Eleanor of Aquitaine 9781909869165, 1909869163

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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Eleanor of Aquitaine was the only person ever to sit on the thrones of both France and England. In this account of the t

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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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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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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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Read the next volume in Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of Medieval England - including the life 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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A look at the royal women of twelfth-century England—from the empowered to the imprisoned—and their roles in the ruling

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Eleanor's patrilineal descent, from a lineage already prestigious enough to have produced an empress in the elevent

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