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Our Eleanor was a Catalan speaker, and like her later ancestors Caterina, Maria and Elizabeth, they all shared the same ancient origin of the House of Barcelona.

Since france and england were not yet invented nor created as stated in this lecture, we have to consider to REWRITE and i am at your disposal to place the missing dots were correspond, because maintaining official history lies only helps to hide the real truth, hence we have the responsibility to amend it .

Eleonora was an amazing woman, very little we know about her but for what remains it is clear that she was not as it is portrayed but much important figure.

Planta ginesta / planta pilosa families, the same carolingian links that before were under the same roman flag and symbols, and were later passed into the Companies and later into the current american flag.

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Neither Eleanor nor Henry's bodies are actually in those graves any more!

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Blessings on the new baby and on you and your family!

Interesting reading about Eleanor of Aquitaine. Certainly an exceptional person for her times. We have to examine her life through the lens of her times. Literacy was unique for both sexes and education of women not at all common. We can't evaluate Eleanor based on the standards of our times. I think that her era expected that an individual who was given the advantage of education and position to grasp opportunities that came along. Possessing power meant a degree of control over your circumstances and your future as well as the continuing success of your family and descendants.

Just finished reading an account of another strong and influential woman -- Katherine Swynford (1300's).

Deb H.

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