following Kay’s fascinating talk on Queen Eleanor of Castile at the recent club meeting. Following yet another delicious lunch at Tilsworth Golf Centre, Kay introduced her talk on “Queen ...
The tomb slab and pillows beneath her head are covered with the emblems of Castile and Leon (castles and lions ... around the tomb chest can be translated as Here lies Eleanor, sometime Queen of ...
Queen Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England ("Longshanks"), died at Harby in Notts. in 1290. The Queen's body was taken to Lincoln and thence to London for burial at Westminster Abbey.
Eleanor, Countess of Bar, daughter of Edward I and his queen Eleanor of Castile, was buried in Westminster Abbey but the location is unknown. She was born in June 1269 and in 1293 married in Bristol ...