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On This Day In Royal History . 28 November 1290 . Eleanor of Castile died . 👑 Eleanor was the first queen consort of king Edward I of England. . ◼ Shortly after the birth of her fifteenth child (she had at least sixteen known pregnancies), Beatrice, Eleanor’s health began to deteriorate. In 1287, while she was in Gascony she suffered from a double quartan fever, which was possibly a strain of malaria. . ◼ In the autumn of 1290, The King & Queen travelled towards Lincoln, Eleanor was unwell with a feverish illness, probably a recurrence of the quartan fever of 1287. Eleanor’s condition worsened as they reached the village of Harby, in Nottinghamshire, & she died there, with Edward at her bedside on the evening of the 28th November 1290, aged 49. . . . . #OnThisDayInHistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1290 #d28nov #Eleanorofcastile #history #houseofIvrea #EnglishMonarchy EleanorsCross #Plantagenet #Houseofplantagenet #Thequeen #BritishMonarchy #RoyalHistory #medieval #medievalhistory #medievalqueen #medievalart #Onthisday #Kingedwardi #EdwardI #plantagenets #queenofengland #Historyfacts #England #Historicengland #otd #RoyalHistory #OnThisDay (at Harby, Nottinghamshire) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJn9yaj3j2/?igshid=341kbf8j2som

On This Day In History . 7 July 1307 . King Edward I died . 👑 Edward I (born.17 June 1239) also known as Edward Longshanks & the Hammer of the Scots, was King of England from 1272 to 1307. . . ◾ In February 1307, On his way to fight the Scots, the 68 year old king developed dysentery, & his condition deteriorated. On 6 July he encamped at Burgh by Sands, just south of the Scottish border. When his servants came the next morning to lift him up so that he could eat, he died in their arms. . ◾ The new king, Edward II, remained in the north until August, but then abandoned the campaign & headed south. He was crowned king on 25 February 1308. . ▪ Edward I's body was brought south, laying in state at Waltham Abbey, before being buried in Westminster Abbey on 27 October. There are few records of the funeral, which cost £473. . ▪ Edward's tomb was an unusually plain sarcophagus of Purbeck marble, without the customary royal effigy, possibly the result of the shortage of royal funds after the King's death. The sarcophagus may normally have been covered over with rich cloth, & originally might have been surrounded by carved busts & a devotional religious image, all since lost. . ▪ The Society of Antiquaries opened the tomb in 1774, finding that the body had been well preserved over the preceding 467 years, & took the opportunity to determine the King's original height. Traces of the Latin inscription Edwardus Primus Scottorum Malleus hic est, 1308. Pactum Serva ("Here is Edward I, Hammer of the Scots, 1308. Keep the Vow"), which can still be seen painted on the side of the tomb, referring to his vow to avenge the rebellion of Robert Bruce. . ▪ This resulted in Edward being given the epithet the "Hammer of the Scots" by historians, but is not contemporary in origin, having been added by the Abbot John Feckenham in the 16th century. . . . #Onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #theyear1307 #EdwardI #KingEdwardI #EdwardIofEngland #HouseofPlantagenet #History #Plantagenets #EnglishMonarchy #Englabdtishmonarchy #d7jul #OnThisDay #historyfacts #RoyalHistory #Longshanks #KingofEngland #InstaHistory (at Burgh by Sands) https://www.instagram.com/p/BznCnuhgCVc/?igshid=a2ifiqo1dbzx