Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence … See more

Contemporary sources praise Eleanor's beauty. Even in an era when ladies of the nobility were excessively eulogised and praised, their praise of her was undoubtedly sincere, though probably based on hearsay, w… See more

Many representations of Eleanor, or allusions to her, have appeared over the centuries, particularly the nineteenth-century revival of interest in their medieval past. In France, the Salles des Croisades at Versailles, … See more

By the time of her death, Eleanor had outlived all of her children except for Queen Eleanor of Castile, who died in 1214 and King John of England, who died in 1216. Her descendants were rulers of England, France, Sic… See more

• House of Plantagenet
• Angevin Empire
• Capetians
• House of Capet
• Grandmother of Europe, sobriquet of Eleanor of Aquitaine and others… See more

1. ^ Brown 2003, p. 17.
2. ^ Chadwick 2021a.
3. ^ Grasilier 1871, p. 36.
4. ^ Middleton 2015, p. 274. … See more