Eleanor of Aquitaine Quotes

d. 1204 England

Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor or Éléonore; Occitan: Alienòr; Latin: Helienordis, Alienorde or Alianor; c. 1124 – 1 April 1204) was Duchess of Aquitaine from 1137 to 1204, Queen of France from 1137 to 1152 as the wife of King Louis VII, and Queen of England from 1154 to 1189 as the wife of King Henry II. As the reigning duchess of Aquitaine, she ruled jointly with her husbands and two of her sons, the English kings Richard I and John.

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Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. In this wise we have known your cardinals.

Letter to Pope Celestine III (1192)

A woman both in Counsel wise,
Religious, fruitful, meek,
Who did increase her husband's friends
And larged his honour eke.

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