The Courts of Love

Name: The Courts of Love
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by Jean Plaidy Book 5 in the A Queens of England Novel series.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine grows up in one of the wealthiest and most sophisticated courts of medieval Europe, surrounded by the poetry, ceremony and political expectations of ducal Aquitaine. Her inheritance makes her marriage a matter of international importance, first carrying her to the French throne as the wife of Louis VII and later into the Angevin world through Henry II.

The novel follows Eleanor’s attempts to preserve independence inside marriages shaped by dynastic necessity. Crusade, annulment, motherhood and rebellion transform her from a young duchess into one of the most formidable political women of the twelfth century. Her relationships with Louis, Henry and her sons are presented alongside her enduring attachment to Aquitaine and to a court culture that valued wit, patronage and aristocratic ideas of love.