he accompanied Edward to the Crusade and
is said to have saved his life by sucking poison from a wound.
The route of her cortege from Grantham to London was marked at
the stopping places by Eleanor Crosses, erected by Edward; the
last at Charing Cross. Her heart was buried at Blackfriars. {Burke’s
Peerage and Chamber’s Biographical Dictionary} [GADD.GED]
At her death in 1290 Edward I ordered 122 crosses to be erected at each of the 12 places where her body rested for the night before her burial. There are only three left at Geddington, Banbury and Charing. [THELMA.GED]
Eleanor of Castile (1244?-90), queen consort of England (1272-90), daughter of Ferdinand III, king of Castile and León. In 1254 she married Prince Edward, later Edward I of England, the eldest son of King Henry III. In 1270 she accompanied Edward on the Seventh Crusade. During their absence from England, Henry III died (1272), and Edward succeeded to the throne. Two years later, following their return from the Middle East, Edward and Eleanor were crowned king and queen of England. [Microsoft Encarta 98 Encyclopedia]
