im doing a report on Queen Elizabeth teh 1st, Mary Queen of Scots and Eleanor of Aquitaine... well this is worth a really big part of my grade so i can really use any information i can get so please help me... i need answers befor 1:25 today so yea... if you know any thing please tell me
2007-05-31 08:55:55 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
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2007-05-31 10:38:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122--1204) was the richest woman in Christendom, having inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine at the age of 15. This country took up about one third of what is now France.
She first married the King of France (Louis VII) with whom she even went on Crusade. She bore him two daughters and he divorced her because he needed a son to succeed him.
She then married Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who was eleven years her junior. He later became Henry II, King of England.
By this marriage, Eleanor had four sons and three daughters.
Henry II, like most influential men of his day, had numerous mistresses, and eventually he and Eleanor became estranged. They became very bitter towards each other and Eleanor encouraged her sons, especially Richard, later Richard the Lionheart, to rebel against their father.
Eleanor was kept under virtual house arrest by Henry for many years. However, she held court in her domain and it was a centre for art, music, learning, etc. and became famous for the "Courts of Love" which were held there, in which philosophical discussions about love were paramount.
The philosophy was much like that of Arthurian legend, and may have contributed much to those legends, especially in terms of knightly virtues and value.
(Her father, William X, Duke of Aquitaine, VIII of Toulouse, was known as The Troubadour, and was probably the first person recognized in that occupation. Consequently, troubadours, minstrels and other musical and literary artistes flocked to her courts.)
Among Eleanor's children, two of her sons became King of England (Richard I and John) and two daughters became Queens by marriage. (Eleanor married the King of Castile and Joanna wed the king of Sicily)
She outlived Henry by fifteen years and administered her own lands until her death, and was also influential in the lives of her children.
2007-05-31 13:28:20 · answer #2 · answered by marguerite L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read the biographies on wikipedia
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2007-05-31 09:04:24 · answer #3 · answered by John B 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