Well actually, life expectancies were not great but not bad, 60-80 years for the adults, the life expectancy of 40 was from the diabetes riddled nobility and the tragic child mortality rate
@@mediocremaiden8883 Statistics are highly skewed because of the traditionally high rates of infant and childhood mortality, throughout the good part of history.
She was obviously a very strong woman, considering she survived the birth of 10 children and lived to be in her 80s in a time when there were no medicines and no protections against disease.
Interesting fact: if Eleanore had had sons with Louis, her territories - per the agreement her father negotiated with King Louis VI - would have been absorbed into France. It was her having had only daughters - as well as the forward-thinking laws of Aquitaine that gave women many more Rights than the north did and already protected her assets as a landowner - that allowed Eleanore to walk away from her marriage to Louis with her lands and fortune intact.
I never made the connection until now that John was the same John, king of England that was forced to sign the Magna Carta. I never knew Eleanor was his mother.
Yes they were Mother and Son. From my personal perspective they were my 27th Great Grandmother and 26 Great Grandfather. I have been researching my family tree for the last 20 years or so.
Mark Plane Eleanor is my 26 great-grandma and her son John is my 25th great-grandfather and John’s son Henry is my 24 great-grandfather. Which of Eleanor’s children are you descended from?
@@lotstolearn5350 Louis had been raised to be an priest and, eventually archbishop. He would not have (suddenly) been re-routed to being the king if his older brother had not died. In the Middle Ages, celibacy was considered to be a higher calling than marriage. Louis was very religious.
My 23rd great-grandmother. Guess I'm a good bit older than the others here. Alienor and another woman ancestor in the 1600s are my historical favorites. Both are strong women far ahead of their times.
I think a lot of people of English descent are descendants of Eleanor and Henry. She is my ancestor too. Also, Henry is my ancestor through at least two of his bastard sons.
Thank you for a thrilling biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. I have a daughter and granddaughter named Eleanor. She was a very strong willed woman and well educated for her time. I think this most men in this age were afraid of educated women. She thought for herself and helped her country to stand strong. She helped to shape Europe and kept her sons stay on the throne. She had a remarkable life. Your other biographies are well done and help us to see how royalty lived and shaped history.
I would love to see a video on Juana/Joan the Mad of Spain. She's allegedly my 14th great grandmother. I would love to know more about her. Allegedly Matilda and William the Conqueror are also in the family tree as many of these Royals. I find them all fascinating. Lives incredible and very sad at times. Glad I'm so far removed I couldn't be one. But I'm really interested in Juana. Why did she become mad. What lead up to it. What about her children. She was put in a convent until she died, because she evidently kept the corpse of her husband around. What happened to her. She wasn't an idiot or stupid. She was truly the Queen of Spain until they were like no way. Thanks.
@@kimberlybates6261 Juana the Mad was a vivacious, questioning, high- strung beauty. Under her mother's religion questions withered under the weight of Inquisition. She adored her husband. At her mother's death Juana became Queen of Castile. In deep mourning at the death of her husband she was helpless at the hands of her father and then her son. They both were more concerned with power than with caring for a deeply sad and betrayed woman who was both daughter of a king and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor. And she was the older sister of Catherine of Aragon, the first of 6 wives of Henry VIII.
She's one of my favourite medieval/renaissance women. I also like matilda and catherine of aragon. I like powerful females who were strong-willed and pushed the boundaries of their sex.
As a kid, I always thought the Disney's Robin Hood scenes with Prince John crying over Mummy were funny. Now that I know he was talking about Eleanor of Aquitaine, I love those scenes so much more.
I love to learn it's awesome to keep your brain thinking things of substance. If I ever had a child, I would home school, it's said that studies show that homeschooled kids have a higher IQ, and more mature.
What a great video about Eleanor! Best video of her ever. Would love to see videos on Catherine of Valois (the wife of Owen Tudor), Eleanor of Castile or Margaret of Anjou.
One of my favorite roles of Katherine Hepburn is of Eleanor in "The Lion In Winter," co-starring with Peter O'Toole as Henry and a young Anthony Hopkins as son Richard. Watching Hepburn and O'Toole chew up the screen is great entertainment! :-D
I am a great fan of Eleanor of Aquitaine's, as well as Queen Katherine {Catherine}, Henry VIII's first wife. I just wish every time I hear 'King Louis' I'd stop thinking of the orangutan in Jungle Book. LOL.
en tant que Français je vous emmerde les rossbeef . la France fille ainée de l'église , royaume de la fois de Nicée , comme on dit en France l'Angleterre et une colonie qui a mal tourner . as a french i fuck you rossbeef. France, the eldest daughter of the church, kingdom of both Nicaea, as they say in France England and a colony gone wrong.
@@samiam619 The dialogue is just delicious in that film! You have to see it at least twice to truly get the meaning behind all the zingers flying back and forth, especially between Henry and Eleanor. And that ending--damn if I didn't laugh and cry at the same time!
this woman had so much influence on english and french history, but also english and french literature and culture, it's insane and yet so little people know who she is
Not to mention our bloodlines. I remember reading somewhere that if you're European there's a good chance you have some of Eleanor's blood in your veins.
With the exception of "The Lion in Winter" why hasn't Hollywood made either a movie or TV mini-series on the life of this remarkable and highly colorful woman. Her life is much more exciting than many of the stories Hollywood makes.
