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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

April 3, 2010

Alison Weir spends a lot of time in this book discusses common legends and misconceptions surrounding Eleanor, which was interesting for me because I hadn't heard any of them before. I really wasn't that familiar with Eleanor of Aquitaine before reading this - mostly I just knew that she went on crusade once, was Richard the Lionheart's mother, and was played by Katherine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. From these three bits of information, we can at least deduce that she was kind of a badass.

Having finished this account of her life, I have to admit that I now know a lot more about everyone else in Eleanor's life than I do about Eleanor herself. Weir does her best, but the fact is there just isn't that much concrete information about Eleanor, aside from a few letters (which were recorded by her clerk, who may have actually composed the letters himself) and some documents stating how much money she spent at a certain time or when she traveled to England. For the majority of the book, Eleanor is sort of kept to the sidelines, occasionall

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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Queen of France (1137–52) and England (1154–89); Duchess of Aquitaine (1137–1204)

Eleanor
Tomb effigy at Fontevraud Abbey
Reign	9 April 1137 – 1 April 1204
Predecessor	William X
Successor	John
Co-rulers
Tenure	1 August 1137 – 21 March 1152
Coronation	25 December 1137
Tenure	19 December 1154 – 6 July 1189
Coronation	19 December 1154
Born	c. 1124 Bordeaux, Aquitaine
Died	1 April 1204 (aged ~80) Fontevraud Abbey,Anjou
Burial	Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud
Spouses
Issue Detail	Marie, Countess of Champagne Alix, Countess of Blois William IX, Count of Poitiers Henry the Young King Matilda, Duchess of Saxony Richard I, King of England Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany Eleanor, Queen of Castile Joan, Queen of Sicily John, King of England
House	Ramnulfids
Father	William X, Duke of Aquitaine
Mother	Aénor de Châtellerault

Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced[aljeˈnɔɾdakiˈtanj

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Untangling the myths and legends of many centuries, this biography gives us the real Eleanor—tenacious, defiant, and powerful

Eleanor of Aquitaine’s extraordinary life seems more likely to be found in the pages of fiction. Proud daughter of a distinguished French dynasty, she married the king of France, Louis VII, then the king of England, Henry II, and gave birth to two sons who rose to take the English throne—Richard the Lionheart and John. Renowned for her beauty, hungry for power, headstrong, and unconventional, Eleanor traveled on crusades, acted as regent for Henry II and later for Richard, incited rebellion, endured a fifteen-year imprisonment, and as an elderly widow still wielded political power with energy and enthusiasm.

This gripping biography is the definitive account of the most important queen of the Middle Ages. Ralph Turner, a leading historian of the twelfth century, strips away the myths that have accumulated around Eleanor—the “black legend” of her sexual appetite, for example—and challenges the accounts that relegate her to the shadows of the kings she ma