Eleanor of Aquitaine
Eleanor of Aquitaine, daughter of William X, Duke of Aquitaine and Eleanor de Chastellerault, was born about 1124.1 She died at Potiers, France, 31 March 1204.2 Both she and her 2nd husband were buried at the church of the Abbey of Frontrevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.2
Eleanor married (1) Louis VII, King of France, son of Louis VI "le Gros," King of France and Adelaide of Savoy, at Bordeaux, France, 25 July 1137;1 they later divorced, 21 March 1152, on grounds of consanguinity;1 she married (2) Henry II, King of England, son of Sir Geoffrey Plantagenet, Knt., Count of Anjou & Maine and Maud of England, at Bordeaux, France, 18 May 1152.2,3
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Eleanor married (1) Louis VII, King of France, son of Louis VI "le Gros," King of France and Adelaide of Savoy, at Bordeaux, France, 25 July 1137;1 they later divorced, 21 March 1152, on grounds of consanguinity;1 she married (2) Henry II, King of England, son of Sir Geoffrey Plantagenet, Knt., Count of Anjou & Maine and Maud of England, at Bordeaux, France, 18 May 1152.2,3
For more information about Eleanor of Aquitaine, please see this Wikipedia article.
Family 1 | Louis VII, King of France b. 1120, d. 18 Sep 1180 |
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Family 2 | Henry II, King of England b. 5 Mar 1132/33, d. 6 Jul 1189 |
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This person was last edited on | 29 Mar 2021 |
Citations
- [S1947] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, Five volumes (Salt Lake City, Utah: s.p., 2013), 3:21-24 (France 6), further cited as Richardson, Royal Ancestry.
- [S1947] Richardson, Royal Ancestry, 1:24-42 (England 4).
- [S520] Frederick Lewis Weis, Walter Lee Sheppard Jr., William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700… ., 8th ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), 1-24, 110-26, further cited as Weis, Sheppard, Beall, and Beall, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed.
- [S520] Weis, Sheppard, Beall, and Beall, Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 110-27.