Leanor of Castile

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Eleanor of Castile (Abt 1241 - 28 Nov 1290) was the first queen consort of Edward I of England. She was also Countess of Ponthieu in her own right from 1279 until her death in 1290, succeeding her mother and ruling together with her husband. Eleanor was born in Castile [Hispania] daughter of Saint Ferdinand, King of Castile and Leon and his second wife, Joan, Countess of Ponthieu. Her Castilian name, Leonor, became Alienor or Alianor in England, and Eleanor in modern English. She was the second of five children born to Fernando and Jeanne. Her elder brother Fernando was born in 1239/40, her younger brother Louis in 1242/43; two sons born after Louis died young. For the ceremonies in 1291 marking the first anniversary of Eleanor's death, 49 candlebearers were paid to walk in the public procession to commemorate each year of her life. This would date her birth to the year 1241.
Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town was Abbeville. During the Hundred Years' War* (roughly 1337-1453), Ponthieu changed hands a number of times In late August of 1346, during his campaigns on French soil, Edward III of England reached the region of Ponthieu. While there, he restored the fortress at Crotoy that had been ruined. In April, 1369 Charles V of France conquered Ponthieu, and a month later declared war on England. In 1372 an English army under the leadership of Robert Knolles invaded Ponthieu, burning the city of Le Crotoy. Also during the Hundred Years' War; in 1435, Charles VII of France bribed Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, to break his alliance with the English in exchange for possession of Ponthieu.
*The Hundred Years' War was a series of wars waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Valois and the House of Plantagenet, also known as the House of Anjou, for the French throne, which had become vacant upon the extinction of the senior Capetian line of French kings. The House of Valois claimed the title of King of France, while the Plantagenets claimed the thrones of both France and England. The Plantagenet kings were the 12th-century rulers of the kingdom of England, and had their roots in the French regions of Anjou and Normandy. The conflict lasted 116 years but was punctuated by several periods of peace, before it finally ended with the expulsion of the Plantagenets from France (except from the Pale of Calais) by the House of Valois. However, the war nearly ruined the Valois, while the Plantagenets enriched themselves with plunder. France suffered greatly from the war, since most of the conflict occurred in that country. The "war" was in fact a series of conflicts and is commonly divided into three or four phases: the Edwardian War (1337-1360), the Caroline War (1369-1389), the Lancastrian War (1415-1429), and the slow decline of Plantagenet fortunes after the appearance of Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Several other contemporary European conflicts were directly related to this conflict: the Breton War of Succession, the Castilian Civil War, the War of the Two Peters, and the 1383-1385 Crisis. The term "Hundred Years' War" was a later term invented by historians to describe the series of events

married Edward I Longshanks Plantagenet on 1 Nov 1254 in Abbey of Santa Mar. Edward (son of Henry III Plantagenet and Eleanore of Provence) was born on 17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, Middlesex, England; died on 7 Jul 1307 in Burgh by Sands, Cumbria, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joan of Acre (April 1272 - 23 April 1307) was an English princess, a daughter of the King Edward I of England and queen Eleanor of Castile.The name "Acre" derives from her birthplace in the Holy Land while her parents were on a crusade. She was married twice; her first husband was Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Gloucester, one of the most powerful nobles in her father's kingdom; her second husband was Ralph de Monthermer, a squire in her household whom she married in secrecy. Joan is most notable for the claim that miracles have allegedly taken place at her grave, and for the multiple references of her in literature.

