One of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages, she was queen consort of both France and England. What is her name?
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1122 - 1 April 1204) was queen consort of France (1137-1152) and England (1154-1189) and duchess of Aquitaine in her own right (1137-1204). As a member of the Ramnulfids (House of Poitiers) rulers in southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was patron of literary figures such as Wace, Benoît de Sainte-Maure, and Bernart de Ventadorn. She led armies several times in her life and was a leader of the Second Crusade.
As the duchess of Aquitaine, Eleanor was the most eligible bride in Europe. Three months after becoming duchess upon the death of her father, William X, she married King Louis VII of France, son of her guardian, King Louis VI. As queen of France, she participated in the unsuccessful Second Crusade. Soon afterwards, Eleanor sought an annulment of her marriage, but her request was rejected by Pope Eugene III. However, after the birth of her second daughter Alix, Louis agreed to an annulment, as 15 years of marriage had not produced a son. The marriage was annulled on 21 March 1152 on the grounds of consanguinity within the fourth degree. Their daughters were declared legitimate, custody was awarded to Louis, and Eleanor's lands were restored to her.
As soon as the annulment was granted, Eleanor became engaged to the Duke of Normandy, who became King Henry II of England in 1154. Henry was her third cousin and 11 years younger. The couple married on Whitsun, 18 May 1152, eight weeks after the annulment of Eleanor's first marriage, in Poitiers Cathedral. Over the next 13 years, she bore eight children: five sons, three of whom became kings; and three daughters. However, Henry and Eleanor eventually became estranged. Henry imprisoned her in 1173 for supporting their son Henry's revolt against him. She was not released until 6 July 1189, when her husband Henry died and their third son, Richard the Lionheart, ascended the throne.
As queen dowager, Eleanor acted as regent while Richard went on the Third Crusade. Eleanor also lived well into the reign of Richard's heir and her youngest son, John.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Dave wrote:
Eleanor of Aquitaine. (I did know this one without looking it up) After 15 years of marriage, French King Louis VI agreed to an annulment (granted by the Pope) because they were estranged and the union had not produced a male heir to the throne. Duchess Eleanor then married her third cousin, the Duke of Normandy, uniting their vast estates in France. Tow years later the Duke became Henry II King of England and eventually 3 of their 5 sons would also be crowned King.
Photo: Katharine Hepburn won the 1969 Best Actress Oscar (tied with Barbra Streisand) for her portrayal of Eleanor in the 1968 film The Lion in Winter. The 61 year old actress co-starred with 36 year old Peter O'Toole as Henry II.
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Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Jim from CA, retired to ID, wrote:
Day 3 with no sports.....met a nice lady on my front porch....apparently she is my wife....Eleanor of Aquitaine was queen consort of France and England and Duchess of Aquitaine
Deborah said:
I'm going with Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard the Lionhearted (among others). The Interwebz has conflicting information.
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David of Moon Valley replied:
Eleanor of Aquitane, or so my net tubes tell me...
Barbara, of Peppy Tech fame said:
The answer is Eleanor of Aquitaine.
DJ Useo wrote:
Eleanor of Aquitaine. Although not a duck, She was the Uncle Scrooge of her times.
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Fucker STILL sees this national health emergency in terms of money! Totally proving that old saying (If the only tool you have is a hammer, you see every problem is a nail.) What an unfit jackass--incapable of learning or caring.
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Had to go into work yesterday - 21 miles that usually takes over an hour (even though google tells me it should take 26 minutes), but that's life in LA.
I have never seen the 405 so empty - ever - at any hour of the day or night.
Took me 4 minutes less than what google projected.
As wonderful as the commute was, it scared the crap outta me.
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SyFy has the movie 'The Hitman's Bodyguard', followed by the movie 'Zombieland'.
TBS:
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The 2020 Golden Raspberry Awards, aka the Razzies, has been canceled amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Razzies normally air the night before the Oscars, but due to the 92nd Academy Awards' early date and the Razzies deciding to avoid anxiety and set its own schedule, according to its site, the 2020 show was scheduled to take place Saturday.
