Eleanor Aquitaine

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IX protesting in God's name at the rape of Dangerosa, and after being received by the dukes usual mocking banter, the hermit placed a curse upon the family. Through both male and female lines they would never know happiness in their children.1
William the X had an unexpected gift of versifying, in a mixture of Lemosin and Poitou. Arab songs he heard from Moorish slave girls, which had been brought home by his father from Spain, may have inspired him. William was also a very competent poet, eleven of whose pieces are ashamedly licentious, although one "Pos de chantar mes pres talenz" pays a melancholy farewell to earthly joys:2
Since now I have mind to sing
I'll make a song of that which saddens me,
That no more in Poitou or Limousin,
Shall I loves servant be...3

William X was noticeably fond of his eldest daughter, and he was more known for his quarrels than his poems, yet he had a court full of troubadours. William had a great passion for food and could eat enough for eight ...

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monastery at the time of his brothers' death. Due to great admiration and respect he still undertook the sacred studies of the monks and at times he dressed as them also. His strangest characteristic was his humble speech, which gave him a naïve charm and also made him seem less intelligent and ineffectual than he really was.4
Louis and Abbot Suger, his very best friend and one of his fathers' most trusted ministers, took over a month from Paris to get to the wedding, riding by night to escape the heat of the day. When they finally meet Desmond Seward's description of her and her dazzled bridegroom are:

...the monkish young king must have been dazzled by his lavishly young gifted ...

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