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Abelard and Heloise.
<p>--Amanda
<p>Dinah wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE><tt>Can you believe it? Me, major-mushball, and I
couldn't think of a couple?</tt>
<br><tt>But now I brain-sorted through boks I've read and cam up with a
few.</tt>
<p><tt>Heathcliffe and Catherin from Wuthering Heights</tt>
<p><tt>Lord Byron and his half-sister Augusta (*sigh* they obviously loved
each</tt>
<br><tt>other and still it was a bad thing)</tt>
<p><tt>King Arthur and Morgaine (I'll go with the "Mists of Avalon" version)</tt>
<br><tt>Gwenhwyfar and Lancelot</tt>
<p><tt>Countess de Winter and d'Artangnon (so she was a bitch, I
know - but it had</tt>
<br><tt>spice <g>)</tt>
<p><tt>~ Dinah ~</tt>
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<br><tt>They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,</tt>
<br><tt>but when the darkness sets in,</tt>
<br><tt>their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.</tt>
<p><tt>~Elizabeth Kbler-Ross</tt>
<br><tt>----- Original Message -----</tt>
<br><tt>From: Ebony Elizabeth Thomas <ebonyink@hotmail.com></tt>
<br><tt>To: <HPFGU-OTChatter@yahoogroups.com></tt>
<br><tt>Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:46 AM</tt>
<br><tt>Subject: Re: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Favorite Fictional/Historical
Couples</tt>
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<p><tt>> I wrote:</tt>
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<br><tt>> > > 3) Simon de Montfort and Eleanor Plantagenet (daughter of
Prince</tt>
<br><tt>> >John</tt>
<br><tt>> > > from the Robin Hood legends, historical figures)</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> And Dai responded:</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> >Quick question; I thought King John's daughter Eleanor married</tt>
<br><tt>> >Llewellyn ab Iowerth (when she was about 12 naturally). They
were</tt>
<br><tt>> >happily married for many years until she had a fling with William
de</tt>
<br><tt>> >Braose (who Llewellyn promtly hanged before forgiving Eleanor).
Who</tt>
<br><tt>> >was Simon de Montfort? Am I thinking of the right Eleanor? I
think</tt>
<br><tt>> >the Eleanor who married Llewellyn was a random illegitimate
offshoot</tt>
<br><tt>> >of one of John's random affairs (before he married Isabelle),
is the</tt>
<br><tt>> >Eleanor to whom you refer a legitimate daughter from the union
with</tt>
<br><tt>> >Isabelle?</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> You're mixing up Eleanors, I think... easily done! There
was almost an</tt>
<br><tt>> Eleanor in every generation of that section of the Plantagenet
family</tt>
<br><tt>tree,</tt>
<br><tt>> I think. :)</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> OK--this is oversimplifying a LOT... and I'm far too lazy to
look it up...</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> King John (of the Robin Hood legends; son of Henry the Conqueror
and</tt>
<br><tt>Eleanor</tt>
<br><tt>> of Aquitaine) had five legitimate children that I can think of
offhand:</tt>
<br><tt>> Henry III--Richard, Duke of Cornwall, Isabel(la?), Joanna, and
Eleanor. I</tt>
<br><tt>> believe that the mother of all five children was Isabella of
Angouleme.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Eleanor Plantagenet married William Marshal as a child.
Marshal was much</tt>
<br><tt>> older than she was. Marshal died. Eleanor (now here
my memory gets</tt>
<br><tt>fuzzy),</tt>
<br><tt>> I think, took a vow of perpetual widowhood. Simon de Montfort
came to</tt>
<br><tt>> England, bumped heads with Henry, etc. Events like the
Provisions of</tt>
<br><tt>Oxford</tt>
<br><tt>> and the Battle of Lewes are associated with this guy.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Needless to say, Henry III didn't like the bloke much.
The last thing he</tt>
<br><tt>> wanted was him marrying his kid sister.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Well, Simon did. Got a dispensation from the Pope and swept
her off her</tt>
<br><tt>> feet. Historical legend states that it was indeed a love
match... there's</tt>
<br><tt>> ballads and stuff written about it... when Simon was defeated
(darn it,</tt>
<br><tt>what</tt>
<br><tt>> BATTLE was that?) Eleanor refused a royal pardon and lived out
the rest of</tt>
<br><tt>> her life with Simon's family in France.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Eleanor and Simon had 6-7 kids. I know the two oldest sons
are Henry and</tt>
<br><tt>> Simon. They also had a daughter named Eleanor.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> It was their daughter, Eleanor de Montfort, who married Llewellyn.</tt>
<br><tt>> Llewellyn and Simon had one thing in common--they both didn't
care much</tt>
<br><tt>for</tt>
<br><tt>> Henry.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> I fell in love with the Eleanor Plantagenet/Simon de Montfort
story from</tt>
<br><tt>> reading historical fiction as a teen. I've read two novels
about it, and</tt>
<br><tt>> subsequently did some research. All three Eleanors above
were legit.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Disclaimer: I'm an American.</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> All the best,</tt>
<br><tt>></tt>
<br><tt>> Ebs (who *loves* the name Eleanor)</tt>
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