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This brilliant, cultured, daring medieval ruler—heiress to the Duchy of Aquitaine, Queen of France and later England, and mother of two Kings—bucked gender norms of her era when she decided to head her own army and journey to the Holy Land.

Eleanor, the 19-year-old Queen consort of the pious, solemn Louis VII, vowed to Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, an influential monk and mystic, that she would supply thousands of her subjects to fight in the Second Crusade. Not content to sit on the sidelines back in France, Eleanor decided to join in the fight for the Holy Land herself. In 1147, Eleanor—dressed in full armor and armed—shocked the Church when she set off for the Middle East with thousands of her Aquitaine vassals, 300 ladies and wagon loads of supplies to tend to the injured.

She journeyed to Antioch, Jerusalem and Constantinople. In Antioch, she rekindled a relationship (and some say had a love affair) with her uncle, Prince Raymond, who ruled the city. This relationship and the failure of the Second Crusade drove a wedge between Louis and Eleanor, and they made the long trek back to France separately. The two divorced a few years later, and Eleanor married the charismatic, exciting Henry II of England. She continued her travels and exploits well into her late 70s. As the Catholic Church prepared for the Third Crusade, a papal bull was released—expressly forbidding women from making the journey.

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OL 23-24 ( 3d. Folk mother and Kings at War )

HÍR SEND THA RJUCHTA THÉRE MODER ÀND THÉRA KÉNINGGAR.

These are the rights of the folk mother and the kings:

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5. IS THJU WÉRA A KÀMP. THÀN HOFT THI KÉNING ALLÉNA MITH SINUM HAVEDMANNA TO RÉDA. THACH THÉR MOTON ÀMMERTHE THRÉ BURCH.HÉRA FON THERE MODER FÔR.ANA SITTA SVNDER STEM.

5. When the army is afield, the king needs to consult only his headmen, but there must always be three burg lords of the mother present, with no vote in the matter.

THISSA BURCH.HÉRA MOTON DÉIALIKIS BODON NÉI THÉRE MODER SENDA TILTHJU HJU WÉTA MÜGE JEF THÉR AWET DÉN WÀRTH. STRIDANDE WITH.A ÉWA JEFTHA WITH FRYA.S RÉDJEVINGA.

These burg lords must send messengers to the mother daily, so that she will know if anything is done that is in conflict with the laws or Frya’s counsels.

Daily messengers implies either an operation area near the Frisian locales or a working messenger system akin to what is said of Mongols, Greeks, Finns etc.

Perhapst a bit similar character was Sigrid (here and here). Jordanes' Gothic history also deals with ancient Gothic amazons and their warrior queens (war stories here, archeological evidence here, here and here). OL and Norse sagas also have similar characters e.g. in Battle of Brávellir in Gesta Danorum or Gothic female castle commanders at The Battle of the Goths and Huns.