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	POITIERS - LoveToKnow Article on POITIERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		of England and Eleanor of Guienne on the ruins of a Roman basilica, and well advanced by the end of the 12th century, is a building in the Romanesque and Early Gothic style, the latter predominating.
		Poitiers is the seat of a bishop, a prefect, a court of appeal and a court of assizes, and centre of an educational division (academic), and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a board of trade arbitration, a chamber of commerce and a branch of the Bank of France.
		Eleanor of Guienne frequently resided in the city, which she embellished and fortified, and in 1199 entrusted with communal rights.
	1.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PO/POITIERS.htm (2482 words)

	Eleanor of Aquitaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eleanor of Aquitaine (about 1122 - April 1, 1204) was one of the most powerful people of the Middle Ages and the richest and most powerful woman in Europe during her lifetime.
		When Eleanor was born she was named after her mother and called "Alia Aenor", which in their language meant "other Aenor", but it became "Eleanor" in English.
		Eleanor died in 1204 and was entombed in Fontevraud Abbey near her husband Henry and her son Richard.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/eleanor_of_aquitaine (995 words)

	Eleanor of Aquitaine by Alison Weir
		In the south, stretching to the Pyrenees, was the wine-producing duchy of Gascony, or Guienne, with its bustling port of Bordeaux, and the Agenais.
		Eleanor’s birthplace was probably either the ducal palace at Poitiers or the Ombrière Palace at Bordeaux, although a local tradition claims that she was born in the château of Belin near Bordeaux, one of her father’s residences.
		Eleanor grew up to be very beautiful: all contemporary sources are agreed on this point, and even in an age when chroniclers routinely eulogised royal and noble ladies, their praise of her was undoubtedly sincere.
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	AllRefer.com - Guienne, France (French Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Guienne as it existed from the time of Henry IV (late 16th–early 17th cent.) to the French Revolution covered the present departments of Gironde, Dordogne, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, and Aveyron and most of Tarn-et-Garonne.
		Guienne was synonymous with Aquitaine until the Hundred Years War (1337–1453).
		The birth of the lyric poetry of the troubadours occurred in Guienne (11th–12th cent.).
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	Guienne on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Guienne as it existed from the time of Henry IV (late 16th-early 17th cent.) to the French Revolution covered the present departments of Gironde, Dordogne, Lot, Lot-et-Garonne, and Aveyron and most of Tarn-et-Garonne.
		Guienne was synonymous with Aquitaine until the Hundred Years War (1337-1453).
		The birth of the lyric poetry of the troubadours occurred in Guienne (11th-12th cent.).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Guienne.asp (191 words)