"Tonight's live Razzie ceremony had to be canceled/postponed because the Mayor of Los Angeles shut down all city-owned venues where more than 50 people could gather, including our site, The Barnsdall Theatre," a statement from co-founder John Wilson read.
The Razzies celebrate the "worst" films of the year. Cats, A Madea Family Funeral and Rambo: Last Blood tied for the most noms this year with eight apiece. Each of the movies earned mentions for worst picture, supporting actress, screen combo and screenplay.
ABC announced Sunday that its late-night news show "Nightline" would swap with "Jimmy Kimmel Live" beginning on Tuesday with fresh reports on the coronavirus pandemic.
The ABC News show will air at 11:35 p.m. EDT for four nights, while Kimmel's show - which is in repeats for the next two weeks - will move back to 12:05 a.m. EDT.
The move is the latest shuffle in a TV schedule that has been upended by the growing pandemic. Dozens of films and TV shows have halted production on new episodes, while many reality and news shows have eliminated studio audiences in effort to minimize the spread of the virus.
While The Simpsons seems to make headlines on a regular basis for seemingly predicting the future, the recent perversion of one classic episode by Internet trolls is both "terrible" and "gross," the episode writer says.
On May 6, 1993, the episode titled "Marge in Chains" aired. The 24th episode of the fourth season of the iconic Fox cartoon revolved around an exhausted Marge getting arrested for accidentally shoplifting while she is getting supplies for his sick family, who all have the "Osaka Flu." The episode opens in Japan where an ill factory worker coughs into boxes which are to ship a popular juicer everyone in Springfield orders. The town - six to eight weeks later for shipping and delivery - then becomes ill.
Episode co-writer Bill Oakley told The Hollywood Reporter that he has not thought about the previously innocuous episode for years. That is, not until he began to see memes online with "Osaka Flu" replaced with "Coronavirus," the pandemic that has spread around the world, causing mass panic. In addition, internet trolls have used the episode for racist propaganda in response to the coronavirus outbreak.
He goes on, "It was meant to be absurd that someone could cough into box and the virus would survive for six to eight weeks in the box. It is cartoonish. We intentionally made it cartoonish because we wanted it to be silly and not scary, and not carry any of these bad associations along with it, which is why the virus itself was acting like a cartoon character and behaving in extremely unrealistic ways." (At one point, one cloud of the virus waits at a red light when another cloud goes down the street with a green light).
This year's ceremony for the Academy of Country Music Awards has been postponed to September because of the spread of coronavirus, organizers announced today. A specific day, time and venue for the rescheduled ceremony is pending.
A handful of acts with Alabama ties were among the nominees for 2020, such as singer-songwriter Riley Green and country-pop group Little Big Town. The awards ceremony originally was planned for April 5 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, and set to broadcast at 7 p.m. CT on CBS.
"The health and safety of our artists, fans, industry, staff and partners is our number one priority," Damon Whiteside, CEO of the Academy of Country Music, said in a statement on the ACM website.
Berlin is trying to stop Washington from persuading a German company seeking a coronavirus vaccine to move its research to the United States, prompting German politicians to insist no country should have a monopoly on any future vaccine.
German government sources told Reuters on Sunday that the U.S. administration was looking into how it could gain access to a potential vaccine being developed by a German firm, CureVac.
Earlier, the Welt am Sonntag German newspaper reported that U.S. President Donald Trump had offered funds to lure CureVac to the United States, and the German government was making counter-offers to tempt it to stay.
Welt am Sonntag also quoted an unidentified German government source as saying Trump was trying to secure the scientists' work exclusively, and would do anything to get a vaccine for the United States, "but only for the United States."
On its website, CureVac said CEO Daniel Menichella early this month met Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and senior representatives of pharmaceutical and biotech companies to discuss a vaccine.
As a Republican candidate for the Texas Supreme Court, Don Willett flaunted his uncompromising conservatism, boasting of endorsements from groups with "pro-life, pro-faith, pro-family" credentials.