Since you mentioned Empress Matilda, you should definitely do a video on her. The story of the White Ship sinking because everyone on board was royally (get it?) drunk off their ass is interesting. I'd also recommend the other Queen Eleanor, because my home county Northamptonshire has two of the three surviving crosses erected where her coffin was laid on the way back to Lindon
Her father was where she got her brilliance. And I believe she was her fathers daughter in more ways than one. His music and smutty poetry can still be heard and read. It is written she also had a potty mouth at times.. I adore her. The original emancipated woman, 1000 years before my time.
Girlfriend was crazy like a fox. You don't let no one bring your potential rise to greatness for granted. She was very skilled at her families cost. Love the video. Always learn something new. She was a woman before her time.
This is the calmest Video l've ever heard in a very long Time and the Music that you've added is just perfect, thank you very much for making these enjoyable Videos for me to watch and learn about overseas Kingdoms. May you do a Video about Katharine Of Aragon?
I found that I am a descendant of Eleanor. Through King John's son Richard, the 1st Earl of Cornwall and his mistress, Jeanne de Valletort Warenne. 26 generations later, there's Me. I was astounded when I found this through my 5th great grandmother. I enjoy ancestry research. To find these types of connections in my family line is really fascinating.
When I was pregnant my husband and I argued for 9 months about what we would call her. I’m Scottish and my husband is from Belfast. Therefore we threw around a lot of Orlaith, Mhairhi, Maeve etc. We decided we would wait to meet her. She was tiny when she arrived (5lb 8) and I was thinking maybe Lilly or Rose when my husband just popped up with Eleanor. It’s not a particularly common name where we live, neither of us have any Eleanor’s in our families but looking at her tiny little eyes….. Eleanor it is! Within 18 months the entire family was convinced she is Eleanor of Aquitaine living amongst us again. She will be 7 this July and is ferociously intelligent, can be deeply manipulative, she’s small and dainty like a little porcelain doll (blonde hair, blue eyes with long thick dark lashes) but is genuinely a force of nature. She will just simply ignore instructions she doesn’t want to follow, things have to be done exactly to her standard or don’t bother! It’s like living with a very particular adult in a tiny child’s body! She has loved animals (horses and dogs particularly!) since she was old enough to focus on them, she began trying to minesweep leftover red wine as soon as she could walk and absolutely has to have a steak that a good vet might be able to bring back! She will go exactly where she wants in life and your either along for the ride or irrelevant! Sometimes she looks at me or she will say something and I can see a queen in her 80s looking back at me!
I've loved Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine's story ever since I first read about her in middle school! She was such an amazing woman, astounding, beautiful, and bold. ♥
A Lion in the Winter was about Henry and Elenore. If you haven't seen it yet you should try to watch it. Elenore was a wise Queen, who did what it took to get her will done. Really like your videos, and thank you for your hard work.🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀💜
I love this video, a long with all of your content. I was named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, as my ancestry can be traced back to her. She deserved so much more
Common way to disparage a woman’s leadership & accomplishments is to attack her reputation by making assertions of infidelity. In modern times, this is still done by accusing a woman of sleeping her way to the top. Sad that we still struggle to accept that a woman could be accomplished based upon her hard work. What’s hard for me to grasp is how a few women still will attack another woman’s success. Eleanor has long been a favorite historical figure of mine. I think she’s flat-out remarkable! Thank you for such a well-done video! Please consider Boudicca. I’d love to see what you’d dig up!
There is a show Starz is doing for their anthology about famous women about Eleanor of Aqautaine based off of Alison Weirs biography about her and her historical fiction novel about her called Captive Queen.
I watched this video when you posted it, thought “wow that lady is such a badass,” and then today found out that she is my 31st great grandmother through her son John (who eventually became king- not royalty but related to a minor princess through his grandson Edward I lol)
I LOVE that you used the painting of her with The Poisoned Chalice for poor Fair Rosemund. Even tho that particular story is not historically accurate its still a beautiful and tragix story..and a beautiful painting. And BTW, Theres sonething soothing about your voice. Your videos are not only educational and entertaining, they could also fall under the 'ASMR' category for UA-cam. Girl you should be mankin bank
@@wilmafistfit4788 Hildegard of Bingen belonged to the lower nobility, and Catherine of Siena was the daughter of a cloth dyer. Anyone, male or female, who could not afford education couldn't read or write.
I’d really like to go back and be the medieval TMZ of the time. Seems like there were so many scandalous events nobody could possibly keep track. Crazy times!
She is one of my heroes, and there was a lot here I didn't know before (which is surprising based on how much I've read). One note: Geoffrey is the medieval spelling for Jeffrey. And it's pronounced as Jeffrey.
uhh...wow....I'm a history buff but I had no idea that Eleanor of Aquitaine played SUCH a pivotal role in some way or other for 70ish year in western European power. I had no idea she was such a successful long-term powerbroker...mind blown p.s. why aren't more podcast done about her?
They're a bit out of date, but I love Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet books (all of her books really). She actually did do a lot of research, even if things have been debunked since then, but she gives her characters personality, and you can easily imagine what they were like in real life.
All of your videos are so well done. I would love to see one on Diane de Poitiers and also one on Margaret Beaufort. Thank you for all of your hard work!
Thank you for doing a video on Queen Eleanor. She is both my namesake and 23rd great grandmother. Always interesting to watch your videos. keep up the great work!
