Eleanor De Montfort
- 1263: At the age of five it was oficially agreed that Eleanor would one day marry Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Prince of Gwynedd.
- 1265: Her father, Simon de Montfort, dies at the battle of Evesham.
- 1274: Edward I defends the men who attempted to assassinate Llywelyn, including Llywelyn's younger brother, Dafydd.
- 1275: Eleanor and Llywelyn marry.
- Eleanor was kidnapped by the King's men, the final straw in the long-standing conflict between the Prince of Wales and the King of England.
- 1276: Llywelyn requests several times that the King releases his 'wife'. The King refused and in November 1276, branded the Prince of Wales a rebel.
- 1277: Llywelyn informed the Pope of Eleanor’s imprisonment.
- 1278: Eleanor is released.
- 1278: Nine months after Eleanor's release the couple were finally officially married at Worcester Cathedral, attended by the King and Queen of England, Scotland, and many nobles.
- 1282: Eleanor died giving birth to her daughter, Gwenllian. The child was sent to Sempringham priory by Edward after the death of her father in the same year.
‘Surviving documentary evidence concerning Eleanor de Montfort as a royal woman in native Wales is singular in comparison to any of her predecessors or contemporaries. Her acta are demonstrative of her aptitude for manipulating her relationship with the king of England for political capital.’ – Danna R. Messer, Dictionary of Welsh Biography