Eleanor of England (18 June 1269 – 29 August 1298) was the eldest surviving daughter of

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and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. What evidence exists for Eleanor's early years suggests that while her parents were absent on Crusade between 1270 and 1274, she became very close to her paternal grandmother,

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, with whom she continued to spend a good deal of time. She was also close to her sickly brother

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. For a long period Eleanor was betrothed to King

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. Alfonso's parents were under papal interdict, however, because of their claims to the throne of

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, which were contrary to the papal donation of the Sicilian throne to Count

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, and despite the Aragonese ruler's repeated pleas that Edward send his daughter to them for marriage, Edward refused to send her as long as the interdict remained in place. In 1282, he declined one such request by saying that his wife and mother felt the girl, who had just turned 13, was too young to be married, and that they wanted to wait another two years before sending her to Aragon. Alfonso died before the marriage could take place. Eleanor subsequently married Count Henry III of Bar on 20 September 1293, and had two children: * Edward I, Count of Bar, married to Mary, daughter of

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, married to John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey Eleanor is sometimes credited with a daughter named Eleanor (b. 1285), who married a Welshman named Llywelyn ap Owain and was an ancestress of Owain Glyndwr and

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, but this claim is now considered dubious. Eleanor died at

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on 29 August 1298. Eleanor was buried in

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, but the location of her grave in the Abbey is unknown.

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