	Eleanor of Guienne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Eleanor was born she was named after her mother and called "Alia Aenor", which in theirlanguage meant "other Aenor", but it became "Eleanor" in English.
		Eleanor was certainly incensed by Henry's numerous sexualdalliances leaving a division of family inheritance.
		Eleanor and Henry are the main characters in the play, The Lion in Winter, by James Goldman,which was made into a film starring Peter O'Toole and Katharine Hepburn.
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	guienne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aquitaine (or "Guyenne" or "Guienne") now forms a region in south-western France along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain.
		In the Middle Ages Aquitaine became a duchy, and as the title "Duke of Aquitaine" passed to various counts, their domains became part of Aquitaine (or so the later dukes claimed): Poitiers, Auvergne, and Toulouse.
		Eleanor of Aquitaine became one of the most famous members of the Aquitainian nobility.
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	Eleanor of Aquitaine - free-definition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Eleanor was born she was named after her mother and called "Alia Aenor", which in Latin means "other Aenor", but it became "Eleanor" in English.
		She was raised in one of Europe's most cultured courts, the birthplace of the courtly love poetry invented by her grandfather, William IX of Aquitaine, the Troubador.
		In 1173, Eleanor took part in a rebellion against Henry (see Revolt of 1173-1174), in league with three of their four surviving legitimate sons, although his other sons stood by him.
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	Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
		Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the most fascinating personalities of Medieval Europe.
		Born around 1122, Eleanor was the daughter of William X, duke of Aquitaine and count of Poitiers.
		Eleanor was a very intelligent woman; many considered her superior in intellect than her husband.
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	Ancestors of Eugene Ashton ANDREW & Anna Louise HANISH Queen Eleanor Aquitaine ENGLAND ANDREW ANGERMUELLER HANISH ...
		"Eleanor of Aquitaine was born in 1122, either at Bordeaux or at the nearby castle of Belin.
		Eleanor of Aquitaine was inher own right a reigning princess, with the warmth of the South in her veins.
		Eleanor inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father, William X. Married to Louis VII (1137), she was queen of France for 15 years, exerting considerable influence over Louis and accompanying him on the Second Crusade (1147-1149).
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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Order and Abbey of Fontevrault
		The prosperity of the abbey continued under the next two abbesses, but by the end of the twelfth century, owing to the state of the country and the English wars, the nuns were reduced to gaining their livelihood by manual work.
		The situation was aggravated by internal dissensions which lasted a hundred years, and prosperity did not return till the beginning of the fourteenth century, under the rule of Eleanor of Brittany, grand-daughter of Henry III of England, who had taken the veil at the Fontevrist priory of Amesbury, in Wiltshire.
		The Angevin kings were much attached to Fontevrault: Henry II and his queen, Eleanor of Guienne, Richard Coeur de Lion, and Isabel of Angoulême, the wife of King John, were buried in the Cimetière des Rois in the abbey church, where their effigies may still be seen.
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		Eleanor's long life was full of energy and passion of which next to nothing is known; the woman was always too slippery for monks or soldiers to grasp.
		Eleanor, having obtained her divorce at Beaugency, to the deep regret of all Frenchmen, started at once for Poitiers, knowing how unsafe she was in any territory but her own.
		Eleanor herself was eighty, and yet she made the journey to Spain, brought back the child to Bordeaux, affianced her to Louis VIII as she had herself been affianced in 1137 to Louis VII, and in May, 1200, saw her married.
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	Aquitaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Aquitaine achieved a high literate court of courteoisie that peaked under William VIII (ruled Duke William IX the troubadour was a poet himself and Poitiers a center of the musical poetry of troubadours.
		When William X died (1137) his daughter Eleanor of Aquitaine the greatest heiress of France married guardian Louis VII of France and followed him on crusade then had the childless marriage annulled 1152 to marry his greatest rival Henry II of England.
		Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine, was one of the most important and influential personalities of the Middle Ages and she t...
	www.freeglossary.com /Aquitaine (905 words)

	Ancestors of Eleanor AQUITAINE
		Eleanor was the daughter and heiress of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitiers, who possessed one of the largest domains in France--larger, in fact, than those held by the French king.
		Eleanor's conduct during this expedition, especially at the court of her uncle Raymond of Poitiers at Antioch, aroused Louis's jealousy and marked the beginning of their estrangement.
		Eleanor, nearly 80 years old, fearing the disintegration of the Plantagenet domain, crossed the Pyrenees in 1200 in order to fetch her granddaughter Blanche from the court of Castile and marry her to the son of the French king.
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	Kings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eleanor, whose jealousy was excited by the king's affection for Fair Rosamond, attempted to follow her sons to the court of France, but was seized and imprisoned during Henry's life.
		by Eleanor of Guienne, and was born in 1166.
		Early named governor of Ireland, he was sent over, in 1185, to complete its conquest, but such was his imprudence that it was found necessary to recall him; and on the death of his father he was left without any provision, which procured for him the name of Sans Terre, or Lackland.
	www.conisbroughcastle.org.uk /kings.htm (4480 words)

	Eleanor of Provence - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Eleanor of Provence
		After his death, she became a nun in 1276 and died in obscurity.
		Eleanor was the daughter of Raymond Berenger IV, Count of Provence.
		At the English court, her influence is believed to have been behind Henry's favouring of foreign advisors.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Eleanor+of+Provence (131 words)

