Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in the city of Poitiers, in the year 1122, being the eldest of the three offspring of the marriage of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Eleanor Chatellerault.
In 1130 a man killed his only brother, William, making it the heir of his father. On April 9, 1137, William X died on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and Eleanor takes over the vast Duchy of Aquitaine (stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees and was more extensive than the direct domain of the king of France) . On July 4, 1137, at 15 years old, married, in Bordeaux, with Louis, the future King Louis VII of France, a year older than it. That same year amounted to the French throne on the death of King Louis VI. Only 8 years later, in 1145, his first born daughter, Mary, later Countess of Champagne.
Strains between the couple began very early, when the Queen supported the illegal marriage of her sister Petronilla with Count Vermandois Raul I, while the king sent his brother Robert to invade Vermandois punishment for bigamy the count. In addition, emancipated and liberal behavior was strongly criticized by the diocesan curia, especially Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger, and, apparently, by his own mother, Adelaide of Savoy, but none of this mattered to the French king, who was madly in love of his wife.
In 1141, moved by the preaching of Bernard of Clairvaux, the young couple went to the Second Crusade, the king gladly allowed his wife to accompany him, but Eleanor, in her capacity as Duchess of Aquitaine, and therefore , most feudatory of France, from stresses like other feudal lords.
During his stay in Antioch, the queen's relationship with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, prince of the city, gave rise to all sorts of gossip, which led to the estrangement between the king and queen. Luis forces his wife to return with him to force, but leave separately. On his way to France, stopping in Rome where the Pope is to reconcile the royal couple, the result of the papal administration was his second daughter, Alix, the future Countess of Blois, born in 1151 -. But the couple were hopelessly estranged: the March 21, 1152, obtained the annulment of his marriage, based on the relationship between them. The price Leonor put this separation was the conservation of its domains.
Six weeks after his divorce, May 18, 1152, Eleanor married in the cathedral of Saint Pierre de Bordeaux, with the soon to be Henry II of England, uniting the vast domain in France, which already had the heir to the English throne (owner of Anjou, Maine and Normandy, apart from England and Wales). Thus was formed the so-called Angevin Empire, in which the kings of England, though subjects of the king of France, a territory controlled eight times dominated by Louis VII. This couple had 8 children, 5 boys and 3 daughters. Established mainly in Poitiers, in his court was chivalrous poetry boom, being patron of many troubadours.
The existence of a mistress of Henry II, Eleanor provoked the confrontation between the king, and from 1173 Leonor promoted the rebellion of three children of the king against his father. After suppressing the revolt, the king imprisoned Leonor, first in Chinon and then in Salisbury, where he remained under arrest until the death of King Henry 1189. Recovered
freedom, Leonor became ruler of the Angevin domains during asusencias of his son Richard. After the return of the king of the Third Crusade, Eleanor retired to the abbey of Fontevrault. The death of Ricardo, April 6, 1199 caused Leonor retirement leave again to get the coronation of another son, John, relegating his grandson, Arthur I duke of Brittany, who hardly knew.
in 1200, and being nearly an octogenarian, is showing an impressive fortress when she travels to Castilla, crossing the Pyrenees, to choose between his granddaughters, the princesses of Castilla-daughters of her daughter Leonor and Alfonso VIII-which is become the wife of the son of Philip II Augustus, the future Louis VIII. The choice would be White, one of the most famous queens of France, regent of the kingdom three times and model of virtue and political ability.
died March 31, 1204 at the Abbey of Fontevrault, 82 years old, was buried right there with her husband Henry and his son Richard.
In 1130 a man killed his only brother, William, making it the heir of his father. On April 9, 1137, William X died on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, and Eleanor takes over the vast Duchy of Aquitaine (stretching from the Loire to the Pyrenees and was more extensive than the direct domain of the king of France) . On July 4, 1137, at 15 years old, married, in Bordeaux, with Louis, the future King Louis VII of France, a year older than it. That same year amounted to the French throne on the death of King Louis VI. Only 8 years later, in 1145, his first born daughter, Mary, later Countess of Champagne.
Strains between the couple began very early, when the Queen supported the illegal marriage of her sister Petronilla with Count Vermandois Raul I, while the king sent his brother Robert to invade Vermandois punishment for bigamy the count. In addition, emancipated and liberal behavior was strongly criticized by the diocesan curia, especially Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger, and, apparently, by his own mother, Adelaide of Savoy, but none of this mattered to the French king, who was madly in love of his wife.
In 1141, moved by the preaching of Bernard of Clairvaux, the young couple went to the Second Crusade, the king gladly allowed his wife to accompany him, but Eleanor, in her capacity as Duchess of Aquitaine, and therefore , most feudatory of France, from stresses like other feudal lords.
During his stay in Antioch, the queen's relationship with her uncle Raymond of Poitiers, prince of the city, gave rise to all sorts of gossip, which led to the estrangement between the king and queen. Luis forces his wife to return with him to force, but leave separately. On his way to France, stopping in Rome where the Pope is to reconcile the royal couple, the result of the papal administration was his second daughter, Alix, the future Countess of Blois, born in 1151 -. But the couple were hopelessly estranged: the March 21, 1152, obtained the annulment of his marriage, based on the relationship between them. The price Leonor put this separation was the conservation of its domains.
Six weeks after his divorce, May 18, 1152, Eleanor married in the cathedral of Saint Pierre de Bordeaux, with the soon to be Henry II of England, uniting the vast domain in France, which already had the heir to the English throne (owner of Anjou, Maine and Normandy, apart from England and Wales). Thus was formed the so-called Angevin Empire, in which the kings of England, though subjects of the king of France, a territory controlled eight times dominated by Louis VII. This couple had 8 children, 5 boys and 3 daughters. Established mainly in Poitiers, in his court was chivalrous poetry boom, being patron of many troubadours.
The existence of a mistress of Henry II, Eleanor provoked the confrontation between the king, and from 1173 Leonor promoted the rebellion of three children of the king against his father. After suppressing the revolt, the king imprisoned Leonor, first in Chinon and then in Salisbury, where he remained under arrest until the death of King Henry 1189. Recovered
freedom, Leonor became ruler of the Angevin domains during asusencias of his son Richard. After the return of the king of the Third Crusade, Eleanor retired to the abbey of Fontevrault. The death of Ricardo, April 6, 1199 caused Leonor retirement leave again to get the coronation of another son, John, relegating his grandson, Arthur I duke of Brittany, who hardly knew.
in 1200, and being nearly an octogenarian, is showing an impressive fortress when she travels to Castilla, crossing the Pyrenees, to choose between his granddaughters, the princesses of Castilla-daughters of her daughter Leonor and Alfonso VIII-which is become the wife of the son of Philip II Augustus, the future Louis VIII. The choice would be White, one of the most famous queens of France, regent of the kingdom three times and model of virtue and political ability.
died March 31, 1204 at the Abbey of Fontevrault, 82 years old, was buried right there with her husband Henry and his son Richard.
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