I have been watching your videos for about a year now. I always enjoy them. I had to come back to this one which I thoroughly enjoyed to say that through extensive research on Ancestry and hours of fact checking I am proud to say that I am the 25th Great Granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. I've found out that I am directly related to so many royals but this was probably the most exciting find. I am also the 16th GGd of Edward IV of York and 17th GGd of both Elizabeth of York and George of York, all siblings and Plantagenets. There was A LOT of intermingling of the cousins that far back so Elizabeth and George had their children married. There's so much insane history. My 15th and 16th GG were even part of one of the many plots to dethrone Henry VIII.
This was one of my ( who knows how many) Great Grandmas through James the 4ths illegitimate daughter where my family lineage comes from, she was a definite powerhouse.
Henry was not only duke of Normandy, but duke of Anjou, of Touraine and of Maine ^^" Which means, that once he married Alienor and they conquered Brittany, they had all the Western half of the French kingdom was theirs ^^"
This was awesome, Lindsay! I didn't know anything about Eleanor of Aquitaine until this vid. Definitely going to be learning more about her now! Keep up the awesome work!
You have to watch the Hepburn/O'Toole classic film The Lion in Winter, which focuses on Eleanor's turbulent relationships with Henry and their sons. The dialogue, acting, and atmosphere are just epic!
Eleanor is my 26x great grandmother, and I never knew that about her paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother. Although it isn't the weirdest thing I've found in my family tree.
Excellent video but one thing is missing - maritime law. Eleanor of Aquitaine promulgated the Roles d'Oleron (Rolls of Oleron) which were one the very first formal laws of admiralty law in North and western Europe. They influenced the laws of Wisbuy and were later included in the Black Book of Admiralty. The Rolls are that part of Eleanor's legacy which is still influential in some form or another.
There are so many queens of Europe.I hope that you'll cover both the famous ones, like Catherine the Great of Russia, to the lesser known ones, too. They deserve some love and appreciation!
When you are a royal couple and like every other normal day, where when you get upset you take separate ships from one another. Dr. Phil wouldn’t approve.
Eris oh yeah, they definitely track that stuff. My mom was once talking about ladies hats and 2 minutes later, vids about ladies hats popped up in her suggestions
@@GRIMSBONIAN13 Maybe in old English or old French, but not in modern English. If you have the name Geoffrey but pronounce it Joffrey, you are an outlier.
What a perfect video. I love it. Wonder if you could dig in to Hildegard von Bingen. I know she wasn't a Queen, but what a badass and influential in so many ways.
** I once dated a man in Lincolnshire with four Master degrees;; he R-A-V-E-D about Eleanor. ** At the time,, I Never even Heard of Her.=== Not a Lot from Americans' knowledge of royalty. ** THis was REally a Good Video::: THANK YOU. ** T-H-O,,, I STill doN'T Know just What All of the Fuss was/Is About....
*Eleanor raised Richard's ransom by sending the equivalent of a Year's worth of the English income (in silver) to the H.R.E... bankrupting England, at that time, and causing mass starvation amongst the populace. Eleanor sound's sweet as pie in this video, but in reality- Her and Her Family were ruthless and tyrannical!! Her Children were nicknamed "the bastard brood" !!! Good video though! Thanks for uploading
@@cosmoseer1834 She certainly did want the power! She was a formidable Woman, trying to navigate a Man's world, and succeeding at it. This era can sound very.. "romantic", but the reality, well, very different, as You pointed out- If Eleanor's father hadn't locked Her away in a monastery before His death, She would of been raped and "married" by some feudal "Lord" simply to gain access to Her fortune. This happened to many Women in this era. Eleanor was lucky, and intelligent. She was forced to navigate through shark invested water's, so to speak, and She navigated well!
I'm not sure how I feel about this "She-wolf" term... The Women dubbed as "She-wolves" were strong, brilliant Women, that commanded respect, in an era where Women had none. I have a lot of respect for these "She-wolves" that much I do know :)
@@cosmoseer1834 Those are certainly the most famous "She-Wolves", however, the term was used to attack and degrade many strong, willful Women. Ann Boleyn was called a "She-Wolf", as were many other's. I believe there was a "Lord poet" at Henry the 8ths Court, that called one of the Seymour brother's, wives a "She-wolf" too...
She was a troubaizita so we we're learning about her in music history! I love her Soo much so someone asked a question the teacher didn't know the answer to but I did! I then was allowed to go on a 5 min rant about her. The teacher looked at me, closed her notes, and was like "well, okay, that is everything I was going to say. Emily knows more than me about this one!"
My only history rant was correcting an English Lit Professor who said in passing that Queen Elizabeth the Firsts mother died in child birth... I begged to differ. She argued her point I went into a 20 min rant on Henry VIII six wives, their order and how they died. I dang near flunked out of her class. I, who had not made less than a B+ on any English/Lit classes since high school... Oh well. My U.K. is in Lexington :)
@@kelseydavis8456 That's weird that someone who is an English Lit professor wouldn't know that Anne Boleyn was beheaded when that is one of the most infamous occurrences in Henry VIII's long reign. Then again, he had so many wives and beheaded two of them (ironically cousins) that she might not have been able to keep them all straight LOL.
Thank you for this video...I just found out via Ancestry that this amazing lady is my 24th great grandmother! I will be researching my new found roots more and appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
This woman lived 82 years that’s impressive considering the fact that she lived in the Middle Ages.
