Episode #144- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part III)

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 November 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Eleanor of Aquitaine has been called the "Queen of the Troubadours" by fawning biographers. She has been credited with transforming medieval European culture through her patronage of the arts. It's also been written that she presided over elaborate "Courts of Love" where she made rulings on matters of the heart. However, this image of Eleanor may just be another aspect of the so-called "Golden Myth". Some historians have argued that it was only after Eleanor became a widow that she really stepped into her role as the "Mother of Empires". Has Eleanor's formidable widowhood coloured our perceptions of her entire life. Tune-in and find out how romantic lawsuits, secret love nests, and Blink-182 all play a role in the story. Go to NordVPN.com/OFH or use code OFH to get 73% off your 2-year plan plus 4 bonus months for free. There’s a 30-Day Money back guarantee if NordVPN is not for you so there’s no risk. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	There's a story that sometime in the 12th century, a young man fell in love with a young woman.
0:13.8	But there was only one problem.
0:16.0	The young woman already had a lover, who she was quite happy with.
0:20.9	The would-be suitor was heartbroken and did everything to convince his crush that her
0:25.4	current paramour was not worthy of her love.
0:29.9	It's literally the plot of 90% of the pop punk songs that were written between 1997 and 2004.
0:38.2	The Santa Barbara band The Atari's had a song called Your Boyfriend Sucks, which might
0:44.6	be the purest example of this type of song.
0:48.2	Blink 182 had a ton of these songs for the record.
0:51.5	Dissentary Gary from the Enema of the State album stands out as the most off the wall
0:58.0	take on this idea.
1:00.8	My point is that this is a story as old as time, and like the members of Blink 182, somehow
1:10.5	it never ages.
1:12.9	The back in the 12th century, the young woman in question did her best to both let her
1:18.3	suitor down gently and potentially hedge her romantic bets.
1:24.1	She told her disappointed would-be boyfriend that if she should ever lose her current lover,
1:31.2	well, then she would give him a shot.
1:34.1	He could be her back up boyfriend.
1:38.5	This seemed to work and the annoyingly persistent suitor backed off.
1:43.7	Then, not long after that, the young woman married the man that she had ultimately chosen.
1:50.6	Now you would think that this would be the end of the story.
1:54.1	She married her long-time boyfriend.
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