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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life

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Combining the pace and descriptive quality of a novel with the authority of a textbook, Alison Weir's study of the revered and reviled Eleanor of Aquitaine should be valuable to anyone with an interest in medieval European history. Wife of Louis VII of France and subsequently of Henry II of England, and mother of Richard "the Lion-Hearted," Eleanor played a prominent part...more

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Feb 12, 2008 Mike Mcfarland rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: 12th century intermarriage.

Recommended to Mike by: Heather's mom

Shelves: non-fiction

A scholarly but lightly-written book on late 12th Century European politics, as told through the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor comes across as a remarkable woman, extremely strong-willed and independent. She originally married the King of France, and even joined him on a Crusade, then abandoned him for the King of England. Later, through her sons - Richard the Lionheart was her favorite - she fostered rebellions against the English King in his French territories. When the rebellions ende...more

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Aug 17, 2007 Rachel rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I read this book in hardcover when it first came out before giving it to a friend (sorry Amy). At the time I seem to remember Weir saying in the introduction that it was more of a struggle to write this book than her Tudor histories due to the comparative lack and nature of sources (she relied chiefly on contemporary chroniclers, the richer biographical data of letters, diaries, etc no longer existing). Consequently I felt it was more of a struggle to read.

Not this time. I re-read the introducti...more

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Apr 02, 2010 Madeline rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history-nonfiction

Alison Weir spends a lot of time in this book discusses common legends and misconceptions surrounding Eleanor, which was interesting for me because I hadn't heard any of them before. I really wasn't that familiar with Eleanor of Aquitaine before reading this - mostly I just knew that she went on crusade once, was Richard the Lionheart's mother, and was played by Katherine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. From these three bits of information, we can at least deduce that she was kind of a badass.

Hav...more Alison Weir spends a lot of time in this book discusses common legends and misconceptions surrounding Eleanor, which was interesting for me because I hadn't heard any of them before. I really wasn't that familiar with Eleanor of Aquitaine before reading this - mostly I just knew that she went on crusade once, was Richard the Lionheart's mother, and was played by Katherine Hepburn in The Lion in Winter. From these three bits of information, we can at least deduce that she was kind of a badass.

Having finished this account of her life, I have to admit that I now know a lot more about everyone else in Eleanor's life than I do about Eleanor herself. Weir does her best, but the fact is there just isn't that much concrete information about Eleanor, aside from a few letters (which were recorded by her clerk, who may have actually composed the letters himself) and some documents stating how much money she spent at a certain time or when she traveled to England. For the majority of the book, Eleanor is sort of kept to the sidelines, occasionally coming into the picture when she gets involved with her husband's/sons'/relatives' politics. Alison Weir is very careful not to take anything for granted and examines all the evidence before making a claim about what Eleanor did at any given time, which is a good thing for a historian to do, but it also means Eleanor is not actually very present in this biography.

Which is not to say that it isn't a good biography. The Plantagenets were one batshit crazy family, and reading about their violent shenanigens is always a good time. Just don't go into this book expecting Eleanor to be present on every page - entire chapters can go by without mentioning her. However, when she does make an appearance she is always being awesome, because she is Eleanor of Motherfucking Aquitaine. Take this letter she wrote to the Pope, basically tearing him a new one for not helping to free her son Richard after he was captured while on crusade:

"Is your power derived from God or from men? Did not the God of Gods speak to you through His apostle Peter, that whatsoever you bind on Earth shall be bound also in Heaven, and whatsoever you loose on Earth shall be loosed also in Heaven? Why then do you so long negligently, nay cruelly, delay to free my son, or is it rather that you do not dare? Perhaps you will say that this power is given to you over souls, not bodies: so be it, I will certainly be satisfied if you bind the souls of those who keep my son bound in prison.
It is your province to release my son, unless the fear of God has yielded to a human fear. Restore my son to me, then, O man of God, if indeed you are a man of God and not a man of mere blood. For know that if you are slow in releasing my son, from your hand will the Most High require his blood."

She wrote that to the Pope. The Pope. All I can say to that is, damn, lady!(less)

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Sep 27, 2011 Kerri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A historical, non-fiction accounting of Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of two kings (France's King Louis VII and England's King Henry II) and mother of three kings (England's Young King Henry, King Richard I and King John). She was born in 1122 and died at the age of 82....quite a phenomenal life span for that time period. Her influence, direct and indirect, helped to shape the history of France, England and quite a bit of the European continent. Eleanor's descendants include Kings and Queens of sev...more

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Oct 11, 2007 Kimberly rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography, history, womenshistory

I've had a life-long and abiding interest in Eleanor of Aquitaine ever since I read a biography of her when I was 10 years old. I never realized, though, how little I actually knew about the Plantagenets...or how wrong what little I knew was...until I read Weir's book.