Agree. They use an average, which makes no sense. Plenty of old people. And she did have access to the best, eh?
If you lived past 15, you could easily make it 60,70 or even more
A clean bad bitch
It's impressive that she survived childbirth considering the number of children that she had.
And she was a brilliant, strong lady... Very admirable. It's sad she outlived most of her kids though...
Okay, as a child, I was Eleanor of Aquitaine for Halloween. Yes, my mother made us learn with most costumes. This was one of my favorites.
You had a brillient mother.
This is amazing. If you can, let your mom know I'll do the same for my kids some day haha
That’s so freakin cool
lucky bastard
Thats so cool!!!
She lived a long life considering the average life expectancy back then.
Well actually, life expectancies were not great but not bad, 60-80 years for the adults, the life expectancy of 40 was from the diabetes riddled nobility and the tragic child mortality rate
Life Expectancy being about age 40 for men and 28-35 or so for women.
@@kosovoiskosovoproductions7001 Diabetes came later.
@@mediocremaiden8883 Statistics are highly skewed because of the traditionally high rates of infant and childhood mortality, throughout the good part of history.
She was obviously a very strong woman, considering she survived the birth of 10 children and lived to be in her 80s in a time when there were no medicines and no protections against disease.
Interesting fact: if Eleanore had had sons with Louis, her territories - per the agreement her father negotiated with King Louis VI - would have been absorbed into France. It was her having had only daughters - as well as the forward-thinking laws of Aquitaine that gave women many more Rights than the north did and already protected her assets as a landowner - that allowed Eleanore to walk away from her marriage to Louis with her lands and fortune intact.
Cool 😎
She was a lucky duck
I never made the connection until now that John was the same John, king of England that was forced to sign the Magna Carta. I never knew Eleanor was his mother.
Yes they were Mother and Son. From my personal perspective they were my 27th Great Grandmother and 26 Great Grandfather. I have been researching my family tree for the last 20 years or so.
He is also the evil Prince John in all the Robin Hood movies.
@@markplane5994 Hi cousin?
@@samiam619 Robin Hood was based on The Black Douglas
Mark Plane Eleanor is my 26 great-grandma and her son John is my 25th great-grandfather and John’s son Henry is my 24 great-grandfather. Which of Eleanor’s children are you descended from?
Wow, you know it's bad that you need the POPE to get a man to sleep with his wife!
Pope through bed curtains: I can't HEAR you.
You can blame some of the doctrine.
Remember that he had access to almost any woman of his choice.
@@lotstolearn5350
Louis had been raised to be an
priest and, eventually archbishop.
He would not have (suddenly)
been re-routed to being the king
if his older brother had not died.
In the Middle Ages, celibacy
was considered to be a higher
calling than marriage. Louis
was very religious.
Ya, nothing like an order to have sex. Dang, we have to do this; the pope said so.
I hope we get a video about Catherine de' Medici, touching on her relationship with Nostradamus.
Coming out March 31st!
Excellent! Just discovered the channel this weekend and really love the content!
Lindsay Holiday YESSS
That’s my birthday 🎂
@@rabeecahameed early happy birthday
I often think of the 70 year old Eleanor riding a horse to Germany to redeem Richard from his jailers, on days when I feel wimpy!
Someone should make a movie about her life
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Elenor is my 27th great grandmother, recently discovered when my uncle was researching our genealogy. Came to learn about her.
@ron con leche ditto
My 27th Grandmother as well. Down the line to King Manuel I of Portugal’s illegitimate grandson Juan Gomez Bejar de Portugal.
My 23rd great-grandmother. Guess I'm a good bit older than the others here. Alienor and another woman ancestor in the 1600s are my historical favorites. Both are strong women far ahead of their times.
ELEANOR & KING HENRY 2ND ARE MY 28TH GREAT GPARENTS.. HELLO COUSIN APRIL...
I think a lot of people of English descent are descendants of Eleanor and Henry. She is my ancestor too. Also, Henry is my ancestor through at least two of his bastard sons.
Thank you for a thrilling biography of Eleanor of Aquitaine. I have a daughter and granddaughter named Eleanor. She was a very strong willed woman and well educated for her time. I think this most men in this age were afraid of educated women. She thought for herself and helped her country to stand strong. She helped to shape Europe and kept her sons stay on the throne. She had a remarkable life. Your other biographies are well done and help us to see how royalty lived and shaped history.
I would love to see a video on Juana/Joan the Mad of Spain. She's allegedly my 14th great grandmother. I would love to know more about her. Allegedly Matilda and William the Conqueror are also in the family tree as many of these Royals. I find them all fascinating. Lives incredible and very sad at times. Glad I'm so far removed I couldn't be one. But I'm really interested in Juana. Why did she become mad. What lead up to it. What about her children. She was put in a convent until she died, because she evidently kept the corpse of her husband around. What happened to her. She wasn't an idiot or stupid. She was truly the Queen of Spain until they were like no way. Thanks.
@@kimberlybates6261 Juana the Mad was a vivacious, questioning, high- strung beauty. Under her mother's religion questions withered under the weight of Inquisition. She adored her husband. At her mother's death Juana became Queen of Castile. In deep mourning at the death of her husband she was helpless at the hands of her father and then her son. They both were more concerned with power than with caring for a deeply sad and betrayed woman who was both daughter of a king and mother of the Holy Roman Emperor. And she was the older sister of Catherine of Aragon, the first of 6 wives of Henry VIII.
