Eleanor de Montfort

• Preferred Name: Eleanor de Montfort^{[1] [2]}
  
• Alternate Name: Eleanor
  
• Gender: F
  
• Birth: 29 SEP 1252 in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England at LATI: N2.35 LONG: E1.5811 with note: GEDCOM data Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
  
• Burial: 1282 in Anglesey, Wales at LATI: N3.2913 LONG: E4.372 with note: Wikipedia. Franciscan Friary, Lianfaes, Anglesey, Wales
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Princess of Wales
  
• FSID: LZV5-1QK
  
• Death: 19 JUN 1282 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664 with note: Date from Medieval Lands and Wikipedia. Historic location from Wikipedia. Aber Garth Celyn, Gwynedd, Wales
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From Wikipedia:
  
  Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales and Lady of Snowdon (1252 – 19 June 1282) was an English noble. She was the daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England. She was also the second woman who can be shown to have used the title Princess of Wales.
  
  Early life
  Eleanor's maternal grandparents were John of England and his queen consort Isabella of Angoulême. Her maternal uncles included Henry III of England and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall. Her maternal aunts included Joan of England, Queen of Scotland, Isabella of England, and Joan, Lady of Wales.
  
  When Eleanor was thirteen years old, her father Earl Simon and brother Lord Henry were killed at the Battle of Evesham (4 August 1265). According to the chroniclers, Nicholas Trivet, William Rishanger and others, Earl Simon had earlier made an alliance with Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, whereby it was agreed that Llywelyn and Eleanor would marry. After Earl Simon's death, his family was forced to flee the Kingdom of England: Countess Eleanor took her daughter to the safety of the Dominican nunnery at Montargis, France, a Montfort foundation.
  
  Marriage to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd
  Countess Eleanor died in Spring 1275, and shortly afterwards Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the Prince of Wales, and Eleanor de Montfort married by proxy, (per nuncios) per verba de presenti (Canon law endorsed a marital bond that was made in this way, with the full consent of both of the individuals, before witnesses).[1]
  
  Capture and imprisonment by Edward I
  Eleanor began the sea voyage from France to north Wales, avoiding making a land passage through England. The two ships carrying Eleanor, her brother Amaury and their entourage, sailing off the south coast of England, were captured by sailors from the port of Bristol, just off the Isles of Scilly. Six named men together with the crews of four ships of Bristol were rewarded with a payment of 220 marks.[2] 'Thomas Larchdeacon', 'Thomas the Archdeacon', who masterminded the capture on behalf of her first cousin Edward I of England was paid £20 in May 1276 by the king's orders, through the sheriff of Cornwall.[3]
  
  Eleanor was taken by ship to Bristol, then held prisoner at Windsor for nearly three years.[4] She was released in 1278 following the signing of the Treaty of Aberconwy between Edward I of England and Llywelyn ap Gruffydd.
  
  Married life
  Eleanor and Llywelyn were formally married (secundum formam ecclesie) at the cathedral door, as was the custom, of the cathedral church at Worcester, on the Feast Day of St Edward, 1278; Edward gave the bride, his cousin, away and paid for the wedding feast. Before the wedding mass was celebrated, Edward insisted that Llywelyn should put his seal to an adjustment to the agreement that they had previously made. Llywelyn had no alternative but to comply, and he later stated that he did it under duress, 'moved by the fear that can grip a steadfast man'.[5]
  
  Following the ceremony, Eleanor became officially known as Princess of Wales and Lady of Snowdon.[6][7][8]
  
  Death and legacy
  Eleanor died giving birth to Gwenllian of Wales on 19 June 1282 [9] at the royal palace in Abergwyngregyn, on the north coast of Gwynedd. Her body was taken across the Lafan Sands to the Franciscan Friary at Llanfaes, Anglesey.[10] The Friary had been founded by Llywelyn the Great, the grandfather of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, in memory of his wife Joan (Eleanor's aunt).
  
