Daughters of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine
A Comparative Study of Twelfth-Century Royal Women
By (author) Colette Bowie
By examining the childhoods, marriages, and programmes of patronage and commemoration of Matilda, Leonor and Joanna, this monograph compares and contrasts the experiences of three high-profile twelfth-century royal women, and advances the hypothesis that there may have been stronger emotional ties within the Angevin dynasty than has
The three daughters of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine all undertook exogamous marriages which cemented dynastic alliances and furthered the political and diplomatic ambitions of their parents and their spouses. It might be expected that the choices made by Matilda, Leonor, and Joanna with regard to religious patronage and dynastic commemoration would follow the customs and patterns of their marital families, yet in many cases these choices appear to have been strongly influenced by ties to their natal family. Their involvement in the burgeoning cult of Thomas Becket, their patronage of Fontevrault Abbey, the names they gave to their children, and the ways in which they were buried, suggests that all three women were able, to varying degrees, to transplant Angevin family customs to their marital lands. By examining the childhoods, marriages, and programmes of patronage and commemoration of Matilda, Leonor and Joanna, this monograph compares and contrasts the experiences of three high-profile twelfth-century royal women, and advances the hypothesis that there may have been stronger emotional ties within the Angevin dynasty than has previously been allowed for.
INTRODUCTION: Queenship: Historiographical Trends and Conceptual Themes - Methodology and Sources - Ideology and Representations - Roles and Functions - Ritual - Themes and Approaches CHAPTER 1: Carissima filia nostra: Birth, Childhood and Formative Education: Birth of an Angevin Princess - Childhood Experiences and Emotional Ties: The Childhood Journeys of Matilda, Leonor and Joanna - Emotional History and the History of Emotions - Eleanor of Aquitaine as Mother - Medieval Childhood - An Angevin Education CHAPTER 2: Satisfied as to her beauty: Marriage Negotiations and Political Motivations: Political Motivations for Matilda's Marriage to Henry the Lion - Political Motivations for Leonor's Marriage to Alfonso VIII of Castile - Continuation of Angevin Marriage Policy: Berengaria of Navarre - Joanna's Marriage to William II of Sicily - Political Motivations for Joanna's Marriage - Journeys to Saxony, Sicily and Castile - The Sicilian Ambassadors - Love and Marriage in the Twelfth Century CHAPTER 3: Bodas muy grandes: Marriage, Dowry and Dower Settlements: Matilda's Marriage and Role as Duchess of Saxony - Leonor's Marriage and Dower Settlement - Leonor as Mother - Leonor's Dowry - The Dower of Berengaria of Navarre: Competing Queens and Conflicting Claims - Further Comparisons: The Dower of Margaret of France - Joanna's Marriage and Coronation - Joanna's Dower Settlement - The Crisis of 1189 and the Problem of Joanna's Dower - The Role of the Queen in Sicily CHAPTER 4: The sins of the father: Endowment, Benefaction, and the Cult of Thomas Becket: The Cult of Becket: Henry II from Denial to Appropriation - Royal Appropriation of Saints' Cults - The Role of Henry's Daughters - Joanna and Sicily - Matilda and Saxony - Leonor and Castile - A Different Perspective: Margaret and Hungary - Royal Women and Saints' Cults CHAPTER 5: For the health of our soul: Dynastic Connections, Nomenclature and Commemoration: Dynastic Nomenclature - Fontevrault, Patronage and Family Ties - Burial Patterns and Dynastic Mausolea - Eleanor and Leonor, Fontevrault and Las Huelgas - The Tombs at Fontevrault - The Tombs at Las Huelgas CONCLUSION
- By (author) Colette Bowie
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