Elbeonore, Princess of Aquitaine

Abt 1121 - 1204  (~ 83 years)

• Name	Elbeonore   [1]
  Suffix	Princess of Aquitaine
  Born	Abt 1121
  Gender	Female
  Died	31 Mar 1204	Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine
  Buried	Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France
  Person ID	I5715	Davidson-Radford

  
  

  Father	Guillaume X., Duke of Aquitaine,   b. 1099, Aquitaine, France ,   d. 19 Apr 1137, France  (Age 38 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Elbeanor DE CHATELLERAULT,   b. Abt 1103, Chatellerault, Poitou, Aquitaine, France ,   d. Aft Mar 1130  (Age ~ 27 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	1121	France
  Family ID	F834	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Married	11 May 1152	Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
  Children	1. William PLANTAGENET, Prince of England,   b. 17 Aug 1152, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France ,   d. Apr 1156, Wallingford, Berkshire, England  (Age 3 years)  [natural ]   2. Henry PLANTAGENET, Prince of England,   b. 28 Mar 1155, London, London, England ,   d. 11 Jun 1183, Turenne, Aquitaine  (Age 28 years)  [natural ]   3. Matilda PLANTAGENET, Princess of England,   b. 1156, London, London, England ,   d. 28 Jun 1189, Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Niedersachsen, Germany  (Age 33 years)  [natural ]   4. Richard PLANTAGENET, King of England,   b. 13 Sep 1157, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 6 Apr 1199, Chalus, Haute-Loire, Auvergne, France  (Age 41 years)  [natural ]   5. Geoffrey PLANTAGENET, Prince of England,   b. 23 Sep 1158, England ,   d. 19 Aug 1186, Paris, Île-de-France, France  (Age 27 years)  [natural ]   6. Philip PLANTAGENET, Prince of England,   b. Abt 1160, England ,   d. Abt 1161  (Age ~ 1 years)  [natural ]   7. Eleanor PLANTAGENET, Princess of England,   b. 13 Oct 1162, Domfront, Normandy, France ,   d. 25 Oct 1214, Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain  (Age 52 years)  [natural ]   8. Joanna PLANTAGENET, Princess of England,   b. Abt 1164, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France ,   d. 4 Sep 1199, Rouen, Normandy, France  (Age ~ 35 years)  [natural ]   9. John "Lackland" PLANTAGENET, King of England,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England ,   d. 19 Oct 1216, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England  (Age 49 years)  [natural ]
  Family ID	F1996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Married - 11 May 1152 - Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Buried - - Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Histories

  Elbeonore Princess of Aquitane Biographical Notes

  
  

• Notes

  Queen Eleanor was the queen of two kingdoms, and the mother of two mor e kings. Any book on great women in European history is sure to mentio her. As Duchess of Aquitaine, Eleanor controlled lands vaster tha the king of France. So, it's not a surprise that the French king wou ld seek an alliance with her. She married King Louis VII of France i 1137. As queen of France, she accompanied Louis on the Second Crusad e. There, Eleanor and many other women dressed as amazons -- somethin g that shocked the men of the time. Even more shocking was the scanda l that she might have had an affair with her uncle Raymond of Antioch . Louis and Eleanor had their marriage annulled in 1151. In 1152, sh e married Henry, Duke of Normandy, who was 11 years younger than Elean or. Two years later, Eleanor had become queen of England. In the 1170 's, she sided with her sons as they rebelled against Henry II. In 1173 , she was caught fleeing, disguised as a man. Eleanor was imprisoned f or most of the rest of Henry's reign. But even in prison she plotted , encouraging rebellion against King Henry II. She was freed right aft er Richard became king. Richard was her favourite son, but when Richar d died, she supported King John's bid for the throne. A rival claimant , her grandson Arthur of Brittany, briefly imprisoned Eleanor in 1202 . King John promptly rescued her. She died in 1204 at the age of 82 . She had enormous influence over England, including forcing Richar d to marry Queen Berengaria. Eleanor was a great patron of arts and a chitecture. Source: Wright, Allen W., The Search For A Real Robi Hood; http://www.boldoutlaw.com/realrob/, accessed 29 May 2009

  
  

• Sources

  [S44] "International Genealogical Index." Database , The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS]. , (Name: \i FamilySearch\i0 . http://www.familysearch.org; ).