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• AFN: 8XJ3-Q2
• Title of Nobility: Princess Of Aquitain
• Title of Nobility: Queen of England
• _FSFTID: L8WY-WKH
• _UID: 1561F7A48CA4D948B7ED1304E6C2BDE06264
• _UID: 404D2F2B202F374287B9C8ECB2B2023841EE

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Eleanor of Aquitaine (Bordeaux, France, "c"1122 - March 31, 1204 in Fontevrault, Anjou) was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Europe during the Middle Ages. She was Queen of both France and England in her life.
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Biography
The eldest of three children, her father was William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and her mother was Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimeric I, Vicomte of Chatellerault and a woman named Dangereuse. William and Aenor's marriage had been arranged by his father and her mother, as Dangereuse was the long-time mistress of William IX of Aquitaine, the Troubador. Eleanor was named after her mother and called Aliénor, which means other Aenor in the langue d'oc, but it became Eléanor in the northern langue d'oil and in English.
She was raised in one of Europe's most cultured courts, the birthplace of courtly love. She was highly educated for a woman of the time, and knew how to read, how to speak Latin, was well versed in music and literature, and enjoyed riding, hawking, and hunting. She became heiress to Aquitaine, the largest and richest of the provinces that would become modern France, when her brother, William Aigret, died as a baby.
Duke William X died on Good Friday in 1137 while on a pilgrimage to Spain. At about 15 years old, Eleanor was Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right and officially the most eligible heiress in Europe. These were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for attaining a title, so William wrote up a will on the very day he died instructing that his daughter marry Louis VII of France, the heir to the French throne. The marriage, on July 22, 1137, brought to France the area from the river Loire to the Pyrenees: most of what is today the southwest of France. However, there was a catch: the land would remain independent of France, and Eleanor's eldest son would be both King of France and Duke of Aquitaine. Thus, her holdings would not be merged with France until the next generation. She also gave him a wedding present that is still in existence, a rock crystal vase that is on display at the Louvre. Within a month of their marriage, Louis VI had died, and Eleanor became Queen of France.
Something of a free spirit, Eleanor was not much liked by the staid northerners (particularly, according to contemporary sources, her mother-in-law), who thought her flighty and a bad influence. Her conduct was repeatedly criticized by Church elders (particularly Bernard of Clairvaux and Abbot Suger) as indecorous. The King himself, on the other hand, had been madly in love with his beautiful and worldly wife and granted her every whim. Eleanor supported her sister Petronilla of Aquitaine when she illegally married Raoul of Vermandois; the incident started a war and caused conflict between Eleanor and Louis. She insisted on taking part in the Crusades as the feudal leader of the soldiers from her duchy. The story that she and her ladies dressed as Amazons is disputed by serious historians. However, her testimonial launch of the Second Crusade from Vézelay, the rumored location of Mary Magdalene's burial, dramatically emphasized the role of women in the campaign, with her, the Queen of France, as their leader.
The crusade itself was something of a disaster, both from a military viewpoint and in terms of the personal relationship of the royal couple. From a military standpoint, Louis was a weak and ineffectual military leader with no concept of maintaining troop discipline or morale, or of making informed and logical tactical decisions. The French army was betrayed by Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine Emperor, who feared that their militaristic aims would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire. A particularly poor decision was to camp one night in a lush valley surrounded by tall peaks in hostile territory. Predictably, the Turks attacked and slaughtered as many as 7000 Crusaders. As this decision was made by Eleanor's servant, it was generally believed that it was really her directive. This did nothing for her popularity in Christendom.