She's one of my favourite medieval/renaissance women. I also like matilda and catherine of aragon. I like powerful females who were strong-willed and pushed the boundaries of their sex.
Here here!
I loooove her life story, such a badass woman! She has been an inspiration for me since I were a child
I just wish she could have had long-lasting happiness in marriage, but not too many men could handle a woman like that back then (or even now).
@@DarlingNikki2 marriage is so overrated, it's just a tool for suppressing women, treating them like a property and to be used as a pawn.
@@est9949 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
As a kid, I always thought the Disney's Robin Hood scenes with Prince John crying over Mummy were funny. Now that I know he was talking about Eleanor of Aquitaine, I love those scenes so much more.
Just watched "The Lion In Winter" again. Kathrine Hepburn did amazing portrayal of Eleanor.
I loved that movie. Katherine Hepburn was great as eleanor
One of my favorite classic films! The acting, atmosphere, and dialogue in that movie are incredible!
My fav for sure along with man for all seasons
Poor Glenn Close never stood a chance comparison wise in the 2002 remake.
I love that Eleanor was such a bold and courageous woman for her time.
King of champagne sounds like a awesome title.
*glug gug*
I'm kind of partial to Comtesse de Cristal myself LOL
Duke of Rosè had a nice ring to it to
Yes that would be an awesome title! He really pops my cork!
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Day 5 of quarantine: watching historical videos and actually being entertained
I love to learn it's awesome to keep your brain thinking things of substance. If I ever had a child, I would home school, it's said that studies show that homeschooled kids have a higher IQ, and more mature.
Omg, I've been watching a LOT of UA-cam history...
There's a Timeline channel that does the Bubonic Plague.
It's...
Disturbing.
But fascinating...
LaTavia Washington I love them,,,,
Same. Better than school anyway
Day 350 of quarantine: Still doing the same
What a great video about Eleanor! Best video of her ever. Would love to see videos on Catherine of Valois (the wife of Owen Tudor), Eleanor of Castile or Margaret of Anjou.
Edward IV recognized it, I’m pretty sure. He also gave her Tudor children titles, most notably Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, father of Henry VII
Wow this queen’s life was like a soap opera!
One of my favorite roles of Katherine Hepburn is of Eleanor in "The Lion In Winter," co-starring with Peter O'Toole as Henry and a young Anthony Hopkins as son Richard. Watching Hepburn and O'Toole chew up the screen is great entertainment! :-D
That movie is also one of my favorites! It really inspired me to delve into the history!
I am a great fan of Eleanor of Aquitaine's, as well as Queen Katherine {Catherine}, Henry VIII's first wife. I just wish every time I hear 'King Louis' I'd stop thinking of the orangutan in Jungle Book. LOL.
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en tant que Français je vous emmerde les rossbeef .
la France fille ainée de l'église , royaume de la fois de Nicée , comme on dit en France l'Angleterre et une colonie qui a mal tourner .
as a french i fuck you rossbeef.
France, the eldest daughter of the church, kingdom of both Nicaea, as they say in France England and a colony gone wrong.
Love Eleanor!!! TCM just showed The Lion in Winter the other night so this is quite the timely video :3
Missed it. Dammit 😔
I have it on tape! John: “If I was on fire no one would piss on me to put it out!” Richard: “Let’s strike a flint and see>”
@Ciarrai
Katherine Hepburn played
the role of Eleanor to
perfection!
@@samiam619 The dialogue is just delicious in that film! You have to see it at least twice to truly get the meaning behind all the zingers flying back and forth, especially between Henry and Eleanor. And that ending--damn if I didn't laugh and cry at the same time!
this woman had so much influence on english and french history, but also english and french literature and culture, it's insane
and yet so little people know who she is
Not to mention our bloodlines. I remember reading somewhere that if you're European there's a good chance you have some of Eleanor's blood in your veins.
Paris was a sewer and a mess on all accounts until she arrived and civilized the place!
She is my hero, have been To France to see where she lays. She rode on horseback over the Alps in freezing weather at the age of 72
And I thought my family was screwed up.....
Lol
I heard that Robinhood was actually a myth and the real Robin Hood was, fact, Eleanor.
This is my new favorite mythological canon - love the idea!!
That's a fanciful step too far!
The Black Douglas was also though that Robin Hood was based on.
Interesting theory, quite thought provoking
Someone for real should make a tv series out of her story
I love that painting of her on the white horse. There was so much movement in it.
Please do catherine de medici I want to know more about her.
She'll be coming out March 31st!
Lindsay Holiday :D
Moi Anniversaire
Lindsay Holiday Hooray!!!! I love Catherine De Medici, can’t wait! 😀⚜️ (mention Diane De Poitiers, if possible)
Lindsay Holiday so, where’s the video?
With the exception of "The Lion in Winter" why hasn't Hollywood made either a movie or TV mini-series on the life of this remarkable and highly colorful woman. Her life is much more exciting than many of the stories Hollywood makes.
Since you mentioned Empress Matilda, you should definitely do a video on her. The story of the White Ship sinking because everyone on board was royally (get it?) drunk off their ass is interesting.
