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Queen Eleanor Cross

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Queen Eleanor Cross
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Eleanor Cross: one of a series of twelve stone monuments topped with crosses erected between 1291 and about 1295 in England from Lincoln to Westminster. Ordered by Edward 1 in memory of his wife, Eleanor of Castile, who died in November 1290.

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Pictures: Richard Croft, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Dave Dunford, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Philip Jeffrey, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; James Henry Ramsay (1859–1925) [1], Wikimedia Commons · Public domain; Robin Webster, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; David P Howard, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Burgess Von Thunen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; David Dixon, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mark Percy, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; A J Paxton, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Roy Hughes, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0

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