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3 articles matching “Eleanor of Aquitaine”
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A king died at Chinon, broken by the first name on a list of rebels. When the news reached his wife's gaolers they did not wait for permission. They let her go.
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She had once ruled part of it, for a few months, under a title that was not quite queen. Matilda was fifty-two when her son inherited the kingdom she had been promised herself.
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She was eight years old when they sent her across the Channel with no dowry. For the next twenty six years she would have no husband and no freedom either.