I'd also recommend the other Queen Eleanor, because my home county Northamptonshire has two of the three surviving crosses erected where her coffin was laid on the way back to Lindon
Her father was where she got her brilliance. And I believe she was her fathers daughter in more ways than one. His music and smutty poetry can still be heard and read. It is written she also had a potty mouth at times.. I adore her. The original emancipated woman, 1000 years before my time.
Girlfriend was crazy like a fox. You don't let no one bring your potential rise to greatness for granted. She was very skilled at her families cost. Love the video. Always learn something new. She was a woman before her time.
She created women's time.
This is the calmest Video l've ever heard in a very long Time and the Music that you've added is just perfect, thank you very much for making these enjoyable Videos for me to watch and learn about overseas Kingdoms. May you do a Video about Katharine Of Aragon?
I have watched many of your videos now. Just wanted to tell you I love the cadence of your delivery. Clear but not slow! Perfection
I found that I am a descendant of Eleanor. Through King John's son Richard, the 1st Earl of Cornwall and his mistress, Jeanne de Valletort Warenne. 26 generations later, there's Me. I was astounded when I found this through my 5th great grandmother. I enjoy ancestry research. To find these types of connections in my family line is really fascinating.
How did you find that out?
DNA study will find the connection for you. I too am related to Eleanor, much to my delight. This must be where I got my 'bolshiness' from
@@christinemcpherson849 The Plantagenants were very dysfunctional.
Hi cousins. I'm also related through John.
@@teetee6378 one thing about the nobility we know who they are and we can trace nack
When I was pregnant my husband and I argued for 9 months about what we would call her. I’m Scottish and my husband is from Belfast. Therefore we threw around a lot of Orlaith, Mhairhi, Maeve etc. We decided we would wait to meet her. She was tiny when she arrived (5lb 8) and I was thinking maybe Lilly or Rose when my husband just popped up with Eleanor. It’s not a particularly common name where we live, neither of us have any Eleanor’s in our families but looking at her tiny little eyes….. Eleanor it is! Within 18 months the entire family was convinced she is Eleanor of Aquitaine living amongst us again. She will be 7 this July and is ferociously intelligent, can be deeply manipulative, she’s small and dainty like a little porcelain doll (blonde hair, blue eyes with long thick dark lashes) but is genuinely a force of nature. She will just simply ignore instructions she doesn’t want to follow, things have to be done exactly to her standard or don’t bother! It’s like living with a very particular adult in a tiny child’s body! She has loved animals (horses and dogs particularly!) since she was old enough to focus on them, she began trying to minesweep leftover red wine as soon as she could walk and absolutely has to have a steak that a good vet might be able to bring back!
She will go exactly where she wants in life and your either along for the ride or irrelevant! Sometimes she looks at me or she will say something and I can see a queen in her 80s looking back at me!
I've always had admiration for Eleanor and I'm glad to see someone talking about her history. :)
Loved the movie about this ...
"THE LION IN WINTER"
I've loved Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine's story ever since I first read about her in middle school! She was such an amazing woman, astounding, beautiful, and bold. ♥
I learned about her after college. You must've gone to a good middle school.
This is great! One of the most detailed bios I’ve come across about her.
Please make a video of Amélie of Orléans
, Queen of Portugal. Love her.
A Lion in the Winter was about Henry and Elenore. If you haven't seen it yet you should try to watch it. Elenore was a wise Queen, who did what it took to get her will done. Really like your videos, and thank you for your hard work.🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀💜
She sounds like a cross between lady Tyrell and Cersei Lannister! Who needs fiction for entertainment when you have history???? 💖👍👑
Well Martin did use a lot of real history in his work
I love this video, a long with all of your content. I was named after Eleanor of Aquitaine, as my ancestry can be traced back to her. She deserved so much more
Common way to disparage a woman’s leadership & accomplishments is to attack her reputation by making assertions of infidelity. In modern times, this is still done by accusing a woman of sleeping her way to the top. Sad that we still struggle to accept that a woman could be accomplished based upon her hard work. What’s hard for me to grasp is how a few women still will attack another woman’s success.
Eleanor has long been a favorite historical figure of mine. I think she’s flat-out remarkable!
Thank you for such a well-done video! Please consider Boudicca. I’d love to see what you’d dig up!
Can you please do Katherine the Great or Marie Antoinette or Cleopatra
There is a show Starz is doing for their anthology about famous women about Eleanor of Aqautaine based off of Alison Weirs biography about her and her historical fiction novel about her called Captive Queen.
Eleanor: We’re completely miserable together and our marriage is actually detrimental to the kingdom. Please let us separate.
Pope: lol have bby
Thank you so much! I have been looking for information on Eleanor of Aquitaine for a long time. This was fabulous.
There is something comforting about watching the history of these Monarchs. Thanx for this, I appreciate it.
I watched this video when you posted it, thought “wow that lady is such a badass,” and then today found out that she is my 31st great grandmother through her son John (who eventually became king- not royalty but related to a minor princess through his grandson Edward I lol)
Brilliantly put together an edited and I love that it features music of the age. Thank you very much I love it.
I LOVE that you used the painting of her with The Poisoned Chalice for poor Fair Rosemund. Even tho that particular story is not historically accurate its still a beautiful and tragix story..and a beautiful painting. And BTW, Theres sonething soothing about your voice. Your videos are not only educational and entertaining, they could also fall under the 'ASMR' category for UA-cam. Girl you should be mankin bank
Thanks! I never thought of my voice as ASMR, what a compliment!
