Stammtafeln does not show Thora as a wife. Heimskringla does not show many of
the children which mainly came from Stammtafeln.
Otto Brenner says born about 988?Return to Svend Estridsen II OF DENMARK
GEN: Queen Eleonore d'Aquitaine personally escorted her daughter to GEN: Bordeaux, where the envoys of Alphonso VIII received the young GEN: princess and led her off to a splendid marriage in Burgos. Princess GEN: Eleanor, in addition to her bridal furniture, took with her to Spain GEN: the old Arthurian Tales that so enthralled her mother's court. GEN: Princess Eleanor also took with her to Castile, the distinctive GEN: Angevin style of architecture. At her request, the Royal Abbey of Las GEN: Huelgas, in Spain, was founded in 1187. Note - between 1171 and 1214: GEN: Eleanor was the founder of the Royal Abbey of Las Huelgas in Spain. GEN: The nuns there were drawn from the highest Spanish aristocracy. The GEN: second Abbess of the Abbey was Constance, one of Eleanor and GEN: Alphonso's daughters. Las Huelgas became a Royal GEN: Mausoleum for Eleanor and Alphonso. The Abbey reflects the influence GEN: of France, but one feature is purely Plantagenet -- the domed vaulting GEN: with small additional compartments or ribs of the transept. Eleanor GEN: became the Queen of Castile and grew into a gracious, pious, learned, GEN: wise and still beautiful woman. She was the patroness of prelates, GEN: grandees, and troubadours, and headed one of the most civilized courts GEN: in GEN: Europe. GEN: ABBR G. E. Cokayne's (new revised) Complete Peerage, VI GEN: TITL G. E. Cokayne's (new revised) Complete Peerage, VII 386 GEN: ABBR Plantagenet Ancestry, 1928, Lt. Col. W. H. Turton GEN: TITL Plantagenet Ancestry, 1928, Lt. Col. W. H. Turton
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