Eleanor: Crown Jewel of Aquitaine, France, 1136 (The Royal Diaries)

Type

Book

Authors

Kristiana Gregory

ISBN 10

0439164842

ISBN 13

8601416077253

Tags

Eleanor, of Aquitaine, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of England, 1122?-1204 -- Childhood and youth -- Fiction, France -- History -- Louis VII, 1137 -- 1180 -- Fiction, Kings, queens, rulers, etc. -- Fiction

Description

Fourteen-year-old Eleanor of Aquitaine lives in a castle in Poitier, France, with her father Count William of Aquitaine (son of William the Conqueror), and her 12-year-old sister Petronilla. Their mother died several years earlier, so their grandmother and ladies-in-waiting raise the girls. Eleanor is extremely intelligent and literate, having been carefully educated by royal tutors. Spinning bores her, as does weaving, sewing, and other housewifery skills expected of her. She would rather be a knight and ride off to war. In fact, in 1136, when her father is invited to help invade Normandy,

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