At news of this, Louis VII of France, Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine, and a great number of knights, moved by the exhortations of St. Bernard, enlisted under the cross (Assembly of Vezelay, March 31, 1146). The Abbot of Clairvaux became the apostle of the crusade and conceived the idea ...
(England had received both Aquitaine and Gascony in the 12th century through Henry II’s marriage to Eleanor of Aquitaine.) Guyenne was retaken by the French at the beginning of the Hundred Years’ War, but the Treaty of Brétigny in 1360 restored it, with the whole of the old Aquitaine,...
Rosamond is believed to have been the daughter of Walter de Clifford of the family of Fitz-Ponce. She is said to have been Henry’s mistress secretly for several years but was openly acknowledged by him only when he imprisoned his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, as a punishment for encouraging ...
After Eleanor of Aquitaine married Henry Plantagenet (later Henry II of England) in 1152, Agenais became the possession of the English kings; it later reverted to the personal possession of the French crown (1249), but the English king Edward I recovered it by the Treaty of Amiens (1279)....
(1152) annulled the marriage ofLouis VIIandEleanor of Aquitaine, who later married Henry Plantagenet (Henry II) and gave almost all of southwestern France to the English crown. Beaugency was an important bridge crossing of the Loire, and the town’s restored 13th-century 26-span bridge is ...
Blanche was the daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Eleanor, who was the daughter of Henry II of England. Her grandmotherEleanor of Aquitaine, queen of England, traveled to Spain to take the 11-year-old Blanche to France, where a marriage treaty was concluded withLouis, the young son ...
TheRouwas commissioned by Henry II of England, who sometime before 1169 secured for Wace a canonry at Bayeux in northwestern France. TheBrutmay have been dedicated to Henry’s queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine. Written in octosyllabic verse, it is a romanticized paraphrase of Geoffrey of Monmouth’...