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From: "Todd A. Farmerie" <>
Subject: Re: Grandchildren of Eleanor of Aquitaine
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:32:51 -0600
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wrote:
> In a message dated 10/18/05 6:22:38 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> << (Not the same as Queen Leonor of Aragon who d. 1251.) >>
>
> Would Leonor really have died as Queen after being divorced 20 years earlier ?
> However Violante of Hungary is also said to have d in 1251 so perhaps these
> two wives have been confused here.

That is the case. Leonor d. 1244 at Las Huegas and buried there, where
she had become a nun following her divorce. I wonder if there is some
confusion between Leonor, daughter of Alfonso and Leonor who was buried
there as an adult and Sancha, here infant sister also buried there.

taf

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