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Eleanor of England (18 June 1269 – 29 August 1298), was the eldest surviving daughter of Edward I of England and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile.^[1] What evidence exists for her early years suggests that while her parents were absent on Crusade between 1270 and 1274, she became very close to her father's mother, Eleanor of Provence, with whom she continued to spend a good deal of time even after the king and queen returned to England.

For a long period Eleanor was betrothed to King Alfonso III of Aragon (d. 18 June 1291). Alfonso's parents were under papal interdict, however, because of their claims to the throne of Sicily, which were contrary to the papal donation of the Sicilian throne to Charles of Anjou, and despite the Aragonese ruler's repeated pleas that Edward I send his daughter to them for marriage, Edward refused to send her as long as the interdict remained in place. In 1282 he declined one such request by saying that his wife and mother felt the girl, who had just turned 13, was too young to be married, and that they wanted to wait another two years before sending her to Aragon. Alphonso of Aragon died before the marriage could take place.

Eleanor subsequently married the French nobleman, Henry III, Count of Bar in September 20, 1293, as a means of allying Bar and England against the Kings of France. Eleanor and Henry had three children:

• Edward I of Bar (1294-1336), who succeeded Henry III as Count of Bar
• Jeanne (1295-1361), who married John de Warenne, 8th Earl of Surrey. The marriage was unhappy and while Warenne was never successful in obtaining an annulment, they lived apart for most of their later lives. Jeanne became regent of Bar from 1354.
• Eleanor (1296-1340), who married Llewelyn ap Owain

Eleanor was credited by later historians with another daughter, Eleanor, who married a Welshman named Llywelyn ap Owain; King Henry VII, the first Tudor king of England, was allegedly their descendant. No contemporary evidence for this daughter exists, however, and it is most probable that Tudor historians invented her to give Henry VII additional royal blood on his father's side.

Eleanor's marriage to Count Henry III made King Philip IV of France distrustful of him, and he was made prisoner by the French within a few years after the marriage. Eleanor then lived in Ghent, where she was supported by her father, but appears to have returned to England by the beginning of 1298. She was buried in Westminster Abbey. Her husband survived her until 1302.

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