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Eleanor of Aquitaine
(1123 - 1 Apr 1204)
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Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine1
F, #102014, b. between 1120 and 1122, d. 1 April 1204
Last Edited=3 Apr 2009
Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine was born between 1120 and 1122 at Château de Belin, Guienne, France.2 She was the daughter of Guillaume X, Duc d'Aquitaine and Eleanor Châtellérault de Rochefoucauld.3,4 She married, firstly, Louis VII, Roi de France, son of Louis VI Capet, Roi de France and Adelaide di Savoia, on 25 July 1137 at Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Dauphine, France.2 She and Louis VII, Roi de France were divorced in 1152 on the grounds of consanguity.5 She married, secondly, Henry II 'Curtmantle' d'Anjou, King of England, son of Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Comte d'Anjou et Maine and Matilda 'the Empress' of England, on 18 May 1152 at Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Dauphine, France.2 She was also reported to have been married on 14 May 1152. She died on 1 April 1204 at Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, France.5 She was buried at Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, France.5
She was also known as Eleanor of Aquitaine.4 She was a member of the House of Poitiers.1 She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Bordeaux on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Agen on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Auvergne on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Saintonge on 9 April 1137.2 She succeeded to the title of Duchesse d'Aquitaine on 9 April 1137.2 She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Limousin on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Angoumois on 9 April 1137. As a result of her marriage, Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine was styled as Queen Consort Eleanor of England on 19 December 1154.5
Children of Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine and Louis VII, Roi de France
Marie Capet, Princesse de France+3 b. 1145, d. 11 Mar 1198
Alix Capet, Princesse de France+3 b. 1150, d. 1198
Children of Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine and Henry II 'Curtmantle' d'Anjou, King of England
William de Poitiers, Comte de Poitiers b. 17 Aug 1153, d. c Apr 1156
Henry of England, Duc de Normandie+ b. 28 Feb 1155, d. 11 Jun 1183
Matilda of England+ b. Jun 1156, d. 28 Jun 1189
Richard I 'Coeur de Lion', King of England+ b. 8 Sep 1157, d. 6 Apr 1199
Geoffrey II Plantagenet, Earl of Richmond+ b. 23 Sep 1158, d. 19 Aug 1186
Eleanor Plantagenet+ b. 13 Oct 1162, d. 31 Oct 1214
Joan Plantagenet+ b. Oct 1165, d. 4 Sep 1199
John I 'Lackland', King of England+ b. 24 Dec 1167, d. 19 Oct 1216
Citations
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 81. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 58. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
[S106] Royal Genealogies Website (ROYAL92.GED), online http://www.daml.org/2001/01/gedcom/royal92.ged. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogies Website.
[S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online, Richard Glanville-Brown (RR 2, Milton, Ontario, Canada), downloaded 17 August 2005.
[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, page 59.
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From FindAGrave
Birth: 1123, France
Death: Apr. 1, 1204
Poitiers
Departement de la Vienne
Poitou-Charentes, France
French and English Monarch. Duchess and heiress of Aquitaine and Gascogne, Countess of Poitou. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father in 1137. In the same year, on July 25., she married Louis of France. The couple was very different., Louis had been raised at a monastery and was very calm and she was a woman of independent spirit. In 1147 they both joined the Crusade. During their stay in Antioch she was suspected to have a liaison with her uncle Raymond de Poitiers, who reigned as Prince of Antioch, and she had to return to France alone. She gave birth to two daughters, Marie and Alix, that where later married to two brothers. In March 1152 she got divorced and married again in May the 19 year old Henry Plantagenet, which led to a scandal. With the divorce and remarriage Louis not only lost a wife, that he had apparently loved, but also her inheritance which considered of West and a large part of South France. In 1154 Henry became King and his sphere of influence extended thereby from Scotland to the Pyreneeses. Over the years they had 8 children. In the beginning the marriage seems to have been very happy, but later Henry started to have affairs. With much energy she made politics against her husband. In 1173 she encouraged her three oldest sons to rebel against him and to claim their inheritances early. In 1174 