Eleanor Of Aquitaine
...duchess Aenor de Chatelleralut (d. 1130). She was the oldest of their three children. Eleanor was born and raised in Courtly Love. Eleanor at the time was probably one of the most fascinating women back then. She was born to be a leader. When she would get older, she would be one of the most influential women to the most powerful men at the time. She was going to be Duchess of Aquitaine and Queen of France. Eleanor was very outgoing and intelligent, so much that her father was impressed. Eleanors father had made sure that she, along with her siblings, had received the best education possible. In her studies she was taught to read and to write in Latin. She was said to have been very beautiful. During her childhood, when she was eight, her younger brother and mom died. Since her brother had died, she had now became the next heir to what belonged to her father, once he died. Since her mother died, she spent a lot of time with her father traveling. She would spend time traveling with her father through Aquitaine. When she was small, she was getting the idea of how the kingdom had to be run. Since the Land that her Father had owned was the envy of all the other provinces in France, because it was so large and rich.
In 1137 they went on a trip and Duke William X had gotten food poisoning. He died of food poisoning later in the evening the he got food poisoning. This left Eleanor the heir to all his possessions and Land. The death of her father made her very sad. The good part was that she was now the wealthiest heiress of Aquitaine. The fact that she was a girl made others think that she could not handle the job. Eleanor, at the age of 15, was now the duchess of Aquitaine. Before Duke William X had died, he verbally said his will. He left King Louis VI as the guardian of Eleanor, and until she found a proper husband, he could control the land. When Duke William...
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