"A testament to the strength of affection of a husband to his wife, as well as an elaborate display of royal power": https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2024/11/the-eleanor-crosses.html
#EdwardI #EleanorOfCastile #EleanorCross #13thCentury #medieval #MedievalWomen #WalthamCross #CharingCross #BritishLibrary @medievodons
"A Psalter, a silver belt, brooches and clasps, Parisian jewels, brown bread from Cologne, nuts and pears"... The last household accounts of English queen Eleanor of Castile: https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2022/11/the-queens-expenses.html
#13thCentury #MedievalWomen #EleanorOfCastile #BritishLibrary #medieval #manuscript @medievodons
On 28th July 1285, Edward I made his wife Eleanor of Castile the Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. She was the first female sheriff of Somerset and there wouldn't be a second one for over 700 years.
Eleanor features briefly in the standard edition of Unsung Women in Somerset, but there's a full chapter on her in the junior edition!
#onthisDay #eleanorofcastile #sheriff #Somerset #dorset #unsungwomen #medieval
Image of a bronze head that's part of Eleanor's effigy in Westminster Abbey.
@helenpugh Interesting about the appointment as sheriff!
Small correction, the effigy is not stone but gilt-bronze. It's a wonderful work of art, made in 1291 by the goldsmith William Torel; there are good photos on the abbey website at
https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/edward-i-and-eleanor-of-castile
Queen Eleanor's Cross, Northampton, c.1910 - RP Postcard
#Northampton #Hardingstone #EleanorOfCastile #Postcard #Postcards
@hildabast You encouraged me to peek... way further down the list @MostFollowed, but on it! After one year here, thank you Mastodonians interested in niche topics.
Here's to remarkable #women & #illumination 📯
My profile images are from books commissioned by #EleanorOfCastile & #MarieDeStPol, grandmother & best friend of the #LadyOfClare.
🎨 Alphonso Psalter, BL Add. MS 24686, f14v; Breviary of Marie de St Pol, Cambridge UL MS Dd.5.5 f.199r, https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-DD-00005-00005/373
#medieval #manuscript
A splendid #manuscript has been digitised & highlighted by the #BritishLibrary. It's a grant by #AlfonsoX & his queen #Violante, "reigning as one" (regnante en uno), in the year in which Lord Edward son of #HenryIII of England was knighted in #Burgos - 1254, when the future #EdwardI came to marry #EleanorOfCastile. The attached seal of Castile & León is not wax but lead.
https://blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2023/01/wheel-of-approval.html
#PrivilegioRodado #Signo Rodado #LeadenSeal #13thCentury #medieval #medievodons @medievodons
On the 28th November in 1290 in the Nottinghamshire village of Harby, Eleanor of Castile, the beloved wife of Edward I died.
It is thought that Eleanor had not properly recovered from catching malaria a few years earlier, and it was on her journey to pray at the Shrine of St Hugh in Lincoln Cathedral that she became ill.
On the 13th November, once parliament had concluded at King’s Clipstone, the royal party began their journey into Lincolnshire, but Eleanor's health deteriorated so they stopped at Harby, the home of Richard de Weston, in the hope that she regained her strength.
The manor house in which Queen Eleanor died is long gone, but you can walk to the site on which it stood, also to be seen are the remains of the moat that once surrounded it.
#12thcentury #history #nottinghamshire #harby #eleanorofcastile
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