Queen Elanor's Confession, or Queen Eleanor's Confession, is Child ballad 156. I position this move not as a mark of a cooling in their relationship, which had never required constant physical proximity, but as a reward. [9] Immediately after the wedding, the couple were enthroned as duke and duchess of Aquitaine. Eleanor had lived an incredibly full medieval life before she even met Henry. Louis's subsequent siege of Damascus in 1148 with his remaining army, reinforced by Conrad and Baldwin III of Jerusalem, achieved little. Later, at King Roger's court in Potenza, she learned of the death of her uncle Raymond, who had been beheaded by Muslim forces in the Holy Land. The nuns of the monastery where she lived her final years wrote in their necrology a queen who surpassed almost all the queens of the world.. Eleanor was in her mid-forties, and the couple had seven children, including four sons (no doubt to Louis VIIs irritation!). [4] Although her native tongue was Poitevin, she was taught to read and speak Latin, was well versed in music and literature, and schooled in riding, hawking, and hunting. In addition, she had been corresponding with her uncle Raymond, Prince of Antioch, who was seeking further protection from the French crown against the Saracens. Eleanor then returned to Fontevraud where she took the veil as a nun. Thus, her holdings would not be merged with France until the next generation. King Philip II of France claimed that certain properties in Normandy belonged to his half-sister Margaret, widow of the young Henry, but Henry insisted that they had once belonged to Eleanor and would revert to her upon her son's death. Eleanors latest biographer, Alison Weir, suspects that Eleanor and Henry had been plotting since they met in Paris the previous summer and that Eleanor had deliberately encouraged the annulment of her marriage to Louis. This news appears to have forced a change of plans, for instead of returning to France from Marseilles, they went to see Pope Eugene III in Tusculum, where he had been driven five months before by a revolt of the Commune of Rome. Eleanor was, I think, always preoccupied with Aquitaine. The revolt of her sons against her husband in 1173 put her cultural activities to a brutal end. Eleanor Gail Henry, Age 74 Current Address:KUEAPeony Ln, Jackson, MO Past Addresses:Keokuk IA, Oswego NY +1 more Phone Number:(573) 833-GAME+2 phones Email Address:eRPOV@earthlink.net +2 emails UNLOCK PROFILE Contacts(6) Locations(4) Family(2) Social(1) Court(30) And More Phone & Email(6) We found 6 phone numbers and email addresses. Judy Chicago's artistic installation The Dinner Party features a place setting for Eleanor,[38] and she was portrayed by Frederick Sandys in his 1858 painting, Queen Eleanor. Henry and Eleanor are the main characters in James Goldman's 1966 play The Lion in Winter, which was made into a film in 1968 starring Peter O'Toole as Henry and Katharine Hepburn in the role of Eleanor, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress Motion Picture Drama. On her release, Eleanor played a greater political role than ever before. One of Louis's avowed Crusade goals was to journey in pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and he stated his intention to continue. The play premiered on Broadway in 1966 and was adapted into an Academy Award-winning movie. Louis accordingly bolted the gates of Bourges against the new bishop. Henry did not stop her; on the contrary, he and his army personally escorted her there before attacking a castle belonging to the rebellious Lusignan family. Although their sons and other rebels were swiftly forgiven and rehabilitated. Louis of France had remarried and been widowed; he married for the third time and finally fathered a long-hoped-for son, Philip Augustus, also known as DieudonnGod-given. Eleanor of Aquitaine was perhaps the most powerful woman in 12th-century Europe, extremely active in politics as wife and mother of various kings. [10] Eleanor was extroverted, lively, intelligent, and strong-willed. In 1173 she joined with her son in a revolt against King Henry, and spent 16 years in prison as a consequence. Henry imprisoned her in 1173 for supporting the revolt of their eldest son, Henry the Young King, against him. She married John Allison about 1708, in Maryland, British Colonial America. On television, she has been portrayed in this play by Una Venning in the BBC Sunday Night Theatre version (1952) and by Mary Morris in the BBC Shakespeare version (1984). Louis's long march to Jerusalem and back north, which Eleanor was forced to join, debilitated his army and disheartened her knights; the divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces, and the royal couple had to return home. The exhausted Eleanor went to Fontevraud, where she remained. Even before the Crusade, Eleanor and Louis were becoming estranged, and their differences were only exacerbated while they were abroad. From the moment the Crusaders entered Asia Minor, things began to go badly. The couple married on Whitsun, 18 May 1152. [9] Eleanor came to learn arithmetic, the constellations, and history. She was portrayed by Mary Clare in the silent film Becket (1923), by Prudence Hyman in Richard the Lionheart (1962), and twice by Jane Lapotaire in the BBC TV drama series The Devil's Crown (1978) and again in Mike Walker's BBC Radio 4 series Plantagenet (2010). She was given shelter and food by servants of King Roger II of Sicily, until the king eventually reached Calabria, and she set out to meet him there. It was part of the show of power, and Eleanor played her role perfectly. If she is reading at all, and not still observing and listening. "Young Henry", son of Henry and Eleanor, wed Margaret, daughter of Louis from his second marriage. She actively prepared for Richards coronation as king, was administrator of the realm during his Crusade to the Holy Land, and, after his capture by the duke of Austria on Richards return from the east, collected his ransom and went in person to escort him to England. