Eleanor then acted as Regent while Richard launched the Third Crusade.
Her husband was succeeded by their son, King Richard the Lionheart, who immediately released his mother from prison. She received neither influence nor fame by her second marriage to King Henry II, who jailed her for fifteen years for conspiring and supporting their son s claim to the throne. A magnificent independent ruler in her own right, she lost her power when she married Louis VII of France. As the greatest heiress in Europe, she was in turn Queen of France and Queen of England among her sons were Richard the Lionheart and King John. A monstrous injurer of heaven and earth, as Shakespeare referred to this powerful medieval matriarch, Eleanor of Aquitaine s reign as England s stormiest and most ambitious queen has never been matched. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in original pictorial jacket. Octavo (8 1/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with gilt lettering to spine over brown boards in … More.Ģ64 pages with chart, tables, plates, bibliography and index.
264 pages with chart, tables, plates, bibliography and index.
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