Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors 147352332X, 9781473523326

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Queens of the Crusades: Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Successors
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Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first fi

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

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

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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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Packed with incredible true stories and legendary medieval intrigue, this epic narrative history chronicles the first fi

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