A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Eleanor
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ELEANOR, Maid of Bretagne,
Sister of Arthur, the undoubted heiress of the English crown, and the greatest beauty of her time, wasted forty years in Bristol castle, where she died, in 1241, having never been prevailed upon to recede from her pretensions to the crown of England.