But instead, the Breton barons ( fearing King John's claims to rule Brittany in representation of Eleanor's rights or married her to a vassal loyal to England ) made her younger half-sister Alix duchess instead.

Eleanor's younger sister, Sarah, married John Churchill and was the grandmother of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, whose line included Sir Winston Churchill.

Louis became involved in a war with Count Theobald of Champagne by permitting Raoul I, Count of Vermandois and seneschal of France, to repudiate his wife Eléonore of Blois, Theobald's sister, and to marry Petronilla of Aquitaine, Eleanor's sister.

To keep him from becoming discontented King Henry and Queen Eleanor brought up the idea of a marriage with Eleanor's sister Sanchia shortly after his return on 28 January 1242.

Eleanor's older sister, Edith, was the mother of John Foster Dulles, who also became a U. S. Secretary of State, Allen Welsh Dulles, a Director of Central Intelligence, and Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a diplomat and noted author.

Eleanor's brother Donald Cook had contacted authorities in 1955 insisting that the girl was his sister, but nothing came of it, and Donald later worked with Davey to establish her identity.

Eleanor's sister Isabella of Viseu married Fernando II of Braganza, who was later accused and executed of treason by Eleanor's husband King John II.

She was devoted to her sister Queen Eleanor of England, and they stayed in contact until Eleanor's death in 1291.

Eleanor's sister Catherine later married Eleanor's stepson, King John III of Portugal.

A coalition of all of Henry's enemies was set up by Louis VII: King Stephen of England and his son Eustace IV of Boulogne ( married to Louis ' sister ), Henry the Liberal ( promised to Eleanor's daughter ), Robert of Dreux ( Louis VII's brother ) and Geoffrey who no longer had hope of being given Anjou.

The first known use of the French term décalcomanie, in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Eleanor's Victory ( 1863 ), was soon followed by the English decalcomania in an 1865 trade show catalog ( The Tenth Exhibition of the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association ); it was popularized during the ceramic transfer craze of the mid-1870s.

Eleanor or Aliénor was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was on the leading edge of early – 12th-century culture, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother.

Eleanor's daughter, Eleanor de Montfort, was married, at Worcester in 1278, to Prince Llywelyn ap Gruffydd of Wales ( died 1282 ).

After Eleanor's marriage to Zouche, Sir John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield claimed that he had married her first.

* Vincenzo I ( 21 September 1562 – 9 February 1612 ). Married Eleonora de ' Medici ( Eleanor's niece ).

The couple married on 18 May 1152 ( Whit Sunday ), eight weeks after the annulment of Eleanor's first marriage, in a cathedral in Poitiers, France ( citation needed ).

Following Aileen Philby's death in England in 1957, and Eleanor's subsequent divorce from Brewer, Philby and Eleanor were married in London in 1959, and set up house together in Beirut.

Following Eleanor's divorce, the two married in January 1959.

It passed to France in 1137 when the duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine married Louis VII of France, but their marriage was annulled in 1152 and when Eleanor's new husband became Henry II of England in 1154, the area became an English possession.

When Thomas died some time before March 1461, Eleanor's father-in-law took back one of the two manors he had settled on her and her husband when they married.

Manuel had been married to two of Eleanor's maternal aunts.

He had for a long time been married to the daughter of Louis VII, the King of France and Eleanor's ex-husband.

On the death of Eleanor's mother in 1375, her father married Sibila of Fortia, who had been Eleanor of Sicily's lady-in-waiting.

While Eleanor's captivity was gentle and relatively short-lived ( she was married to Prince Llywelyn at King Edward's expense in 1278 ), Amaury was held ' without rigour ' in Corfe Castle and later in Sherborne Castle.

Later, during the first four years of Henry II's reign, all three siblings joined Eleanor's royal household.

Two lords – Theobald V, Count of Blois, son of the Count of Champagne, and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes ( brother of Henry II, Duke of Normandy ) – tried to kidnap Eleanor to marry her and claim her lands on Eleanor's way to Poitiers.

