Abstract
This paper focuses on the shoe that was attributed in 1991 to the tomb of Queen Eleanor Plantagenet in the mausoleum of Las Huelgas Abbey in Burgos, Spain. After being restored, this particular piece was placed on display in the textile museum in Las Huelgas Abbey. The shoe has now been reassigned to another person buried in the mausoleum on the basis of a re-examination of the historian Gómez Moreno’s documentation (including his unpublished materials), chemical and material analyses, and visual images of footwear of the period. This article describes the historical context of the shoe and offers hypotheses about the Queen’s footwear, as her shoes have not survived fully intact. It also underscores the importance of conducting diligent research and basing attributions on all available evidence; the result contributes to reshaping scholarly thought by establishing a different use for a very particular type of shoe worn by people of highest rank.
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