Leonor Fernández de Castilla

   Another name for Leonor was Alianore Leanor.

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions, Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999, pg. 110-30
~The Magna Charta Sureties 1215, Frederick Lewis Weis, additions, Walter Lee Sheppard Jr, 5th Edition, 1999, pg. 18-5, 161-14

  Noted events in her life were:

• Coranation, 19 Aug 1274, Westminster Abbey, London, England.

• Dates & Events. ⁴⁸⁷
Infanta doña Leonor de Castilla y León (1240-Herdeby, Lincolnshire 29 Nov 1290, bur Westminster Abbey). This marriage was first proposed in 1253 in connection with settlement of the Spanish claim to Gascony, according to Matthew of Paris who refers to her as "sororem suam uterinani" in reference to "rex Hispaniæ" but does not give her name. She accompanied her husband on crusade 1270/72. Crowned Queen 19 Aug 1274 at Westminster Abbey. She succeeded her mother in 1279 as Comtessa de Ponthieu, in place of her nephew Jean de Ponthieu Comte d'Aumâle, as the closer direct relation. She married (Burgos 18 Oct 1254) as his first wife, Edward Earl of Chester, son of Henry III King of England & his wife Eléonore de Provence (Palace of Westminster 17/18 Jun 1239-Burgh-on-Sands, Cumberland 8 Jul 1307, bur Westminster Abbey).

Leonor married Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenêt King Of England, son of Henry III Plantagenêt King Of England and Aliénor Berenger d'Provence, on 18 Oct 1254 in Abbey of Las Huelgas, Burgos, Castile. (Edward I (Longshanks) Plantagenêt King Of England was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, England, died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh-By-Sands, Cumberland, England and was buried in Westminster Abbey, London, England.)