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Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; [a] c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, [4] and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II.
Aénor of Châtellerault (also known as Aénor de Rochefoucauld; c. 1103 – March 1130) was Duchess of Aquitaine as the wife of Duke William X and the mother of the powerful Eleanor of Aquitaine. Aénor was a daughter of Aimery I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and his wife, Dangereuse of L'Île-Bouchard (d. 1151). Most likely named after her ...
Eleanor was born in the castle at Domfront, Normandy c. 1161, [2] as the second daughter of King Henry II of England and his wife Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, who she was named after. [11] She was baptised by Henry of Marcy and her godparents at her baptism were Achard, bishop of Avranches, and the abbot of Le Mont Saint Michel, Robert of ...
She was the seventh child of King Henry II of England and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine. From her birth, she was destined to make a political and royal marriage. She married William II of Sicily and later Raymond VI, Count of Toulouse, two very important and powerful figures in the political landscape of Medieval Europe.
Aenor (c. 1103 – March 1130), who married William X, Duke of Aquitaine. [1] She was the mother of Duchess Eleanor, Petronilla, and William Aigret, who died at the age of four. Eleanor became Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, as well as twice being a queen, through successive marriages to Louis VII of France and Henry II 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.
In 1185, Berengaria was given the fief of Monreal in Navarre by her father. [1] Eleanor of Aquitaine promoted the engagement of Berengaria to her son Richard the Lionheart. An alliance with Navarre meant protection for the southern borders of Eleanor's Duchy of Aquitaine and helped create better relations with neighbouring Castile, whose queen was Richard's sister Eleanor.
Philippa (French: Philippe, Comtesse de Toulouse) (c. 1073 – 28 November 1118) was suo jure Countess of Toulouse, as well as the Duchess of Aquitaine by marriage to Duke William IX of Aquitaine. She is the Grandmother of Eleanor of Aquitaine , Queen of England through her marriage with Henry II , and is also the Half-Great-Niece of William ...