[an error occurred while processing this directive]
Home Page |Surname List |Index of Individuals |InterneTree |Sources
Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine (b. 1122, d. March 31, 1204)
Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine (daughter of William X, "the Toulousan" of Aquitaine and Aenor de Chastellerault de Rochfouauld)8921, 8922, 8923, 8924, 8925, 8926, 8927, 8928, 8929, 8930, 8931, 8932, 8933, 8934 was born 1122 in Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France8935, 8936, and died March 31, 1204 in Mirabell Castle, Fontevrault L'Ab, Maine-et-Loire, France8937, 8938, 8939. She married (1) Louis VII "The Younger"of France, Capet on July 25, 1137 in Bordeaux, Bordeaux, , France8940, 8941, son of Louis VI - "The Fat"Capet, of France and Adelaide (Alix Alice) de Savoy - of Savoy. She married (2) HenryPlantagenet - Longspee, De, of England on May 18, 11538942, 8943, son of GeoffreyV, of France (Plantagenet, of Anjou) and Empress of Germany du Maine Matilda.
Notes for Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine:
[15feb06abernethy.ged]
This individual was found on GenCircles at: http://www.gencircles.com/u sers/junemengland/1/data/6296
[42876.ged.FTW]
Eleanor was a formidable woman, well-read, sensual, coquettish, full of v ices.
Louis was passionately in love with his wife.Louis, whose piety exasper ated
Eleanor, was seeking ways to dissolve her marriage. The marriage was fi nally
annulled in 1152 under the pretext they were too closely related.
Eleanor was also known as the Dutchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poi tou.
The first of England's Plantagenet queens, Eleanor married Henry of Anj ou,
later Henry II of England, as her second husband in 1152. She was 32 an d Henry
was 20. Their first son, William, was born 4 months after their wedding .
The eldest child and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine, she marri ed her
first husband, Louis VII of France, in 1137 at the age of 15 and bore h im 2
daughters, Marie and Alice. In 1147 she took the cross with her husband a t
Vezelay and accompanied him to the Holy Land on the Second Crusade.
Beautiful, intelligent and forceful, she has become celebrated as much t hrough
legend as through historical fact. That she donned the dress of an Amaz on and
surrounded herself with a band of Amazonian bodyguards is almost certai nly
invention. That she flirted (and possibly more) with her uncle, Raymond o f
Antioch, while in Palestine is hinted at by contemporary chroniclers, a s is
the unsubstantiated rumour of her affair with Saladin, commander of the M uslim
forces in the Third Crusade ( who would have been only 11 at the time).
Whatever the reason, her marriage to the French king was annulled in 11 51.
Eleanor was actively involved with Henry in the politcal life of Englan d and
his French domains, and bore him five sons and three daughters. But rel ations
between king and queen deteriorated. Eleanor's resentment against her h usband
grew, fuelled by her discovery of his affair with "The Fair Rosamund" ( whom
she is rumoured to have bled to death). From 1169 onwards she conspired
actively with her sons against their father, even disguising herself as a m an
to follow her sons to France.
Her influence on the artistic, literary and cultural life of the 12th c entury
was as great as her impact on its politics : she founded her own litera ry
court and under her patronage the medieval tradition of courtly love fi rst
emerged. Eleanor died at Fontrevault in France in 1202, at the exceptio nal age
of 82.
********
The Book of the Medieval Knught by Stephen Turnbull
Gascony's connection with England dated back to the 12th century. when i ts heiress, Eleanor o f Aquitaine, one of the richest women in Europe w as divorced rfom her husband, Louis VII, Kin g of France, and married a c ertain Henry Plantagent. Henry had
just inherited Maine, Touraine and Anjou from his father and was alread y Duke of Normandy an d Suzerain of Brittany. With the possession of Aq uitaine (or Gascony) he now controlled mor e territory in France than t he King of France, and in 1154, on the
death of King Stephen, Henry became King Henry III of England.
**********
After 1167, she and Henry drifted apart and towards the end of the reig n she spent the greate r part of each year in prison while he enjoyed a s uccession of mistresses.
[v4t2728roucy.FTW]
1. AR 110-26
2. She had m. (1) Louis VII (102-25), King of France, divorced 1052.
3. d. 3 or 31 Mar. or 1 Apr 1204.
4. Of Aquitaine (and Poitou).This individual was found on GenCircles at : http://www.gencircles.com/users/junemengland/1/data/6296
[42876.ged.FTW]
Eleanor was a formidable woman, well-read, sensual, coquettish, full of v ices.
