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Eleanor of Castile c.1245-1290
Queen of England
The daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile, she married the future Edward I of England in 1254. She accompanied him to the Crusades (1270-73), but the story that she saved his life by sucking the poison from a wound is probably apocryphal. She died in Harby, Nottinghamshire, and the Eleanor Crosses at Northampton, Geddington and Waltham Cross are survivors of the nine erected by Edward at the halting places of her cortčge. The last stopping place was Charing Cross, where a replica now stands.
Bibliography: John Carmi Parsons, Eleanor of Castile: Queen and Society in Thirteenth-Century England (1994)
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