Eldest daughter of Philip Le Bel of Burgundy and Juana La Loca of Spain
 
    When Charles V took Francois I  prisoner, after the battle of Pavia, one of the conditions he set for the French king's release was that Francois should marry Charles' sister Eleanor, the widow of Manoel I of Portugal.  Not surprisingly, in view of this humiliation, Francois disliked her from the start.  Indeed, Eleanor's life at the French court cannot have been pleasant:  her husband neglected her in favour of a whole series of mistresses (though the neglect was not total, since it was rumoured that he had given his wife syphilis!), the French traditionally disliked the Austrians ( as Marie Antoinette would discover in her turn), and war broke out between her husband and her brother again and again.
 
    One of Eleanor's ladies-in-waiting told Brantome that  while the queen looked normal when dressed, "when  undressed she was seen to have the trunk of a giantess, so long and big was her body, yet going lower, she seemed a dwarf, so short were her thighs and legs".
 
    Eleanor had one daughter, Maria of Portugal, by her first husband; she and Francois had no children.

Source: Sandra White