Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine became the Duchess of Aquitaine at the age of fifteen, after her brother and mother died within a short span of each other. Her fatherÆs death necessitated a crisis of rule of Aquitaine. In France, King Louis the Fat was given basically parental rights over Eleanor by her father, Duke William X. Louis the Fat, having lost his eldest son and heir to the throne, promptly arranged for the marriage of Eleanor to his younger son, who in short order would become King Louis VII. As the Queen of France,

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gle long. Like her marriage to Louis VII, EleanorÆs marriage to the future king of England, Henry Plantagenet, a decade her junior, was arranged due to her vast land holdings. Once her marriage to King Louis VII was annulled, Eleanor became the rightful titleholder to the Aquitaine, the richest province in all of Europe. As one of EleanorÆs biographers, Amy Ruth Kelly, explains: ôIt was wider and fairer than that of her overlord, the King of France himself; ampler and more gracious than the counties which the Dukes of Normandy held north of the Loire; richer and more genial than the island of Britain.ö Rich in both wealth and form, the marriage of Eleanor to Henry Plantagenet positioned Eleanor to become the Queen of England two years later. Eleanor left her two daughters to Louis VII to be raised by the French court. Eleanor bore Henry II seven surviving children, most notable among them three sons who would vie for the throne, Richard, Henry, and John. For decades Eleanor tolerated HenryÆs numerous infidelities, political policies she despised and fought against, and sharing her power for decades. Portrayed in scholarly works as devious and dicey, Eleanor continued to plot against Henry II, aiding Richard, Henry, and
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