. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 278 ELEANORA OF AQUITAINE. m W' 'i 1 â fJI iHi â ^r: â HI Hi. for a time, and his »pou«e Marguerite was rcHtorcd to lilm. King Louis liimself visited England in 1179, for tlu; piiri)()se of praying for the health of his son Philip Augustus at the sluinc of St. Thomas it-Becket. Notwithstandin
. Flora Americae Septentrionalis, or, A systematic arrangement and description of the plants of North America [electronic resource] : containing, besides what have been described by preceding authors, many new and rare species, collected during twelve years travels and residence in that country. Botany. 278 ELEANORA OF AQUITAINE. m W' 'i 1 â fJI iHi â ^r: â HI Hi. for a time, and his »pou«e Marguerite was rcHtorcd to lilm. King Louis liimself visited England in 1179, for tlu; piiri)()se of praying for the health of his son Philip Augustus at the sluinc of St. Thomas it-Becket. Notwithstanding the singular relation, ship in whieh the kings of England and FVanet; stood to ejuli other, as the former and present husband of the same (piecn, tJK-v appear to have frequently met in friendly intereoiu'se. Heiin- reeeived Louis with much respect, and rode all night, August 18, with his train, to nieet Louis VII. at Dover, where the chroniclers relate that Henry made many curious observations on a total eclipse of the moon, which happened during his nocturnal journey,âa fact reminding us of his fondness for scientific (juestions, as recorded in his character by Peter of Blois. Henry II. afterwards took his royjil guest to his Win- chester-pjdace, where he showed him his trea8m*e-vault, and invited him to take any thing he chose. Queen Eleai^ora was then at Winchester, but whether she met her divorced lord, is not recorded. In the course of a few months Louis VII. died, of a cold csiught at his vigils near the tomb of St. Thomas K-Becket. Such was the end of the first husband of Eleanora of Aqnitaine. To enter into a minute detail of all the rebellions and insurrections undertaken by the insurgent sons of Eleanora, during their mother's imprisonment, were an endless, and indeed an impracticable task. It must suffice to hold up a picture of the manners and temper of the people over whom she was the hereditary sovereign, and who disdained the nde of any stranger, howeve
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