Eleanor of Aquitaine: Queen of France, Queen of England

415 Pages·2011·15.21 MB·English

by  Ralph V. Turner

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RALPHV.TURNERis emeritus professor of history,Florida State University.
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He is the author of King John (1994) and The Reign of Richard Lionheart
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(2000),and many other publications on European medieval history.
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LEANOR OF
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yale university press
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new haven and london
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Copyright © 2009 Ralph V.Turner
First printed in paperback 2011
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ONTENTS
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List ofIllustrations vii
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List ofMaps ix
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Acknowledgments x 3
Genealogies xvi 4
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Introduction:Searching for a “Truthful Image”of
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1 Growing Up in the Ducal Court ofAquitaine,1124–1137 10 9
2 Bride to a King,Queen ofthe French,1137–1145 39 2
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3 Adventures and Misadventures on the Second
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Crusade,1145–1149 70
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4 A Husband Lost,a Husband Gained,1149–1154 99 4
5 Once More a Queen and Mother:England,1154–1168 123 5
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6 A Queen’s Work:Regent for an Absentee King,1155–1168 150
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7 A Taste ofPower in Poitou,1168–1173 175
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8 A Queen’s Discontent and her Sons’Thwarted 9
Ambitions,1173–1174 205 3
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9 A Captive Queen’s Lost Years,1174–1189 231
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10 The Queen-Mother:Richard’s Reign,1189–1199 256
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11 Securing the Plantagenet Legacy:John’s Reign,1199–1204 280 4
12 Overwhelmed by a Black Legend 299 5
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Abbreviations 314
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Notes 318
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Bibliography 364 4
Index 383 4
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LLUSTRATIONS
Rights were not granted to include these illustrations in electronic media.
Please refer to print publication.
1. Church of Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Poitiers. Photo by Photothèque
Zodiaque,La Pierre-qui-Vire,89630 Saint Léger Vauban,France.
2. Seal of Eleanor’s grandfather Duke William IX,housed at the Archives
Nationales,Paris,Sceaux/E/1.Photo by the Photographic Studio of the
Archives Nationales.
3. The Eleanor Vase,Musée du Louvre,Paris.Photo courtesy of Professor
George Beech,Western Michigan University,Kalamazoo.
4. Louis VII at Saint-Denis receiving the crusader’s banner, painting by
Jean Baptiste Mauzaisse (d.1844),Chaˆteaux de Versailles et de Trianon,
Versailles,France.© Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Art Resource,NY.
5. Byzantine walls of Antioch, print from T.A. Archer and Charles L.
Kingsford,The Crusades(New York:G.P.Putnam’s Sons,1894).Photo by
Florida State University Photographic Laboratory.
6. Eleanor’s tomb sculpture at Fontevraud Abbey. © Erich Lessing/Art
Resource,NY.
7. Henry II’s tomb sculpture at Fontevraud Abbey. © Erich Lessing/Art
Resource,NY.
8. Cathedral of Saint-Pierre, Poitiers, east (rear) wall. Photo from
Photothèque, Centre des études supérieures de civilisation médiévale,
Université de Poitiers,France.
9. Cathedral of Saint-Pierre, Poitiers, stained-glass Crucifixion window.
Photo from Photothèque, Centre des études supérieures de civilisation
médiévale,Université de Poitiers,France.
10. Henry II with his lover Rosamund Clifford, painting by Margaret
Dovaston (d.1954),Walter Hutchinson,ed.,Story of the British Nation:
A Connected Pictorial and Authoritative History of the British Peoples,
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4 vols.(London:Hutchinson & Co.,1922–24),1:p.324.Photo by Florida
State University Photographic Laboratory.
11. Eleanor’s farewell, chapel of Sainte-Radegonde, Chinon. Peter Newark
Pictures,Photo from Bridgeman Art Library.
12. Detail oftomb sculpture at Fontevraud Abbey ofKing Richard Lionheart,
from Robert Latouche,Le film de l’histoire médiévale(Editions Arthaud:
Paris 1959), p. 262. Photo by E.-M. Janet-Le Caisne, reproduced by
courtesy ofArthaud/Flammarion,Paris.
13. Seventeenth-century copy of seal used by Eleanor,1199–1200,from the
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, manuscripts occidentaux,
LATIN 5480,fol.265.
14. Chapel ofFontevraud Abbey.© Erich Lessing/Art Resource,NY.
15. Great hall ofthe ducal palace in Poitiers.Photo from Photothèque,Centre
des études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, Université de Poitiers,
France.
16. Tomb sculpture at Worcester Cathedral of King John of England.Photo
from the Conway Library,Courtauld Institute ofArt,London.
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Poitou in the twelfth century xii
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Route ofLouis VII and Eleanor on the Second Crusade xiii
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England during Eleanor’s years as queen xv
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