Portrait of Aliénor d'Aquitaine by Kordouane

Photography • Historical • posted on Mar 10, 2018

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Aliénor d' Aquitaine, also known as Éléonore d' Aquitaine or Guyenne, born around 1122 or 1124, and died on 31 March or 1 April 1204, in Poitiers, was in turn Queen of France, then Queen of England. Duchess of Aquitaine and Countess de Poitiers, it occupies a central place in the 12th century relations between the kingdoms of France and England: it successively marries the King of France Louis VII (1137), then Henri Plantagenêt (1152), future King of England Henry II, thus reversing the balance of forces by bringing his land to one and the other of the two sovereigns. At the sumptuous court she holds in Aquitaine, she favours the poetic expression of the troubadours in the language of oc. From her first marriage (during which she participated in the Second Crusade), she played an important political role in medieval Europe.