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Possessing a high-spirited nature, Eleanor was not popular with the staid northerners ( according to sources, Louis ´ s mother, Adélaide de Maurienne, thought her flighty and a bad influence ).

She was not aided by memories of Queen Constance, the Provençal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror.