* 1204 – Eleanor of Aquitaine ( b. 1122 )

The claim of the now deceased Philippa of Toulouse was pressed again when Louis VII besieged Toulouse in 1141, in right of his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, the granddaughter of Philippa, but without result.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Louis, or Melisende, the mother of Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

One of the circles in which this poetry and its ethic were cultivated was the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine ( herself the granddaughter of an early troubadour poet, William IX of Aquitaine ).

From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux regained importance following the marriage of Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine with the French-speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.

Eleanor of Aquitaine () ( 1122 or 1124 – 1 April 1204 ) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages.

Eleanor succeeded her father, becoming Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitiers, and by extension, the most eligible bride in Europe, at the age of fifteen.

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.

There is, however, an earlier Eleanor on record: Eleanor of Normandy, William the Conqueror's aunt, who lived a century earlier than Eleanor of Aquitaine.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was the largest and richest province of France ; Poitou ( where Eleanor spent most of her childhood ) and Aquitaine together were almost one-third the size of modern France.

Eleanor, aged about fifteen, became the Duchess of Aquitaine, and thus the most eligible heiress in Europe.

This vase is the only object connected with Eleanor of Aquitaine still surviving.

When Eleanor declared her intention to stand with Raymond and the Aquitaine forces, Louis had her brought out by force.

The marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to Henry of Anjou and Henry's subsequent succession to the throne of England created the Angevin empire.

Amy Kelly, in her article “ Eleanor of Aquitaine and her Courts of Love ”, gives a very plausible description of the origins of the rules of Eleanor's court: “ in the Poitevin code, man is the property, the very thing of woman ; whereas a precisely contrary state of things existed in the adjacent realms of the two kings from whom the reigning duchess of Aquitaine was estranged .”

Abbot Suger arranged the 1137 marriage between Louis VII and Eleanor of Aquitaine in Bordeaux, which made Louis VII Duke of Aquitaine and gave him considerable power.

John, the youngest of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine, was at first not expected to inherit significant lands.

Rather than allow her to stay, Louis took Eleanor from Antioch against her will, and continued on to Jerusalem, with his army dwindling.

On 8 July 1174, Henry and Eleanor took ship for England from Barfleur.

Following the departure of his father and stepbrothers for Saudi Arabia, Philby continued to live alone in Ajaltun, but took a flat in Beirut after beginning an affair with Eleanor, the Seattle-born wife of New York Times correspondent Sam Pope Brewer.

On February 27, 1670, the wedding of king Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki with princess Eleanor of Austria took place here.

The Byzantine historian Nicetas Choniates compared Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, who took part in the Second Crusade, with Penthesilea.

As the Industrial Revolution took hold, the growth of mass production produced entrepreneurs such as Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton and Eleanor Coade.

On finally landing on 8 December 1154, however, Henry quickly took oaths of loyalty from some of the barons and was then coronated alongside Eleanor at Westminster.

Once that idea took root, it was probably inevitable that I'd choose to write about Eleanor of Aquitaine, surely one of history's most memorable women.

Elverson Jr. died a few years later in 1929 and his sister, Eleanor Elverson, Mrs. Jules Patenôtre, took over.

In April 2011, the same month in which the first Irish civil partnerships took place under the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, Irish state broadcaster RTE broadcast a 45-minute radio documentary about the lives of Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby entitled " An Extraordinary Affair ".

Kilwardby crowned Edward I and his wife Eleanor as king and queen of England in August 1274, but otherwise took little part in politics.

" In 1729 he took Holy Orders, and, went on to hold two livings in Lincolnshire, including that of the parish of All Saints, Stamford, Lincolnshire, where he did a considerable amount of further research, not least on the town's lost Eleanor Cross.

In 1935, the Duchess took a trip to open the new grounds of The Lady Eleanor Holles School.

Encouraged especially by his mother, Jarrett took intensive classical piano lessons with a series of teachers, including Eleanor Sokoloff of the Curtis Institute.

" Hannah recalled John Clarke Rose, Story Research Director at the Disney Studio, "... took us to meet Eleanor Packer who I believe was in charge of Whitman / Western Publishing.

Eleanor then took sick and died only twenty-eight days after her husband, and was buried at Las Huelgas Abbey in Burgos.

In fear for her life as she was pelted with stones, loose pieces of paving, dried mud, rotten eggs and vegetables, Eleanor was rescued by Thomas Fitzthomas, the Mayor of London, and took refuge at the bishop of London's home.

After Earl Simon's death, his family was forced to flee the Kingdom of England: Countess Eleanor took her daughter to the safety of the Dominican nunnery at Montargis, France, a Montfort foundation.

In 1998, and for a few years afterward, Stapleton took her " Eleanor " characterization to live theaters, now adapted as a one-woman show.

In the 1880s, Eleanor Marx became more interested in theatre and took up acting.

However, when she was still on the way there with Baldwin of Bethune the next year, the duke died, so the marriage never took place, and under order of the Pope she returned, accompanied by her grandmother Queen Eleanor.

In 1213, John took Eleanor to blackmail Pierre I of Brittany husband and co-ruler of Alix and tempted him with Richmond, but Pierre kept loyal to France, even after the capture of his elder brother Robert by John at Nantes.

From 1223 Henry III and his government took serious actions to keep Eleanor captive.

It took several years of work by Eleanor Roosevelt to bring this about.