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Eleanor of Aquitaine
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“My posterity has been snatched from me...The young king and the Count of Britanny sleep in dust. Their unhappy mother is forced to live on, ceaselessly tormented by their memory...I have lost the staff of my age, the light of my eyes.”
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Recorded in: Letter to Pope Celestine III (1193), in Amy Kelly, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (1950), ch. 30
“Femina consilio prudens, pia, prole beata, Auxit amicitiis, auxit honore virum.”
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) said by 1204 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Inscription on her tomb in . Walter Lovell, "Queen Eleanor's Crosses", Archaeological Journal, vol. 49, no. 1 (1892), pp. 38–9
“What afflicts the church and excites the murmur of the people and diminishes their esteem for you, is that, in spite of the tears and lamentations of whole provinces, you have not sent a single nuncio. Often for matters of little importance your cardinals have been sent to remote parts with sovereign powers, but in this desperate and deplorable affair, you have not sent so much as a single subdeacon or even an acolyte. The kings and princes of the earth have conspired against my son, the anointed of the Lord. One keeps him in chains while another ravages his lands; one holds him by the heels while the other flays him. And while this goes on, the sword of Saint Peter reposes in its scabbard. Three times you have promised to send legates and they have not been sent. In fact, they have rather been leashed than sent [potius ligati quam legati]. If my son were in prosperity, we should have seen them running at his call, for they well know the munificence of his recompense. Is this the meaning of your promises to me at Châteauroux, made with so many protestations of friend-ship and good faith? Alas! I know today that the promises of your cardinals are nothing but vain words. Trees are not known by their leaves, nor even by their blossoms, but by their fruits. In this wise we have known your cardinals.”
Eleanor of Aquitaine (1124–1204) first seen 1192 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Pope Celestine III (1192), in Amy Kelly, Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Four Kings (1950), ch. 28