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ELEANOR OF PROVENCE. 99 Eleanor expired at Ambresbury, nineteen years after the death of her husband, while the king, her son, was in Scotland ; on whose return her remains, which had been embalmed, were interred with all due honor and solemnity in the church of her convent. She had lived to see the subjection of Wales to Eng- land, and her grandson, Edward of Caernarvon, contracted in marriage with her great-great-granddaughter Margaret, heiress of Scotland and Norway ; thus adding the prospect of the addi- tion of those countries to the already great territories of Eng- land, Ireland, Wales, Aquitaine, and Poitou. After all her troubles, her sun, thus went down in a peaceful grandeur. Lore.
