'Eleanor's Last Knight', a video play production by Lois Stather-Dunn on DVD-ROM

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'Eleanor's Last Knight', a video play production by Lois Stather-Dunn on DVD-ROM

Contains semi-professional video production of a play about the last hours of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204. Filmed at the medieval church of St Mary Welwick. Written and directed by Lois Stather-Dunn. Actors: Felicity Walmsley, Leila Morad, Dara Morad, all of Withernsea. Eleanor of Aquitaine was first married to King Louis VII of France and after the annulment of this marriage she married Henry II of England. She was imprisoned by him in 1173 for 10 years. She died at the nunnery of Fontevraud. Timing: action on film (00:10) A scene of knights jousting. (00:31) Fontevrault Abbey, France, 1204. (00:41) Sister Margaret makes her way through a graveyard. She is carrying a platter of food. (01:17) Margaret enters a candlelit room where the elderly Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine lays dying. (04:12) Eleanor sits in a chair beside her bed with her psalter. As she falls asleep, the psalter falls from her hands. A hooded figure appears before her. (04:29) She wakes and asks the figure if he is 'Father Peter' which he denies. (05:09) Eleanor asks if he is King Louis of France, her first husband. She reminiscences about their life together. But it is not Louis. (06:43) She asks the figure if he is King Henry II of England, her second husband, and talks of their married life. (09:14) As they begin to dance together he tells her that he is not Henry. She speculates that he must be one of the knights from her court in Aquitaine and then wonders if he is her son Richard. (10:45) As they dance the figure offers to let her fall asleep in his arms. (10:51) Eleanor realises that her visitor is her old friend 'Death'. (11:56) Death lays her gently back down on her bed and she whispers for him to take her. (12:30) He folds her hands and puts her psalter in them before he leaves. (13:20) Sister Margaret returns. Seeing that Eleanor is dead, she crosses herself and puts out the candle. (13:40) The dead figure on the bed becomes the stone figure on the top of Queen Eleanor's tomb. Film and Sound Archive access copy available onsite in the Audio-Visual Room

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Finding Aid: DDX1417/1

Title: 'Eleanor's Last Knight', a video play production by Lois Stather-Dunn on DVD-ROM

Repository: East Riding of Yorkshire Archives and Local Studies (UK47)

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Description: Contains semi-professional video production of a play about the last hours of the life of Eleanor of Aquitaine 1122-1204. Filmed at the medieval church of St Mary Welwick. Written and directed by Lois Stather-Dunn. Actors: Felicity Walmsley, Leila Morad, Dara Morad, all of Withernsea. Eleanor of Aquitaine was first married to King Louis VII of France and after the annulment of this marriage she married Henry II of England. She was imprisoned by him in 1173 for 10 years. She died at the nunnery of Fontevraud.Timing: action on film(00:10) A scene of knights jousting.(00:31) Fontevrault Abbey, France, 1204.(00:41) Sister Margaret makes her way through a graveyard. She is carrying a platter of food.(01:17) Margaret enters a candlelit room where the elderly Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine lays dying.(04:12) Eleanor sits in a chair beside her bed with her psalter. As she falls asleep, the psalter falls from her hands. A hooded figure appears before her.(04:29) She wakes and asks the figure if he is 'Father Peter' which he denies.(05:09) Eleanor asks if he is King Louis of France, her first husband. She reminiscences about their life together. But it is not Louis.(06:43) She asks the figure if he is King Henry II of England, her second husband, and talks of their married life.(09:14) As they begin to dance together he tells her that he is not Henry. She speculates that he must be one of the knights from her court in Aquitaine and then wonders if he is her son Richard.(10:45) As they dance the figure offers to let her fall asleep in his arms.(10:51) Eleanor realises that her visitor is her old friend 'Death'.(11:56) Death lays her gently back down on her bed and she whispers for him to take her.(12:30) He folds her hands and puts her psalter in them before he leaves.(13:20) Sister Margaret returns. Seeing that Eleanor is dead, she crosses herself and puts out the candle.(13:40) The dead figure on the bed becomes the stone figure on the top of Queen Eleanor's tomb. Film and Sound Archive access copy available onsite in the Audio-Visual Room

Subject: VIDEO

Subject: Theatre-Performing Arts

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DDX1417-1 ELEANOR’S LAST KNIGHT

DDX1417-1 ELEANOR'S LAST KNIGHT