A marriage between Henry and Eleanor's daughter, Marie, had indeed been declared impossible for this very reason.

Eleanor's marriage to Henry was reputed to be tumultuous and argumentative, although sufficiently cooperative to produce at least eight pregnancies.

The period between Henry's accession and the birth of Eleanor's youngest son was turbulent: Aquitaine, as was the norm, defied the authority of Henry as Eleanor's husband ; attempts to claim Toulouse, the rightful inheritance of Eleanor's grandmother and father, were made, ending in failure ; the news of Louis of France's widowhood and remarriage was followed by the marriage of Henry's son ( young Henry ) to Louis ' daughter Marguerite ; and, most climactically, the feud between the King and Thomas Becket, his Chancellor, and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

1167 saw the marriage of Eleanor's third daughter, Matilda, to Henry the Lion of Saxony ; Eleanor remained in England with her daughter for the year prior to Matilda's departure to Normandy in September.

General Tilney ( Henry and Eleanor's father ) invites Catherine to visit their estate, Northanger Abbey, which, from her reading of Ann Radcliffe's Gothic novel The Mysteries of Udolpho, she expects to be dark, ancient and full of Gothic horrors and fantastical mystery.

When Simon and Eleanor's first son was born in November 1238 ( despite rumours, more than nine months after the wedding ), he was baptised Henry in honour of his Royal uncle.

The story concerns the gamesmanship between Henry, Eleanor, their three surviving sons Richard, Geoffrey, and John, and their Christmas Court guest, the King of France, Philip II Augustus (), who was the son of Eleanor's ex-husband, Louis VII of France ( by his third wife, Adelaide ).

The abbey was originally the site of the graves of King Henry II of England, his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, their son King Richard I of England, their daughter Joan, their grandson Raymond VII of Toulouse, and Isabella of Angoulême, wife of Henry and Eleanor's son King John.

Historians do seem to agree, however, that Rosamund was Eleanor's opposite in personality and that Henry and Rosamund appear to have shared a deep love.

When Buckingham arrives to bring news to Henry of Eleanor's dabbling in necromancy, Henry's reaction is pious and sorrowful, " O God, what mischiefs work the wicked ones ,/ Heaping confusion on their heads thereby " ( 2. 1. 181 – 182 ).

On her divorce from Louis and her marriage with Henry II of England, Eleanor's claims passed on to this monarch, who at last forced Raymond V to do him homage for Toulouse in 1173.

When she was young, Eleanor's relatives tried to marry her to the future King of England, Henry VIII, to whom she was betrothed.

However, when Henry's father died and he became King, Henry decided to marry Eleanor's aunt, Catherine of Aragon, who was the widow of King Henry's older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales.

Since he was Eleanor's vassal, many believed that it was she who had been ultimately responsible for the change in plan, and thus the massacre.

The city of Antioch had been annexed by Bohemond of Hauteville in the First Crusade, and it was now ruled by Eleanor's flamboyant uncle, Raymond of Antioch, who had gained the principality by marrying its reigning Princess, Constance of Antioch.

One of Eleanor's rumoured lovers had been Henry's own father, Geoffrey V, Count of Anjou, who had advised his son to avoid any involvement with her.

On one occasion, Eleanor's barge was attacked by angry citizens who pelted her with stones, mud, pieces of paving, rotten eggs and vegetables.

The girls are unimpressed with Gabby ( Helen Fraser ), a pushy young woman who arrives hoping to move in to Eleanor's room.

It was also said that she died at Corfe Castle. Considering the association between Amesbury and the Plantagenets, Eleanor's final choice of burial place was probably a sign of submission and loyalty to her dynasty, but it was more likely her last protest about the fate of herself and her brother Arthur, as the abbey was for the Virgin and St Melor, a young Breton prince murdered by his wicked uncle who usurped his throne.

The arrangements was made by Eleanor's uncle, the king of Naples who, in 1448, sent artists from his court to paint Eleanor.