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eleanor Henry. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). For Eleanor to be convicted of these scandals in the court of public opinion for over 800 years based on such flimsy evidence is ludicrous. For this reason Henry summoned Eleanor to Normandy in the late summer of 1183. Eleanor was allowed to return to the place she loved above all others as its duchess, to train Richard in the tricky art of ruling Aquitaine. She ruled England in Richard's name, signing herself "Eleanor, by the grace of God, Queen of England". When she was around 30, Bernard de Ventadour, a noted troubadour, called her "gracious, lovely, the embodiment of charm", extolling her "lovely eyes and noble countenance" and declaring that she was "one meet to crown the state of any king". Eleanor was suspected of instigating, or at least encouraging and facilitating, the revolt. [12] William requested of the king that he take care of both the lands and the duchess, and find her a suitable husband. "[33] Once her sons had left for Paris, Eleanor may have encouraged the lords of the south to rise up and support them.[9]. As Eleanor travelled to Poitiers, two lordsTheobald V, Count of Blois, and Geoffrey, Count of Nantes, brother of Henry II, Duke of Normandytried to kidnap and marry her to claim her lands. For good measure, accusations were added that she had engaged in an affair with Geoffrey, Count of Anjou, Henrys father, and that her lust for Henry ruined her marriage to Louis. Upon the death of her husband Henry II on 6 July 1189, Richard I was the undisputed heir. The moments that are perhaps most telling are those of grief. Join Facebook to connect with Eleanor Henry and others you may know. In 1137 Duke William X left Poitiers for Bordeaux and took his daughters with him. Eleanor's marriage to Henry was reputed to be tumultuous and argumentative, although sufficiently cooperative to produce at least eight pregnancies. She seems to have exerted a great deal of influence over Louis, something his councillors and courtiers resented. Arthur learned of her whereabouts and besieged her in the castle of Mirebeau. Eleanor Henry has appeared on Broadway in 4 shows. [36] However, during the French Revolution the abbey of Fontevraud was sacked and the tombs were disturbed and vandalised consequently the bones of Eleanor, Henry, Richard, Joanna and Isabella of Angoulme were exhumed and scattered, never to be recovered. She has also been introduced in The Royal Diaries series in the book Crown Jewel of Aquitaine by Kristiana Gregory. A few weeks later, Eleanor's father-in-law died and her husband succeeded him as King Louis VII. Perhaps time and sorrow softened any sense of betrayal, but perhaps there had never been one. Eleanor of Aquitaine (1137-1152) was one of the most powerful and influential figures of the Middle Ages. If it had created a well of goodwill, it was to help settle the disputed succession in Henrys favour. At a young age she was granted title of Duchess of Aquitaine, and by the age of thirteen/fifteen, on the death of her father in 1137, Eleanor inherited the Duchy in her own right. 2. In the 2014 film Richard the Lionheart: Rebellion, Eleanor is played by Debbie Rochon. "[31], In March 1173, aggrieved at his lack of power and egged on by Henry's enemies, his son by the same name, the younger Henry, launched the Revolt of 11731174. In 1183, the young King Henry tried again to force his father to hand over some of his patrimony. Eleanor had been Queen of France, a mother to two daughters, and had been on the Second Crusade to the Holy Land, spending Easter in Jerusalem, before she encountered Henry in Paris. She was not aided by memories of Constance of Arles, the Provenal wife of Robert II, tales of whose immodest dress and language were still told with horror. In Sharon Kay Penman's Plantagenet novels, she figures prominently in When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chance, and Devil's Brood, and also appears in Lionheart and A King's Ransom, both of which focus on the reign of her son, Richard, as king of England. In June 1144, the king and queen visited the newly built monastic church at Saint-Denis. The king of France, known as Louis the Fat, was also gravely ill at that time, suffering from a bout of dysentery from which he appeared unlikely to recover. Polly Schroyer Brooks, the author of a non-academic biography of Eleanor, suggests that the court did exist, but that it was not taken very seriously, and that acts of courtly love were just a "parlour game" made up by Eleanor and Marie in order to place some order over the young courtiers living there. Eleanor was imprisoned for the next 16 years, much of the time in various locations in England. 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