4863227. Eleonora de Castilla
The marriage of the Infanta Donna Eleanor of Castile with Prince Edward, heir to throne of England, happily terminated a war which her brother, King Alphonse, was waging with Henry III, King of England. She was daughter of Ferdinand III of Castile and Joanna, Countess of Ponthieu, who had many years before been contracted to Henry III. Joanna inherited Ponthieu from her grandmother, the Princess Alice of France, whose repudiation by Richard Coeur de Lion (for the lovely Berengaria) in the preceding century had involved Europe in war.
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