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...Louis too; he agreed to have their marriage annulled-on the ground that they were fourth cousins and were not rightly wed in the first place. Before the year (1152) was out, Eleanor conferred her person and her provinces, which covered a third of France, on hot-blooded Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and King Louis' great enemy...
...Honey Spread. By Eleanor's alliance the Plantagenet adventure was loosed on Europe, France and Britain were pounded into dusty poverty under half a century of campaigns, the feudal system itself was staggered. Yet, also, the sweet Provengal culture was spread like honey over Britain, and three sun-washed, heroic figures rose for a long moment against the Dark Ages. They were the three great Plantagenets: Henry II, Eleanor, and their son Richard the Lion Heart. The greatest of them was Eleanor herself, though centuries passed before the world realized...
When she became dissatisfied with her first husband, Louis VII, ("I thought to have married a king, but I find I have wed a monk"), Eleanor divorced him. Adding the Plantagenet tag to the Capet one she already possessed, she married Henry II of England, twelve years her junior. Her sons were Richard the Lion-Hearted and John Lackland...
There were reliquaries designed to look like tiny cathedrals, and a portrait plaque made for the tomb of Geoffrey Plantagenet (Count of Anjou and father of England's Henry II), in which the Count glares at death over a shoulder-high shield. Many of the enamels had been intended for use in the Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold...
...Osbert's previous volumes Left Hand, Right Hand and The Scarlet Tree, the dark patches in the tapestry are family matters: the confused tyrannies of the writer's puttering father, the rages and tragic secrecies of his Plantagenet mother. Sir Osbert himself was 19 in 1911, free at last from Eton, but not free from Sir George Sitwell's fuzzy determination to make him a cavalryman. One gentle burlesque that makes this book vivid is Sir Osbert's memory of cavalry training at Aldershot...