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Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122-1 April 1204) was Queen Consort of France from 1 August 1137 to 21 March 1152 with Louis VII of France and Queen Consort of England from 25 October 1154 to 6 July 1189 with Henry II of England.

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The daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Aenor de Chatellerault, Eleanor inherited the Duchy of Aquitaine on her father's death on 9 April 1137, and she married King Louis VII of France that same year. Louis agreed to annul her in 1152 after she failed to produce a male heir for him, and she remarried to Henry II of England. She bore him several children, including William IX of Poitieres, Henry the Young King, Richard the Lionheart, Geoffrey II of Brittany, Eleanor of England, Joan of England, and John of England. Eleanor survived to the age of 82, dying at Poitiers in 1204, having outlived all but two of her eight children.


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