Louis was passionately in love with his wife.Louis, whose piety exasper ated
Eleanor, was seeking ways to dissolve her marriage. The marriage was fi nally
annulled in 1152 under the pretext they were too closely related.
Eleanor was also known as the Dutchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poi tou.
The first of England's Plantagenet queens, Eleanor married Henry of Anj ou,
later Henry II of England, as her second husband in 1152. She was 32 an d Henry
was 20. Their first son, William, was born 4 months after their wedding .
The eldest child and heiress of William X, duke of Aquitaine, she marri ed her
first husband, Louis VII of France, in 1137 at the age of 15 and bore h im 2
daughters, Marie and Alice. In 1147 she took the cross with her husband a t
Vezelay and accompanied him to the Holy Land on the Second Crusade.
Beautiful, intelligent and forceful, she has become celebrated as much t hrough
legend as through historical fact. That she donned the dress of an Amaz on and
surrounded herself with a band of Amazonian bodyguards is almost certai nly
invention. That she flirted (and possibly more) with her uncle, Raymond o f
Antioch, while in Palestine is hinted at by contemporary chroniclers, a s is
the unsubstantiated rumour of her affair with Saladin, commander of the M uslim
forces in the Third Crusade ( who would have been only 11 at the time).
Whatever the reason, her marriage to the French king was annulled in 11 51.
Eleanor was actively involved with Henry in the politcal life of Englan d and
his French domains, and bore him five sons and three daughters. But rel ations
between king and queen deteriorated. Eleanor's resentment against her h usband
grew, fuelled by her discovery of his affair with "The Fair Rosamund" ( whom
she is rumoured to have bled to death). From 1169 onwards she conspired
actively with her sons against their father, even disguising herself as a m an
to follow her sons to France.
Her influence on the artistic, literary and cultural life of the 12th c entury
was as great as her impact on its politics : she founded her own litera ry
court and under her patronage the medieval tradition of courtly love fi rst
emerged. Eleanor died at Fontrevault in France in 1202, at the exceptio nal age
of 82.
********
The Book of the Medieval Knught by Stephen Turnbull
Gascony's connection with England dated back to the 12th century. when i ts heiress, Eleanor o f Aquitaine, one of the richest women in Europe w as divorced rfom her husband, Louis VII, Kin g of France, and married a c ertain Henry Plantagent. Henry had
just inherited Maine, Touraine and Anjou from his father and was alread y Duke of Normandy an d Suzerain of Brittany. With the possession of Aq uitaine (or Gascony) he now controlled mor e territory in France than t he King of France, and in 1154, on the
death of King Stephen, Henry became King Henry III of England.
**********
After 1167, she and Henry drifted apart and towards the end of the reig n she spent the greate r part of each year in prison while he enjoyed a s uccession of mistresses.
[v4t2728roucy.FTW]
1. AR 110-26
2. She had m. (1) Louis VII (102-25), King of France, divorced 1052.
3. d. 3 or 31 Mar. or 1 Apr 1204.
4. Of Aquitaine (and Poitou).
!First married to King Louis VII of France; divorced in 1152 after an a dultery scandal while she was on a crusade with her husband. Later mar ried Henry Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, who became Henry II of England. A fter being alienated from her husband because of his affairs, she sided w ith her sons against their father. [Funk & Wagnalls]
FOSTER LINE
!By 1172 she bitterly hated Henry and spurred her eldest son, young Hen ry, whose coronation had given him the title of king, to demand possess ion of the English realm. On his father's refusal the boy sought refug e with Lewis of France (Eleanor's ex-husband), and his flight was the s ignal for a vast rising. France, Flanders, and Scotland joined in leagu e against Henry; his younger sons, Richard and Geoffry, took up arms in A quitaine, while the Earl of Leicester sailed from Flanders with an army o f mercenaries to stir up England to revolt. [WBH - England]
!By 1175 Eleanor was imprisoned and her son Henry, though always troubl esome to his father, remained powerless to do harm. [WBH - England]
!London, 28 Feb 1155 -- Eleanor gives birth to a second son, called Hen ry after his father.
