Alix Petronilla of Aquitaine

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Alix Petronilla of Aquitaine (French: Aélis Petronilla d'Aquitaine ; * around 1125 in Poitiers , Aquitaine , † 1151 in Saint-Quentin ) was by marriage Countess of Vermandois and sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine .

Life

Petronilla was the youngest daughter of Duke William X of Aquitaine and his wife Eleanor of Châtellerault . Her older sister was Eleanor of Aquitaine , later Queen of France and England.

Since her father had died in 1137, she came into the care of her uncle, Count Raimund of Poitiers and Prince of Antioch . After her sister's marriage in July of the same year to the French King Louis VII , Alix came to the French court in Paris . Her beauty turns many heads, including the Seneschal of France , Raoul I of Vermandois-Valois (1085–1152). This expelled his wife Eleonore (1100–1148), daughter of Count Stephan von Blois and Adela of Normandy in 1142 . When the papal legates in Lagny-sur-Marne declared the divorce of the Count of Vermandois from his first wife invalid because they were too closely related, they simultaneously excommunicated Raoul and Alix. After Pope Innocent II died in 1143, his successor Pope Celestine II repealed him . The marriage resulted in two children: Isabelle Mabile, Countess of Flanders (1143–1183) and Raoul II the leper (1145–1167). Alix died giving birth to their third child.

literature

  • Kristiana Gregory: Eleanor Crown Jewel of Aquitaine. Scholastic Inc. 2002. ISBN 0-439-16484-2 .
  • Philippe Delorme: Aliénor d'Aquitaine. Épouse de Louis VII, mère de Richard Cœur de Lion. Pygmalion, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-857-04673-1
  • [Jean Flori]: Aliénor d'Aquitaine. La Reine insoumise. Payot, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-228-89829-5
  • Alain-Gilles Minella: Aliénor d'Aquitaine. L'amour, le pouvoir et la haine. Perrin, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-262-02053-1
  • Régine Pernoud: Queen of the Troubadours. Eleanor of Aquitaine. Dtv, Munich 1995, 13th edition, ISBN 3-423-30042-6
  • Ursula Vones-Liebenstein: Eleanor of Aquitaine. Muster-Schmidt, Göttingen 2000, ISBN 3-788-10152-0

Fiction

  • Sylvie von Frankenberg, Katrin von Glasow: Henry and Alienor. A royal love. Roman, DroemeKnaur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-426-61152-X
  • Ellen Jones: The Queen and the Whore. Roman, Weltbild-Verlag, Augsburg 2003, ISBN 3-8289-7320-5
  • Tanja Kinkel: The lioness of Aquitaine. Roman, Goldmann, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-442-45574-X
  • Patrice Leavold: In the shadow of the lily. The memories of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Bastei Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 2002, ISBN 3-404-14772-3
  • Leo G. Lindner: Eleanor of Aquitaine - Everything that fits into one life, two kingdoms and lots of men. List paperback books, 2002, ISBN 3-548-60152-9
  • Pamela Kaufman: The Duchess. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 978-3-596-17159-0

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personal data
SURNAME Alix Petronilla of Aquitaine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aélis Petronilla d'Aquitaine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Vermandois and sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine
DATE OF BIRTH around 1125
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitiers , Aquitaine
DATE OF DEATH 1151
Place of death Saint-Quentin