Even before the crusade, Eleanor and Louis were becoming estranged, as vigor and piety clashed. Her Aquitiane family had won Antioch in the First Crusade, and it was ruled by her flamboyant uncle, Raymond of Antioch (rumored to be her lover). Clearly, she supported his desire to re-capture the nearby County of Edessa, the cause of the crusade. Louis was directed by the Church to visit Jerusalem instead. When Eleanor declared her intention to stand with Raymond and the Aquitaine forces, Louis had her brought out by force. Louis's long march to Jerusalem and back north debilitated his army, but Eleanor's imprisonment disheartened her Aquitaine knights, and the divided Crusade armies could not overcome the Muslim forces. For reasons unknown, likely the Germans' insistence on conquest, the crusade leaders targeted Damascus, an ally until the attack. Failing in this attempt, they retired to Jerusalem, and then home.
Perhaps some good came of this venture: while in the eastern Mediterranean, Eleanor learned about maritime conventions developing there that were the beginnings of what would become the field of admiralty law. She later introduced those conventions in her own lands, on the island of Oleron in 1160, and then into England. She was also instrumental in developing trade agreements with Constantinople and ports of trade in the Holy Lands.
When they passed through Rome on the way to Paris, Pope Eugene III tried to reconcile Eleanor and Louis. Eleanor conceived their second daughter, Alix of France (their first was Marie de Champagne), but there was no saving the marriage. In 1152, it was annulled on the grounds of consanguinity. Her estates reverted to her and were no longer part of the French royal properties.
On May 18, 1152, six weeks after her annullment, Eleanor married Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Anjou, by whom she was pregnant with their son, William. She was about 6 years older than he, and related to him in the same degree as she had been to Louis. One of Eleanor's rumored lovers was Henry's own father, Geoffrey of Anjou, who, not surprisingly, advised him not to get involved with her. Over the next 13 years, she bore Henry four more sons and three daughters: Henry, Richard, Geoffrey, John, Matilda, Eleanor, and Joanna.
Despite her reputation (which all the historical evidence shows was probably deserved), Eleanor was incensed by Henry's philandering; their son, William, and Henry's son, Geoffrey, were born months apart.
Some time between 1168 and 1170, she instigated a separation, deciding to establish a new court in her own territory of Poitou. In Poitier, she reached the height of her powers creating the Court of Love. A small fragment of her codes and practices was written by Andreas Capellanus.
Henry concentrated on controlling his increasingly large empire, badgering Eleanor's subjects in attempts to control her patrimony of Aquitaine and her great court at Poitiers. Straining all civil bounds, Henry had Archbishop Thomas Becket murdered at the altar of the church in 1170. This aroused not only Eleanor's horror and contempt, but most of Europe's.
In 1173, aggrieved at his lack of power and egged on by his father's enemies, the younger Henry launched the Revolt of 1173-1174, joined by Richard and Geoffrey, and supported by several powerful English barons, as well as Louis VII and William I of Scotland. When Eleanor tried to join them, she was intercepted. Henry, who put down the rebellion, imprisoned her for the next 15 years, much of the time in various locations in England. About four miles from Shrewsbury and close by Haughmond Abbey is "Queen Eleanor's Bower," the remains of a triangular castle which is believed to have been one of her prisons.
Henry lost his great love, Rosamund Clifford, in 1176. He had met her in 1166 and begun the liaison in 1173, supposedly contemplating divorce from Eleanor. When Rosamund died, rumours flew that Eleanor poisoned her, but there is no evidence to support this.
In 1183, Henry the Young tried again. In debt and refused control of Normandy, he tried to ambush his father at Limoges. He was joined by troops sent by Geoffrey and Philip II of France. Henry's troops besieged the town, forcing his son to flee. Henry the Young wandered aimlessly through Aquitaine until he caught dysentery and died. The rebellion petered out.
Upon Henry's death in 1189, Eleanor helped her son Richard I to the throne, and he released her from prison. She ruled England as regent while Richard went off on the Third Crusade. She personally negotatied his ransom by going to Germany. She survived him and lived long enough to see her youngest son John on the throne.
Eleanor died in 1204 and was entombed in Fontevraud Abbey near her husband Henry and son Richard. Her tomb effigy shows her reading a Bible. She was the patroness of such literary figures as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-More, and Chrétien de Troyes.

