Eleanor of Portugal, Queen of Aragon

For other people with the same name, see Eleanor of Portugal.

Eleanor of Portugal (1328^[1] – 30 October 1348), was a Portuguese infanta by birth and Queen of Aragon from 1347 to 1348 as the second wife of King Peter IV.^[2]

Eleanor of Portugal
Eleanor of Portugal, in Antonio de Hollanda's Genealogy of the Royal Houses of Spain and Portugal (1530–1534)
Queen consort of Aragon
Tenure	1347–1348
Born	3 February 1328 Kingdom of Portugal
Died	30 October 1348(1348-10-30) (aged 20) Jérica, Crown of Aragon
Burial	Poblet Monastery
Spouse	Peter IV of Aragon
House	Portuguese House of Burgundy
Father	Alfonso IV of Portugal
Mother	Beatrice of Castile

The youngest daughter of King Afonso IV of Portugal and Beatrice of Castile,^[2] Leonor was the granddaughter of King Denis and Elizabeth of Aragon and of Sancho IV of Castile and Maria de Molina and sister of King Peter I of Portugal.

Biography

Royal sepulchres at Poblet Monastery

Little is known about her childhood. She is first mentioned when she was 18 years old when two kings vied for her hand in order to secure the support of Portugal: Alfonso XI of Castile who wanted her for his nephew Ferdinand of Aragon, and Peter IV of Aragon whom she finally married on 14 or 15 November 1347^[3] in Barcelona, in the same year as the death of the king's first wife, Maria of Navarre. Eleanor was the first and only queen of Aragon who was born in Portugal.^[4]

She died on 30 October 1348, a year after her wedding, succumbing to the Black Death in Teruel while traveling to Jérica.^[5][4]

Even though some authors assert that she had a daughter named Beatrice who died as an infant and was raised by her maternal grandmother,^[6] including Jerónimo de Zurita and Rui de Pina, there was no issue from the marriage of the Portuguese infanta and the king of Aragon. She does not mention this child in her will who was mentioned in the two wills of her grandmother Queen Beatrice in 1357 and 1358 in which the queen asked that the remains of the infant Beatrice, probably an illegitimate child of King Peter I of Portugal, originally buried at the Convent of Saint Francis in Santarém, were to be placed at her tomb.^[7]

Queen Eleanor of Portugal was first buried in Jérica and in June 1350 her remains were transferred and buried in the Royal Pantheon of the Monastery of Poblet, as she had expressed in her will executed in September 1348.^[8]

Ancestors

Ancestors of Eleanor of Portugal

16. Afonso II of Portugal 8. Afonso III of Portugal 17. Urraca of Castile 4. Denis, King of Portugal 18. Alfonso X of Castile 9. Beatrice of Castile 19. Mayor Guillén de Guzmán 2. Afonso IV of Portugal 20. James I of Aragon 10. Peter III of Aragon 21. Violant of Hungary 5. Elizabeth of Aragon 22. Manfred, King of Sicily 11. Constance of Sicily 23. Beatrice of Savoy 1. Eleanor of Portugal 24. Ferdinand III of Castile 12. Alfonso X of Castile 25. Elisabeth of Swabia 6. Sancho IV of Castile 26. James I of Aragon (= 20) 13. Violant of Aragon 27. Violant of Hungary (= 21) 3. Beatrice of Castile 28. Alfonso IX of León 14. Alfonso of Molina 29. Berengaria of Castile 7. María de Molina 30. Alfonso Téllez de Meneses 15. Mayor Alfonso de Meneses 31. María Yáñez de Lima

References

1. Rodrigues Oliveira 2010, p. 217.
2. Almeida Rodrigues 2013, p. 89.
3. Almeida Rodrigues 2013, pp. 89, 93.
4. Rodrigues Oliveira 2010, p. 221.
5. Almeida Rodrigues 2013, p. 93.
6. Rodrigues Oliveira 2010, p. 222.
7. Almeida Rodrigues 2013, p. 94.
8. Almeida Rodrigues 2013, pp. 93–94.

Bibliography

• Almeida Rodrigues, Ana Maria de Seabra (2013). "Un destin interrompu: Aliénor de Portugal, brève reine d'Aragón". Les femmes dans l'espace nord-méditerranéen. Etudes Roussillonnaises. Revue d'Historie et d'archéologie Méditerranéennes (in French). Vol. XXV. Canet-en-Rousillon: Éditions Trabucaire. pp. 89–96. ISBN 978-2-84974-168-9.
• Rodrigues Oliveira, Ana (2010). Rainhas medievais de Portugal. Dezassete mulheres, duas dinastias, quatro séculos de História (in Portuguese). Lisbon: A esfera dos livros. ISBN 978-989-626-261-7.

Royal titles
Vacant Title last held by Maria of Navarre	Queen consort of Aragon 1347–1348	Vacant Title next held by Eleanor of Sicily