Oxford, 24 Dec 1167 -- Queen Eleanor, aged 45, gives birth to John, her 8 th child with King Henry. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 46]
!Chinon, France, 23 March 1173 -- Queen Eleanor was captured by soldier s loyal to her husband, King Henry while attempting to escaped, disguis ed as a man, to join her rebellious sons now sheltering at the French c ourt. Eleanor is a highly intelligent politician who has been marginal ised by her husband. A keen patron of the arts, she is the daughter of t he Count of Poitou and heiress to the duchy of Aquitaine. A great (and s exually active) beauty in her youth, she married the pious Louis VII of F rance and bore two children, but the couple were incompatible and divor ced by mutual consent. She then married the 18-year-old Henry, 11 year s her junior, in 1152. [Chronicle of the Royal Family, p. 48]
!Born either at Poitiers or at the castle of Belin near Bordeaux in the y ear 1122. Sometime during the first or second year of her marriage with L ouis VII she miscarried or had a stillborn child. [Eleanor of Aquitaine , pp. 18, 46]
!March 21, 1152, at the royal castle of Beaugency near Orleans, the mar riage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine was annuled. The prin cesses Marie and Alix were declared legitimate and their custody awarde d to the king. Thequeen's domains were restored to her intact. Both T heobald of Blois (2nd son of Louis' vassal the count of Champagne) and 1 7-year-old Geoffrey Plantagenet (brother of Henry) plotted to kidnap an d marry her on her exodus back to the safety of Aquitaine. [Eleanor of A quitaine, pp. 148-150]
!Eleanor was more closely related to Henry than she had been to Louis, t heir common ancestor being Robert II, duke of Normandy, and it was nece ssary to locate canonists who would issue the proper dispensations. [El eanor, p. 150]
!Rebuilt the castle of Angers during 1153 where she moved her household w hich included her sister, Petronilla, her two illegitimate brothers, Wi lliam and Josceline, and other assorted vassals and relatives. [Eleanor , p. 159]
!In 1155 she prevailed upon Henry to begin renovations on the dilapidat ed palace at Westminster. The assignment was turned over to Thomas Bec ket who had the task completed in 50 days. Everything considered, the p alace lacked the elegance of others Eleanor had observed during her tra vels - no mirrors of polished steel, no carpets, no mother-of-pearl inl aid chairs -- but it was large, functional, and a great deal more comfo rtable and regal than Bermondsey. [Eleanor, p. 174]
!By Christmas Eve 1166 when she gave birth to dark-haired John, so diff erent from her other golden children, she had found out about Rosamond C lifford, Henry's paramour, and for the rest of her life, the sight of J ohn would be sufficient to bring back memories of his father, the man s he now despised. Sometime during the Christmas season she resolved to p ermanently return to Aquitaine and no longer be a wife to Henry Plantag enet. When she left England it took 7 ships to transport her accumulate d belongings. [Eleanor, p. 233, 239]
!In 1194 she retired to the abbey of Fontevrault, on the border of Poit ou and Anjou, where the river Vienne wound its silvery path through val ley and forest. [Eleanor, p. 325]
Duchess of Guienne, eldest dau and heir of William (tenth of that name) D uke of Aquitaine.
b.c. 1123, dau. of William VIII the Pious, Count of Poitou/Duke of Aqui taine, and Eleanor de Chatellerault; m.2. 1153, Henry II Fitz Empress, K ing of England. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 2901]
Dau. of William X of Aquitaine; m. Louis VII of France and was mother o f Alice of France; m. Henry Plantagenet II. [WFT Vol 2 Ped 976]
More About Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine:
Date born 2: 1121, Belin Castle, , Guinne, Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.8944, 8945, 8946
Date born 3: 1122, Chateau de Berlin, France.8947, 8948
Burial: April 01, 1204, Fontevrault Abbey, Montsoreau, France.8949, 8950
Endowment (LDS): Fontevrault Abbey.8951, 8952, 8953
Occupation 1: Aquitaine; Occupation: Duchess.8954, 8955, 8956
Occupation 2: England; Occupation: Queen Consort of Henry II.8957, 8958, 8959
Occupation 3: France; Occupation: Queen Consort of Louis VII.8960, 8961, 8962
Record Change: November 19, 20058962
Title (Facts Pg: of Aquataine.8963, 8964
More About Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine and Louis VII "The Younger"of France, Capet:
Divorce: 8965, 8966
Marriage: July 25, 1137, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, , France.8967, 8968
More About Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine and HenryPlantagenet - Longspee, De, of England:
Marriage 1: May 18, 11538969, 8970
Marriage 2: May 18, 11528971, 8972
Marriage 3: May 18, 1152, Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Gironde, France.8973, 8974, 8975
Marriage Notes for Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine and HenryPlantagenet - Longspee, De, of England:
[15feb06abernethy.ged]
HENRY II PLANTAGENET (King of England)
Born: 5 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Anjou
Acceded: 19 Dec 1154, Westminster Abbey, London, England
Died: 6 Jul 1189, Chinon Castle, France
Buried: Fontevraud Abbey, France
Notes: Reigned 1154-1189. He ruled an empire that stretched from the Tw eed to the Pyrenees. In spite of frequent hostitilties with the French K ing his own family and rebellious Barons (culminating in the great revo lt of 1173-74) and his quarrel with Thomas Becket, Henry maintained con trol over his possessions until shortly before his death. His judicial a nd administrative reforms which increased Royal control and influence a t the expense of the Barons were of great constitutional importance. In troduced trial by Jury. Duke of Normandy.
