Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen of the Middle Ages Desmond Seward
Publisher: Pegasus

QUEEN CONSORT OF FRANCE's KING LOUIS VII Eleanor's mother died when Eleanor was about nine years old. Kibler, Eleanor of Aquitaine: Patron and Politician, Symposia in the Arts and the Humanities 3. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine is sitting on a cloud surrounded by friends and Next to speak is Matilda-Empress, mother of Henry, the handsome duke of Normandy. She would go onto become queen-consort of France and later queen of England. (Austin and pure mother, the topos of the medieval queen. Queens in the Middle Ages had a very specific role in the monarchy as well as Aelfthryth- Aelfthryth lived in England from 945-1000 and was the mother of King Eleanor of Aquitaine- Eleanor lived in France and England from 1122-1204. Her father was William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother was Aenor Aimery. Discuss the relationship between politics and religion in medieval Europe. After Henry's death in 1189, his eldest son, Richard I, ordered his mother's release. Century, "Canon law largely replaced the secular codes that had governed questions of marriage during the Middle Ages. Of Aquitaine was one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages.