... Aliénor in the land of troubadours received all the homage that the Languedoc could pay, and one Aliénor at least was entirely spoilt by it, namely, she who was called Eléanore by the French king who had the misfortune to marry her, and who became in time on English lips our grim Eleanor of the dagger and the bowl, the hateful Acquitanian grandmother, who bandies words with Constance of Brittany in King John. (History of Christian Names, Yonge, 1884).