The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages 1803991216, 9781803991214

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The Families of Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Female Network of Power in the Middle Ages
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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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Dominating her own twelfth century, famous for her beauty and generosity, Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen to Louis VII of

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"A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth," as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleano

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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 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 (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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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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The three daughters of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine all undertook exogamous marriages which cemented dynastic allia

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