Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine

Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II. As the heiress of the House of Poitiers, which controlled much of southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in Western Europe during the High Middle Ages. The eldest child of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, and Aénor de Châtellerault, Eleanor became duchess upon her father's death in 1137. Later that year, she married Louis, son of King Louis VI of France. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eleanor of Aquitaine has received more than 6,454,490 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Eleanor of Aquitaine is the 23rd most popular nobleman (up from 29th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from France (up from 163rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Nobleman.

Eleanor of Aquitaine was a powerful woman who was married to both King Louis VII of France and King Henry II of England. She was the mother of King Richard I of England, and Queen Eleanor of Castile.