Henry defeated his sons and captured Eleonore. He imprisoned her for most of the following 16 years. She was released when the message of his death reached her prison. While Richard was in on the Crusade she reined the country very skilled. She traveled all her life governing her children's possession in France. In the Winter of 1199/1200 with the high age of 77 she travelled over the Pyreneeses to Castile to visit her daughter Aenor and accompany her granddaughter Blanca to France to marry the dauphin. In later years she more often retired to the Abbey of Fontevraud where she died and was buried beside her husband and two of her children. She had survived her husbands and eight of her ten children. During the Revolution her body was exhumed, her bones scattered and never recovered. (bio by: Lutetia)
Family links:
Parents:
Guillaume X of Aquitaine (1099 - 1137)
Aenor de Châtellerault (1103 - 1130)
Spouses:
King Louis VII (1120 - 1180)*
Henry Plantagenet (1133 - 1189)*
Children:
Marie de Champagne (1145 - 1198)*
William De Poitiers (1153 - 1156)*
Henry Plantagenet (1155 - 1183)*
Mathilda Plantagenet (1156 - 1189)*
Richard I (1157 - 1199)*
Geoffrey II Plantagenet (1158 - 1186)*
Alys Talvas (1160 - 1220)*
Eleanor Plantagenet (1162 - 1214)*
Joan Plantagenet (1164 - 1199)*
King John (1167 - 1216)*
King John (1167 - 1216)*
Sibling:
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1123 - 1204)
Aelis Petronille de Aquitaine (1125 - 1151)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Fontevraud Abbey *
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye
Departement de Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire, France
*Former burial location
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Sep 22, 1999
Find A Grave Memorial# 6437
Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine1
F, #102014, b. between 1120 and 1122, d. 1 April 1204
Last Edited=3 Apr 2009
Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine was born between 1120 and 1122 at Château de Belin, Guienne, France.2 She was the daughter of Guillaume X, Duc d'Aquitaine and Eleanor Châtellérault de Rochefoucauld.3,4 She married, firstly, Louis VII, Roi de France, son of Louis VI Capet, Roi de France and Adelaide di Savoia, on 25 July 1137 at Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Dauphine, France.2 She and Louis VII, Roi de France were divorced in 1152 on the grounds of consanguity.5 She married, secondly, Henry II 'Curtmantle' d'Anjou, King of England, son of Geoffrey V Plantagenet, Comte d'Anjou et Maine and Matilda 'the Empress' of England, on 18 May 1152 at Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, Dauphine, France.2 She was also reported to have been married on 14 May 1152. She died on 1 April 1204 at Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, France.5 She was buried at Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud, France.5
She was also known as Eleanor of Aquitaine.4 She was a member of the House of Poitiers.1 She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Bordeaux on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Agen on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Auvergne on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Saintonge on 9 April 1137.2 She succeeded to the title of Duchesse d'Aquitaine on 9 April 1137.2 She succeeded to the title of Comtesse de Limousin on 9 April 1137. She succeeded to the title of Comtesse d'Angoumois on 9 April 1137. As a result of her marriage, Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine was styled as Queen Consort Eleanor of England on 19 December 1154.5
Children of Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine and Louis VII, Roi de France
Marie Capet, Princesse de France+3 b. 1145, d. 11 Mar 1198
Alix Capet, Princesse de France+3 b. 1150, d. 1198
Children of Eleanor, Duchesse d'Aquitaine and Henry II 'Curtmantle' d'Anjou, King of England
William de Poitiers, Comte de Poitiers b. 17 Aug 1153, d. c Apr 1156
Henry of England, Duc de Normandie+ b. 28 Feb 1155, d. 11 Jun 1183
Matilda of England+ b. Jun 1156, d. 28 Jun 1189
Richard I 'Coeur de Lion', King of England+ b. 8 Sep 1157, d. 6 Apr 1199
Geoffrey II Plantagenet, Earl of Richmond+ b. 23 Sep 1158, d. 19 Aug 1186
Eleanor Plantagenet+ b. 13 Oct 1162, d. 31 Oct 1214
Joan Plantagenet+ b. Oct 1165, d. 4 Sep 1199
John I 'Lackland', King of England+ b. 24 Dec 1167, d. 19 Oct 1216
Citations
[S38] John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 81. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.
[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 58. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Families.
[S106] Royal Genealogies Website (ROYAL92.GED), online http://www.daml.org/2001/01/gedcom/royal92.ged. Hereinafter cited as Royal Genealogies Website.
[S125] Richard Glanville-Brown, online
[S11] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, page 59.
