阿奎丹的埃莉诺是欧洲中世纪史上最著名的贵族女性之一，不仅是阿奎丹公国的女公爵，也是两位著名国王的王后和另外两位国王的母亲，参与和见证了12世纪欧洲历史上的一系列重大事件。虽然她的显著地位和非凡经历使她一直备受关注，但中世纪叙述性史料对她的记载并不充分，评价也各有不同，为客观认识这一历史人物带来一定困难。本文力图通过埃莉诺的书信和特许状，认识她在领地阿奎丹的统治和金雀花王朝政治、宗教事务中所扮演角色。尽管身为女性领主，但埃莉诺一直在决定阿奎丹的继承和统治问题上占有一席之地。国王的妻子和母亲的角色让她能够有机会参与金雀花王朝的政治活动，影响“安茹帝国”的发展。丰厚的财产和显赫的地位帮助她与教会长期保持密切联系，使得她既能够充分利用财产展开宗教捐赠，获得精神追求和现实利益的满足，也能够与许多教会上层人士往来，形成自身的人际网络，并由此掌握参与教会事务的机会，在一定程度上干预高级教士的选任。这些特许状和书信不仅更为全面地反映了埃莉诺自身的生活状况和活动范围，也为人们理解中世纪贵族女性的政治、宗教活动以及社会地位提供了更多的依据，帮助人们认识到中世纪女性并非全部因性别而一直处在政治生活和社会权力的边缘，而是有着自身独特的生存空间。

Eleanor of Aquitaine is one of the most famous aristocratic women in the medieval history of Europe, not only the duchess of the Principality of Aquitaine, but also the queen of two famous kings and the mother of two other kings, participated and witnessed a series of major events in the history of Europe in the 12th century. Although her prominence and extraordinary experience have always attracted much attention, she is not fully recorded in medieval narrative history, and there are different evaluations, which make it difficult to understand this historical figure objectively. Through Eleanor's letters and charters, this paper tries to understand her role in the reign of Aquitaine and the political and religious affairs of the Plantagenet dynasty. Despite being a female Lord, Eleanor has always had a place in determining Aquitaine 's succession and domination. The role of the king's wife and mother allowed her to participate in Plantagenet politics and influence the development of the Anjou Empire. The rich wealth and prominent status helped her to maintain close contact with the church for a long time. Not only can she make full use of the property to carry out religious donations, obtain the satisfaction of spiritual pursuit and practical interests, but also be able to interact with many church upper-class people to form her network and thus participate in church affairs, to a certain extent intervention prelate selection. These charters and letters not only more fully reflect Eleanor's own living conditions and scope of activities, but also provide more basis for people to understand the political, religious activities and social status of medieval noblewomen, and help people realize the medieval women are not always on the edge of political life and social power because of gender but have their own unique living space.