All About Royal Families

This is a blog post at a special request. Eleonor of Aquitaine was perhaps the most famous queen in the Middle Ages.   But who was she?  On 1 April 1204 at the age of about 82, Eleanor of Aquitaine died at Poitiers. Who was Eleanor of Aquitaine? Family Eleanor's year of birth is not known precisely: a late 13th-century genealogy of her family listing her as 13 years old in the spring of 1137 provides the best evidence that Eleanor was perhaps born as late as 1124. Eleanor (or Aliénor) was the oldest of three children of William X, Duke of Aquitaine, whose glittering ducal court was renowned in early 12th-century Europe, and his wife, Aenor de Châtellerault, the daughter of Aimery I, Viscount of Châtellerault, and Dangereuse de l'Isle Bouchard, who was William IX's longtime mistress as well as Eleanor's maternal grandmother. Her parents' marriage had been arranged by Dangereuse with her paternal grandfather William IX. Her family were members of the Hou...

During the diner on September 29th. 1567, the Duke of Alba, arrested the Counts of Egmont and Horn for treason. Egmont and Horn Statue in Brussels - own picture taken in 2017 Despite the warning of William of Orange the Counts of Egmont and Horn wanted to stay in in Brussels, while the William the Silent fled out of the country. They were taken captive in Ghent and on June 4th. 1568 condemned to death. On June 5th. 1568 they were beheaded before the Town Hall at the  Grand Place in Brussels. I think, I'm going to have a different   view  of the Town Hall at the   Grand Place  in Brussels, now I know  more about its history     ........ Their deaths led to huge protests in The Netherlands and contributed the resistance against the Spanish ruler. On a previous post I wrote about the Egmont Palace, which you can read on  this link .  Trivia Did you know that even Goethe menti...