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Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile

Queen of Castile and León from 1379 to 1382

Field	Value
consort	yes
name	Eleanor of Aragon
succession	Queen consort of Castile and León
image	Sepulcro de la reina Leonor de Aragón, esposa de Juan I, rey de Castilla y León, y madre de Enrique III de Castilla y León, y de Fernando I el de Antequera, rey de Aragón. Catedral de Toledo.jpg
image_size	220px
caption	A statue of Queen Eleanor praying at her Sepulcher
reign	1379–1382
spouse	John I of Castile
issue	Henry III of Castile
Ferdinand I of Aragon
Eleanor
house	Barcelona
father	Peter IV of Aragon
mother	Eleanor of Sicily
birth_date	20 February 1358
birth_place	Santa Maria del Puig, Crown of Aragon
death_date
death_place	Cuéllar, Crown of Castile

Ferdinand I of Aragon Eleanor Eleanor of Aragon (20 February 1358 – 13 August 1382) was the daughter of King Peter IV of Aragon and Eleanor of Sicily. She was a member of the House of Barcelona and Queen of Castile by her marriage.

Family

Eleanor was the youngest child and only daughter of her father by his third marriage. Eleanor was a sister of John I of Aragon and Martin of Aragon. She was a half-sister of Constance, Queen of Sicily, Joanna, Countess of Ampurias and Isabella, Countess of Urgell.

Marriage

At Soria on the 18 June 1375, Eleanor married John I of Castile. Her marriage was arranged as part of the arrangements for peace between Aragon and Castile agreed at Almazán on the 12 April 1374 and at Lleida on the 10 May 1375.

Eleanor and John were married for seven years, in which time they had three children:

Henry (4 October 1379 – 25 December 1406), succeeded his father as King of Castile
Ferdinand (27 November 1380 – 2 April 1416), became King of Aragon in 1412
Eleanor (b. 13 August 1382), died young

After seven years of marriage on 13 August 1382, Eleanor died giving birth to her daughter and namesake Eleanor, who died young. Eleanor's son Ferdinand later claimed his mother's rights on the Kingdom of Aragon when both of Eleanor's brothers died without surviving sons.

File:Coat of Arms of Eleanor of Aragon as Queen of Castile.svg|Coat of arms and shield of Eleanor of Aragon as Queen Consort of Castile

References

Sources

References

{{harvnb. Louda. MacLagan. 1999

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