The Woman in the Bower - Timeline
- 1151 Eleanor’s marriage to King Louis VII of France is annulled; she marries King Henry II of England
- 1153 Death of St. Bernard of Clairvaux
- 1165 Henry II first meets Rosamond de Clifford
- 1166 John is born (the last child born to Henry and Eleanor)
- 1166 Eleanor relocates to Poitiers, initiating a separation from Henry
- 1170 Martyrdom of Archbishop Thomas Becket (canonized in 1173)
- 1173 Civil war breaks out, Eleanor imprisoned for supporting her sons against Henry
- 1174 Rosamond enters Godstow Nunnery after the affair becomes public
- 1176 Rosamond dies
- 1183 The year The Lion in Winter is set in
- 1189 Henry II dies; King Richard releases Eleanor from her long imprisonment and embarks on the Third Crusade
- 1199 King Richard dies; is succeeded by King John
- 1204 Eleanor dies
- 1215 Magna Carta signed
- 1405 Christina de Pisan’s City of Women is published
- 1678 The Comtesse de la Fayette’s La Princess de Clèves is published
- 1693 John Bancroft tragedy about Rosamond
- 1704 Woodstock disappears, torn down by the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough who build Blenheim Palace there instead
- 1707 Joseph Addison’s unsuccessful opera Rosamond
- 1884 Tennyson play Becket