Eleanor of Aquitaine: A LifeRenowned 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. In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new insights into her intimate world. 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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... Queen , Eleanor was very rich , although her wealth did not come from conventional sources . On his accession Henry endowed her with numerous manors . The precise details have not survived : the earliest extant charter for an English ...
... Queen , Eleanor was very rich , although her wealth did not come from conventional sources . On his accession Henry endowed her with numerous manors . The precise details have not survived : the earliest extant charter for an English ...
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... Queen's name is given as Eleanor of Provence ( who was the wife of Henry III and died in 1291 ) and the date of the murder as 1262 ! Also in the fourteenth century , the chronicler Ranulf Higden claimed that Rosamund was " poisoned by Queen ...
... Queen's name is given as Eleanor of Provence ( who was the wife of Henry III and died in 1291 ) and the date of the murder as 1262 ! Also in the fourteenth century , the chronicler Ranulf Higden claimed that Rosamund was " poisoned by Queen ...
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... Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to Pope Ce- lestine III " ( English Historical Review 21 , 1906 ) . Leese , T. Anna . Blood Royal : Issue of the Kings and Queens of Mediaeval England , 1066-1399 ( Bowie , Maryland , 1996 ) . Lejeune , R ...
... Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine to Pope Ce- lestine III " ( English Historical Review 21 , 1906 ) . Leese , T. Anna . Blood Royal : Issue of the Kings and Queens of Mediaeval England , 1066-1399 ( Bowie , Maryland , 1996 ) . Lejeune , R ...
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