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Melvil Dewey

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Eleanor of Castile

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• • 18th Great-grandmother of Melvil Dewey — 21st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1342687 
  • Father:
  • Ferdinand III, King of Castile 
  • Mother:
  • Joanna of Ponthieu   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1241 
  • Birth Location:
  • Castile, Spain 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Death Date:
  • 28 Nov 1290 
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  • Burial Location:
  • Westminster Abbey, London, England 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Edward I, King of England
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1254 
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  • Children:
  
  

  Edward II, King of England

  Joan of Acre (Ahnentafel No:671343 )

  Margaret of England

  Elizabeth Plantagenet

• Sources for Eleanor of Castile

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  • ² The American Genealogist, 1932, Vol. 9, p. 212.
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  • ⁴ Browning, Charles H., ed., Americans Of Royal Descent, Philadelphia: Porter and Coates (1883), 287.
  • ⁵ Burke, John and John Bernard Burke, The Royal Families of England, Scotland, and Wales, with their Descendants, Sovereigns and Subjects, Vol. II, London: J. Billing, Printer and Stereotyper (1851), Pedigree xv: Frevile Lambton Burne, Esq..
  • ⁶ Foster, Joseph, comp., The Royal Lineage of our Noble and Gentle Families. Together with their Paternal Ancestry, Aylesbury: Privately Printed by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Limited (1884), 84.
  • ⁷ Fraser, ed. Antonia, The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1975), 70.
  • ⁸ Luther, George A., editor and compiler, The Luther Genealogy: A History of the Descendants of Captain John Luther, Who Arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1630-1635, Penobscot Press (2001), 81.
  • ⁹ Pitcairn, Constance, The History of the Fife Pitcairns with Transcripts from Old Charters, Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons (1905), 419.
  • ¹⁰ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 62.
  • ¹¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 270-370.
  • ¹² Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 900 Immigrants to the American Colonies, Quebec, or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company (2018), 500, 558.
  • ¹³ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company (2004), 71.
  • ¹⁴ Weis, Frederick Lewis, et. al., The Magna Charta Sureties, 1215: The Barons Named in the Magna Charta, 1215 and Some of their . . ., 5th edition, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (Third Printing, 2006), 25.
  • ¹⁵ Wikipedia, "Eleanor of Castile", (accessed 02/21/2010).