Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of England

Standard Name: Eleanor of Aquitaine,, Queen of England

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Publishing	Margaret Oliphant	The Cornhill Magazine published MO 's story Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund. Greenfield, John R., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 159. Gale Research, 1996. 159: 258
Residence	Marie de France	Having moved to England, MF frequented the court of Henry II and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine (who was a patron, and the descendant of a troubadour).
Textual Features	Hildegarde of Bingen	The quantity of HB's letters, which were collected near the end of her life, is immense. Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 91 The bulk of them were written to answer her correspondents' practical, legal, ethical, and spiritual concerns. Ferrante, Joan M. “Correspondent: ’Blessed Is the Speech of Your Mouth’”. Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World, edited by Barbara Newman, University of California Press, 1998, pp. 91-109. 100 She...
Textual Features	Michael Field	Fair Rosamund chronicles the legend of young Rosamund 's tragic love for Henry II, King of England . In the end Rosamund, now the king's mistress stabs herself with a knife given to her by...
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	In the last decade of her life, JP published another twelve historical novels under this name: a thirteenth appeared in the year of her death, 1993. Some of these novels revisit ground or people covered...
Textual Production	Norah Lofts	NL published a historical novel about Eleanor of Aquitaine titled Eleanor the Queen: The Story of the Most Famous Woman of the Middle Ages. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2024, Numerous volumes. 80
Textual Production	Mary Russell Mitford	MRM saw herself as a professional dramatist, and in the tradition of that metier she was always alert for stories of distant origin, or forgotten or unfinished plays by others, which might be reworked for...
Textual Production	Fleur Adcock	In December 1986 FA published the sequence of ballads entitled Hotspur (spoken by Elizabeth Mortimer , historical wife of Harry Percy , heir to the first Earl of Northumberland, Shakespeare 's Hotspur). These poems were...
Textual Production	Jean Plaidy	JP 's Plantagenet saga, a series of fictionalized biographies, began with The Plantagenet Prelude, about the lives of Henry II and his consort Eleanor of Aquitaine . Eleanor was another compelling historical figure, already...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Marina Warner	In Our Lady of the CountercultureMW writes of her own early search for heroinism from heroines like Eleanor of Aquitaine or Florence Nightingale (featured in the young people's comic Girl) through scandalous women...

Timeline

25 October 1154

King Stephen died; Henry II assumed the throne of England on 19 December 1154.

Fryde, Edmund Boleslaw. Handbook of British Chronology. Editors Greenway, D. E. et al., 3rd ed., Offices of the Royal Historical Society, 1986.

Haydn, Joseph. Haydn’s Dictionary of Dates and Universal Information. Editor Vincent, Benjamin, 23rd ed., Ward, Lock, 1904.

425

1 April 1204

Eleanor of Aquitaine, the politically powerful mother of the English King John , died.

Franck, Irene, and David Brownstone. Women’s World: A Timeline of Women in History. HarperCollins; HarperPerennial, 1995.

27-8

Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.

66-76

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