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  1. Mar 26, 2020 · Eleanor of Aquitaine’s third daughter by Henry II, named Joanna, was barely 4 years old when she was betrothed to King William II of the regnu di sicilia – the Norman kingdom of Sicily. 10 years old when sent to Sicily for her wedding, she was a pawn in the struggle between Pope Alexander III and the German Empire, which ruled much of Italy ...

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  2. Mar 31, 2023 · Eleanor of Aquitaine was the mother of ten children, five of whom were kings or queens. While her sons often take center stage, her five daughters—Marie and Alix from her marriage to Louis VII of France, and Matilda, Leonor, and Joanna from her marriage to Henry II of England—played crucial political roles in Western Europe during the late 12th and early 13th centuries.

  3. Oct 13, 2017 · Eleanor, Queen of Castile (1162 – 1214) was the second daughter and sixth child of Eleanor of Aquitaine and her second husband, Henry II of England. She married King Alfonso VIII of Castile in about 1177, part of a diplomatic agreement about Aquitaine’s border. They had eleven children.

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  4. Jan 8, 2022 · One daughter, Eleanor, married James I, king of Aragon, but they divorced in 1229. While another, Constance, was dedicated as a nun and eventually became abbess of the abbey of Las Huelgas, founded by her parents in 1187. Alfonso and Eleanor also had 2 sons who would survive childhood.

  5. There are many books about medieval kings and some about their queens, but whats so special about the princesses born into, or marrying into, the...

  6. But it had been an early glimpse of the restless, impatient, thrusting action that would be Henry’s hallmark all his life. The bride was around a decade older than Henry. Eleanor of Aquitaine’s year of birth has traditionally been given as 1122, but a family genealogy describes her as thirteen in 1137, meaning 1124 is perhaps more likely.

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  8. Mar 30, 2021 · Eleanor of Aquitaine became an heiress at 15. Wikimedia Commons. Eleanor would have been an exceedingly good catch on the medieval marriage market. She was apparently pretty easy on the eyes, for one, and had the regal bearing and training to run a household with ease, as Mysteries of the Middle Ages reports.

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