Afonso was born in Sintra, the eldest son of King Edward of Portugal by his wife, Eleanor of Aragon.

In 1440 he was elected German king as Frederick IV and in 1452 crowned Holy Roman Emperor as Frederick III by Pope Nicholas V. In 1452, at the age of 37, he married the 18-year-old Infanta Eleanor, daughter of King Edward of Portugal, whose dowry helped him to alleviate his debts and cement his power.

Frederick III and Eleanor of Portugal.

Frederick had 5 children from his marriage with Eleanor of Portugal:

* 1434 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress ( d. 1467 )

* November 15 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France ( d. 1558 )

Maximilian I ( 22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519 ), the son of Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor and Eleanor of Portugal, was King of the Romans ( also known as King of the Germans ) from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1493 until his death, though he was never in fact crowned by the Pope, the journey to Rome always being too risky.

* September 3 – Eleanor of Portugal, Empress ( b. 1434 )

* September 18 – Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress ( d. 1467 )

* Eleanor of Austria ( 1498 – 1558 ), wife of Manuel I of Portugal and Francis I of France, daughter of Joanna of Castile and Philip the Handsome of Austria-Burgundy

He openly neglected his wife, Maria of Portugal, and had an ostentatious passion for Eleanor of Guzman, who bore him ten children.

* Eleanor ( 1498 – 1558 ), Queen consort first to Manuel I of Portugal and secondly to Francis I of France.

* Eleanor of Viseu ( 1458 – 1525 ), wife of John II of Portugal

* Eleanor of Austria ( 1498 – 1558 ), Queen consort of Portugal ( 1516 – 1521 ) and of France ( 1530 – 1547 )

Eleanor of Viseu ( 2 May 1458 – 17 November 1525 ; ) was a Portuguese infanta ( princess ) and later queen consort of Portugal.

Eleanor was a daughter of Infante Fernando, Duke of Viseu, and his wife and cousin Beatrice of Portugal.

Eleanor married John, Prince of Portugal, on 22 January 1470.

The queen consorts of Portugal were awarded fiefs and villages to grant them independent incomes, and Eleanor was granted Silves e Faro and Terras de Aldeia Galega e Aldeia Gavinha for this purpose.

Eleanor of Austria ( 15 November 1498 – 25 February 1558 ), also called Eleanor of Castile, was born an Archduchess of Austria and Infanta of Castile from the House of Habsburg, and subsequently became Queen consort of Portugal ( 1518 – 1521 ) and of France ( 1530 – 1547 ).

Eleanor married her uncle by marriage, King Manuel I of Portugal, after a proposed marriage with her cousin the Crown Prince, the future King John III of Portugal, did not occur.

Her brother Charles arranged the marriage between Eleanor and the King of Portugal to avoid the possibility of Portuguese assistance for any rebellion in Castile.

As Queen Dowager of Portugal, Eleanor returned to the court of Charles in Spain.

Dorothy Thompson ( 9 July 1893, Lancaster, New York – 30 January 1961, Lisbon, Portugal ) was an American journalist and radio broadcaster, who in 1939 was recognized by Time magazine as the second most influential woman in America next to Eleanor Roosevelt.

Mrs. Eleanor Kowalski, 42, died yesterday afternoon in Holy Cross Hospital of burns suffered in a fire that followed a bottled gas explosion Saturday night at the flat of her widowed mother, Mrs. Mary Pankowski, in the adjoining suburb of Warren.

* 1630 – Empress Eleanor Gonzaga of the Holy Roman Empire ( d. 1686 )

Louis VII decided to leave the Holy Land, despite the protests of Eleanor, who still wanted to help her doomed uncle Raymond of Antioch.

The book focuses on Richard the Lionheart's Crusades in the Holy Land and on what happened to Eleanor when she was finally released after spending sixteen years in a confinement that was ordered and enforced by her husband.

" In 1729 he took Holy Orders, and, went on to hold two livings in Lincolnshire, including that of the parish of All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he did a considerable amount of further research, not least on the town's lost Eleanor Cross.

Two daughters of the house, both named Eleanor Gonzaga, became Holy Roman Empresses, by marrying Emperors Ferdinand II of Germany and Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, respectively.

In 1182 Henry the Lion and his wife Matilda Plantagenêt, the daughter of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and sister of Richard Lionheart left from Stade to go into exile from the Holy Roman Empire in order to stay with Henry II of England.

The floors were covered in polychrome encaustic tiles featuring foliage, heraldic beasts, and coats of arms including those of England, France, the Holy Roman Empire, Queen Eleanor of Castile, Richard of Cornwall and many powerful noble families.

She is pictured with her brother Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor | Charles and her sister Eleanor of Austria | Eleanor.

As the French queen, Eleanor she did not have any political power ; however, she was used as a contact between France and the Holy Roman Empire.

Tusculum had in this time several notable guests: Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor, and his wife Empress Agnes in 1046, the Pope Eugene III from 1149, Louis VII of France and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine in 1149, Frederick Barbarossa and the English Pope Adrian IV in 1155.

She was a daughter of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor and his third wife Eleanor of Mantua.

Eleanor of Portugal ( 18 September 1434 – 3 September 1467 ) was Empress of the Holy Roman Empire.

Years later, Eleanor gave birth to Roman and Sofia Coppola.

In 1913 he met Mary Eleanor ( Nory ) Cline, and they were married in a traditional Roman Catholic wedding ceremony on 1 July 1917.

Her oldest brother, John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, while another brother, Allen Welsh Dulles, served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency during the Eisenhower and Kennedy Administrations ; Eleanor Lansing Dulles was also a paternal aunt of Roman Catholic Cardinal Avery Dulles.

Contemporaries of Melisende who did rule, however, included Urraca of Castile ( 1080 – 1129 ), Empress Matilda ( 1102 – 1169 ), and Eleanor of Aquitaine ( 1122 – 1204 ).

From the latter Empress Eleanor, the today heirs of the Gonzaga descend, as explained in family tree leading to Leopold, Duke of Lorraine.

The senior line of the family, through the marriage of Geoffrey to the Empress Matilda, received control of England and Normandy by 1154, and marriage of Geoffrey's son Henry Curtmantle to Eleanor of Aquitaine expanded the family's holdings into what was later termed the Angevin Empire.