Famous People with Name Eleonor

Eleonor Cassar            Origin/Culture/Country: Italian

Eleonor Cassar: a Maltese singer that won the Golden Stag Festival 2004.Eleonor Cassar has been singing since she was 11 years old. She was first noticed by her teacher in Secondary school that encouraged her at participate at musical and theatrical events. The same teac

Ulrika Eleonora Of Denmark            Origin/Culture/Country: Danish

Ulrika Eleonora Of Denmark: was the Queen consort of Sweden as the spouse of King Charles XI of Sweden. Ulrika was the daughter of King Frederick III of Denmark and his wife Queen Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg. In 1675 she was bethrothed to King Charles XI of Sweden. During the Scanian War between Denmark and Sweden in 1675–1679 she was encouraged to break the engagement and was considered as a possible bride by the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, but she refused to do so. She gained a reputation for loyalty to her future home country by exhibiting kindness to Swedish prisoners during the war of 1675–79: she pawned her jewelry, even her engagement ring, to care for the Swedish prisoners of war.