Ferdinand III (1199 or 1201 - 30 May 1252) was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231.
Ferdinand III in a 13th-century miniature.
Ferdinand’s second wife was Joan of Ponthieu, whom he married in 1237; their daughter Eleanor married the future Edward I of England in 1254. Ferdinand settled in Sevilla, where he is buried.
