Queen Of England * Eleanor Of Aquitaine 
* Eleanor was born in 1122 in Chateau de Belin, Bordeaux, FRA. * Eleanor's father was Duke * William X Of Aquitaine and her mother was * Eleanor de Chatellerault. Her paternal grandparents were Duke * William VIII 'The Troubador' Of Aquitaine and * Phillipa Of Toulouse; her maternal grandfather was * Aumary I de Chatellerault. She was an only child. She died in Fontrevault FRA.General Notes
The eldest daughter and heir of the Dukes of Aquitaine, she was born about 1122. She was brought up by her grandfather, the renowned troubadour Guillaume IX. In 1137 she inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine and married the French king, Louis VII.
Two daughters were born from this marriage. Eleanor accompanied her husband on crusade and was rumoured to have had an affair with Saladin and others. On their return to France, Louis VII had their marriage annulled on 18 March 1152 on grounds of consanguinity. Eleanor, then about 30 years old, wasted no time in seducing the nineteen-year-old Henry, Duke of Normandy, marrying him on 18 May 1152 in Beaux.
Over a period of fifteen years, five sons and three daughters were born. Eleanor and Henry then grew apart and, when their children had grown up, she supported first one son and then another against Henry. In 1189 Henry died and Eleanor lived long enough to outlive her son, Richard the Lionheart, and see her husbands favourite son, John, become king before she herself died in 1204 at about eighty-two years of age, to be buried at Fontevrault.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 0949 in Aquitaine FRA d.0995
- b.0969 d.1030
- b.~ 0954 in Blois FRA d.1003
- b.1026 d.1086
- b.0958 d.21 Sep 1026
- b.0995 d.1068
- b.0952
- b.1071 d.1127
- b.1030 d.1104
- b.1099 d.1137
- b.1073 d.1117
- b.1122 in Chateau de Belin, Bordeaux, FRA d.26 Jan 1201/1202 in Fontrevault FRA
- b.1077
- b.1103 d.1130
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* Eleanor and * Henry II were married in a religious ceremony on May 18th, 1152 in Bordeaux Cathedral FRA. They had five sons and three daughters, named William, Henry, Richard 'Lionheart' I, Geoffrey, * John, Matilda (Maud), Eleanor and Joan.
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Children
King Of England Richard 'Lionheart' I Plantagenet
Richard 'Lionheart' I was born in 1157. He died at the age of 42 in 1199.
King Of England * John Plantagenet
* John was born on December 24th, 1166 in Beaumont Palace, Oxford ENG. He died at the age of 49 on October 19th, 1216 in Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire ENG. He was buried in Worcester Cathedral.
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