An old engraving of Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290). Eleanor was an English queen consort, the first wife of Edward I, whom she married as part of a political arrangement to give English sovereignty over Gascony in Europe. The marriage was known to be particularly close and Eleanor travelled extensively with her husband. She was with him on the Ninth Crusade, when he was wounded at Acre. When she died in Lincolnshire, her grieving husband famously ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on their journey back to London, ending at Charing Cross.
An old engraving of Eleanor of Castile (1241–1290). Eleanor was an English queen consort, the first wife of Edward I, whom she married as part of a political arrangement to give English sovereignty over Gascony in Europe. The marriage was known to be particularly close and Eleanor travelled extensively with her husband. She was with him on the Ninth Crusade, when he was wounded at Acre. When she died in Lincolnshire, her grieving husband famously ordered a stone cross to be erected at each stopping-place on their journey back to London, ending at Charing Cross.
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Location: UK
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