Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine 

This woman lived 82 years that’s impressive considering the fact that she lived in the Middle Ages.

She lived a long life considering the average life expectancy back then.

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.

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 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!

I hope we get a video about Catherine de' Medici, touching on her relationship with Nostradamus.

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.

Elenor is my 27th great grandmother, recently discovered when my uncle was researching our genealogy. Came to learn about her.

Wow, you know it's bad that you need the POPE to get a man to sleep with his wife!

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.

King of champagne sounds like a awesome title.

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.

Day 5 of quarantine: watching historical videos and actually being entertained

I love that Eleanor was such a bold and courageous woman for her time.

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

I loooove her life story, such a badass woman! She has been an inspiration for me since I were a child

Just watched "The Lion In Winter" again. Kathrine Hepburn did amazing portrayal of Eleanor.

And I thought my family was screwed up.....

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

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.

I love that painting of her on the white horse. There was so much movement in it.

Eleanor: We’re completely miserable together and our marriage is actually detrimental to the kingdom. Please let us separate. Pope: lol have bby

Please do catherine de medici I want to know more about her.

I heard that Robinhood was actually a myth and the real Robin Hood was, fact, Eleanor.

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

Love Eleanor!!! TCM just showed The Lion in Winter the other night so this is quite the timely video :3

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

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.

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.

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.

I love how rude the portraits of competitors to Kings are.

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.

The mention of the pope's special bed made me chuckle a bit

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?

This is great! One of the most detailed bios I’ve come across about her.

Watching this because Eleanor d’Aquitaine is my direct ancestor. My great times 38 grandmother.

Can you imagine living such an intense life?

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.

Thank you so much! I have been looking for information on Eleanor of Aquitaine for a long time. This was fabulous.

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

Please make a video of Amélie of Orléans , Queen of Portugal. Love her.

Can you please do Katherine the Great or Marie Antoinette or Cleopatra

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

Brilliantly put together an edited and I love that it features music of the age. Thank you very much I love it.

Loved the movie about this ... "THE LION IN WINTER"

this was a lifesaver. for my essay, thank you!!

I've always had admiration for Eleanor and I'm glad to see someone talking about her history. :)

I love how informative your videos are and how soothing your voice is ❤️

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. ♥

Thanks for this well done bio of Eleanor of Aquitaine! I look forward to more!

There is something comforting about watching the history of these Monarchs. Thanx for this, I appreciate it.

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.

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 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)

Thank you. Excellent presentation ❤️

Love the music you chose for this. ❤️

I would love to see Lindsay do a video on the process of how she gathers her research as well as make her videos

I love your videos, the way you explain the videos, it more easy fun to learn. Thank you for doing this videos😁

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!

Wonderful video, thank you 💙

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 RU-vid. Girl you should be mankin bank

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!

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!!

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!

Enjoyed, TYVM!

She sounds like a cross between lady Tyrell and Cersei Lannister! Who needs fiction for entertainment when you have history???? 💖👍👑

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.

This woman was incredible and all at a time when women were barely allowed to learn how to read. Incredible

The Plantagenets and how they came into existence

I’m loving your Queens of Europe videos

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.🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀🍀💜💜💜🍀🍀🍀🍀💜

Eleanor of Aquitaine, and Bess of Hardwick are two of my favorite historical women...thank you for telling Eleanor’s story

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!

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!

One of my favorite queens. Thank you so much for Eleanor's story! The Lion in Winter!

Yay!!! Wonderful Lindsay!!!

I am related to her, shes my 25th grandmother. Very interesting to hear so much information on her!

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.

Love the music! 🎶😄

Misspelling and errors (subtext) in all the videos I've watched so far by I keep looking and enjoying. Thanks

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?

I really love the new music!

I adore your channel, keep up the excellent work.

Thank you for fulfilling my wish I really appreciated

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.

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 ^^"

Great video, Lindsay! She's my ancestor, too!

i love this channel so much!

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.

I'm impressed by the work and information. That was one complicated part of history. It must have been a dreadful time to be alive.

"I married, for love, a woman .. out of legend!" - Henry II

Your voice is remarkably more relaxed with a smoother cadence in this video. I like :) ... and as always the content.

A very strong lady one of my favourite queens thank you

You are so awesome! I love all of your videos. Please never stop lol 😂

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.

A wonderfully told story. It makes the Lion of Winter more interesting to watch.

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!"

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.

Thanks for posting this video. I recently discovered that she’s one of my ancestors.