This woman was incredible and all at a time when women were barely allowed to learn how to read. Incredible
Plenty of literate women at that time.. Catherine of Sienna, Queen Isabela of Castile, Hildegard von Bingen to name a few.
belvedere416 if they were royalty or rich 🙄 how is that plenty can’t stand people that erase history’s oppressions
@@wilmafistfit4788 Hildegard of Bingen belonged to the lower nobility, and Catherine of Siena was the daughter of a cloth dyer. Anyone, male or female, who could not afford education couldn't read or write.
Education was more wealth based than gender based
Goyon Man while it’s true that wealth helped some women get a modest education they are never given the same freedoms of men at that time
I love how informative your videos are and how soothing your voice is ❤️
I’d really like to go back and be the medieval TMZ of the time. Seems like there were so many scandalous events nobody could possibly keep track. Crazy times!
Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Bess of Hardwick are two of my favorite historical women...thank you for telling Eleanor’s story
Mine too!
She is one of my heroes, and there was a lot here I didn't know before (which is surprising based on how much I've read). One note: Geoffrey
is the medieval spelling for Jeffrey. And it's pronounced as Jeffrey.
I guess the narrator was not a Toys-R-Us Kid!
The French pronounciation is sounds like Joffrey
Kinda like in game of thrones.
Watching this because Eleanor d’Aquitaine is my direct ancestor. My great times 38 grandmother.
uhh...wow....I'm a history buff but I had no idea that Eleanor of Aquitaine played SUCH a pivotal role in some way or other for 70ish year in western European power. I had no idea she was such a successful long-term powerbroker...mind blown
p.s. why aren't more podcast done about her?
The mention of the pope's special bed made me chuckle a bit
I am related to her, shes my 25th grandmother. Very interesting to hear so much information on her!
They're a bit out of date, but I love Jean Plaidy's Plantagenet books (all of her books really). She actually did do a lot of research, even if things have been debunked since then, but she gives her characters personality, and you can easily imagine what they were like in real life.
I love those books! I leArnd a lot about England’s history through them. Can’t even find them at my local Ibarra anymore
Try Dan Jones’ The Plantagenets. An excellent read!
I would love to see Lindsay do a video on the process of how she gathers her research as well as make her videos
Your voice is remarkably more relaxed with a smoother cadence in this video. I like :) ... and as always the content.
All of your videos are so well done. I would love to see one on Diane de Poitiers and also one on Margaret Beaufort. Thank you for all of your hard work!
I love how rude the portraits of competitors to Kings are.
Thank you for doing a video on Queen Eleanor. She is both my namesake and 23rd great grandmother. Always interesting to watch your videos. keep up the great work!
The Plantagenets and how they came into existence
One of my favorite queens. Thank you so much for Eleanor's story! The Lion in Winter!
I’m loving your Queens of Europe videos
I have been watching your videos for about a year now. I always enjoy them. I had to come back to this one which I thoroughly enjoyed to say that through extensive research on Ancestry and hours of fact checking I am proud to say that I am the 25th Great Granddaughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine. I've found out that I am directly related to so many royals but this was probably the most exciting find. I am also the 16th GGd of Edward IV of York and 17th GGd of both Elizabeth of York and George of York, all siblings and Plantagenets. There was A LOT of intermingling of the cousins that far back so Elizabeth and George had their children married. There's so much insane history. My 15th and 16th GG were even part of one of the many plots to dethrone Henry VIII.
this was a lifesaver. for my essay, thank you!!
Thank you. Excellent presentation ❤️
This was one of my ( who knows how many) Great Grandmas through James the 4ths illegitimate daughter where my family lineage comes from, she was a definite powerhouse.
Misspelling and errors (subtext) in all the videos I've watched so far by I keep looking and enjoying. Thanks
Can you imagine living such an intense life?
Especially 82 years of it! Well, at least the last few were peaceful, much to her relief I'm sure LOL.
Thanks for this well done bio of Eleanor of Aquitaine! I look forward to more!
A very strong lady one of my favourite queens thank you
A wonderfully told story. It makes the Lion of Winter more interesting to watch.
Henry was not only duke of Normandy, but duke of Anjou, of Touraine and of Maine ^^"
Which means, that once he married Alienor and they conquered Brittany, they had all the Western half of the French kingdom was theirs ^^"
Last time I was so early the Roman Empire were still under Caesar's rule)
This was awesome, Lindsay! I didn't know anything about Eleanor of Aquitaine until this vid. Definitely going to be learning more about her now! Keep up the awesome work!
You have to watch the Hepburn/O'Toole classic film The Lion in Winter, which focuses on Eleanor's turbulent relationships with Henry and their sons. The dialogue, acting, and atmosphere are just epic!
Eleanor is my 26x great grandmother, and I never knew that about her paternal grandfather and maternal grandmother. Although it isn't the weirdest thing I've found in my family tree.
Amazing Video! Try some Polish Queens next? like Jadwiga, she was the first Polish female ruler and forced the polish government to call her a King.
do elizabeth woodville next! she’s my 15th great aunts sister.
Coolness ❤️
She is my ++++ grandmother :) I would be interested also
@@Rose-ej4lb then you and jmk 97 are cousins
@@bennyalea9479Thank you! :) oddly enough Eleanor is also a grandmother of mine :D Very Interesting
Yea she’s my second favorite queen my first is Katheryn parr
Good Job!! I have watched a few now and have learned so much!! And the art..is over the top...music good too...Thank You!!
