhood reveal a woman quick to defend her own rights, yet capable of tact, magnanimity, and warm personal kindness. She was revered by her husband and her children.

      Margaret Howell










      Sources Chancery records + Paris, Chron. + H. R. Luard, ed., Flores historiarum, 3 vols., Rolls Series, 95 (1890) + Ann. mon. + R. F. Treharne and I. J. Sanders, eds., Documents of the baronial movement of reform and rebellion, 1258-1267 (1973) + M. Howell, Eleanor of Provence: queenship in thirteenth-century England (1997) + M. Howell, 'The children of King Henry III and Eleanor of Provence', Thirteenth century England: proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne conference [Newcastle upon Tyne 1991], ed. P. R. Coss and S. D. Lloyd, 4 (1992), 57-72 + M. Howell, 'The resources of Eleanor of Provence as queen consort', EngHR, 102 (1987), 372-93 + D. A. Carpenter, 'King Henry III's "statute" against aliens: July 1263', EngHR, 107 (1992), 925-44 + H. W. Ridgeway, 'Foreign favourites and Henry III's problems of patronage, 1247-58', EngHR, 104 (1989), 590-610 + H. W. Ridgeway, 'King Henry III and the "aliens", 1236-1272', Thirteenth century England: proceedings of the Newcastle upon Tyne conference [Newcastle upon Tyne 1987], ed. P. R. Coss and S. D. Lloyd, 2 (1988), 81-92 + E. L. Cox, The eagles of Savoy: the house of Savoy in thirteenth-century Europe (1974) + J. R. Maddicott, Simon de Montfort (1994)
      Archives PRO, SC 1 + PRO, E 101 + PRO, E 372
      Likenesses drawing, BL, Royal MS 14 C.vii, fol. 134 [see illus.]




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    • After King Henry died, she took the veil at Amesbury.
    • After King Henry died, she took the veil at Amesbury.
    • Imported from "The Tillotson Project": tilston@pe.net
    • From Plantagenet Ancestry:

      His widow, Eleanor, entered Amesbury Priory, Wiltshire, where she was veiled 7 July 1286. She gave five pounds of silver every Friday to the poor in reverence for the five wounds of Christ. In 1290 she requested a commission of oyer and terminer from the king to enquire into trespasses committed by her stewards or bailiffs throughout her lands. She died at Amesbury Priory testate 24 June 1291, where she was buried in the Convent Church.
    • !DESCENT: Gary Boyd Roberts, The Royal Descents of 500 Immigrants to the
      American Colonies or the United States, at 295 (1992).
    • Source #1: Frederick Lewis Weis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700" - Seventh Edition, with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr., assisted by Davis Faris (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co, 1995), p. 3

      Source #2: George Edward Cokayne, "The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant or Dormant," New Edition, Revised and Much Enlarged, Edited by The Hon. Vicary Gibbs and H. A. Doubleday (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1926, Vol. IV, p. 321

      Children:

      Edward I (Longshanks), King of England
      Margaret
      Beatrice
      Earl Edmund Crouchback of Leicester
      Richard
      John
      Katherine
      William
      Henry

      Source #3: Margaret Howell, "Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-Century England" (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1998)
    • From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
      Eleanor of Provence (c 1217 - 26 June 1291) was Queen Consort of KingHenry III of England.

      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the daughter of Raymond Berenguer IV,Count of Provence (1198-1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1206-1266), thedaughter of Tomasso, Count of Savoy and his second wife Margaret.Eleanor's sister, Marguerite (1221-1295), married Louis IX, King ofFrance and became Queen of France.

      When she was 13 years old, Eleanor was married to Henry III, King ofEngland (1207-1272) in January 1236. She had never seen him prior tothe wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in hisimpoverished kingdom. The dynastic match became a true partnership,but her first year in London the despised foreign queen in her bargeon the Thames was threatened by a London mob and fled to the bishop ofLondon's palace for safety.

      She was a confident consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue alarge number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with theKing and her unpopularity with the English barons created frictionduring Henry's reign. She stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raisingtroops in France for Henry's cause. In 1272 Henry died, and her sonEdward, 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. Eleanorretired to a convent but remained in touch with her son.

      Eleanor died in 1291 in Amesbury, England.

