Question

A woman with this name was said to be the Prophecy of Merlin’s “eagle of the broken covenant” that “shall rejoice in her third nesting.” A woman with this name was pelted with rotten eggs by Londoners who hated her court faction of Savoyard relatives. (-5[1])A woman of this name wrapped Guinevere’s bones in an elaborate reburial and supposedly sucked poison from the knife wound her husband received from an assassin sent (15[1])by the Emir of Jaffa. A queen of this name added to her massive land holdings via her husband’s (*) expulsion of the Jews and is memorialized at Giddesford by one of her namesake (10[1])crosses. (10[1])Edward I’s Provençal mother and Castilian wife both had this first name. (10[1]-5[2])A queen of this name added Gascony to the Angevin empire (10[1])by marrying a man called FitzEmpress, then supported her son, the Young King, (10[1])in a revolt against him. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])give this name of Henry II’s (10[1])wife (10[1])from Aquitaine. ■END■ (10[6])

Buzzes

Summary