'Eleanor was one of the most formidable medieval queens we had' Ever heard about the Eleanor Crosses? Historian Alice Loxton joined Kylie Pentelow on Woman's Hour on Thursday to talk about these memorials to a medieval queen that she thinks we should know more about. Eleanor of Castile was the beloved wife of King Edward I of England. She died in 1290 and a heartbroken Edward decided to take her body on a 200-mile funeral cortege from Lincoln to London. He erected an elaborate stone cross on eac