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Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE

Queen Eleanor De AQUITAINE[1, 2, 3]

Female Abt 1122 - 1204  (~ 82 years)


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  • Name Eleanor De AQUITAINE  [4] 
    Prefix Queen 
    Birth Abt 1122  Rives-D'autise, Vendée, Pays De La Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    • Some sources states that she was born in 1123.
    Gender Female 
    Title (Nobility) Between 9 Apr 1137 and 1 Apr 1204  [5] 
    Title (Nobility) 
    TitleOfNobility 25 Oct 1154  [5] 
    TitleOfNobility 
    ACCEDED 12 Dec 1154  [4] 
    ACCEDED 
    Fact 10 They Had 8 Children Find all individuals with events at this location  [4] 
    Fact 10 
    Royal House   [5] 
    Royal House 
    TitleOfNobility   [5] 
    TitleOfNobility 
    Name Aliénor d’Aquitaine  [5] 
    Name DETAILLEFER 
    Name Éléonore d'Aquitaine  [5] 
    _FSFTID 9C8T-V1R 
    _FSLINK https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/9C8T-V1R 
    _UID 485FD2AD6746498BB76C6BACA5826F87FEF2 
    Death 31 Mar 1204  Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5, 6] 
    Burial 1 Apr 1204  Fontevrault-L'abbaye, Maine-Et-Loire, Pays De La Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5] 
    Person ID I13601  Carney Wehofer July 2025
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2024 

    Father Guillaume X Duke Of AQUITAINE, Poitou Guillaume,   b. 1099, Aquitaine, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Apr 1137, St James At Compostella, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 38 years) 
    Mother Elbeanor De CHATELLERAULT,   b. Abt 1103, , Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft Mar 1130 (Age ~ 27 years) 
    Marriage 1121  Of, , , France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F3327  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Prince Of Antioch Raymond I DE POITIERS, Prince Of Antioch,   b. Abt 1100   d. 27 Jun 1149 (Age ~ 49 years) 
    Marriage Y  [3] 
    • 2 _PREF Y
    Family ID F6985  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

    Family 2 Louis VII "The Younger" CAPET, King Of France,   b. 1120, Rheims, Champagne, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, Isle DE France, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 60 years) 
    Marriage 25 Jul 1137  Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    _STAT 1151 
    Annulled 18 Mar 1152  [5] 
    Children 
     1. Agnes CAPET,   b. Abt 1138   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. Mary (Marie) CAPET, Of France,   b. 1145, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1197-1198 (Age 53 years)
     3. Alix DE FRANCE,   b. 1150, Paris, Paris, Île-de-France, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Sep 1197, Acre, Kingdom of Jerusalem Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years)
    Family ID F6984  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 24 Nov 2024 

    Family 3 King Henry PLANTAGENET, II,   b. 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, Chinon, Indre-Et-Lr, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years) 
    Marriage 18 May 1152  Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 7] 
    • They may have been married on the 11th of May.
    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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt Apr 1156, Willingford Castle, Reading, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 2 years)
     3. Henry Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. 28 Mar 1155, Bermandsey Palace, London, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Jun 1183, Chcateau DE Mortel, Turenne, Aquitaine Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 28 years)
     4. Princess Matilda PLANTAGENET, Of England,   b. Jun 1156, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1189, Brunswick, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 33 years)
     5. King Richard I "The Lionhearted" Of PLANTAGENET, Of England,   b. 8 Sep 1157, Beaumont Palace, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 6 Apr 1199, Killed By Arrow In Battle, Chalus, Limousin, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 41 years)
     6. Duke Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Of Brittany,   b. 23 Sep 1158, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Aug 1186, Paris, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 27 years)
     7. Philip Prince Of ENGLAND,   b. Abt 1160, Of, , , England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Abt 1160-1162, , Infant Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 2 years)
     8. Queen Alianor "Eleanor" PLANTAGENET,   b. 13 Oct 1162, Domfront Castle, Normandy Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Oct 1214, Las Huelgas, Burgos, Burgos, Spain Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 52 years)
     9. Princess Joan PLANTAGENET, Of Sicily,   b. Oct 1165, Angers Castle, Anjou, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Sep 1199, Rouen, Normandie, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 33 years)
     10. John "Lackland" King Of England PLANTAGENET,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Kings Manor House, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 19 Oct 1216, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 49 years)
    Family ID F6983  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 

  • Notes 
    • From Encyclopedia Britannica Online, article titled Eleanor of Aquitaine:

      "also called ELEANOR OF GUYENNE, French âELâEONORE, OR ALIâENOR, 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S400] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).

    2. [S392] David Weaver.

    3. [S10] Mark Willis Ballard 6928 N. Lakewood Avenue 773-743-6663 mwballard52@yahoo.com, GEDCOM File : mwballard.ged.

    4. [S76] John Howard, Duke.ged.

    5. [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 24 Nov 2024), entry for Eleanor De AQUITAINE, person ID 9C8T-V1R. (Reliability: 3).

    6. [S877] Encyclopedia Brittanica Online; http://www.britann, Article: Eleanore of Aquitaine (Reliability: 3).

    7. [S231] Brian C. Tompsett, University of Hull: http://www.dcs.hull.ac.uk/publ, FitzEmpress, Henry II Curtmantle, King of England (Reliability: 3).



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