biography
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (c.1122–1204)
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| biography:
| Queen consort of Louis VII of France (1137–52) and, after the annulment of this marriage (on the ostensible plea of consanguinity), of Henry Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou. When he became the Angevin king, Henry II of England (1154–89), the lands they claimed stretched from Scotland to the Mediterranean. She was imprisoned (1174–89) for supporting the rebellion of her sons against the king, two of whom became kings as Richard I (in 1189) and John (1199). |
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