Eleanor of Aquitaine

Lady and a Champion of Advocating the Equality of Women, Worker's Rights, Child Welfare and Civil Rights Ashley Matthews Nash Community College Introduction to Social Work 110 Professor Lucas October 10, 2015 Biography of Eleanor Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 in Manhattan, New York. She came from a privileged wealthy family. Her father was Elliot Roosevelt, brother to future president Theodore Roosevelt, and her mother Anne Rebecca Hall was a…

Sensory details emphasized that Eleanor Roosevelt had a truly cold childhood. More specifically, “Orphans now, Eleanor and her brother, Hall, continued to live with their grandmother and her own unruly brood of eccentric sons and daughters.” (15) This illustrates not only how much loss Eleanor experienced in her youth, but also what she had to deal with as a result of her losses. For instance, after both of Eleanor’s parents passed, she had to complete a great deal of tasks that most children…

Eleanor Farjeon is primarily known for her fantasy and children book writing. She was also a prolific poet and her poetry collection The Little Bookroom (1955) won her the Carnegie Medal and the Hans Christian Andersen medal (Poetry). Later she would go on to receive the American Regina Medal in 1959 (Poetry). Her work with children’s writing was so successful that the Children’s Book Circle in England would create the Farjeon Award which is awarded for outstanding work in children’s…

how many world-changing acts of bravery Eleanor Roosevelt used to impact and inspire.She had the selflessness to speak up for those who didn’t have a voice, influence the world by standing up for the hopeless, and help those in need. One trait that made her unique is that she would care for others before she worried about her own problems. You can only imagine how life would be now without Eleanor Roosevelt and all of her courageous works. Although Eleanor Roosevelt was able to change the world;…

Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick portrays the early portion of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine, spanning from 1137 to 1154 CE. Starting in January of 1137, the novel follows a young Eleanor after the death of her father, William X, Duke of Aquitaine. Subsequent to his death, Eleanor is set to inherit the kingdom of Aquitaine, and learns of an intended betrothal to Prince Louis VII of France. Faced with a new future, Eleanor marries Louis, and moves to Paris with her younger sister Petronella…

Périgord. In 1152 Eleanor duchess of Aquitaine (former Queen of France through her marriage with Louis VII but whose first marriage was annulled!) marries the future Henri II Plantagenet of England bringing Aquitaine and hence Périgord under English rule. What follows is a period of incessant fights between the ruling houses of France and England for this territory. The fights end temporarily in 1259 when Louis IX known as Saint Louis recognized the English as rulers of Aquitaine. In the 12th…

Henry married the Eleanor of Aquitaine, which added Aquitaine and Poitou to his territories. He then owned more land in France than the French King did. Henry and Eleanor had eight children. As their children grew up, tensions over the future inheritance of the empire began to emerge, encouraged by Louis and his son King Philip II. In 1173 Henry's heir apparent, "Young Henry", rebelled in protest; he was joined by his brother Richard and Geoffrey and by their mother, Eleanor. Henry's…

8th 1157 at Beaumont Palace in Oxford, England. He was the third of five sons of king Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Richard's father was an energetic and ruthless ruler, who managed to take control of large parts of Wales, the eastern half of Ireland and the western half of France (from Normandy to the Pyrenees, including, among others, the duchies of Gascony and Aquitaine, the counties of Anjou, Poitou, Maine and Touraine) , what would later come to be called the Angevin Empire.…

The Crusades were Christians who made armed pilgrimages to the Holy Land in hopes of recovering Jerusalem from Muslim rule.The Crusades brought an end to western Europe's international and cultural isolation. There were four great expeditions between 1095 and 1204 of these religiously inspired military campaigns against Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean. As a result of the Crusades, noble courts and burgeoning cities in Western Europe attained more goods from the east and adopted ideas from…

The Battle of Hastings The battle of Hastings happened in 1066. The battle was between King Harold II and William the Conqueror. King Harold II was put as king of England when his close friend Edward the Confessor died as king without leaving an heir. But it turned out that William the Duke of Normandy in France was a distance cousin of Edward which made him eligible by blood to be king. The two men went into battle against each other to fight for the throne. William marched with his troops of…