Or did she die 1 Apr 1204 or 26 Jun 1202?

Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 301

!Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, F.G.sheet # 299.

SURNAME: Also shown as Aquitaine

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Eleanore Princess Of

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Poitiers, Angevin Empire.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born 1123

DEATH: Also shown as Died Poitiers, Angevin Empire.

DEATH: Also shown as Died 31 Mar 1204

BURIAL: Also shown as Buried Fontevraud Abbey, Fontevraud.

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Name - Description: Elanor of De Aquitaine

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Death - Date: 28 Mar 1204 Place: Poitiers, Poitou, Aquitaine, France

Eleanor married Capet, King of France Louis VII 1137, , Bordeaux, , France; divorced Yes, date unknown. Louis (son of Capet, King Of France Louis VI and Maurienne, Adela) was born Abt 1121; died 18 Sep 1180, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried , Abbey Barbeaux, Melun, France. [Group Sheet]

1. Capet, Margaret died 1198.
2. Capet, Princess of France Marie was born Abt Apr 1138, of, , , France; died 11 Mar 1198.
3. Capet, Princess of France Alix was born 1150/1151, , , , France; died 1195.

Eleanor married Angevin, King of England Henry II 18 May 1152, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Henry (son of Plantagenet, Count of Anjou Geoffrey V and De Normandie, Princess/England Matlda) was born 25 Mar 1133, Le Mans, Sarthe, France; died 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Lr, France; was buried 8 Jul 1189, Abbey at, Fontevrault, Maine-et-loire, France. [Group Sheet]

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MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Bordeaux, France.

MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married 11 May 1152

1. Angevin, William was born 17 Aug 1152, of, Le Mans, Sarthe, France; died Abt Apr 1156, Wallingford, Castle, Berkshire, England; was buried , , Reading, Berkshire, England.
2. Angevin, King of England Henry was born 28 Feb 1155, Bermandseypalace, London, Middlesex, England; died 11 Jun 1183, Mortel Castle, Turenne, Correze, France; was buried , , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France.
3. Angevin, Duchess Of England Matilda was born 1156, , London, Middlesex, England; died 28 Jun 1189, , , Brunswick, Germany; was buried , St Blasius, Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
4. Angevin, King of England Richard I was born 8 Sep 1157, Beaumont Palace, Oxford, England; died 6 Apr 1199, Chalus, Limousin; was buried , Fontevraud Abbey.
5. Angevin, Duke of Brittany Geoffrey II was born 23 Sep 1158, Beaumont Palace, , Oxford, England; died 19 Aug 1186, , Paris, Seine, France; was buried , Notre Dame, Paris, Seine, France.
6. Plantagenet, Prince Of England Philip was born Abt 1160, of, , , England; died Abt 1160.
7. Angevin, Queen/Castile Eleanor was born 13 Oct 1162, Falaise, Calvados, France, France; died 31 Oct 1214, , , Burgos, Spain; was buried , , Monasterio De Las Huelgas, Burgos, Spain.
8. Angevin, Princess of England Joan was born Oct 1165, , Angers, Maine-et-loire, France; died 4 Sep 1199, , Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France; was buried , , Fontevrault L'Ab, Maine-et-loire, France.
9. Angevin, King of England John I was born 24 Dec 1167, Kings Manorhouse, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died 19 Oct 1216, Newark Castle, Newark, Nottinghamshire, England; was buried , Worcester Cathed, Worcester, Worcestershire, England.
10. Angevin, Blanche was born 4 Mar 1188, Palencia, Spain; died 26 Nov 1252.

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• AFN: 8XPZ-GR
• _FSFTID: LZNZ-B7Q
• _UID: 866807AA990D144B8263A5EC24ADE6794ABD
• _UID: C00699346E43564BB11494429FCE01FEEC20
• _UID: DB6C2FABCC85FF4DA0AD917FFBB3DBD57963

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GEN: See Historical Document.

William X of Aquitaine (1099 - April 9, 1137), nicknamed the Saint was Duke of Aquitaine and Gascony and Count of Poitiers as William VIII of Poitiers between 1126 and 1137. He was the son of William, the Troubador by his wife, Philippa of Toulouse.
William was born in Toulouse during the brief period when his parents ruled the capitol. Later that same year, much to his wife's ire, Duke William mortgaged Toulouse to Philippa's cousin, Bertrand of Toulouse, and then left on Crusade. Philippa and her infant son were left in Poitiers. When Duke William returned, he took up with Dangereuse, the wife of one of his vassals, and set aside his rightful wife, Philippa. This caused conflict between father and son, until William married married Ænor of Châtellerault, daughter of his father's mistress, in 1121. He had from her three children: William Aigret, who died young; the heiress Eleanor of Aquitaine; and Petronilla of Aquitaine, who married Raoul I of Vermandois. Both Ænor and William Aigret died in 1130.
As his father before him, William X was a patron of troubadors, music and literature. He was an educated man and strived to give his two daughters an excellent education, in a time when Europe's rulers where hardly literate. When Eleanor succeeded him as Duchess, she continued William's tradition and transformed the Aquitanian court in of Europe's centre of knowledge.
Despite his love of the arts, William was not a peaceful man, and was frequently involved in conflicts with the neighbouring Normandy (which he raided in 1136) and France. Even inside his borders, William faced an alliance of the Lusignans and the Parthenays against him, an issue resolved with total destruction of the enemies. In international politics, William X initially supported antipope Anacletus II in the schism of 1130, opposite to Pope Innocent II, against the will of his own bishops. In 1134 Saint Bernard of Clairvaux convinced William to drop his support to Anacletus and join Innocent.
In 1137 William joined the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, but died of food poisoning during the trip. On his deathbed, he expressed his wish to see king Louis VII of France as protector of his fifteen year old daughter Eleanor. Louis VII accepted this wish and married the heiress of Aquitaine.

