Eleanor of Aquitaine

1121 - 1204  (82 years)

• Name	Eleanor of Aquitaine  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	22 Nov 1121	Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France   [1, 2, 4]
  Gender	Female
  Military - Old World	As Queen Consort of France, she participated in the unsuccessful Second Crusade
  Death	31 Mar 1204	Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France   [1, 2, 4]
  	Mirabell Castle
  Burial	Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France   [4]
  	Fontevraud Abbey
  		Tomb-PLANTAGENET Eleanor and Henry (Effigy) Lincoln Castle is a major castle constructed in Lincoln, England during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress. The castle is unusual in that it has two mottes.[1] It is only one of two such castles in the country, the other being at Lewes in Sussex. Lincoln Castle remained in use as a prison…
  Person ID	I19694	A Tree Called Smith
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 1	King of France Louis Capet, VII,   b. 1120, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France d. 18 Sep 1180, Paris, Île-de-France, France (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F3195	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

  Family 2	Count of Anjou, Count of Maine, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Count of Nantes, and Lord of Ireland, and King of England Henry Plantagenet, II,   b. 5 Mar 1132, Le Mans, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France d. 6 Jul 1189, Chinon, Indre-et-Loire, Centre, France (Age 57 years)
  Marriage	11 May 1152	Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France
  Children	1. King of England John Plantagenet,   b. 24 Dec 1166, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England d. 19 Oct 1216, Nottinghamshire, England (Age 49 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F2712	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Jul 2025

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 22 Nov 1121 - Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Marriage - 11 May 1152 - Bordeaux, Gironde, Aquitaine, France Death - 31 Mar 1204 - Tarn-et-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France Burial - - Anjou, Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Burials

  Tomb-PLANTAGENET Eleanor and Henry (Effigy) Lincoln Castle is a major castle constructed in Lincoln, England during the late 11th century by William the Conqueror on the site of a pre-existing Roman fortress. The castle is unusual in that it has two mottes.[1] It is only one of two such castles in the country, the other being at Lewes in Sussex. Lincoln Castle remained in use as a prison…

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S984] Heritage Consulting, Millennium File, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT ; Date: 2003;). Birth date: 1122 Birth place: Aquitaine, France Death date: 26 Jun 1202 Death place: Mirabell Castle, Poitiers, France., France [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees. [S10709] FindAGrave Old World (Famous), Eleanor de Aquitaine 1122-1204 - Queen of France and England. French and English Monarch. Duchess and heiress of Aquitaine and Gascogne, Countess of Poitou. Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine inherited the duchy of Aquitaine from her father in 1137. In the same year, on July 25., she married Louis of France. The couple was very different. Louis had been raised at a monastery and was very calm and she was a woman of independent spirit. In 1147 they both joined the Crusade. During their stay in Antioch she was suspected to have a liaison with her uncle Raymond de Poitiers, who reigned as Prince of Antioch, and she had to return to France alone. She gave birth to two daughters, Marie and Alix, that were later married to two brothers. In March 1152 she got divorced and married again in May the 19 year old Henry Plantagenet, which led to a scandal. With the divorce and remarriage Louis not only lost a wife, that he had apparently loved, but also her inheritance which considered of West and a large part of South France. In 1154 Henry became King and his sphere of influence extended thereby from Scotland to the Pyreneeses. Over the years they had 8 children. In the beginning the marriage seems to have been very happy, but later Henry started to have affairs. With much energy she made politics against her husband. In 1173 she encouraged her three oldest sons to rebel against him and to claim their inheritances early. In 1174 Henry defeated his sons and captured Eleonore. He imprisoned her for most of the following 16 years. She was released when the message of his death reached her prison. While Richard was in on the Crusade she reined the country very skilled. She traveled all her life governing her children's possession in France. In the Winter of 1199/1200 with the high age of 77 she travelled over the Pyreneeses to Castile to visit her daughter Aenor and accompany her granddaughter Blanca to France to marry the dauphin. In later years she more often retired to the Abbey of Fontevraud where she died and was buried beside her husband and two of her children. She had survived her husbands and eight of her ten children. During the Revolution her body was exhumed, her bones scattered and never recovered. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6437/eleanor-de_aquitaine