Willett served a dozen years on the Texas bench. But rather than disqualifying him, his record there propelled him to the very job he had deemed beyond reach. President Donald Trump (R-Grifter) nominated him to a federal appeals court, and Republicans in the Senate narrowly confirmed him on a party-line vote.
As Trump seeks reelection, his rightward overhaul of the federal judiciary - in particular, the highly influential appeals courts - has been invoked as one of his most enduring accomplishments. While individual nominees have drawn scrutiny, The New York Times conducted a deep examination of all 51 new appellate judges to obtain a collective portrait of the Trump-populated bench.
The lifetime appointees - who make up more than a quarter of the entire appellate bench - were more openly engaged in causes important to Republicans, such as opposition to same-sex marriage and to government funding for abortion.
They more typically held a political post in the federal government and donated money to political candidates and causes. Just four had no discernible political activity in their past, and several were confirmed despite an unfavorable rating from the American Bar Association - the first time that had happened at the appellate level in decades.
Coronavirus victims in Italy will be denied access to intensive care if they are aged 80 or more or in poor health should pressure on beds increase, a document prepared by a crisis management unit in Turin propose.
Some patients denied intensive care will in effect be left to die, doctors fear.
The unit has drawn up a protocol, seen by The Telegraph, that will determine which patients receive treatment in intensive care and which do not if there are insufficient spaces. Intensive care capacity is running short in Italy as the coronavirus continues to spread.
The document, produced by the civil protection deparment of the Piedmont region, one of those hardest hit, says: "The criteria for access to intensive therapy in cases of emergency must include age of less than 80 or a score on the Charlson comorbidity Index [which indicates how many other medical conditions the patient has] of less than 5."
The ability of the patient to recover from resuscitation will also be considered.
If you need something to do, PBS and the world's preeminent director of extremely watchable and extremely long documentaries have a special treat: The entirety of Ken Burns' Baseball-over 18 hours-is now available to stream for free on the PBS website and all of its related apps. This comes as a whole bunch of regular events and activities, including professional sports, have been canceled out of concern for spreading the coronavirus, with Burns explaining in a video that he wanted to specifically do this with Baseball because of the sports' unifying power and ability to remind people that they're part of a community. Also, to reiterate, it's more than 18 hours long. That makes it one of Burns' lengthiest productions, so it should fill a ton of time if you're feeling a little cooped-up and need an extended distraction. (Burns' The Vietnam War, which is similarly long, is on Netflix and Prime in the U.S. if you finish baseball.)
The free streaming option does not include Burns' follow-up The Tenth Inning, which covers everything from the mid-'90s to 2010, but considering that this is happening because a lot of professional sports are not being played, it seems appropriate to end the series with the 1994 players' strike that forced the MLB to cancel the World Series. That also means the series will end before the Cubs and Red Sox won their recent titles, so it'll be a real throwback to the good old days.
Ticket sales plunged to their lowest levels in at least 20 years at North American movie theaters as the coronavirus pandemic led to one of Hollywood's worst weekends at the box office.
Disney's latest release from Pixar, "Onward," remained the top film, earning $10.5 million in its second weekend. The Christian romance "I Still Believe" from Lionsgate brought in $9.5 million. Sony's comic-book adaptation "Bloodshot," with Vin Diesel, grossed an estimated $9.3 million in its debut. The Blumhouse horror satire "The Hunt" opened with $5.3 million.
Pixar films virtually always hold well for weeks, but "Onward" dropped 73% from its opening weekend. "The Hunt," which remounted its release after its debut was canceled last fall following a wave of deadly shootings, had hoped to do twice as well.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Comscore. Where available, the latest international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also included.
1. "Onward," $10.5 million ($6.8 million international).
2. "I Still Believe," $9.5 million.
3. "Bloodshot," $9.3 million ($13 million international)
4. "The Invisible Man," $6 million ($6.2 million international).
5. "The Hunt," $5.3 million ($700,000 international)
6. "Sonic the Hedgehog," $2.6 million ($2.9 million international).
7. "The Way Back," $2.4 million.
8. "The Call of the Wild," $2.2 million ($1.1 million international).
9. "Emma," $1.4 million.
10. "Bad Boys for Life," $1.1 million.
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