"Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum."
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Inscription on her tomb in . Walter Lovell, "Queen Eleanor's Crosses", Archaeological Journal, vol. 49, no. 1 (1892), pp. 38–9
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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. As the heiress of the House of Poitiers, which control
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