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Eleanor of Provence

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Eleanor of Provence (prôväNs`), d. 1291, queen consort of Henry III Henry III, 1207–72, king of England (1216–72), son and successor of King John.

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Henry became king under a regency; William Marshal, 1st earl of Pembroke , and later Pandulf acted as chief of government, while
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 of England. The daughter of Raymond Berengar, count of Provence, she was married to Henry in 1236. She was a vigorous and incisive woman and had much influence on her husband, as did her unpopular relatives and other foreign courtiers who followed her to England. During the ascendancy of Simon de Montfort Montfort, Simon de (mŏnt`fərt, Fr. môNfôr`), c.1160–1218, count of Montfort and earl of Leicester.
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 in 1264–65, Eleanor raised mercenaries in France for her husband's cause. She was dispatched to a convent in 1286 but was sometimes consulted by her son, Edward I.


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