queens of the crusades eleanor of aquitaine and her successors

Eleanor’s grandfather William IX, Duke of Aquitaine, a lyric poet in the Occitan language, was the earliest troubadour whose work has survived. Eleanor learned Latin, music, and literature, and also riding, hawking, and hunting.

William Aigret (1126 – 1130), died young around the same time as his motherĮleanor received an education as befitted a noblewoman of her time at the court of Aquitaine, one of the finest courts of the twelfth century, which saw the birth of courtly love and the influence of Occitan language at the various residences of the Dukes of Aquitaine.

1125 – 1193), married Raoul I, Count of Vermandois, had issue

Eleanor is said to have been named after her mother Aenor and called Aliénor from the Latin alia Aenor, which means “the other Aenor.” It became Eléanor in the French and Eleanor in English. She was the eldest of the three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Aenor de Châtellerault. Through some historical detective work, historians have deduced that Eleanor was most likely born in 1122 in either Poitiers, Bordeaux, or Nieul-sur-l’Autis, all cities in her father’s lands, all now in France. Currently, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother holds the record the longest-lived British Queen Consort. She was the longest-lived British Queen Consort until the death of Queen Mary, wife of King George V, 749 years later. Detail of Eleanor of Aquitaine’s effigy By Adam Bishop – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Įleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, Queen of France (the first wife of King Louis VII of France, marriage annulled after 15 years) and Queen of England (wife of King Henry II of England) survived her first husband, her second husband, and eight of her ten children.

Queens of the crusades eleanor of aquitaine and her successors