      The couple had nine children, four of whom survived:

      Edward I (1239 - 1307)
      Margaret (born 19.9. 1240)
      Beatrice (born 25.6. 1242)
      Edmund (born 14.3. 1245)
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      Reference
      Margaret Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-centuryEngland 1997
    • Eleanor of Provence was born in 1223 at Aix-en-Provence, Provence, France.3 She was the daughter of Raimond Berengar V, Comte de Provence and Beatrice di Savoia.2 She married Henry III, King of England, son of John I 'Lackland', King of England and Isabella d'Angoulême, on 14 January 1236 at Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England.3 She died on 24 June 1291 at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3 She was buried at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3
      As a result of her marriage, Eleanor of Provence was styled as Queen Consort Eleanor of England on 20 January 1236.3 She was a nun on 7 July 1284 at Amesbury Abbey, Amesbury, Wiltshire, England.3
      Children of Eleanor of Provence and Henry III, King of England
      Edward I 'Longshanks', King of England+ b. 17 Jun 1239, d. 7 Jul 1307
      Margaret of England, Princess of England+ b. 29 Sep 1240, d. 26 Feb 1275
      Beatrice of England+ b. 25 Jun 1242, d. 24 Mar 1275
      Edmund 'Crouchback' Plantagenet, Earl of Leicester+ b. 16 Jan 1245, d. 5 Jun 1296
      Richard of England b. c 1247, d. b 1256
      John of England b. c 1250, d. b 1256
      William of England b. c 1251, d. c 1256
      Katherine of England b. 25 Nov 1253, d. 3 May 1257
      Henry of England b. a 1256, d. c 1257
      Citations
      [S16] Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 45. Hereinafter cited as Lines of Succession.
      [S105] Brain Tompsett, Royal Genealogical Data, online http://www3.dcs.hull.ac.uk/genealogy/royal/. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogical Data.
      [S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 73. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
    • Eleanor of Provence (c. 1223 - 24/25 June 1291[1]) was Queen Consort of King Henry III of England from 1236 until his death in 1272.
      Born in Aix-en-Provence , she was the second eldest daughter of Ramon Berenguer IV, Count of Provence (1198-1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1205-1267), the daughter of Thomas I of Savoy and his second wife Marguerite of Geneva . All four of their daughters became queens. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. She was a dark-haired brunette with fine eyes.[2] Peter Langtoft speaks of her as "The erle's daughter, the fairest may of life".[3] On 22 June 1235, Eleanor was bethrothed to King Henry III of England (1207-1272).[1] Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (already twelve) when she arrived in the Kingdom of England for her marriage.
      Eleanor was married to King Henry III of England on 14 January 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his kingdom.[4] Edmund Rich , Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. She was dressed in a shimmering golden gown which was tightly-fitted to the waist, and then flared out in wide pleats to her feet. The sleeves were long and lined with ermine.[5] After riding to London the same day where a procession of citizens greeted the bridal pair, Eleanor was crowned queen consort of England in a ceremony at Westminster Abbey which was followed by a magnificent banquet with the entire nobility in full attendance.[6]
      Eleanor and Henry together had five children:
      Edward I (1239-1307), married firstly Eleanor of Castile , by whom he had issue, including his heir Edward II ; he married secondly Marguerite of France , by whom he had issue.
      Margaret of England (1240-1275), married King Alexander III of Scotland , by whom she had issue.
      Beatrice of England (1242 - 1275), married John II, Duke of Brittany , by whom she had issue.
      Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245-1296), married firstly Aveline de Forz; married secondly as his second wife Blanche of Artois , by whom he had issue.
      Katharine (25 November 1253 - 3 May 1257)
      Eleanor was renowned for her learning, cleverness, and skill at writing poetry,[4] as well as her beauty; she was also known as a leader of fashion, continually importing clothes from France.[3] She often wore parti-coloured cottes , gold or silver girdles into which a dagger was casually thrust, she favoured red silk damask, and decorations of gilt quatrefoil, and to cover her dark hair she wore jaunty pillbox caps. Eleanor introduced a new type of wimple to England, which was high, "into which the head receded until the face seemed like a flower in an enveloping spathe".[3]
      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules.[7] It was because of her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249.[citation needed ] Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her deaf. When the little girl died at the age of three, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.[8]
      She was a confident consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign.[9] Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort , raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On 13 July 1263, she was sailing down the Thames on a barge when her barge was attacked by citizens of London.[10] Eleanor stoutly hated the Londoners who returned her hatred; in revenge for their dislike Eleanor had demanded from the city all the back payments due on the monetary tribute known as queen-gold, by which she received a tenth of all fines which came to the Crown. In addition to the queen-gold other such fines were levied on the citizens by the Queen on the thinnest of pretexts.[11] In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas FitzThomas , the mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.
      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, who was 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England . She remained in England as Dowager Queen , and raised several of her grandchildren -- Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John . When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor mourned him dearly, and his heart was buried at the priory at Guildford which she founded in his memory.
      Eleanor retired to a convent but remained in touch with her son, King Edward, and her sister, Queen Marguerite of France.
      Eleanor died on 24/25 June 1291 in Amesbury , England . She was buried on 11 September 1291 in the Abbey of St. Mary and St. Melor, Amesbury.
    • Eleanor of Provence
      From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

      Eleanor of Provence (c 1223 – 26 June 1291) was Queen Consort of King Henry III of England.

