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england podcast hello and welcome to the queens of england podcast episode 15 eleanor of castile

the stony crossed property magnet.

Last time, I introduced Eleanor of Castile, the teenage Spanish princess, who became the wife to the heir of the English throne.

After a baptism of fire and blood in the

Second Baron's War in the Ninth Crusade, she returned to England with her husband in the summer of

1774 as the Queen of England. This week, we are going to look on her time on the throne of England,

and, as we will see, her role was not as overtly political as her predecessor Eleanor of Provence,

but she still managed to make her presence felt. Now, forgive me for stating the obvious here, but if you haven't listened to

the previous episode, then I would strongly recommend that you go back and do so, as I will be

referring back to it a fair amount. In fact, go back and listen to all my previous episodes. They're all

great. Upon her coronation,

she and her husband were able to bask in a little bit of the glory that they had built for themselves.

England was being ruled by a young Viral King, blessed by God because of his recent crusade,

and married to a popular queen. It was a pretty good start. Now, the thing that Eleanor is best known

for in nerdy historical circles

was the accruement of property. Though I didn't go into it much last time, a constant struggle for

Eleanor throughout her life in England so far had been lack of funds, though there were many reasons

for this. The loss of most of the Ongivand lands in France hit revenues hard, but expenditure on war

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