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Eleanor de Montfort^1,2
b. circa 1258, d. June 1282, #31893
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Father

Simon V de Montfort Earl of Leicester¹ b. between 1208 and 1209, d. 4 August 1265

Mother

Eleanor Plantagenet¹ b. 1215, d. 13 April 1275

Birth*

circa 1258

Eleanor was born circa 1258.¹

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1275

Eleanor, b. ca 1258 according to Maddicott; before 1265 her father betrothed her to Llywelyn "the last," prince of North Wales. She was raised in France, and when attempting to reach Wales by sea with her brother Amaury she was taken prisoner in 1275 and detained in the household of Queen Eleanor of Castile until Edward, having defeated Llywelyn in a brief campaign in the summer of 1277, allowed the Welsh marriage to go ahead a few months later. As is well known, Eleanor de Montfort died in childbirth in 1282 after bearing her only child Gwenllian, who was consigned to the nunnery at Sempringham after Edward I conquered Wales in 1284. Gwenllian died, of course unmarried, on 7 June 1337, aged 55. It used to be supposed that she was deliberately kept ignorant of her parentage, but a letter from her in her adulthood exists, complaining to the then-Chancellor of England that a pension assigned her by her kinsman Edward I was in arrears.¹

Marriage*

13 October 1278

Eleanor de Montfort married Llewellyn "The Last" Prince of Wales 13 October 1278 in Worcester, England.²

Death*

June 1282

Eleanor died in June 1282 at Wales.^1,2

Citations

[S9180] "Email, no hard copy" , John Carmi Parsons <e-mail address>.
[S9180] "Email, no hard copy" , Leo van de Pas.

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