      Born in Aix-en-Provence, she was the daughter of Ramon Berenguer V, Count of Provence (1198-1245) and Beatrice of Savoy (1206-1266), the daughter of Tomasso, Count of Savoy and his second wife Marguerite of Geneva. All four of their daughters became queens. Like her mother, grandmother, and sisters, Eleanor was renowned for her beauty. Eleanor was probably born in 1223; Matthew Paris describes her as being "jamque duodennem" (presently twelve) when she arrived in England for her marriage.

      Eleanor was married to Henry III, King of England (1207-1272) on January 14, 1236. She had never seen him prior to the wedding at Canterbury Cathedral and had never set foot in his impoverished kingdom. Edmund Rich, Archbishop of Canterbury, officiated. Eleanor and Henry had five children:

      Edward I (1239-1307)
      Margaret (born 1240), married King Alexander III of Scotland
      Beatrice (born 1242), married John II, Duke of Brittany
      Edmund Crouchback (1245-96)
      Katharine (born 1253-May 3, 1257)
      Eleanor seems to have been especially devoted to her eldest son, Edward; when he was deathly ill in 1246, she stayed with him at the abbey at Beaulieu for three weeks, long past the time allowed by monastic rules. It was due to her influence that King Henry granted the duchy of Gascony to Edward in 1249. Her youngest child, Katharine, seems to have had a degenerative disease that rendered her mute. When she died aged four, both her royal parents suffered overwhelming grief.

      She was a confident consort to Henry, but she brought in her retinue a large number of cousins, "the Savoyards," and her influence with the King and her unpopularity with the English barons created friction during Henry's reign. Eleanor was devoted to her husband's cause, stoutly contested Simon de Montfort, raising troops in France for Henry's cause. On July 13, 1263, she was sailing down the Thames on a barge when her barge was attacked by citizens of London. In fear for her life, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas FitzThomas, the mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.

      In 1272 Henry died, and her son Edward, 33 years old, became Edward I, King of England. She stayed on in England as Dowager Queen, and raised several of her grandchildren -- Edward's son Henry and daughter Eleanor, and Beatrice's son John. When her grandson Henry died in her care in 1274, Eleanor mourned him and his heart was buried at the priory at Guildford she founded in his memory. Eleanor retired to a convent but remained in touch with her son and her sister, Marguerite.

      Eleanor died in 1291 in Amesbury, England.

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      Reference
      Margaret Howell, Eleanor of Provence: Queenship in Thirteenth-century England, 1997
    • GIVN Eleonore
      SURN von Provence
      NPFX Countess
      NSFX Queen Of England
      AFN 8XJ8-3G
      _PRIMARY Y
      DATE 9 SEP 2000
      TIME 13:15:44
    • 1217

      or Jan

      1236-1272 Queen Consort of England

      CORONATION NOTES Eleanor's coronation was a major occasion.Henry hadspent a vast sum on having the Palace of Westminsterrefurbished to astandard previously unknown in England inreadiness for the Queen. Thiswas the first time the coronationprocessio left from the Tower of Londonto Wesminster and Henrytook this opportunity for a great display ofpageant andgrandeur.

      GIVN Eleonore (Queen of Eng) Countess of
      SURN Provence
      NSFX **
      !
      ! ENDOWMENT: 2nd time 2 Dec 1920.
      ! RELATIONSHIP: Patron, H. Reed Black, is 20th G G Son.
      DATE 19 DEC 1997
      TIME 04:05:07

      GIVN Elbeonore (Lbeonor) Countess Of
      SURN PROVENCE
      AFN 8XJ8-3G
      REPO @REPO1097@
      TITL Ancestral File (R)
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      _MASTER Y
      DATE 13 NOV 2000
      TIME 18:11:42

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      See Historical Document.

      Eleanor of Province.

