however, the newly married royal couple went through certain marital disputes. in 1388, eleanor asked at a meeting between her husband and her brother john i of castile, for permission to retire for some time to her homeland of castile, in order to recover from an illness in the local climate, which she had believed to be best for her health. she took her young daughters, whom she bore her husband during the first thirteen years of their marriage. eleanor and her children resided in valladolid and by 1390 she bore two more daughters to charles. two years later, she was demanded by her husband to return because they needed to be crowned king and queen of navarre as her father-in-law king charles had died. eleanor's brother king john supported the request of charles iii. eleanor did not contend, claiming she was ill-treated in navarre and believed members of the navarrese nobility wished to poison her. as a result, eleanor remained in castile whilst her husband was crowned in february 1390 in pamplona. by the end of the 1390s, eleanor had given her husband six daughters, all surviving infancy but no sons and so for this reason, eleanor handed her oldest daughter joanna over to charles iii as she was heiress to the kingdom.