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Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England

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Fulbert, furious at her bringing such shame upon him, and thwarted in his plans for a lucrative marriage for Heloise, sent some relatives to take his revenge on Abelard. It became a favoured summer retreat of Edward III and Queen Philippa, four of whose thirteen children were born there: Edward, Prince of Wales – later known as the Black Prince – in 1330, Isabella, in 1332 – whose baptism was marked by a great tournament, Joan in 1335, and Thomas, later Duke of Gloucester, in 1355 – his birth also being celebrated by a tournament. The tradition linking Rosamund with Everswell is an early one: less than a century after her death, references were being made to `Rosamund`s Chamber`, which by then had become `unroofed by the wind`.

In response to her protests, they tell her that the army is leaving Antioch by night and that she is going with it. On the promotional tour, I met many with a keen interest in her and I have since received numerous letters from readers who are very well-informed. These heads, from the porch of the twelfth/thirteenth century church of Candes St Martin, between Chinon and Fontevrault, are thought to represent Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, and date from c. However, I would say to the sceptics that hers is a story with strong elements of power, intrigue, spectacle, adventure, violence and sexuality - all riveting aspects of the human condition, and the stuff of which many best-sellers are made. The author does not ‘pick a side,’ but instead asks all of us to revisit our preconceptions of this most inspiring medieval queen.

In the second half of the twelfth century, Henry II, the first Plantagenet king, converted his grandfather`s hunting lodge into a palatial stone manor house, with `a spacious, church-like hall with two fair aisles and six large, white pillars`; this hall was still in use as late as 1634. The first was a history, Eleanor of Aquitaine, sticking closely to facts and examining all sources rigorously. She reads the Middle Ages, not to impose our current conceptual categories on its culture, but to expose the conceptual categories medieval women used to make sense of their lives. The book manages the neat trick of providing much food for thought while being a highly enjoyable read.

After the uprising was quelled, in February 1554, Elizabeth was arrested and committed to the Tower of London, where, for three months, she lived in daily fear of being executed, as her cousin Lady Jane Grey had been. First Edition thus, with frontispiece and 24 pages of coloured plates; pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in red and black, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. The nuns of Fontevraud recorded that, ‘by her renown for unmatched goodness, she surpassed almost all the queens of the world’. In 1664, the diarist John Evelyn recorded how he had seen `the destruction of that royal seat and park by the late rebels`. On a recent visit to Waterstone's Deansgate to launch her new book, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Alison Weir took the time to have a chat.

In 1800, after being moved several times, their remains were translated to Paris, and in 1817, they were buried together in an elaborate sepulchre at Pere Lachaise. Much of what we know about Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and then Queen of England, we know from recorded rumor—gossip often qualified by the curious phrase “it was said,” or the love songs, ballads, and romances that gossip inspired. She says: 'It all began in 1965 when I read a book about Henry Vlll's first wife, Katherine of Aragon. When Eleanor, wearing men’s clothing, was arrested on her way to Paris, where she planned to seek the support of her former husband, King Louis, Henry had her shut away for a year, then took her to England, where she spent the last fifteen years of his reign mainly confined at Old Sarum or Winchester.

I first saw Becket and The Lion in Winter on their releases in 1964 and 1968 respectively; I own the video of The Lion in Winter, which I have seen several times, but Becket is not available on video in the U. Alison Weir, who lives in Surrey but often tours Oxfordshire to discover scenes of her subjects, is probably now our most popular historian (her first book on Eleanor has sold more than 150,000 copies). In 1191, she travelled to Spain to fetch a bride for Richard, and escorted her to Sicily to meet her bridegroom. And, yes, Eleanor was allowed out of custody to spend Christmas with her family, although we have no record of what went on between them all.

Caird's production will include two choirboys from Westminister Abbey who will sing songs written by John Cameron. This book charts the early lives of Henry and Eleanor before they became a European power couple and examines the impact of their union on contemporaries and European politics. In her every act, she displayed ‘remarkable sagacity’, ruling England ‘with great popularity’, and demonstrating all the qualities of a wise, benevolent and statesmanlike ruler – which she had never until now had the chance to exercise fully, but which suggest that, had she been a queen regnant like Elizabeth I, and not merely a queen consort, she would have governed with strength, wisdom and mercy, and even excelled Elizabeth’s abilities and reputation.

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