Eleanor, Princess of Asturias

Eleanor of Castile (Castilian: Leonor de Castilla; 10 September 1423 – 22 August 1425) was heir presumptive to the throne of the Crown of Castile and Princess of Asturias from 1424 until a few months before her death.

Eleanor
Princess of Asturias
Born	10 September 1423 Burgos
Died	22 August 1425 (aged 1 year 11 months) La Espina
Burial	La Espina
House	Trastámara
Father	John II of Castile
Mother	Maria of Aragon
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Eleanor was born an infanta of Castile. She was the second child of King John II of Castile and his first wife, Maria of Aragon. Eleanor's elder sister, Catherine, Princess of Asturias, died seven days after Eleanor's first birthday. Thus, the one-year-old infanta became heir presumptive to the throne. Her father had her recognised as successor to the kingdom and as Princess of Asturias by the Cortes of Valladolid shortly after her sister's funeral. The new Princess of Asturias received homage in the presence of her father, the King, in City of Burgos.[1]

Princess Eleanor held this title and status for two months only. On 5 January 1425, she was displaced by the birth of a brother, the future King Henry IV of Castile. Now merely infanta and second-in-line to the throne again, Eleanor died the same year near the Cistercian monastery in La Espina. She was buried there, near the altar.

Ancestry

Ancestors of Eleanor, Princess of Asturias

16. Henry II of Castile 8. John I of Castile 17. Juana Manuel of Castile 4. Henry III of Castile 18. Peter IV of Aragon 9. Eleanor of Aragon 19. Eleanor of Sicily 2. John II of Castile 20. Edward III of England 10. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster 21. Philippa of Hainault 5. Catherine of Lancaster 22. Peter of Castile 11. Constance of Castile 23. Maria de Padilla 1. Eleanor, Princess of Asturias 24. Henry II of Castile 12. John I of Castile 25. Juana Manuel of Castile 6. Ferdinand I of Aragon 26. Peter IV of Aragon 13. Eleanor of Aragon 27. Eleanor of Sicily 3. Maria of Aragon 28. Alfonso XI of Castile 14. Sancho Alfonso, 1st Count of Alburquerque 29. Eleanor of Guzman 7. Eleanor of Alburquerque 30. Peter I of Portugal 15. Infanta Beatrice of Portugal 31. Inês de Castro

References

1. Enrique Flórez, Manuel Risco: España sagrada: De la Iglesia Exenta de Oviedo desde el medio del siglo XIV hasta fines del siglo XVIII; En la Oficina de la Viuda e Hijo de Marín, 1795