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Eleanor de Guzmán

Castilian noblewoman and long-term mistress to Alfonso XI of Castile · Spain · On the map · Lived 1310 to 1351 · aged 41

Leonor (Eleanor) de Guzmán y Ponce de León (1310-1351) was a Castilian noblewoman. After about 1330, she became the long-term mistress and favourite of Alfonso XI, with whom she had the illegitimate son Henry "the Fratricidal", future first monarch of the House of Trastámara.

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She held the lordship of Medina-Sidonia until she fell from grace in the wake of Alfonso's death in 1350. She was then executed by her enemies.

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Lived 1310 to 1351 · aged 41