Eleanor of Aquitaine: A LifeIn this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of a truly exceptional woman and provides new insights into her intimate world. Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. Eleanor of Aquitaine lived a long life of many contrasts, of splendor and desolation, power and peril, and in this stunning narrative, Weir captures the woman—and the queen—in all her glory. With astonishing historic detail, mesmerizing pageantry, and irresistible accounts of royal scandal and intrigue, she recreates not only a remarkable personality but a magnificent past era. |
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Page 172
... homage to the French King for Anjou and Maine and also for Brittany , which his younger brother Geoffrey would hold as his vassal , while the Lord Richard was to pay homage to Louis for Aquitaine . No sooner had this peace been ...
... homage to the French King for Anjou and Maine and also for Brittany , which his younger brother Geoffrey would hold as his vassal , while the Lord Richard was to pay homage to Louis for Aquitaine . No sooner had this peace been ...
Page 198
... homage to Henry and his sons and acknowledge them as his overlords . He had decided to throw in his lot with the Angevins because he had fallen out with the French King , the rift having occurred when Raymond repudiated Con- stance of ...
... homage to Henry and his sons and acknowledge them as his overlords . He had decided to throw in his lot with the Angevins because he had fallen out with the French King , the rift having occurred when Raymond repudiated Con- stance of ...
Page 322
... homage.38 It is likely that she had made up her mind to do this before paying homage to Philip in June , and there was nothing that Philip , having accepted that homage , could do about it , since she had every right to make her son her ...
... homage.38 It is likely that she had made up her mind to do this before paying homage to Philip in June , and there was nothing that Philip , having accepted that homage , could do about it , since she had every right to make her son her ...
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