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When Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine, William IX's granddaughter, married King Louis VII of France in 1137, she gave him the rock crystal vase as a wedding present. The inscription finally says that the king gave it to Suger , [ 2 ] who in turn offered it to the saints, to be kept at the Abbey of St.-Denis which he had rebuilt.
France, Aquitaine and Poitiers in 1154 with the expansion of the Plantagenet lands. Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence (1124–1137), marriage to Louis VII and Queen of France (1137–1152), marriage to Henry II and Queen of England (1152–1173), imprisonment to Henry's death (1173–1189) and as a widow until her ...
The Lion in Winter is a 1968 historical drama centred on Henry II of England and his attempt to establish a line of succession during a family gathering at Christmas 1183. His efforts unleash both political and personal turmoil among his estranged wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their three surviving sons, the French king, and the king's half-sister Alais, who is Henry's mistress.
In 1137 the 13-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine married the future Louis VII of France, in the cathedral. A few months later, the King's father died, and Eleanor became the Queen of France. She later divorced and in 1152 she married Henry II, and became Queen of England, and mother of King Richard the Lionheart and King John of England.
Matilda was born in or around June 1156 in London or, less likely, at Windsor Castle, [2] as third child and eldest daughter of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine; [2] [3] [4] named after her paternal grandmother, Empress Matilda, she was baptized shortly after birth in Holy Trinity Priory, Aldgate by Theobald of Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Louis VII of France was granted an annulment of his marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine on 18 March 1152, and she married Henry (who would become Henry II) on 18 May 1152. Consequently, the Angevins acquired the Duchy of Aquitaine. [18] Stephen's wife and elder son, Eustace, died in 1153, leading to the Treaty of Wallingford.
1137 - 25 July: Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII of France in Bordeaux Cathedral. 1152 - Wedding of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England; 1154 - Aquitaine passes under the control of English Kings. [2] 1441 - University of Bordeaux founded. [3] 1453 - Battle of Castillon, Bordeaux and Aquitaine pass from English to French ...
Joan was born in October 1165 at Château d'Angers in Anjou as the seventh child of Henry II, King of England and his queen consort, Eleanor of Aquitaine. [3] She spent her youth at her mother's courts at Winchester and Poitiers. As a young Angevin princess, Joan's early education consisted of subjects to ready her for a dynastic marriage.