April Queen: Eleanor of Aquitaine 9780752473048, 0752473042

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Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a dis

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Dominating her own twelfth century, famous for her beauty and generosity, Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen to Louis VII of

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Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this biography gives us the real Eleanor—tenacious, defiant, and pow

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Eleanor of Aquitaine was the wife of two kings, Louis VII of France and Henry II Plantagenet of England, and the mother

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Henry II became King of England in 1154 after twenty years of civil war. He was the first Plantagenet king, the founder

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A reparative reading of stories about medieval queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquit

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Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124-1204), queen of France and England and mother of two kings, has often been described as one o

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Eleanor of Aquitaine became the queen of both France and England, the wife of two kings, and later the mother of two kin

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