Queen Eleanore Aquitaine of England

   Ancestral File Number: 8XJ3-Q2.

  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.

  Noted events in her life were:

• She has conflicting birth information of Alt. Birth, 1122 and Chateau DE Belin, Guinne, France.

• She worked as a Queen Of England From 19 Dec 1154. ¹

• She worked as a Princess Of Aquitaine.

Eleanore married King Henry Plantagenet II of England, son of Count Geoffrey Plantagenet V and Empress Matilda of Germany, on 18 May 1152 in Poitiers Cathedral, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. (King Henry Plantagenet II of England was born on 5 Mar 1133 in Le Mans, , Pays de la Loire, France, died on 6 Jul 1189 in Chinon, Indre-Et-Loire, France and was buried on 8 Jul 1189 in Fontevrault Abbey, Fontevrault, Maine-Et-Loire, France.)

Eleanore next married King Louis VII Of France, son of King Louis VI and Adelaide De Maurienne Of Savoy, on 22 Jul 1137 in Bordeaux, , Aquitaine, France. The marriage ended in divorce. (King Louis VII Of France was born in 1119-1120 in Reims, Reims, , Champagne-Ardenne, France, died on 18 Sep 1180 in Paris, , , France and was buried on 19 Sep 1180 in Barbeau, Isle De France, France.)