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Eleanor of Aquitaine Biography
Eleanor of Aquitaine (c.1122-1204). A queen of France and afterward of England. She was married to Louis VII of France and after a divorce caused by her scandalous behavior, to Henry Plantagenet, or Henry II.
John Clark Ridpath, Ridpath's History of the World, Vol. II (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 721. (Queen Eleanor and her Troubadours, drawn by Gustav Doré.)
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