See The House of Clifford for more details of Rosamund's liason with He nry. Weir attributes the mother of these children to "Ikenai", which is a lso discussed by Clifford. (Chapter 5).
Father: Geoffrey V "the Fair" PLANTAGENET (Comte De Anjou and Maine)
Mother: MATILDA "the Empress" of Normandy (Queen of England)
Married: Eleanor of Aquitaine (b. 1122 - d. 31 Mar 1204) (dau. of Willi am X, D. Aquitaine, and Eleanor De Rochefoucauld) (w. of Louis VII Cape t, King of France) 11/18 May 1152, Bordeaux Cathedral, Bordeaux, France
Children:
1. William PLANTAGENET (Count of Poitiers)
2. Henry "the Young King" PLANTAGENET (King of England)
3. Matilda (Maud) PLANTAGENET
4. RICHARD I "Coeur De Lion" PLANTAGENET (King of England)
5. Geoffrey PLANTAGENET (D. Brittany)
6. Eleanor PLANTAGENET (Queen of Castilla)
7. Joan PLANTAGENET (Queen of Naples and Sicily)
8. JOHN I "Lackland" PLANTAGENET (King of England)
Associated with: Rosamund (Joan) CLIFFORD
Children:
9. Geoffrey PLANTAGENET (Archbishop of York)
10. William LONGESPEÉ (E. Salisbury)
11. Peter PLANTAGENET
Associated with: Alisa CAPET (C. Blois) (dau. of Louis VII Capet, King o f France and Eleanor of Aquitaine)
Children:
12. Dau. PLANTAGENET
13. Son PLANTAGENET
14. Son PLANTAGENET
15. Son PLANTAGENET
Associated with: Nesta BLOET
Children:
16. Morgan PLANTAGENET (Provost of Beverley)
Associated with: Alice De PORHÖET
Children:
17. Son PLANTAGENET
18. Matilda PLANTAGENET (Abbess of Barking) (d. BEF 1202)
19. Hugh PLANTAGENET (Bishop of Lincoln and Welles) (d. 1235)
20. Richard PLANTAGENET
source:
http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/PLANTAGENET.htm#HENRY%20II%20PLANTAGENET%2 0(King%20of%20England)
added:
16oct2005
# ID: I577685899
# Name: Henry II "Curtmantle" PLANTAGENET
# Given Name: Henry II "Curtmantle"
# Surname: PLANTAGENET
# Sex: M
# Birth: 5 Mar 1131/1133 in England
# Death: 6 Jul 1189 in England
# Change Date: 21 Jul 2004
# Note: King of England.
Father: Geoffrey V (IV) "the Fair, le Bon" PLANTAGENET b: 24 Aug 1110/1 113 in France
Mother: Matilda "Maud" "The Empress" NORMAN b: Bef. 5-aug-1102 in Engla nd
Marriage 1 Eleanore D'AQUITAINE b: Abt. 1121 in France
* Note: _UIDE4AAEFDC712C114B83929008FF0E1EED17DE
Children
1. John "Lackland" PLANTAGENET b: 24 Dec 1166 in England
source page:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2951323&id= I577685899
added:
03/24/05
Children of Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine and Louis VII "The Younger"of France, Capet are:
- +Marie of Bloisof France, Capet, b. April 1138, of Blois, France8976, 8977, d. March 11, 1197/988978, 8979.
Children of Eleanor - de Chatellerault of Aquitaine and HenryPlantagenet - Longspee, De, of England are:
- +Eleanor Teresa Plantagenet, b. October 13, 1162, Falaise, Calvados, France8980, 8981, 8982, d. October 31, 1214, Burgos, Spain8983, 8984, 8985.
- +John I- "Lackland"PLANTAGENET, of England, b. December 24, 1166, Beaumont Palace, Kings Manorhouse, Oxford, England, GB8986, 8987, 8988, d. October 19, 1216, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England, GB8989, 8990, 8991.

Description | How to Order | Samples | Free Demo | Quotes and Reviews | Books
Home | User Groups | Mail List | Add-Ons
| Support
© Copyright 1996-2007, The Generations Network.