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Eleanor de Guzmán
Castilian noblewoman and long-term mistress to Alfonso XI of Castile
Leonor (Eleanor) de Guzmán y Ponce de León (1310–1351)[1] was a Castilian noblewoman. After about 1330, she became the long-term mistress and favourite of Alfonso XI,[2] with whom she had the illegitimate son Henry "the Fratricidal", future first monarch of the House of Trastámara. She held the lordship of Medina-Sidonia until she fell from grace in the wake of Alfonso's death in 1350.[3] She was then executed by her enemies.[4]
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