Who was the Queen of France as well as England" She was also Europe’s legendary central figure of the Middle Ages.
2007-09-13 02:57:30 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 03:04:52 · answer #1 · answered by staisil 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Who was the Queen of France as well as "England." She was also Europe’s legendary central figure of the Middle Ages.
ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE is the us99 trivia answer.
2007-09-13 10:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by zilly 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eleanore of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 04:49:11 · answer #3 · answered by lovelylady_7997 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 17:22:30 · answer #4 · answered by Terry L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 16:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by jmp_omaha 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 11:13:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 08:14:01 · answer #7 · answered by alextrbk_1999 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 07:04:29 · answer #8 · answered by sorry sista 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eleanor of Aquitaine
2007-09-13 06:54:13 · answer #9 · answered by lilewu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're referring to Eleanor of Aquitaine. She was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, which would be enough to earn her a place in European history, living as she did in a time when women were regarded as little more than brood mares.
She married Louis VII at the age of fifteen; their marriage ended in annulment following the birth of two daughters and Eleanor's suspected adultery while she and Louis were on Crusade (adultery wasn't grounds for annulment; had it been cited as reason to dissolve the marriage, neither party could remarry as long as the other lived, and Louis needed a male heir).
Incredibly, Louis returned her duchy to Eleanor following the dissolution of the marriage, and she almost at once married Henry II of England, who was 11 years her junior. They had a large family; at least five sons (one of whom died in infancy), and either two or three daughters. Three of her sons, Henry, Richard, and John, later were kings of England.
Eleanor lived into her 80's, an astounding thing in an age when most women were dead before they reached their 40's.
I'd recommend you read Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir to get the full story of this remarkable woman.
2007-09-13 03:59:03 · answer #10 · answered by Chrispy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