. 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. Tl 202. ELEANORA OP AQUITAINB. Tancred's daughter in marriage for lus tbeu acknowledged heir, Arthur of Bretagne.' During this negotiation Eleunora arrived in Messina,' bringing with her the long-beloved Berengaria. Although years had elapsed since Eleanora had seen her daughter Joanna, slie ta
. 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. Tl 202. ELEANORA OP AQUITAINB. Tancred's daughter in marriage for lus tbeu acknowledged heir, Arthur of Bretagne.' During this negotiation Eleunora arrived in Messina,' bringing with her the long-beloved Berengaria. Although years had elapsed since Eleanora had seen her daughter Joanna, slie tarried but four days in her company, and then sailed for Home. There is reason to suppose that her errand was to settle a dispute which had arisen between king Richard and his half-brother Geofirey, the son of Rosamond, whom the king had appointed archbishop of York, according to his father's dying request, but had required an enormous sum from the revenues of the archbishopric' Queen Eleauora returned to England,* with her friend the archbishop of Rouen; he was soon after appointed its governor, in place of Long. champ, who had convulsed the coimtry by his follies. We have seen Eleanora taken from captivity by her son Richard, and invested with the high authority of queen-t-egent; there is no reason to suppose that that authority was revoked; for, in every emergency during the king's absence, she appears as the guiddng power. For this purpose she absented herself from Aquitaine, whose government she placed in the Lands of a deputy, her grandson Otho of Saxony ;* and at the end of the reign of Coeur de Lion, we find her, according to the words of Matthew Paris, "governing England with great wisdom and popularity.'* Queen Eleanora, when thus ardu- ously engaged in watching over the interests of her best- beloved son, was approaching her seventieth year,- -an age when rest is imperiously demanded by the human frame. But years of toil still remained before her, ere death close
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