Hot Girls of the Middle Ages

Eleanor of Aquitaine
"that girl from Poitou"

• 1137 marries Louis soon to be VII, King of France.
• 1147 goes on a Crusade.
• 1152 dumps Louis, marries Henry soon to be II of England.
• 1170 separates from Henry (big philanderer) and establishes her own court in Poitiers.
• 1173 foments revolt against Henry; held by captive by Henry until 1185.
• 1189 Henry dies; rules England as regent.
• 1194 reign as regent ends when son returns from the third crusade; son kidnapped; raises ransom.
• 1200 crosses the Pyrenees (at 80) to take her grandaughter, Blanche, to France; dies.