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		In 1203 John's paternal inheritance abroad, but not Eleanor's inheritance in Poictou and Aquitaine, was declared forfeited to the French crown, owing to the death of Arthur.
		In 1204 Eleanor died, and Normandy, Anjou, Maine, Touraine, and most of Poictou, were conquered or submitted to the French.
		King of England, born in 1166, the youngest son of Henry II., by Eleanor of Guienne.
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	Eleanor of Aquitaine Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Gascon and Occitan: ''Aquitània''; Basque languageBasque: ''Akitania'') (anciently "Guyenne" or "Guienne") now forms a ''list of regions in Francerégion'' in south-western France along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain.
		Duke William IX of AquitaineWilliam IX, ''the troubadour'' was a poet himself, and Poitiers became a center of the musical poetry of the troubadours.
		When William X of AquitaineWilliam X died (1137), his daughter Eleanor of Aquitaine, the greatest heiress of France, married her guardian, Louis VII of France and followed him on crusade, then had the marriage annulled under the pretext of kinship in 1152 to marry his greatest rival Henry II of England.
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	LISIEUX - LoveToKnow Article on LISIEUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The town was not reduced till 1141, by which time both it and the neighborhood had been brought to the direst extremities of famine.
		of England to Eleanor of Guienne, which added so largely to his dominions, was celebrated in the cathedral.
		Thomas a Becket took refuge here, and some vestments used by him are shown in the hospital chapel.
	8.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LI/LISIEUX.htm (426 words)

	Encyclopedia: History of France
		Worse was to follow, with the succession in 1154 to the disputed English throne of Henry II, already count of Anjou and duke of Normandy before his marriage (1152) to France's newly-divorced ex-queen Eleanor of Aquitaine brought him control also of much of south-west France.
		Events March 4 - Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans Eleanor of Aquitaine has her marriage to Louis VII annulled May 18 - Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou Church of Ireland acknowledges Popes authority Almohad Dynasty conquers Algeria Establishment of the archbishopric of Nidaros (Trondheim), Norway...
		After the war, France's emergence as a powerful national monarchy was crowned by the "incorporation" of the duchy of Burgundy (1477) and Brittany (1532),which were before independant european states.
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		Eleanor was a very intelligent woman; many considered her superior in intellect to her husband.
		Eleanor was lively and educated, courageous and passionate, whereas Louis was considered grave and pious.
		Eleanor bore Henry five sons and three daughters, including Richard Coeur de Lion (Richard the Lionhearted), who ruled England from 1189 - 1199 and John Lackland who ruled from 1199 - 1216.
	www.egeltje.org /archives/eleanor_of_aquitaine.php (661 words)

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		Eleanor Plantagenet, born 13 Oct 1162 in Domfront Castle, Normandy, France; died 31 Oct 1214 in Burgos, Castile, Spain.
		Katherine Roet was the daughter of Sir Payne Roet of Guienne, sister-in-law of Geoffrey Chaucer, and the widow, third wife, of Sir Hugh Swynford.
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	1100s History of the World
		Mar 18 Eleanor of Guienne divorces Louis VII of France at Beaugency.
		Eleanor, sick of husband Henry II's infidelities, moves her residence to Poitiers, France.
		Eleanor raises Aquitaine against Henry II Reconciliation between Henry II and the pope.
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	Aquitaine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 (The Royal Diaries)
		Pamela Kaufman's rendition of Queen Eleanor is memorable, thought provoking and made for an incredibly enjoyable read.
		I had read Polly Schoyer Brooks' book about Joan of Arc last year, and had enjoyed it, so I was hapy to find one on Eleanor of Aqutaine.
	www.freeglossary.com /Aquitania (905 words)

	The Reade Family Line
		Eleanor Neville, daughter of Ralph Neville, first Lord of Westmoreland, and Joane de Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt.
		Henry III, King of England, 1216-1273 and Eleanor of Provence, daughter of Raymond, Count of Berenger.
		Henry II, King of England, 1154-1189, and Eleanor, Duchess of Guienne and Countess of Poitou and Aquitaine, Son of:
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