Chapter 17
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Ferdinand III of Castile
Family
In 1219, Ferdinand married Matilda (1205–1235), daughter of the French king Louis VIII and Eleanor of Brittany. Their children were:
Alfonso X, his successor married to Joanna of Germany or Juana de Suabia
Frederick
Ferdinand (1225–1243/1248)
Eleanor (born 1227), died young
Constance (1228–1288/89), a nun at Las Huelgas
Philip (1231–1274). He was promised to the Church, but was so taken by the beauty of Christina of Norway, daughter of Haakon IV of Norway, who had been intended as a bride for one of his brothers, that he abandoned his holy vows and married her. She died in 1262, childless.
Sancho, Archbishop of Toledo and Seville (1233–1261)
Manuel of Castile
Maria, died an infant in November 1235
Second marriage
After he was widowed, he married Joan, Countess of Ponthieu, before August 1237. They had four sons and one daughter:
Ferdinand (1238–1264/1269), Count of Aumale
Eleanor (c. 1241–1290), married Edward I of England. They had sixteen children including the future Edward II of England, and every English monarch after Edward I is a descendant of Ferdinand III.
Louis (1243–1269)
Simon (1244), died young and buried in a monastery in Toledo
John (1245), died young and buried at the cathedral in Córdoba
