Eleanor of Aquitaine
Also known as: Elenor / Elianor / Quéene Elianor / quéene Elianor · Family: England · Role: queen mother · First appears: King John 1
Life events
- c. 1199 · Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marchades captured Angiers, killing many citizens and imprisoning the rest.(King John 1 · 📍 Angiers)
- With: Marchades
- “And amongst other townes and fortresses, they tooke the citie of Angiers, slue manie of the citizens, and committed the rest to prison.”
- c. 1202 · Arthur captured Mirabeau, while Eleanor of Aquitaine was besieged inside or escaped into a tower.(King John 7 · 📍 Mirabeau)
- With: Arthur of Brittany King John
- “Arthur following the victorie, shortlie after followed hir, and woone Mirabeau, where he tooke his grandmother within the same, whom he yet intreated verie honorablie, and with great reuerence (as some haue reported.) ¶ But other write far more trulie, that she was not taken, but escaped into a tower, within the which she was straitlie besieged.”
- 1204 · Eleanor of Aquitaine, King John's mother, died after prolonged sorrow and anguish.(King John 9)
- With: King John
- “About this time quéene Elianor the mother of king John departed this life, consumed rather through sorow and anguish of mind, than of any other naturall infirmitie.”
- c. 1453 · Aquitaine was finally returned from English possession to French obedience.(Henry VI 48 · 📍 Aquitaine)
- With: William, Duke of Aquitaine Henry II
- “Thus was the duchie of Aquitaine, which had continued in the English possession, from the yeare of our Lord 1155, vnto this present yeare, which is néere hand thrée hundred yeares, by the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second, finallie reduced and brought againe to the French obedience and seruitude.”
King John 1
- younger kin: Arthur of Brittany “Surelie quéene Elianor the kings mother was sore against hir nephue Arthur”
- enemies with Arthur of Brittany “Surelie quéene Elianor the kings mother was sore against hir nephue Arthur”
- allies with Marchades “his mother quéene Elianor, togither with capteine Marchades entred into Aniou, and wasted the same”
- enemies with Constance, Duchess of Brittany “Surelie quéene Elianor the kings mother was sore against hir nephue Arthur, rather mooued thereto by enuie conceiued against his mother,”
King John 7
- child: King John “King John in the meane time, hauing receiued his mothers letters, and vnderstanding thereby in what danger she stood, was maruellouslie troubled with the strangenesse of the newes”
- younger kin: Arthur of Brittany “Arthur following the victorie, shortlie after followed hir, and woone Mirabeau, where he tooke his grandmother within the same”
King John 9
- child: King John “About this time quéene Elianor the mother of king John departed this life”
Henry VI 48
- married with Henry II “the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine, wife to king Henrie the second”
- parent: William, Duke of Aquitaine “the mariage of Elenor daughter and heire to William duke of Aquitaine”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.