My only complaint about this book has less to do with Weir's impeccable scholarship and gift for narrative than it does with the scant record left behind by women, even notable women like Eleanor. (As an aside, it seems like a vast...more

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Mar 30, 2013 Nikki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history, non-fiction

Alison Weir's biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine is thorough and well-researched, from birth to death. There's a lot of dates and names, and Weir's style doesn't really make that kind of detail absorbing, but there's plenty to interest a patient reader. My chief criticism is that Weir presents this as a complete portrait of Eleanor, commenting that previous accounts of her life rely too heavily on the actions of her husbands and sons, but Weir herself falls into that same pitfall. Whole chapters...more

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Jun 11, 2007 Kelly rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: female history geeks

Shelves: the-continent, history-british, history

This one was not as easy for me to get through as The Princes in the Tower, but I still enjoyed it. The reason it reads a little slower is just because of the exhaustive notes and the fact that she spends a lot more time on analysis of sources here. Which makes it feel more authoritative, but also a bit more like a textbook. However, Eleanor's life was sexy and interesting enough on its own. It really doesn't need that much help to be a page turner. I finished it and really liked it. Recommended...more

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Dec 10, 2012 StrangeBedfellows rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is an excellent book, and for several reasons. First off, I covers a particularly interesting family during a particularly interesting time. Whether or not you like Eleanor of Aquitaine, you can't deny she's a key player in European history. Of course, this isn't just Eleanor's story. You'll read all about Henry II and their tumultuous brood of children. Eleanor and Henry are definitely the "it" couple of the 1100s, and their lives are so eventful and intriguing that it puts daytime drama t...more

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Aug 10, 2011 Sigrun rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: history-biography, history

It took me a lot longer to read this book than I had thought. I kept looking up information on the places I've been, especially in France, but also England, and anything else connected to the history that piqued my interest. Though it is based on Eleanor's life, there is too little known of some of it to fill a book. The only real sense you get of her is in two letters that she wrote to Pope Celestine III when her favorite son, Richard I, was imprisoned by the German Emperor in 1192 on his retur...more

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Jul 29, 2011 Laurie added it · review of another edition

Many biographies and historical novels have been written about Eleanor, and somehow, she always slips away, like an elusive mermaid. Alison Weir tries to limit her sources to contemporary accounts, but since the standards of evidence were not the same in those times, the results are frustrating. In a time when we know what prescriptions were in Michael Jackson or Brittany Murphy's house when they died, it's hard to accept that whole years of Eleanor's life are lost, especially the years when she...more

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Jan 30, 2011 Alex Telander rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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There are not many important women of the Middle Ages, but Eleanor of Aquitaine has to be the most prominent and important: wife to King Louis VII of France and King Henry II of Britain and Aquitaine, mother of King Richard the Lionheart and King John of Magna Carta fame.

Quite a few biographies have been written over the years of Eleanor of Aquitaine, but there has never been one so adherent to primary and secondary sources, to the extent that the scenes depicted veritably come to life before yo...more

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Dec 10, 2010 Starling rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: biography, history

What can one say about this book. Certainly it is full of facts about Eleanor and her husbands, but after having read about half the book I have to admit that I really don't know anything about Eleanor at all.

If one needs a book that can tell you where Eleanor and/or her current husband were on a particular month in a particular year, this is the book. If you want to read about WHY Eleanor, or her French husband, wanted to divorce in an era when divorce was very rare, you won't find it here. You...more

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Aug 05, 2010 Kiersten rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Eleanor of Aquitaine, and have for a long time, so I was really excited to read this book. Weir's book was very well researched and extremely interesting at parts, but it could also become very pedantic and repetitive even. If you aren't really excited about the life of this 12th century queen, you probably will get bogged down by the middle of the book. Toward the end of her life (Eleanor lived to be 82 years old. Good heavens, that's old for today!) Eleanor was actively ruling her duchy...more

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Apr 06, 2010 April rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A good, dry history book on a woman who has very little biographical data surviving...