SURNAME: Also shown as Aqutaine

Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 301, 306,...

Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert F. Pfafman, p E-32.

SURNAME: Also shown as Aquitaine

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as William V Duke of

DEATH: Also shown as Died 19 Apr 1137

William married de Châtellerault, Aénor 1121, of, , , France. Aénor (daughter of De Rouchefoucauld, Aimery and Bochard, Dangereuse De L'isie-) was born Abt 1103, Chtellrault, Vienne, France; died Mar 1130, Talmont. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 8XPZ-HX
• _FSFTID: LZNZ-B8J
• _UID: 20A501E046F44842929F0501FACB737851B2
• _UID: E89DE3CAE437B24EB60C900918C9B3235FF3

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Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 301

!Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, F.G.sheet # 299.

Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert F. Pfafman, p E-32.

SURNAME: Also shown as Aquitaine

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as Eleanor Dutchess of

BIRTH: Also shown as Born of, Chastellerault, Aquitaine, France.

DEATH: Also shown as Died Aft Mar 1130

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• AFN: 9HM1-H1
• _FSFTID: LZNZ-BL1
• _UID: 3AE09BCA2C0E534F800885120750A92DA766
• _UID: 65F8F12559F5BD47976B8FDF0635D2C002F0

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Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 409.

Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert F. Pfafman, p E-32.

Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 407

GIVEN NAMES: Also shown as William

PREFIX: Also shown as Duke

AFN: Merged with a record that used the AFN 9HMB-97

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Aquitaine, France.

BIRTH: Also shown as Born Abt 937/939

DEATH: Also shown as Died 03 Feb 993/995

Guillaume married De Toulouse, Cts/Aquitaine Maud 1094, France. Maud (daughter of Count Of Toulouse William IV and de Mortaigne, Emma) was born 1073, France; died 28 Nov 1117. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 9HM1-J6
• _FSFTID: LZNZ-BT7
• _UID: DA4B96EA463D2841A8DCA62F4C25823310C4

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Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 409.

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Name - Description: Phillippa or Maud Toulouse

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• _FSFTID: LZN2-NLH
• _UID: 0BC6222A114F2946B4539721912812EF656C

Aimery married Bochard, Dangereuse De L'isie- 1103. Dangereuse was born 1079; died 1119. [Group Sheet]

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• _UID: 1A4B81CB678D1041ACB86D27DE647210B27F

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• AFN: 9HM5-WM
• _UID: E90A45C22EC6C74C975D961A6FC7402944E5

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Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 407

Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert F. Pfafman, p E-32.

William married de Bourgogne, Princess Of France Hildegarde (Aldegrade) 1068. Hildegarde (daughter of Capet, Duke/Bourgo Robert III and Semur, Ella Ermengarde (Helie)) was born Abt 1030, Burgundy, France; died Aft 1104. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: 9HM5-XS
• _UID: B04883609AF8B44C89C054E37919091EA624

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• AFN: 9HM5-Z0
• _UID: 42CB09C5D90EEA46B228FED4BCB39619BCF2

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nRoyal Ancestors of Some LDS Families, by Michael L. Call, Chart 409.

!Royal Ancestors of Some LDS Families by Michel L. Call, F.G.sheet # 378.

Aslo known as Gullaume IV, Cout of Toulouse. Gullaume(1025) was William's(1001) half-brother, and was the Count of Talon and Arques,.
these two brother's names have been mixed-up on some pedgree charts.

Ancestry and Progentry of Captain James Blount - Immigrant, by Robert F. Pfafman, p E-33 and 34.

William married de Mortaigne, Emma 1080. Emma (daughter of de Mortaigne, Earl/Cornwall Robert and de Mortaigne, Maud (Mathilde)) was born Abt 1058, Mortaigne, , France. [Group Sheet]

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• AFN: GLCT-3S
• _UID: C9FF16261CD6E84E821E90B4EE2525D41CFE

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his individual has the following other parents in the Ancestral File:
Robert /DEMORTAIGNE/ (AFN:GLCT-6B) and Maud /DEMONTGOMERY/ (AFN:GLCT-7H)