Eleanor Of Aquitaine: By the Wrath of God, Queen of England

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She was scandalous as a young woman, but an absolute inspiration who showed just what a woman can achieve, and what you can do at 67! The book will focus on the personal life of the King and the lives of his courtiers, and will encompass every aspect of Tudor court life, from state banquets to sanitary arrangements, and from Renaissance influences to amorous intrigues. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. At the time I was working as the historical adviser for Becket, I was asked to development a treatment for a play about Eleanor of Aquitaine.

I am not so sure about Richard I being portrayed as a homosexual, because there is very little evidence that he was. I am a Londoner, born and bred, although I have also lived in Norfolk and Sussex, and now reside in Surrey. And if any academic is sniffy about that, there is always Shakespeare, who certainly wrote 'faction'. For her compassion, her strength of character, her wisdom and her statecraft, she was, as a contemporary chronicler admiringly stated, ‘an incomparable woman’, and she deserves to be accounted one of the greatest queen who ever ruled in these islands. The King had a few of the dilapidated rooms fitted up for himself, but his long-suffering courtiers had to sleep in tents outside the palace.In the royal chapel, there was a painting of the Biblical woman taken in adultery, and in the King`s pew a mural of the four Evangelists. The answer, I suspect, lies in inverted elitism: let's use the kind of actors who will appeal to a younger audience. R elatives of the Cliffords owned Westenhanger Castle, Kent, in the 12th century, and the owners like to conjecture that 'Fair Rosamund' de Clifford stayed there. It also has he advantage of putting Eleanor in context of the role of Queens that came before and after her in England. During the first half of Richard’s ten-year reign – for much of which he was abroad - Eleanor was, after him, the chief power in the realm.

After DUKE WILLIAM has left, Eleanor strums her cittern and plays a troubadour song, as her three DAMSELS (the NUNS of the previous scene) dance gaily around the garden, playing beribboned tambourines. Given the dramatic licence inherent in any historical dramas, I would say that both films are legitimate treatments of their subjects, if not in the letter, certainly in the spirit. For her, the love they bore each other came before all else, and ultimately it was to endure through the most terrible circumstances and privations.She looks at what friends, enemies, troubadours and chroniclers as late as the 16th century had to say, often relaying it with the phrase ut dicebatur, ‘as it was said’.

Now, the mother of two is about to launch her latest book on the 12th-century Queen, Eleanor of Acquitaine, wife of both Louis VII and Henty II, heiress of half of France, and mother of Richard the Lionheart and King John. After Heloise had conceived a child, Fulbert discovered what was going on and, in a rage, threw Abelard out of the house.Heloise was the beautiful niece of Fulbert, a wealthy, cunning and miserly canon of Notre Dame in Paris. Before that she had worked as a civil servant and managed a school for children with learning difficulties. As she weaves these disparate strands together, Sullivan blazes a new trail in the study of celebrated figures in the medieval past, challenging us to rethink assumptions about what is useful about the forces that shaped medieval narratives and how we might read them. The extraordinary life of Eleanor of Aquitaine is brilliantly recreated by Alison Weir in her winning biography.