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e Second Crusade. However, Eleanor had no intention of sitting quietly at home while her husband went off to war. The King and his advisors may have been opposed to taking Eleanor and her company of 300 women along on the Crusade, but Eleanor also offered the services of a thousand men from Aquitaine, and the king accepted.

While the Catholic Church may have been pleased to receive her thousand fighting vassals, they were less happy when they learned that Eleanor, atte

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