She became heiress to Aquitaine, the largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern France, when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.ĭuke William X died on Good Friday in 1137 while on a pilgrimage to Spain. She was highly educated for a woman of the time, and knew how to read, how to speak Latin, was well versed in music and literature, and enjoyed riding, hawking, and hunting. She was raised in one of Europe's most cultured courts, the birthplace of courtly love. Eleanor was named after her mother and called Ali鮯r, which means other Aenor in the langue d'oc, but it became Elé¡®or in the northern langue d'oil and in English. William and Æ®or's marriage had been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of William IX of Aquitaine, the Troubador. The eldest of three children, her father was William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother was Æ®or de Châ´¥llerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of Chatellerault and a woman named Dangereuse. She was Queen consort of both France and England in her lifetime. 1124 – Main Fontevrault, Anjou) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the Middle Ages. Eleanor of Aquitaine ( Bordeaux, France, c.
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