Eleanor of Aquitaine
Death and interment (1204)

Eleanor of Aquitaine, at the age of eighty, died at Fontevraud on either 31 March or 1 April 1204 and was entombed in the crypt of the abbey between Richard I and Henry II. The tomb effigy is by a different hand and more advanced in the use of three dimensions than the earlier two. Her daughter Joanna lay nearby.

Eleanor's tomb lies under a painted stone gisant (effigy) of the Queen, wearing a crown and with an open book in her hands. The tomb is considered one of the finest of those few that survive from this period. During the French Revolution, the abbey was sacked and the tombs vandalised, while the human remains were exhumed and scattered and have never been located, although most of the tombs were later restored and lie in the church.
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