Eleanor of Provence
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Four red pales in a golden shield were borne by Eleanor of Provence, queen of Henry III.; but the number did not commend itself to English armorists.
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He was employed to negotiate a marriage between king Henry the Third and the fair Eleanor of Provence.
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As one goes up the Thames towards St. James’s, End of the Town, where the King and most of the Nobility reside, one passes along by a Palace called the Savoy, because it was built by the Princes of Savoy, Uncles of Queen Eleanor of Provence, Wife to Henry III.
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Even more numerous and no less expensive to the realm were the Proven�al and Savoyard relatives of Henry’s queen, Eleanor of Provence.
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Married, 1236, to Eleanor of Provence.
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