. 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. ELEANORA OF AQUITAINE. 269 of Bee, before the altar of the Virgin. Her son left his critical affairs in Bretagne, to attend her funeral. He raised a stately marble tomb to her memory; upon it was the following epitaph, whose climax tends rather to advance the glory of the surviving son than the
. 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. ELEANORA OF AQUITAINE. 269 of Bee, before the altar of the Virgin. Her son left his critical affairs in Bretagne, to attend her funeral. He raised a stately marble tomb to her memory; upon it was the following epitaph, whose climax tends rather to advance the glory of the surviving son than the defunct mother :— " Great bom, groat married, greater brought to bed,, I ,.. W;i i. i < i v ,1 j,,,.; Hero Henry's daughter, wile, and mother's ;* In this grave her body remained till the year 1282, when the abbey church of Bee being rebuilt, the workmen discovered it, wrapped up in an ox-hide. The coffin was taken up, and, with great solemnity, re-interred in the middle of the chancel, before the high altar. The ancient tomb was removed to the same place, and, with the attention the church of B/ome ever showed to the memory of a foundress, erected over the new grave. This structure falling to decay in the seventeenth cen' % its place was supplied by a fine monument of brass, with . pompous inscription.'^ The character of this celebrated ancestress of our royal Une was as much revered by the Normans as disliked by the Enghsh. Besides Henry II. she was the mother of two sons, Geoflfrey and William, who both preceded her to the grave. Queen Eleanora was resident, during these events, at the palace of Woodstock, where prince John was bom, in the year 1166. Henry completed the noble hall of the palace of Rouen,' begun by Henry I. and nearly finished by the empress Matilda. He sent for queen Eleanora from England, to bring her daughter the princess Matilda, that she might be married to her affianced lord, Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony. The nuptial feast was cel
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