Eleanor of Aquitaine
Female 1123 - 31 March 1204
Born, Chateau de Belin-Beliet, Aquitaine and Gascony, France.
Died, Fontevrault, Anjou, France.
Married to VII of France Married to Henry Plantagenet. Mother of Agnes Capet and Marie Capet and Alix of France and Henry Plantagenet and Matilda Plantagenet and Richard Plantagenet and Geoffrey Plantagenet and Eleanor Plantagenet and John Plantagenet.
France)s annulled and Eleanor left her two daughters to be raised in the French court. Within a short time Eleanor married Henri d'Anjou, who was eleven years younger than she. He became Henry II king of England in 1154, and for the next thirteen years Eleanor had five sons and three daughters. When her older sons were of age, her estrangement from her husband grew. In 1173 she was imprisoned by Henry in various fortified buildings for the next fifteen years after having lead a rebellion against him. The first three times she was regent during her husband, King Henry d'Anjou's stay in his French possessions. She was also regent for mother-in-law, Empress Mathilde, in Normandy, regent during Richard IIs crusades and after his death regent until her younger son, Count John d'Anjou came to England to take over the throne, and her fame as an extremely able politician with a real thirst for power grew. She lived (1122-1204)."
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