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5 days ago · It seemed as though the monarch’s territorial lordship was to take a great leap forward when Louis VI arranged for his son to marry the only daughter and heir of William X, Duke of Aquitaine. Eleanor brought with her the vast duchy that encompassed much of South-Eastern France.
3 days ago · In 1337, however, Edward, in his capacity as Duke of Aquitaine, refused to pay homage to Philip. The French king's response was to confiscate what was left of lands in English-held Aquitaine, namely Gascony, thus precipitating the Hundred Years' War and Edward's revival of his claim to the throne and title of King of France in 1340.
3 days ago · Eleanor of Aquitaine (French: Aliénor d'Aquitaine, Éléonore d'Aquitaine, Occitan: Alienòr d'Aquitània, pronounced [aljeˈnɔɾ dakiˈtanjɔ], 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 ...
5 days ago · In 1137, William X, Duke of Aquitaine, appointed the King of the Franks, Louis VI, as the guardian of William's daughter, who became Eleanor of Aquitaine. Louis wasted no time in marrying her to his own sun, also named Louis.
2 days ago · The duke of Gloucester was the only surviving child of Queen Mary’s sister, Princess Anne, despite her 18 pregnancies. Because William and Mary were childless, the duke was the long-term Protestant heir to the throne.
2 days ago · Charlemagne's capture of Duke Hunald marked the end of ten years of war that had been waged in the attempt to bring Aquitaine into line. Carloman's refusal to participate in the war against Aquitaine led to a rift between the kings.
2 days ago · Instruction dated 22 May 1383, Westminster, Somerville, ed., John of Gaunt’s Registers 1379‒1383, I, 226 (Reg. 699): ‘Order to William de Everlee, clerk, receiver in the south, to pay £50 to William Oke, clerk of the duke’s great wardrobe, he having been commissioned to pay that sum last Easter from the chamber to the Lady de Mohone for the ward and expenses of the duke’s daughter Katherine; letters of acquitance being received under the seal of the said William’.