Excellent video but one thing is missing - maritime law. Eleanor of Aquitaine promulgated the Roles d'Oleron (Rolls of Oleron) which were one the very first formal laws of admiralty law in North and western Europe. They influenced the laws of Wisbuy and were later included in the Black Book of Admiralty. The Rolls are that part of Eleanor's legacy which is still influential in some form or another.
There are so many queens of Europe.I hope that you'll cover both the famous ones, like Catherine the Great of Russia, to the lesser known ones, too. They deserve some love and appreciation!
When you are a royal couple and like every other normal day, where when you get upset you take separate ships from one another. Dr. Phil wouldn’t approve.
I love your videos, the way you explain the videos, it more easy fun to learn. Thank you for doing this videos😁
It's kinda creepy that the fic I was reading mentioned her and UA-cam recommended this video shortly after.
Worth the watch though.
Eris oh yeah, they definitely track that stuff. My mom was once talking about ladies hats and 2 minutes later, vids about ladies hats popped up in her suggestions
Great story telling! One point though....Geoffrey is pronounced Jeffrey, not Joffrey.
Isnt that the difference in the French vs English pronunciation of the name? Didn't they all speak French at that point?
I guess the narrator was not a Toys-R-Us Kid!
It was the French pronunciation joffry. French was still the language of the nobility in England
@@FreyaEinde you win the prize because you are correct.
@@GRIMSBONIAN13 I'd like to thank the academy for my smarties...
“Geoffrey” is pronounced the same as “Jeffrey.”
It would be pronounce joffrey
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@@GRIMSBONIAN13 Correct. It is the French pronunciation.
@@GRIMSBONIAN13 Maybe in old English or old French, but not in modern English. If you have the name Geoffrey but pronounce it Joffrey, you are an outlier.
@@kellynch But we are talking about when French was the language of the Nobility in both England and France.
kellynch But it IS old French.
What a perfect video. I love it.
Wonder if you could dig in to Hildegard von Bingen.
I know she wasn't a Queen, but what a badass and influential in so many ways.
** I once dated a man in Lincolnshire with four Master degrees;; he R-A-V-E-D about Eleanor.
** At the time,, I Never even Heard of Her.=== Not a Lot from Americans' knowledge of royalty.
** THis was REally a Good Video::: THANK YOU.
** T-H-O,,, I STill doN'T Know just What All of the Fuss was/Is About....
Love the music you chose for this. ❤️
*Eleanor raised Richard's ransom by sending the equivalent of a Year's worth of the English income (in silver) to the H.R.E... bankrupting England, at that time, and causing mass starvation amongst the populace.
Eleanor sound's sweet as pie in this video, but in reality- Her and Her Family were ruthless and tyrannical!! Her Children were nicknamed "the bastard brood" !!!
Good video though! Thanks for uploading
You are correct. She wanted the power. Lucky her father looked after her well being before passing. She is called one of the she wolf's.
@@cosmoseer1834 She certainly did want the power! She was a formidable Woman, trying to navigate a Man's world, and succeeding at it. This era can sound very.. "romantic", but the reality, well, very different, as You pointed out- If Eleanor's father hadn't locked Her away in a monastery before His death, She would of been raped and "married" by some feudal "Lord" simply to gain access to Her fortune. This happened to many Women in this era. Eleanor was lucky, and intelligent. She was forced to navigate through shark invested water's, so to speak, and She navigated well!
I'm not sure how I feel about this "She-wolf" term... The Women dubbed as "She-wolves" were strong, brilliant Women, that commanded respect, in an era where Women had none. I have a lot of respect for these "She-wolves" that much I do know :)
@@TheOnlyElle. 4 She Wolves...Matilda, Eleanor, Margaret and the wife of Edward II.
@@cosmoseer1834 Those are certainly the most famous "She-Wolves", however, the term was used to attack and degrade many strong, willful Women. Ann Boleyn was called a "She-Wolf", as were many other's. I believe there was a "Lord poet" at Henry the 8ths Court, that called one of the Seymour brother's, wives a "She-wolf" too...
She was a troubaizita so we we're learning about her in music history! I love her Soo much so someone asked a question the teacher didn't know the answer to but I did! I then was allowed to go on a 5 min rant about her. The teacher looked at me, closed her notes, and was like "well, okay, that is everything I was going to say. Emily knows more than me about this one!"
My only history rant was correcting an English Lit Professor who said in passing that Queen Elizabeth the Firsts mother died in child birth... I begged to differ. She argued her point I went into a 20 min rant on Henry VIII six wives, their order and how they died. I dang near flunked out of her class. I, who had not made less than a B+ on any English/Lit classes since high school... Oh well. My U.K. is in Lexington :)
@@kelseydavis8456 That's weird that someone who is an English Lit professor wouldn't know that Anne Boleyn was beheaded when that is one of the most infamous occurrences in Henry VIII's long reign. Then again, he had so many wives and beheaded two of them (ironically cousins) that she might not have been able to keep them all straight LOL.
Have you thought of doing a video on her children. They were all pretty interesting and married well
Thank you for this video...I just found out via Ancestry that this amazing lady is my 24th great grandmother! I will be researching my new found roots more and appreciate you sharing your knowledge.
She's my 22 X great grandmother. (I'm very old!)