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An extensive consideration of the life span of Eleanor of Aquitaine. The wife of King Louis VII of France and then of King Henry II of England, and mom to Richard Coeur de Lion and King John, she turned the important thing political figure of the 12th-century. Eleanoris longevity impressed numerous stories. At twenty-five she put down for the Holy Land like a Crusader and at seventy-eight she entered the Pyreness to Italy to get the daughter whose relationship could be, she wished, a promise of peace between England and France.