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Eleanor of Aquitaine

c. 1122–1204 · 12th century

Eleanor of Aquitaine was Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess of Poitou in her own right from 1137. She was queen of France as wife of Louis VII, and after the annulment of that marriage she married Henry of Anjou in 1152, bringing Aquitaine into the Angevin Empire. She was the mother of the English kings Richard I and John.

Eleanor of Aquitaine
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