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| Eleanor of Provence | |||||||||
| Born: 1222 Father: Raymond Berenger V, Count of Provence Mother: Beatrice of Savoye Husband: Henry III Married: 1236 Age: 14 Children: Edward I, Margaret, Beatrice (1242-1275), Edmund of Lancaster (1245-1296), Richard (1247-1256), John (1250-1256), William (1250/51-1256), Catherine (1252-1257), Henry (?-?) Died: 1291 Age: 69 |
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| The daughter of Raymond Berengar, count of Provence, she was married to Henry in 1236. She was a vigorous and incisive woman and had much influence on her husband, as did her unpopular relatives and other foreign courtiers who followed her to England. During the ascendancy of Simon de Montfort in 1264-65, Eleanor raised mercenaries in France for her husband's cause. She was dispatched to a convent in 1286 but was sometimes consulted by her son, Edward I. | |||||||||
| Source: http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/E/EleanorP1.asp |
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