Weir admits this in the introduction, but that doesn't stop her from creating a translucent picture into Eleanor's life. The scandal of her annulled marriage to the King of France on the grounds of their being too closely related only to create scandal by marrying Henry the Second, a man who was even more closely related with less land at the time of marriage.

Together, they ruled Great Britain, Ireland, and th...more

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Jan 30, 2010 Steven Peterson rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is another in Alison Weir’s series of historical biographical works. As always, the book is well-written with much historical detail coming from each page. As with some of her other works (such as “Katherine Swynford”), she takes a less than complete record of the person about whom she is writing and creates a plausible rendering of that person’s life. She notes where evidence is slim and makes cautious suggestions as to what might have happened during periods of time with little record of...more This is another in Alison Weir’s series of historical biographical works. As always, the book is well-written with much historical detail coming from each page. As with some of her other works (such as “Katherine Swynford”), she takes a less than complete record of the person about whom she is writing and creates a plausible rendering of that person’s life. She notes where evidence is slim and makes cautious suggestions as to what might have happened during periods of time with little record of Eleanor.

Here, the target is Eleanor of Aquitaine, notorious after her death, with a greater appreciation of her accomplishments in more recent times. The fact that such a nuanced biography can be written is remarkable, when one accounts for the fact that she lived before records were as easy to come by as later on. Born in 1122, she died in 1204, over 80 years old.

There are a number of story lines here. One is simply the trajectory of her rich life. Second is the story of her two marriages—to King Louis VII of France and to King Henry II of England. In addition, she was the ruler of Aquitaine, a large area in France. Her falling out with her husbands is riveting—including her having been under, essentially, house arrest by Henry II for over a decade. The genealogical tables on pages 408 to 421 are absolutely necessary to keep the players straight, to understand their relationships with one another.

She was a strong woman in a time when that was scarcely the norm. She was effectively ruler of Aquitaine for a time; just so, when her husband was gone, she had a role in the governance of England. A third story is the chaotic relations of her sons. Two became king of England—Richard I and John. Both had some serious flaws; one, Henry, the “Young King” was heir to the throne before an untimely death. Making this all the more sensational was the warfare (literally) between sons and father (Henry II) and between the sons themselves. Being a mom to these unruly children must have been a challenge!

The book also provides insight into the politics, economics, and culture of the time, giving us a broader context in which to consider Eleanor’s life and that of her husbands and children. For her time, she was something else again. She traveled widely, played a role in politics, roiled the interfamily tensions. In her 80s, she “retired” from public life to a convent, where she lived the rest of her days. The book concludes by noting (Page 346): “Remarkable in a period when females were relegated to a servile role, she was, as Richard of Devizes so astutely claimed, an incomparable woman.”

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Aug 15, 2009 Paul rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I'm two chapters into this book, and I've decided to bail out. This book is almost a textbook on France in the 12th century. The author, in spite of a understandable feminist view of Eleanor, was objective and not necessarily sympathetic to Eleanor. Eleanor was known to play politics, and lovers. She actually got divorced (practically unheard of in the 12th century) and remarried King Henry II of England. Pretty good hook.

Unfortunately, the book is not very compelling. Page after page brings a...more

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Dec 10, 2008 Christy rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As if "Timeline" hadn't convinced me enough, life in the Middle Ages was damn hard! This biography was not so much about Eleanor of Aquitaine as about the events and the men that governed her life: feudal wars, countless treaties made and broken, provences switching hands, marriages made and then annulled because of "consanguinity," kings and bishops being crowned and excommunicated, and women being sold in marriage during their early years (earliest was three?) to make good on those treaties. N...more

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Mar 12, 2012 Jan-Maat added it

Shelves: 20th-century, biographical, british-isles, france, medieval-history

Despite the title and the author's ambition to write a balanced account of Eleanor - neither on the side lines nor a romantic heroine - this book is best read as a friendly, accessible history of the early Plantagenets. Something to read if you've enjoyed "The Lion in Winter" and fancy knowing a bit more about that quarrelsome, competitive family.

Sadly Eleanor remains on the sidelines. Weir doesn't discuss the source material so as a reader you can't know if this was her choice or just inevitab...more Despite the title and the author's ambition to write a balanced account of Eleanor - neither on the side lines nor a romantic heroine - this book is best read as a friendly, accessible history of the early Plantagenets. Something to read if you've enjoyed "The Lion in Winter" and fancy knowing a bit more about that quarrelsome, competitive family.

