John, King of England (1166 – 1216), married twice. John is noted for his signing of the Magna Carta. John was the youngest child of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, and was called Lackland because his older brothers had been given territories to rule and he'd been given none. His...
Miriam Shadis and Constance Hoffman Berman, “A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine’s Female Descendants,” in Eleanor of Aquitaine. Lord ana Lady , ed. Bonnie Wheeler and John Carmi Parsons (New York, 2003), pp. 177–211. Many of these women are discussed by John ...
A Taste of the Feast: Reconsidering Eleanor of Aquitaine's Female Descendants J acqueline Murray's lovely video introduction to a study of medieval women describes the subject of this volume as "the remarkable Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of two kings and mother of two kings, and a powerful ru...