Aliyenora Akvitanskaya's biography is similar to the adventure movie. She disproves typical ideas of modern people of the fate of the medieval woman.
Date of birth of Aliyenora is unknown, approximately it is the 12th century. The girl was called in honor of her mother. She grew up in the luxurious palace in Bordeaux.
Her appearance was fine, and the inheritance (in the form of the whole Aquitaine) is even more more beautiful therefore in Bordeaux young people and not really grooms became constant visitor. Especially the king of France Louis VI Tolsty who wished to tidy up Bordeaux to the yard as against the background of Bordeaux Paris of that time was pale succeeded in a courtship. Intrigues of the dalekosmotryashchy king were crowned with success and was soon announced a wedding of the son Louis and Aliyenora.
Soon after the wedding the king dies and his 17-year-old son and 15-year-old Aliyenora sits down on a throne. The last very much misses in Paris, and the devout spouse solves will go to a crusade.
But Aliyenora says that he goes with him, at that time being already able one daughter.
But it was easier will agree...
Therefore Aliyenora brings together all the noble ladies and they study riding and possession of a sword. In such escort of Aliyenor with the husband reaches the Holy Land where Ludovic leaves it in the house in Antioch at the uncle of the count Raimund de Poitier.
However soon he learns about torrid love affair of the niece and uncle, furious takes away the wife and takes away to Paris. The king offers a divorce (that it is difficult to present in those realities), as a result of the spouse agree that if Aliyenora gives birth to the boy, then the conflict will be exhausted. But in 1152 she gave birth to Alice.
March 21, 1152 Dad Evgeny III allowed them a divorce, close relationship about which spouses allegedly only learned became a formal occasion.
The divorced woman with children, the truth also with Aquitaine becomes a wife literally in few months. The duke Angevin Heinrich of Plantagenet became the spouse.
He managed to achieve a throne of England (with Aliyenora's support, of course, and its money). In 15 years the wife gave birth to it to 5 boys and three girls.
Aliyenora actively took part in the solution of matters of state, but over time Heinrich to her grew cold and pushed into the background. At it mistresses began to appear, and he lodged one in the lock, near royal the palace, she soon gave birth to it to the son.
Farther worse. Heinrich put a part of the Duchy of Aliyenora. And when her son prince Richard had to marry Louis VII Adele's daughter, Heinrich made her the mistress, in the future she gave birth to him to the son... Being married to Richard.
Aliyenora lifted a mutiny, but the husband ground her in the lock for 16 years. All this time sons were at war with own father. But it was succeeded to release mother only with death of the father. The throne was occupied by mom's favourite Richard whom already then called Lion's Heart.
Actually it governed the state when Richard was at war, after his death the throne passed Jonah. Then Aliyenora returned to Aquitaine. But all the same participated in political life and was engaged in a courtship of the granddaughters.