About the book: year / Having outlived many of her contemporaries, she left a noticeable mark on history. If only because she was the mother of the exemplary knight Richard I, Richard the Lionheart - the English king. She wore three crowns in her life. Ducal - when she was Duchess of Aquitaine, French, when she was Queen of France. And when her husband, the French king Louis VII, divorced her, she immediately married Henry of Anjou, who two years later became king of England.