  On 12 July 1282, members of Eleanor's personal household were given safe-conduct while traveling back into England.[11] Llywelyn ap Gruffudd was killed on 11 December 1282. Her one-year-old daughter, Gwenllian, was captured the following year by English forces. Edward I had the child banished to the remote Sempringham Priory in Lincolnshire, where she remained until her death in 1337.
  
  [Source: Wikipedia, "Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales", downloaded 6 Auguest 2018, dvmansur; see link in Sources.]
  
  In addition to his wife and sister, there were four other Eleanors in the life of Henry III, his grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, cousin Eleano
  In addition to his wife and sister, there were four other Eleanors in the life of Henry III, his grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine, cousin Eleanor of Brittany, daughter-in-law Eleanor of Castile and ni
  
  Info. Moved from details page:
  "60 Colonists" line 260-31.
  
  ELEANOR DE MONTFORT,
  b. ca. Michaelmas 1252,
  d. 1282;
  m. 13 Oct. 1278, Llewellyn ap Griffith (son of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn,
  d. 1 Mar. 1244 by Senena, perh. of Man, son
  
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  === She was detained by Edward [I] in Englan ===
  She was detained by Edward I in England. -- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, "The Princes of Wales," Kaye & Ward, The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey: 1982. p.13.
  
  === Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent pa ===
  !Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent page 294
  
  === Eleanor de Montfort was born about Micha ===
  Eleanor de Montfort was born about Michaelmas 1252. Weis. 260-31.
  
  === Was born during Michaelmas. ===
  Was born during Michaelmas.
  
  === 1 Cause of Death ===
  Died in childbirth
  
  === !Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent pa ===
  !Some Colonial Dames of Royal Descent page 294
  
  === Ancestral Roots, L260-30. ===
  !Ancestral Roots, L260-30.
  
  === She was detained by Edward [I] in Englan ===
  She was detained by Edward [I] in England. -- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, "The Princes of Wales", Kaye & Ward - Kingswood, Ltd., The Windmill Press, Kingswood, Tadworth, Surrey, 1982. p.13.
  
  === !"60 Colonists" line 260-31. ! ELEAN ===
  !"60 Colonists" line 260-31. ! ELEANOR DE MONTFORT, b. ca. Michaelmas 1252, d. 1282; m. 13 Oct. 1278, Llewellyn ap Griffith (son of Gruffydd ap Llewellyn, d. 1 Mar. 1244 by Senena, perh. of Man, son of LLEWLLYN AP JORWERTH (178-6), by his mistress Tangwystl verch Llywarch the Red of Rhos), d. 11 Dec. 1282. ! Reference state Eleanor de Montfort and Llewellyn ap Griffith had two daughters, and coheirs, the younger of whom, the Princess Gwenllian, b. Jun. 1281, a nun of Sempringham, d. there 7 Jun. 11th Edward III, 1337. The elder dau., the Princess Catherine, heiress of the monarchs of North Wales, was mother by her husband Philip ap Ivor, Lord of Cardingan, of the Lady Eleanor Goch, who m. Thomas, representative of the soverigns of South Wales ap Llewelly ap Owen ap Meredith.
  
  === !Ancestral Roots, L260-30. ===
  !Ancestral Roots, L260-30.

• m. 13 OCT 1278 in Wales
• m. ABT 1244 in , , Wales

1. Catharine ferch Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, b. 1279 in Wales     d. 1340 in Cardiganshire, Wales

1. Title: Wikipedia, "Eleanor de Montfort, Princess of Wales"
   Author: Wikipedia.org
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_de_Montfort,_Princess_of_Wales;
   Note: Biography.
   
2. Title: Eleanor de Montfort, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL6-L157 : 24 February 2022), Eleanor de Montfort, ; Burial, Llanfaes, , Isle of Anglesey, Wales, Franciscan Friary of Llanfaes; citing record ID 92190039, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL6-L157;