Sadly Eleanor remains on the sidelines. Weir doesn't discuss the source material so as a reader you can't know if this was her choice or just inevitable with the material she had to work with. Weir could have spent time discussing in general terms what the life of a great Duchess and Queen would have been like, but she prefers to concentrate on the political drama. This is great if you want to know more about Henry II and Richard I but it does mean that she gives space to discussing events that don't touch on Eleanor, her activities or her relationship with her own lands. Within sight of the end of the book there is a throw away reference to the impact of the town charters that Eleanor issued had on increasing prosperity in Aquitaine. If Weir could have expanded on that then Eleanor might not have been left on the sidelines. However as an account of that striving bunch all struggling against one another for power it is a decent read.

Weir is an amateur historian, I spotted a couple of mistakes (using Turks as a synonym for Muslim makes no sense at all when discussing medieval Scilly and the Truce of God was not a crusader privilege it was like the similarly named Peace of God an agreement that nobles and knights swore to not to fight on certain days and not to harm certain non-combatants in the course of warfare) which makes me wondering how many there were that I didn't pick up on. Weir makes a lot of use of chronicles and it is a good thing that she's taking the time to use primary sources and not just rely on other people's subsequent work but she does not seem to be critical of them. Chronicles are a bit like newspapers today, they have their political biases and they tend to tell certain types of story while ignoring others.

This particularly struck me as a potential problem in her treatment of stories of adultery. While on the one hand I'm sure everyone can think of examples of modern politicians who have managed to have affairs and keep it fairly secret for years, on the other hand in the middle ages without reliable contraceptives that's a very big risk for noble women to run. You start to wonder how much the stories of adulterous relationships in chronicles are just gossip and particularly the gossip of people sworn to celibacy imagining that people in the secular world are indiscriminately having sex all the time.

However Weir's book is a nice tale of conniving, back-stabbing, intriguing, power-hungry folk, filled with appropriate medieval bad language. (less)

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Aug 11, 2009 Ali rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

To me, as someone who is not an historian, the task of trying to resaerch a woman who lived 800 years ago, would seem an impossible one. In her Preface to this book Alison Weir explains how difficult it was to find relieable sources, and how others had warned her it would be impossible to bring Eleanor of Aqitaine to life. Therefore it should not be a surprise that after reading this remarkable book - Eleanor does remain largely a figure shrouded in the mists and mystery of time. I have read som...more

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Mar 30, 2009 Chris Laskey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Alison Weir's books are always entertaining as she provides a good depth to her history and her works tend to be less dry than some others. There are definite trade offs however and in particular I couldn't help but find the first part of the book to be really little more than a recap of Henry II times. Mostly because so little is actually known about Eleanor. This is not a bad thing but she might have retitled the book to reflect more of what this book covers. If it didn't have the story to tel...more

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Dec 16, 2012 Sarah Beth rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've read multiple novels based on Eleanor of Aquitaine's life so I was already familiar with most of her life, but I really enjoyed the in-depth analysis of her life and that of her family. Weir has done an excellent job of sifting through the archives to create an account of a woman of whom very little is known concerning personal details and everyday life.

Many of the fictional tales I've read about Eleanor are concerned with the infamous end to her first marriage to King Louis of France and...more I've read multiple novels based on Eleanor of Aquitaine's life so I was already familiar with most of her life, but I really enjoyed the in-depth analysis of her life and that of her family. Weir has done an excellent job of sifting through the archives to create an account of a woman of whom very little is known concerning personal details and everyday life.

Many of the fictional tales I've read about Eleanor are concerned with the infamous end to her first marriage to King Louis of France and second marriage to the much younger (11 years) King Henry of England. I was amused by the multiple references to both Henry and Eleanor's vigorous sexual appetites, which helped make their marriage when he was 19 and she was 30 a success. I had never heard much about her family or childhood or about the Crusade she went on with her first husband soon after marriage. I also enjoyed learning more about her later life even after Henry's death, since Eleanor, most unusually for her time, leaved to be in her 80s.

Eleanor was a beautiful, strong willed, and powerful woman. She was a formidable force during her lifetime and was able to wield significance influence well into her later years. She became the bane of Henry's rule and played their sons against him, leading to her imprisonment until Henry's death. She was a wily and untrustworthy old thing who wasn't afraid to cross anyone in pursuit of her desires. I found it baffling that it was widely rumored during her lifetime that she had multiple affairs, since that was generally highly unacceptable in females, especially ones of such a high rank as Eleanor. Additionally, she made no secret of the fact that her son Richard was her favorite, while many of her children never knew her and would go decades without ever seeing their mother. Of course, the time period, especially for women of rank, was a very different time for parents.

