The Courts Of Love: The Story Of Eleanor Of Aquitaine (2006) - Plot & Excerpts
Return to Fontevrault? To nurse my wretchedness? To shut out all memory of his bright presence? On Palm Sunday Richard was buried in the church of Fontevrault. The journey from the Limousin had been a slow one and from cottages and mansions people had come out to stand in awe as the cortge passed, knowing that there lay the corpse of the man whose name was known throughout the world: the greatest of warriors, Coeur de Lion. There was no real peace for me. I had to turn my mind from grief and think of what might happen now. Richard had said that John should be King; but it would be a matter for the barons and the justiciars to decide. It was Arthur who was, in fact, the true heir. Geoffrey, his father, had come before John. I could see that it was a weighty problem: Arthur just twelve years old. An unsuitable age! And the only alternative: John. William Marshal would be one of those who helped to decide, and he was a wise man who would put the needs of his country before everything else.
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