A high-spirited youth, an Amazon on the Second Crusade, Eleanor left the monkish Louis for the energetic Henry Plantagenet, twelve years her junior. She left him & set up her own court in Poitiers, the famous "Court of Love". Imprisoned by Henry for fifteen years, she endures to save Richard The Lion-Hearted & rules England with wisdom. Eleanor's two loves & two thrones set up the conditions for the One Hundred Years War. Politically shrewd, a world traveler, mother of ten, Eleanor's story seems too incredible to be ...
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A high-spirited youth, an Amazon on the Second Crusade, Eleanor left the monkish Louis for the energetic Henry Plantagenet, twelve years her junior. She left him & set up her own court in Poitiers, the famous "Court of Love". Imprisoned by Henry for fifteen years, she endures to save Richard The Lion-Hearted & rules England with wisdom. Eleanor's two loves & two thrones set up the conditions for the One Hundred Years War. Politically shrewd, a world traveler, mother of ten, Eleanor's story seems too incredible to be true, but it is. S.M. Denny said of this narrative, "lively & interesting."
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