Raymond, Prince of Antioch. William of Tyre and John of Salisbury both reported the alleged scandal, though Gervase of Canterbury recommended silence regarding it.6
On being divorced by her pious husband, she narrowly escaped several attempts to kidnap her and force her into a marriage while returning to her own domains. She took the initiative in courting young Henry Fitz Empress, when she was nearly thirty and he was eighteen. Once married, they had five sons, William (who died in infancy), Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, and John, as well as two daughters. Their "home life" was anything but harmonious. The legend that she penetrated a maze at Woodstock to offer Henry II's mistress, the "Fair Rosamond" Clifford, a fatal choice of dagger or poisoned chalice is untrue. The lady died many years later in a convent.7 On a much more serious and authentic note, however, on several occasions Eleanor and her sons, in various combinations, rebelled against her husband and their father, and these episodes finally lead Henry to imprison h
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