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From FindAGrave
Birth: 1123, France
Death: Apr. 1, 1204
Poitiers
Departement de la Vienne
Poitou-Charentes, France
French and English Monarch. Duchess and heiress of Aquitaine and Gascogne, Countess of Poitou. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father in 1137. In the same year, on July 25., she married Louis of France. The couple was very different., Louis had been raised at a monastery and was very calm and she was a woman of independent spirit. In 1147 they both joined the Crusade. During their stay in Antioch she was suspected to have a liaison with her uncle Raymond de Poitiers, who reigned as Prince of Antioch, and she had to return to France alone. She gave birth to two daughters, Marie and Alix, that where later married to two brothers. In March 1152 she got divorced and married again in May the 19 year old Henry Plantagenet, which led to a scandal. With the divorce and remarriage Louis not only lost a wife, that he had apparently loved, but also her inheritance which considered of West and a large part of South France. In 1154 Henry became King and his sphere of influence extended thereby from Scotland to the Pyreneeses. Over the years they had 8 children. In the beginning the marriage seems to have been very happy, but later Henry started to have affairs. With much energy she made politics against her husband. In 1173 she encouraged her three oldest sons to rebel against him and to claim their inheritances early. In 1174 Henry defeated his sons and captured Eleonore. He imprisoned her for most of the following 16 years. She was released when the message of his death reached her prison. While Richard was in on the Crusade she reined the country very skilled. She traveled all her life governing her children's possession in France. In the Winter of 1199/1200 with the high age of 77 she travelled over the Pyreneeses to Castile to visit her daughter Aenor and accompany her granddaughter Blanca to France to marry the dauphin. In later years she more often retired to the Abbey of Fontevraud where she died and was buried beside her husband and two of her children. She had survived her husbands and eight of her ten children. During the Revolution her body was exhumed, her bones scattered and never recovered. (bio by: Lutetia)
Family links:
Parents:
Guillaume X of Aquitaine (1099 - 1137)
Aenor de Châtellerault (1103 - 1130)
Spouses:
King Louis VII (1120 - 1180)*
Henry Plantagenet (1133 - 1189)*
Children:
Marie de Champagne (1145 - 1198)*
William De Poitiers (1153 - 1156)*
Henry Plantagenet (1155 - 1183)*
Mathilda Plantagenet (1156 - 1189)*
Richard I (1157 - 1199)*
Geoffrey II Plantagenet (1158 - 1186)*
Alys Talvas (1160 - 1220)*
Eleanor Plantagenet (1162 - 1214)*
Joan Plantagenet (1164 - 1199)*
King John (1167 - 1216)*
King John (1167 - 1216)*
Sibling:
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1123 - 1204)
Aelis Petronille de Aquitaine (1125 - 1151)*
*Calculated relationship
Burial:
Fontevraud Abbey *
Fontevraud-l'Abbaye
Departement de Maine-et-Loire
Pays de la Loire, France
*Former burial location
Maintained by: Find A Grave
Record added: Sep 22, 1999
Find A Grave Memorial# 6437
Events
| Birth | 1123 | France | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 1137 | Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Duchess of Aquitaine and Gascogne | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse de Bordeaux | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse d'Agen | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse d'Auvergne | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse de Saintonge | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse de Limousin | |||
| Title (Nobility) | 9 Apr 1137 | Comtesse d'Angoumois | |||
| Marriage | 18 May 1152 | King Henry II "Curtmantle" Plantagenet | |||
| Death | 1 Apr 1204 | Poitiers, Poitou-Charentes, France | |||
| Burial | Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, Pays de la Loire, France | ||||
| Title (Nobility) | Countess of Poitou | ||||
| Miscellaneous | Ruler of Brittany, Maine, Poitou, Touraine, Gascony, Anjou, Aquitaine, and Normandy |
Families
| Spouse | King Henry II "Curtmantle" Plantagenet (1133 - 1189) |
| Child | William IX Plantagenet (1153 - 1156) |
| Child | King Henry "the Young King" Plantagenet (1155 - 1183) |
| Child | Matilda Plantagenet (1156 - 1189) |
| Child | King Richard I "The Lionheart" Plantagenet (1157 - 1199) |
| Child | Geoffrey II Plantagenet (1158 - 1186) |
| Child | Eleanor Plantagenet (1162 - 1214) |
| Child | Joan Plantagenet (1165 - 1199) |
| Child | King John I "Lackland" Plantagenet (1167 - 1216) |
| Spouse | Louis VII of France "the Younger" (1120 - 1180) |
| Child | Marie Capet (1145 - 1198) |
| Child | Alix Capet (1150 - 1198) |
| Father | William X (1099 - 1137) |
| Mother | Aenor de Châtellerault (1103 - 1130) |