Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0801522323
ISBN 13
9780801522321
Category
Nonfiction, General
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Publication Year
1977
Publisher
Hawthorn/Dutton, United States
Subject
Biography
Description
Marion Meade portrays Eleanor of Aquitaine as a woman of great intelligence and titanic energy who lived in a passionate and creative age.A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century.Eleanor's long life inspired a number of legends. At twenty-five she set out for the Holy Land as a Crusader and at seventy-eight she crossed the Pyreness to Spain to fetch the granddaughter whose marriage would be, she hoped, a pledge of peace between England and France. This is a compassionate biography of this charismatic queen and the world she ruled over. - from Amzon
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