Joan married Gilbert de Clare on 30 Apr 1290 in Westminster Abbey, England. Gilbert (son of Richard de Clare and Maud de Lacy) was born on 2 Sep 1243 in Christchurch, Hampshire, England; died on 7 Dec 1295 in Monmouth Castle, Monmouthshire, Wales; was buried in Tewkesbury Abbey, Gloustershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Elizabeth of Rhuddlan (7 Aug 1282 - 5 May 1316) was the eighth daughter of Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. First marriage In April 1285 there were negotiations with Floris V for Elizabeth's betrothal to his son John I, Count of Holland. The offer was accepted and John was sent to England to be educated. On 8 Jan 1297 Elizabeth was married to John at Ipswich. In attendance at the marriage were Elizabeth's sister Margaret, her father, Edward I of England, her brother Edward, and Humphrey de Bohun. After the wedding Elizabeth was expected to go to Holland with her husband, but did not wish to go, leaving her husband to go alone. It was later decided Elizabeth should follow her husband so she and her father traveled through the Southern Netherlands between Antwerp, Mechelen, Leuven and Brussels, before ending up in Ghent. On 10 Nov 1299, John died of dysentery. No children had been born from the marriage. Second marriage On 14 November 1302 Elizabeth was married to Humphrey de Bohun at Westminster Abbey.

Elizabeth married Humphrey de Bohun about 1302 in England. Humphrey (son of Humphrey de Bohun and Maud de Fienes) was born about 1276 in England; died on 16 Mar 1322 in Boroughbridge, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Descendant of Magna Charta Sureties Saher de Quincy and John de Lacy.

Alianore married Hugh le Despenser about 1306. Hugh died about 1326. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Eleanor de Bohun, Countess of Ormond (17 Oct 1304 - 7 Oct 1363) was an English noblewoman born in Knaresborough Castle to Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford and Elizabeth daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. After the deaths of her parents, she was placed in the care of her aunt Mary Plantagenet and brought up at Amesbury Priory. Eleanor was married twice; first in 1327 to James Butler, 1st Earl of Ormond, (son of Edmund Butler, Earl of Carrick and Lady Joan FitzGerald) who died in 1337 and secondly, in 1343, to Thomas de Dagworth who was killed in Brittany in 1352. By her first marriage, Eleanor was an ancestor of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Parr, Queen consorts of King Henry VIII of England. Other descendants include the dukes of Beaufort, Newcastle, Norfolk, earls of Ormond, Desmond, Shrewsbury, Dorset, Rochester, Sandwich, Arundel, and Stafford.

Eleanor married James Butler about 1327 in England. James was born about 1305 in Carrig Mac Griffin, County Tipperary, Ireland; died about 1338 in Gowran, County Kilkenny, Ireland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Descendant of Magna Charta Sureties Saher de Quincy and John de Lacy.

Family/Spouse: Richard FitzAlan. Richard was born about 1313; died about 1376. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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James Butler, 2nd Earl of Ormond (4 Oct 1331 - 18 Oct 1382) was a noble in the Peerage of Ireland. He was Lord Justice of Ireland in 1359, 1364, and 1376. He was given in ward 1 Sep 1344, to Maurice FitzGerald, 1st Earl of Desmond, for the fine of 2306 marcs and afterward to Sir John Darcy who married him to his daughter Elizabeth. He was usually called The Noble Earl, being a great-grandson of King Edward I of England. He died 18 October 1382 in his castle of Knocktopher (near which he had, in 1356, founded a Friary for Carmelite friars). He was buried in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.

(Research):Later research shows that there was no English Earl of Ormond. There was a Scottish Earl of Ormond and an Irish Earl of Ormond, both historically existing much later than the Butlers in Bulkeley.

Marriage and issueOn 15 May 1346, he married Elizabeth Darcy, daughter of Sir John Darcy, Knight of Knaith (another Lord Justice of Ireland) and Joan de Burgh. They had four children:
i. James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond (1376-1405).
ii. Thomas Butler, Justice of Corkiii. Ellen Butler who married the poet Gerald FitzGerald, 3rd Earl of Desmond. She died in 1404. iv. Jean Butler who married Teige O'Carroll, Prince of

James married Elizabeth DarcyEngland. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Petronella Butler is a descendant of Humphrey De Bohun, himself a descendant of Henry De Bohun who m. Elizabeth Plantagenet of the House of Anjou (Kings of England).

Petronella married Gilbert Talbot before 1352. Gilbert (son of Richard Talbot and Elizabeth Comyn) was born about 1332; died on 24 Apr 1387. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]