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 1122 - 1204 (82 years)
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| Name |
Eleanor De AQUITAINE [5] |
| Prefix |
Queen |
| Born |
1121-1122 |
Chateau DE Belin, Bordeaux, Aquitaine  [5] |
- Some sources states that she was born in 1123.
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| Gender |
Female |
| ACCEDED |
12 Dec 1154 [5] |
| Fact 10 |
They Had 8 Children [5] |
| Fact 10 |
| FamilySearch ID |
9C8T-V1R |
| Name |
DETAILLEFER |
| _UID |
485FD2AD6746498BB76C6BACA5826F87FEF2 |
| Died |
31 Mar 1204 |
Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine [5, 6] |
| Buried |
Fontevraud Abbey, Maine-Et-Loire, France [5] |
| Person ID |
I13601 |
Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
13 Dec 2022 |
| Father |
Guillaume X Duke Of AQUITAINE, Poitou Guillaume, b. 1099, Aquitaine, France , d. 19 Apr 1137, St James At Compostella, Spain (Age 38 years) |
| Mother |
Elbeanor De CHATELLERAULT, b. Abt 1103, , Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine , d. Aft Mar 1130 (Age ~ 27 years) |
| Married |
1121 |
Of, , , France |
| Family ID |
F3327 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Louis VII "The Younger" CAPET, King Of France, b. 1120, Rheims, Champagne, France , d. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, Isle DE France, France (Age 60 years) |
| Married |
25 Jul 1137 |
Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France [3, 5] |
| _STAT |
1151 |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F6984 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 3 |
King Henry II PLANTAGENET, b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France , d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France (Age 56 years) |
| Married |
18 May 1152 |
Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France [3, 5, 7] |
- They may have been married on the 11th of May.
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| Children |
| | 1. Duke Of Brittany Geoffrey Of ENGLAND, Duke Of Brittany, d. 1185 |
| | 2. Prince William PLANTAGENET, Of Poiters, b. 17 Aug 1153, Rouen, Normandie, France , d. Abt Apr 1156, Willingford Castle, Reading, Berkshire, England (Age 2 years) |
| | 3. Henry Prince Of ENGLAND, b. 28 Mar 1155, Bermandsey Palace, London, England , d. 11 Jun 1183, Chcateau DE Mortel, Turenne, Aquitaine (Age 28 years) |
| | 4. Princess Matilda PLANTAGENET, Of England, b. Jun 1156, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England , d. 28 Jun 1189, Brunswick, Germany (Age ~ 33 years) |
| | 5. King Richard I "The Lionhearted" Of PLANTAGENET, Of England, b. 8 Sep 1157, Beaumont Palace, Oxfordshire, England , d. 6 Apr 1199, Killed By Arrow In Battle, Chalus, Limousin, France (Age 41 years) |
| | 6. Duke Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Of Brittany, b. 23 Sep 1158, England , d. 19 Aug 1186, Paris, France (Age 27 years) |
| | 7. Philip Prince Of ENGLAND, b. Abt 1160, Of, , , England , d. Abt 1160-1162, , Infant (Age ~ 2 years) |
| | 8. Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET, b. 13 Oct 1162, Domfront Castle, Normandy , d. 25 Oct 1214, Las Huelgas, Burgos, Burgos, Spain (Age 52 years) |
| | 9. Princess Joan PLANTAGENET, Of Sicily, b. Oct 1165, Angers Castle, Anjou, France , d. 4 Sep 1199, Rouen, Normandie, France (Age ~ 33 years) |
| | 10. John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET, b. 24 Dec 1166, Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England , d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years) |
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| Last Modified |
29 Aug 2016 |
| Family ID |
F6983 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled Eleanor of Aquitaine:
"also called ELEANOR OF GUYENNE, French ?EL?EONORE, OR ALI?ENOR, D'AQUITAINE, OR DEGUYENNE, queen consort of both Louis VII of France (in 1137-52) and Henry II of England (in 1152-1204) and mother of Richard I the Lion-Heart and John of England. She was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe.
"She died in 1204 at the monastery at Fontevrault, Anjou, where she had retired after the campaign at Mirebeau. Her contribution to England extended beyond her own lifetime; after the loss of Normandy (1204), it was her own ancestral lands and not the old Norman territories that remained loyal to England. She has been misjudged by many French historians who have noted only her youthful frivolity, ignoring the tenacity, political wisdom, and energy that characterized the years of her maturity. "She was beautiful and just, imposing and modest, humble and elegant"; and, as the nuns of Fontevrault wrote in their necrology: a queen "who surpassed almost all the queens of the world."ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE (1122-1204) was one of the most important rulers of Medieval Europe.
Many noblewomen in the Middle Ages were well-educated. but Eleanor had the chance to use her education at a time when European politics was dominated by men.
When she was just fifteen, Eleanor's father died, and she inherited Aquitaine. the largest kingdom in France. That same year she married King Louis VII and became Queen of France. Although still a teenager, Eleanor was an impressive figure--beautiful, very well-educated, and fearlessly independent.
When Louis went off on the Crusades, she went with him, traveling thousands of miles, much of it through hostile lands.
But Eleanor and Louis had no male heir, and tensions developed between them. The Pope granted them a divorce when Eleanor was twenty-nine. Within months. Eleanor married Henry Plantagent, her ex-husband's main rival. Two years later Henry became King of England--and Eleanor was a queen again.
However, Henry soon fell in love with another woman, and Eleanor left England to set up her own court in Aquitaine, which she still ruled. Troubadours from all over France flocked to her palace at Poitiers, where Eleanor acted as patron of the arts. Many of the ideas of chivalry that we associate with the Middle Ages were developed in Eleanor's court..
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Some say King Lewis carried her into the Holy Land, where she carried herself not very holily, but led a licentious life; and, which is the worst kind of licentiousness, in carnal familiarity with a Turk.
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- [S400] Ancestral File (R), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).
- [S392] David Weaver.
- [S10] GEDCOM File : mwballard.ged, Mark Willis Ballard 6928 N. Lakewood Avenue 773-743-6663 [email protected].
- [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.
- [S76] John Howard, Duke.ged.
- [S877] Encyclopedia Brittanica Online; http://www.britann, Article: Eleanore of Aquitaine (Reliability: 3).
- [S231] University of Hull: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/publ, Brian C. Tompsett, FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England (Reliability: 3).
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