profoundlysweetcrusade: Queen of France and England, Eleanor of Aquitaine (1137-1204) was the most b
profoundlysweetcrusade: Queen of France and England, Eleanor of Aquitaine (1137-1204) was the most beautiful queen that has ever existed in any age.Her beauty attracted to France the most expert minstrels, the most exalted painters, the most daring princes, who tried to steal her from her husband, King Louis. She was the queen of the crusades, feeling the Jerusalem´s heat in her own skin.Married in second nuptials with Henry II, her temperament, fertility and legend grew even more being the prototype of medieval queen, the model of woman of courtly love, of Arthurian legend born again, but in fact a great rivalry for her husband as ruler , A devoted lover and a rich patron.Her titles and fortune seemed to have no end. She endured the infidelities of her husband, but also the terrifying passion that Henry felt for her, wrapped in hatred and fear that gave him the most powerful sons of England and convinced them to mutiny against their own father.Between them, Richard The Lionheart, more god than man. -- source link