this information. He may incorporate it later in another publication, but I
have no information on his plans.
Regards
John P.
From: "Vickie Elam White" <VEWhite@nycap.rr.com
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Eleanor Of Aquitaine
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 19:07:46 GMT
Does Lewis' article appear elsewhere besides in
your book? I plan on buying the book, but I'd like
to read the article before then.
Vickie Elam White
VEWhite@nycap.rr.com
""John Parsons"" <carmi47@msn.com> wrote in message
news:BAY7-F3CC4B022780766C1AF277B27D0@phx.gbl...
This is the correct reference to the Lewis article. Lewis, a
MacArthur
Fellow and a medievalist of impeccable repute, discusses the
evidence fully
in the article cited below.
You may wish to compare the chronicle passage dealing with the
children of
Edward I which is the only evidence we have that Edward and his
first wife,
Eleanor of Castile, were the parents of 5 sons, not 4 as is
usually stated.
The author of this chronicle, a monk at St Albans, does not give
a name for
the 5th son (or 4th, as the order of birth would seem to be), but
cited an
unchalangeable source: Edward I himself, whom the monk describes
often
discussing his family and naming all his children by Queen
Eleanor. See
John C. Parsons, "The Year of Eleanor of Castile's Birth and Her
Children by
Edward I," Mediaeval Studies 46 (1984): 245-65, esp. 264.
From: "Peter Stewart" <p_m_stewart@msn.com
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: Eleanor Of Aquitaine
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 21:34:48 GMT
"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:B7SLd.734$6k.9888@eagle.america.net...
No.
Henry II and Eleanor reportedly had EIGHT CHILDREN -- NOT
NINE.
The first, William, died at age TWO.
Apparently they had nine, as John Carmis Parsons has said.
Luckily I still
have brain function enough to check such things before posting
about them.
There was evidently a son, whose name is not known, born either
in 1160/1
or
1163/4, who died in infancy.
This was discussed by Andrew Lewis in 'The Birth and Childhood
of King
John:
Some Revisions', _Eleanor of Aquitaine: Lord and Lady_, edited
by John
Carmi
Parsons & Bonnie Wheeler (New York & Basingstoke, 2002) p. 161 a
nd note 10.
Peter Stewart