Eleanor's alliance to Louis VII may be a dazzling one, but her husband is a cautious man, originally intended for the priesthood, whose wit and courage do not always match Eleanor's own and she ultimately finds herself seeking an even greater match with Henry II of England. But she must learn to be careful what she wishes for. In order to safeguard her lands and her life, Eleanor devises a scheme to marry the heir to the throne of France. Everyone, that is, except for her dying father, who insists on leaving Eleanor his most valuable provinces-and making her prey to the first baron who rides in to kidnap her. For all of the duke's boasts that Eleanor has the brains of a man and the soul of a warrior, everyone knows that a girl of fifteen cannot possibly hold the richest dukedom in France. And I intend to make a very good one."īeautiful and brilliant, Eleanor is the daughter of the duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering court is the twelfth-century birthplace of courtly love.
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