Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou: May 18th, 1152. (Months Past).(Brief Article)

History Today | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

TWO MORE STRONG-MINDED, forceful and determined people could hardly have been matched. Eleanor, who was about thirty, had already been queen of France for fifteen years through her first marriage and by her second she would soon be queen of England. Daughter and heiress of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou, she was beautiful, wanton, capricious, sophisticated, highly intelligent and accustomed to having her own way. She had inherited her father's enormous estates in her teens on his death in 1137 and her first husband, Louis VII of France, had been quite unable ...

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