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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
by: Marion Meade
Product Information
Condition: New
Binding: Paper Back
Author: Marion Meade
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) (November 1991)
ISBN: 0140153381
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A comprehensive account of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mother to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she became the key political figure of the 12th century. Eleanor's long life inspired a number of legends. At twenty-five she set out for the Holy Land as a Crusader and at seventy-eight she crossed the Pyreness to Spain to fetch the granddaughter whose marriage would be, she hoped, a pledge of peace between England and France. This is a compassionate biography of this charismatic queen and the world she ruled over.
Age tanning on edge of pages, crease in front cover.
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