Les filles d'Aliénor d'Aquitaine : étude comparative

Abstract

Two daughters were born of the union between Eleanor, duchess of Aquitaine and her first husband, Louis VII, King of France. Eight children, of which five sons and three daughters, were born of her second union with Henry Plantegenet, King of England and Duke of Normandy. The présent paper is an attempt to compare the lives and destinies of the five princesses : Mary, Countess of Champagne ; Aelis, Countess of Blois ; Matilda, Duchess of Saxony ; Eleanor, Queen of Castille ; Joan, Queen of Sicily and future Countess of Toulouse. None of them lived as long as their mother, but it was the wife of Alphonso VIII who best recalled the old French queen, as much for her fecondity as her longevity. Mary of Champagne, like her mother, afforded protection to artists and poets. The tragic destiny of the youngest princess, however, evoques quite singularly the unsettled and often disconcerting life of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

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