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The hotel owes its name to this
woman, although many of the historians who have dealt with the
conquest in Cuenca, when they speak about the king who took part
in it, Alfonso VII, assure that his wife was Leonor de Aquitania.
The mistake did not just stay in the historical fact in itself
but amongst other references, our city has, apart from our
hotel, a poliphonic choir with the same name.
Without any doubt, it was a mistake from the older historians
but, since it was repeated so many times, it became a legend.
The historical truth takes us to a woman from the Middle Ages,
with a controversial life like few, especially if we take into
account that she was a woman. Daughter of Guillermo X of
Aquitania, she inherited from her father the dukedom as well as
the Poitou county. She was queen of France when she married king
Louis VII and later, divorced, she married Henry II from England.
This way, she became part of two of the most powerful dynasties
from the 12th century, the French Capets and the English
Platagenet. But at that time, a woman who stood out was haunted
by many envies, which created a black legend of immorality about
her life. |