      GIVN Eleanor de
      SURN Berengar
      ABBR Our Family Museum
      TITL Our Family Museum: A Collection of Family History Notes
      AUTH James Nohl Churchyard
      QUAY 1
      ABBR Our Family Museum
      TITL Our Family Museum: A Collection of Family History Notes
      AUTH James Nohl Churchyard
      QUAY 1

      GIVN Eleonore
      SURN von Provence
      NPFX Countess
      NSFX Queen Of England
      AFN 8XJ8-3G
      _PRIMARY Y
      DATE 9 SEP 2000
      TIME 13:15:44

      GIVN Eleanore
      SURN de Provence
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      DATA
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      TEXT Date of Import: Mar 13, 1999
      REPO @REPO1@
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      _MASTER Y
      DATA
      TEXT Date of Import: Mar 13, 1999
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      DATA
      TEXT Date of Import: Mar 13, 1999
      _PRIMARY Y
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      TITL World Family Tree Vol. 3, Ed. 1
      AUTH BräA¸derbund Software, Inc.
      PUBL Release date: February 9, 1996
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      Customer pedigree.
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      DATA
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      [de la Pole.FTW]
      NPFX Queen of England
      GIVN Eleanore
      SURN de Provence
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      OCCU of Provence
      SOUR The Magnificent Century, Thomas. B. Costain, p. 134; COMYNX.ARC says1211;
      1CHARL.TXT (Compuserve) says 1217; CHARLEMG.ZIP (GS) says 1217;
      PROVEN.TAF (Compuserve) says 1222;Royalty for Commoners, p. 40 says CIR1223;
      SOUR Royalty for Commoners, Roderick W. Stuart
      Americans of Royal Descent, Charles H. Browning, p. 131,181
      COMYNX.ARC (Compuserve) says 25-Jun-1291;ADAMS.ANH (Compuserve)25-Jun-1291
      PAGE 40
      QUAY 1
      SOUR ERCDEC.GED (Compuserve)
      COMYNX.ARC (Compuserve), #342
      gendex.com/users/daver/rigney/D0001 says Convent Church, Amesbury
      PAGE 730
      QUAY 1
      ELEANOR DE PROVENCE, daughter of RAYMOND BERENGER IV and BEATRIX DESAVOIE, came to be known as the most hated queen in the history ofEngland ... The Queen, having conceived a poor opinion of the
      poeple over whom her husband ruled, was never happy
      unless surrounded by her relatives and favorites from Provence ... It isrecorded that when the four sisters were together the two elder,Marguerite and Eleanor, insisted on the two younger sitting
      on stools in their presence because they were not
      queens ...by this time Henry's affection for his young wife had reachedthe fatuous stage and he could deny her nothing ... Eleanor, it is clearhated the Londoners. Her first agressive act [after
      Henry had left the kingdom under the regency of his
      wife] was to demand back payments on a form of tribute called queengoldTook the veil after the death of Henry III at the convent of Ambresbury -
      The Three Edwards, Thomas B. Costain, p. 45
    • [s2.FTW]

      Eleanor is buried in Covent Church, Amesbury; her heart is buried in the Church of Friars Minors (Minories), London. Source: Royal Genealogies <http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/>Eleanor is buried in Covent Church, Amesbury; her heart is buried in the Church of Friars Minors (Minories), London. Source: Royal Genealogies <http://ftp.cac.psu.edu/~saw/royal/>
    • COUNTESS AND QUEEN OF ENGLAND

      1 AUTH Sl
    • [Kopi av ROYALS.FTW]

      She is buried in Covent Church, Amesburt; heart buried in Church of Friars
      Minors (Minories), London.She is buried in Covent Church, Amesburt; heart buried in Church of Friars
      Minors (Minories), London.
      She is buried in Covent Church, Amesburt; heart buried in Church of Friars
      Minors (Minories), London.
    • [reposted from fidonet by mari -at- netcom.com]: gives marriage date of
      14 Jan 1236.
    • Eleanor is the daughter of the count of Provence
    Person ID I6000000007386881233  Ancestors of Donald Ross
    Last Modified 7 Dec 2019 

    Father Ramón Berenguer de Provenza, IV,   b. Abt 1198,   d. 19 Aug 1245  (Age ~ 47 years) 
    Mother Beatrice di Savoia, contessa consorte di Provenza,   b. 1205, Chambéry, Savoie, Rhone-Alpes, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 1267, Caen, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Married Dec 1220  Chambbery, Savoie, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F6000000008640730595  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Henry III, III,   b. 1 Oct 1207, Winchester Castle, Winchester, Hampshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Nov 1272, Westminster Palace, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 65 years) 
    Married 14 Jan 1236  Canterbury Cathedral, Canterbury, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Edmund "Crouchback" Plantagenet, 1st Earl of Lancaster and Leicester,   b. 16 Jan 1245,   d. 5 Jun 1296, Bayonne, Duchy of Aquitaine Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)
     2. Edward of Westminster,   b. 17 Jun 1239, Westminster Palace Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jul 1307, Burgh by Sands Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)
    Last Modified 14 Mar 2021 
    Family ID F6000000009811238831  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart