The richest heiress of her time
Born around 1122, Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers was the greatest heiress of her time. She owned a large quarter of today's France. And this enormous territory, she brings it in dowry to her husband, Louis VII king of France. This marriage is the union of opposites that do not attract. Louis VII is austere, dull and bigoted, while Eleanor is beautiful, loves luxury and is quick-witted. Accused of adultery with her uncle, Eleanor, at her wits' end, takes out an unstoppable weapon: the annulment of the marriage since she and the king are cousins and the Church forbids this kind of union.
bigs territories... Which join the domain of the King of England
France will take several centuries to recover the territories of Eleanor who finally married Henry II king of England and duke of Normandy. Territories that the duchess put in the basket of the Bride. A marriage of love that does not last when the Queen supports the plots of her sons against a father she considers incapable of ruling. She is locked up before being freed at the death of her husband. Admirable for her political sense, she advised her sons before dying at a very old age in Poitiers on April 1, 1204. She rests in the abbey of Fonterevault which she founded. It is to Eleanor, who watered the court of London with her wine from Guyenne, that we owe the passion of the English for Bordeaux and it is also to her that they owe the king who is her distant descendant...
Eleanor of Aquitaine by Frederick Sandys, 1858, National Museum of Cardiff.
Excuse our translator, he sucks and has a terrible French accent
