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Eleanor was a beautiful and strong woman of great ability, a patron o fthe arts and a master politician. She had sophisticated tastes,surrounded herself with troubadours, and founded a literary court. Herideals helped establish the idea ofromantic "courtly love."
She instigated revolt among her sons against their father Henry II, whohad Eleanor imprisoned for 16 years. After her imprisonment, Henry openly lived in adultery with his mistress "The Fair Rosamond," whom many later chroniclers claimed was mysteriously murdered by a jealous Eleanor.
After Henry II's death, Eleanor ruled as Regent, while Richard I was on crusade.
Eleanor has been immortalized by Katherine Hepburn's portrayal of her in the film, "The Lion in Winter."
Eleanor also appears as a character in Shakespeare's play KING JOHN
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Eleanor of Poitou, Queen consort first of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England. Daughter and heiress of GuillaumeX, Duke of Aquitaine, she married Louis in 1137 shortly before his accession to the throne. She accompanied him on the Second Crusade from1147 to 1149. Eleanor bore Louis two daughters, but in 1152 theirmarriage was annulled. Soon afterward Eleanor married Henry, Duke ofNormandy and Count of Anjou, uniting her vast possessions with those ofher husband. Louis VII feared this powerful combination, and when Henry ascended the English throne in 1154, the stage was set for a long struggle between the English and French kings. Eleanor bore Henry three daughters and five sons, and two of the latter, Richard I and John,became kings of England. Because of Henry's infidelities, especially his relationship with Rosamond, Eleanor's relations with her husband grew strained, and in 1170 she established a court of her own at Poitou. She supported her sons in their unsuccessful revolt against Henry in 1173 andwas held in confinement by Henry until 1185. Her efforts helped Richardsecure the throne in 1189. While Richard was on the Third Crusade andlater held captive in Europe from 1190 to 1194, Eleanor was active in forestalling the plots against him by his brother John and in collecting the ransom for his release. She brought about a reconciliation between the two brothers, and on Richard's death in 1199 she supported John's claims to the throne over those of Arthur I of Bretagne. Eleanor's court at Poitou was the scene of much artistic activity and was noted for its cultivation of courtly manners and the concept of courtly love. She wasthe patroness of such literary figures as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-More,and Chrestien de Troyes. In literature Eleanor has appeared as the jealous murderess of the fair Rosamond, but she was apparently innocent of this crime. She was an able and strong-minded woman.
Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two Kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one ofthe great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. Eleanor of Aquitaine was born into a Europe dominated by feudalism. In the twelfth century there was no concept of nationhood or patriotism, and subjects owed loyalty to their ruler, rather than thestate. Europe was split into principalities called feudatories, each under the rule of a king, duke, or count, and personal allegiance, orfealty, was what counted. This was expressed in the ceremony of homage, in which a kneeling vassal would place his hands between those of his overlord and swear to render him service and obedience. In this martial world dominated by men, women had little place. The Church's teachings might underpin feudal morality, yet when it came to the practicalities of life, a ruthless pragmatism often came into play. Kings and noblemen married for political advantage, and women rarely had any say in how they or their wealth were to be disposed in marriage. Upon marriage, a girl's property and rights became invested in her husband, to whom she owed absolute obedience. It is fair to say, however, that there were women who transcended the mores of society and got away with it: the evidence suggests that Eleanor of Aquitaine was one such. There were then, as now, women of strong character who ruled feudal states and kingdoms, as Eleanor did; who made decisions, ran farms and businesses, fought lawsuits, and even, by sheer force of personality, dominated theirhusbands. Poitou was the most northerly of Eleanor's feudatories: its northern border marched with those of Brittany, Anjou, and Touraine, andits chief city was Poitiers. Perched on a cliff, with impressive ramparts, this was the favourite seat of its suzerains. To the east wasthe county of Berry, and to the south the wide sweep of the duchy ofAquitaine, named "land of waters" after the great rivers that dissectedit: the Garonne, the Charente, the Creuse, the Vienne, the Dordogne, and the Vézère. The duchy also incorporated the counties of Saintonge,Angoulême, Périgord, the Limousin, La Marche, and the remote region ofthe Auvergne. In the south, stretching to the Pyrenees, was the wine-producing duchy of Gascony, or Guienne, with its bustling port ofBordeaux, and the Agenais. All these lands comprised Eleanor's inheritance. The Aquitanian lordships and their castles were controlledby often hostile and frequently feuding vassals, who paid mere lipservice to their ducal overlords and were notorious for their propensity to rebel and create disorder. These turbulent nobles enjoyed a luxuriousstandard of living compared with their unwashed counterparts in northern France, and each competed with his neighbour to establish in his castle asmall but magnificent court. Renowned for their elegance, their shavenfaces and long hair, the Aquitanian aristocracy were regarded bynortherners as soft and idle, whereas in fact they could be fierce andviolent when provoked. Self-interest was the dominant theme in theirrelations with their liege lords: successive dukes had consistently failed to subdue these turbulent lords or establish cohesion within their own domains.
The authority of the dukes of Aquitaine held good, therefore, only in theimmediate vicinities of Poitiers, their capital, and Bordeaux. Al-thoughthey claimed descent from Charlemagne and retained his effigy on the coinage of Poitou, they did not have the wealth or resources to extend their power into the feudal wilderness beyond this region, and since their military strength depended upon knight service from their unrulyvassals, they could not rely upon this. Consequently, Aquitaine laggedbehind northern France in making political and economic progress.
Nevertheless, the duchy was wealthy, thanks to its lucrative export tradein wine and salt, and it was a land in which the religious life flourished. Its rulers erected and endowed numerous fine churches and abbeys, notably the famous abbey at Cluny-"a pleasaunce of the angels"-and the Aquitanian Romanesque cathedrals in Poitiers and Angoulême,built in a style typified by elegant archways with radiating decoration and lively but grotesque sculptures of monsters and mythical creatures.
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