Eleanor of Leicester, daughter of King John of England and wife of William Marshall and Simon de Montfort
She is best known for two of her books: A Baronial Household of the Thirteenth Century is about Eleanor, wife of Simon de Montfort, detailing the time while her husband was away at war; and Medieval Travellers: The Rich and the Restless is about Mary, daughter of Edward I of England, a peripatetic nun.
Eleanor of Leicester lived in exile as a nun at the abbey in Montargis, and died there in 1275
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