Queen consort of King Edward I of England (ruled 1272-1307).
Eleanor was the daughter of King Ferdinand III of Castile and his wife Joan of Ponthieu.
Her devotion to Edward helped bring out his better qualities; after her death his rule became somewhat arbitrary.
In 1254 Eleanor was married to Lord Edward son of England´s King Henry III. In honour of the event her half brother Alfonso X of Castile transferred to Edward his claims to Gascony.
When Henry III´s baronial opponents seized power in England in 1264, Eleanor was sent for safety to France; she returned in October 1265, after Edward had crushed the rebels.
Eleanor accompained Edward on a crusade from 1270 to 1273. The story that she saved his life at Acre by sucking poison from a dagger wound is evidently apocryphal?
After Edward ascended the throne Eleanor was criticized for allegedly mistreating the tenants on her lands.
Upon her death Edward erected the famous Eleanor Crosses -several of which still stand- at each place where her coffin rested on its way to London.
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