My main frustration, which is certainly not the fault of the author but rather that of the fragmented historical accounts, was the rather distant account of Eleanor's life. I would love to have had more direct quotes and details about her everyday life and an insight into her thoughts. Most of the book looks at her life through the lens of the men in her life, since more historical records survive regarding them. It was frustrating trying to learn more about Eleanor but instead learn significant amounts about her two husbands. (less)

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Jul 28, 2011 Laura rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I read this to compare to the fictionalized life that she also wrote; both were good. The detail here was great, and her writing, while well-notated, flows pretty well and is less 'scholarly' than in the Boleyn book I recently read by her. It was a little frustrating that whole years of Eleanor's life were undocumented, and at times she did need to focus on the men in Eleanor's life because that was where the sources seemed to be. However, Henry II and Richard I were also pretty interesting, so...more

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Dec 10, 2009 Awallens rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great
heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power
in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons. In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait
of this truly exceptional woman, and provides new...more

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Aug 29, 2012 Nisareen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Renowned in her time for being the most beautiful woman in Europe, the wife of two kings and mother of three, Eleanor of Aquitaine was one of the great heroines of the Middle Ages. At a time when women were regarded as little more than chattel, Eleanor managed to defy convention as she exercised power in the political sphere and crucial influence over her husbands and sons.

In this beautifully written biography, Alison Weir paints a vibrant portrait of this truly exceptional woman, and provides...more

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Jun 06, 2012 Sarah Finch rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As a fan of Weir's, I am of two minds about this book. It does a wonderful job of deconstructing the romanticizations and the slanders surrounding its legendary subject, and no area of Eleanor's life is glossed over or neglected; as always, Weir's writing is clear and engaging. However, once the book reaches the point in Eleanor's life where she marries King Henry II and gives birth to Kings Richard and John, the narrative focus seems to shift into a more all-encompassing story of the royal fami...more

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May 07, 2008 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: History buffs of Eleanor of Acquitaine

Recommended to Sue by: Found at Costco - I know Allison Weir is a good writer

Shelves: non-fiction, history

An amazing woman with an amazing story. Taking place in the 1100's it starts with her marriage to the King of England after her marriage to the King of France.
She is a woman that new how to work politically and had the largest land holdings of any woman in those times. With that she had power albeit limited because in those days the land was ruled by men.
See also "The Lion In Winter" with Katherine Hepburn!

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Oct 22, 2009 Amy rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Going into this I had pretty high expectations. I love historical biographies - especially about British royalty. The Lion in Winter is my favorite movie of all time. And the 11th -13th centuries are my favorite centuries (wait, who has favorite centuries? dorks, right?).

This book pretty consistently delivered. The writing wasn't dry as can happen in many biographies - and was downright witty in place!

From page 236 of my edition: "It is likely that Henry's affair with Alys was still ongoing, alt...more

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Mar 09, 2009 Lauren rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Extreme well researched non-fiction. Eleanor of Aquitaine is a fascinating woman who was Queen of both France and England, Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, mother of kings (Richard I and John), crusader to the holy land, more than once!. In her 70s, she traveled across the Pyrenees to deliver a bride for her son. It is amazing what she accomplished in her long life, in an era when women were often relegated to the background and little was expected from them. As with non-fiction, Alison We...more

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May 10, 2009 Naomi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I thoroughly enjoyed Weir's well written account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Of course, you would have to be living under a rock to avoid hearing bits and pieces of Eleanor's life and that of her husband and sons, but Weir managed to provide some perspective and interpretation of both the times and the woman herself - the later half of the book was absolutely riveting. I think I made a comment early on in my reading that it was perhaps understandable why men were suspicious of power in...more

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Jun 17, 2011 Donna rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A great powerful woman ahead of her time. Renowned for being the most beautiful woman in the world , 1122-1204, wife of two kings and mother to three she was a powerhouse with land, beauty and brains.
Although her soft spot for her oldest son King Richard and Henry II's pendant for not wanting to part with any of his immense land holdings to his sons, (more than 1/2 actually belonging to Eleanor)resulted in a royal turmoil of 'who is king now?'
A must read as an introduction to this amazing woma...more

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