everythingieverloved:The Death of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England & the Eleanor Cross
everythingieverloved: The Death of Eleanor of Castile, Queen of England & the Eleanor Crosses November 28, 1290 England [was] startled by the sudden, swift loss to illness of Edward’s wife, Eleanor of Castile. Edward was distraught and in the agony of his sorrow he arranged a funeral of historic dimensions. Eleanor of Castile’s body was carried in state from Lincoln to London, and Edward planned a series of exquisite crosses, reminiscent of those used to mark Louis IX’s burial procession, to be erected along the way. The king then had his wife buried in Westminster abbey, next to the tomb of his father. “Four Queens,” Nancy Goldstone *Of the 12 crosses built, only these three survive, although all three are missing the large crosses that once topped them. -- source link
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