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Aliénor is an Old French form of Eleanor, itself derived — through Provençal Aliénor or Aenor — from the Visigothic name Aenor, whose precise roots remain debated but may combine Germanic elements meaning "other" and "life" or "eagle." The name gained extraordinary prestige through Aliénor of Aquitaine, the twelfth-century queen who was successively married to Louis VII of France and Henry II of England and became one of the most powerful women of the medieval world. Its Latin and Iberian equivalents Eleanor and Leonor, as well as the English Eleanor and Italian Eleonora, all trace back through this same Occitan lineage.