Eleanor of Aquitaine Biography
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Bordeaux or Belin, France
1204
Anjou, France
Queen of France and England
"Powerful, beautiful, indefatigable [unstoppable], sensuous [appealing to the senses], literary, an eagle soaring above mere mortals, mother of ten royal children she might indeed be. Some regarded her as the Demon mother who had once, in a bath, assumed the shape of a dragon."
—James Reston Jr., Warriors of God: Richard the Lionheart and Saladin in the Third Crusade.
Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most powerful and interesting people of the Middle Ages. That she accomplished so much at a time when women usually had little standing (power) in society is amazing. The wife of two kings, she gave birth to three more. Called the "grandmother of...
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