Lenora

Lenora is an English variant of Eleonora, itself derived through Old French Aliénor from a Provençal form whose ultimate roots are debated, with proposed origins in the Germanic elements meaning "foreign" and "army" or in the Greek Helénē, associated with light or the mythological Helen of Troy. The name gained wide use across medieval Europe through Eleanor of Aquitaine, the influential twelfth-century queen of both France and England. Lenora, along with the shorter Lenore, became particularly fashionable in the nineteenth century, partly through Edgar Allan Poe's poem Lenore. Related forms include Eleanor, Eleonora, Leonora, Nora, and Nell.