Aliénor of Aquitaine [1122-1204] -- Queen of England
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Queen of France
Duchess of Aquitaine (fr.1137)
a/k/a
Eleanor of AquitaineEleanor of Guienne
She succeeded her father, William X, as duchess of Aquitaine. She had been married by him to Prince Louis, who a month later succeeded as Louis VII of France.
She took the unprecedented step of following her husband on crusade (1147-1149), resulting in a papal bull forbidding women on any future crusading expeditions.
Divorced from Louis in 1152 on the pretext of consanguinity, she thus regained Aquitaine which she brought to England within a year when she married Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, later King Henry II of England. This provided a basis for 400 years of French-English strife.
Her continued support of her rebellious sons against Henry resulted in her confinement for twelve years.
She was an able and strong-minded woman --
exactly as portrayed by Kate Hepburn in the 1968 film,
The Lion in Winter. 
Chronology |
1137/04/09 | Accedes as duchess of Aquitaine on her father's death |
1137/07/22 | Marries Prince Louis Capet |
1137/08/01 | Louis accedes as Louis VII, King of France |
1147-1149 | On Second Crusade, with husband Louis |
1152/03/21 | Divorced from Louis |
1152/05/18 | Marries Henry Plantagenet, Ct Anjou |
1154 | Henry accedes as Henry II, King of England |
1154-1189 | Queen of England |
1173-1174 | She supports her sons in the Great Rebellion against their father |
1174-1189 | She is confined under house arrest to Winchester by Henry |
1189/07/06 | Henry dies, succeeded by son as Richard I, King of England |
1204/03/31 | Eleanor dies in Fontévrault Abbey, Anjou |
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