Queen Eleanor of Castile
(1241-1290)
woman, Queen Consort of England (1272-1290), and Countess of Ponthieu (from 1279)
Family tree
Commemorated on 2 plaques
Near this site stood the Eleanor Cross where the body of Queen Eleanor rested one night on its progress from Harby to Westminster 13 December 1290
London Rd/Market Place, St Albans, United Kingdom where they rested in a coffin (1290)
Site of King Arthur's Tomb. In the year 1191 the bodies of King Arthur and his Queen were said to have been found on the south side of the lady chapel. On the 19th April 1278 their remains were removed in the presence of King Edward I and Queen Eleanor to a black marble tomb on this site. This tomb survived until the dissolution of the abbey in 1539
Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury, United Kingdom where they was (1278)