Eleanor Of Aquitaine: The Mother Queen - Plot & Excerpts
But it was so general and so concerted that one has to conclude that it was carefully planned in advance. The young king was too scatterbrained to do this, and his brothers, though precocious, were still too juvenile. Even if there is no firm documentary evidence, all the circumstances point to Eleanor as the architect of an ingenious plot. Its basic object was to obtain appanages for the young princes, with no strings attached, and so to weaken Henry that he would never be able to reassert his authority. Indeed, the plotters intended if possible to depose him. The queen’s prize was to be Aquitaine, which she would rule through and with her beloved Richard. Only a blunder by the inane young king saved Henry.It is clear that, until the revolt broke out, the king of England had not the slightest suspicion that his wife was plotting against him. From Roman times until the sixteenth century and the age of Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici, almost no European woman played a leading part in politics.
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