General Notes

Eleanor was an extraordinarily powerful woman, she was the duchess of Aquitaine and Queen of France (1137-1152) with her marriage to Louis VII and Queen of England after her marriage to Henry. She was the Countess of Saintonge, Angoumois, Limousin, Auvergne, Bordeaux, Agen. Eleanor had 10 children, three of whom were crowned kings of England (Henry, Richard, and John). One of her daughters, Matilda, married Henry the Lion of Bavaria and Saxony and was the mother of Otto of Brunswick; another daughter Eleanor wed King Alfonso VIII of Castile and had Blanche, the mother of Louis IX of France; her daughter Jeanne was the wife of King William II of Sicily and after his death, Count Raymond VIof Toulouse. "The Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages" Norman F. Cantor, General Editor.