Eleanor of Portugal (1328 – 30 October 1348), was a Portuguese '' infanta'' by birth and Queen of Aragon from 1347 to 1348 as the second wife of King Peter IV. The youngest daughter of King Afonso IV of Portugal and Beatrice of Castile, Leonor was the granddaughter of King

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and Elizabeth of Aragon and of

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and

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and sister of King Peter I of Portugal.

Biography

Real Monasterio de Santa María de Poblet

Little is known about her childhood. She is first mentioned when she was 18 years old when two kings vied for her hand in order to secure the support of Portugal:

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who wanted her for his nephew Ferdinand of Aragon, and

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whom she finally married on 14 or 15 November 1347 in Barcelona, in the same year as the death of the king's first wife,

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. Eleanor was the first and only queen of Aragon who was born in Portugal. She died on 29 October 1348, a year after her wedding, succumbing to the Black Death in

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while traveling to Jérica. Even though some authors assert that she had a daughter named Beatrice who died as an infant and was raised by her maternal grandmother, including

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and

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, there was no issue from the marriage of the Portuguese infanta and the king of Aragon. She does not mention this child in her will who was mentioned in the two wills of her grandmother Queen Beatrice in 1357 and 1358 in which queen asked that the remains of the infant Beatrice, probably an illegitimate child of King Peter I of Portugal, originally buried at the Convent of Saint Francis in Santarém, were to be placed at her tomb. Queen Eleanor of Portugal was first buried in Jérica and in June 1350 her remains were transferred and buried in the Royal Pantheon of the

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, as she had expressed in her will executed in September 1348.

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