Arthur of Brittany, Duke of Brittany, King of England, Scotland, Duke of Aquitaine

On 1196, Richard I, King of England requested the annulment and the release of the Princess’ Berengaria’s obligation to marry Berengaria of Castile due to the protests of Eleanor of Aquitaine who did not want a Hohenstaufen ruling Castile, Richard I offered Eleanor of Brittany as her replacement, the marriage was accepted and Eleanor of Brittany was left in Swabia to marry the German Prince, the prince had recently narrowly avoided his death.


Princess Berengaria of Castile is married to Peter of Aragon in the earlier part of 1197 as suggested by Eleanor of Aquitaine and instead in exchange for her claims to the Counties of Provence and Toulouse, Richeza is the one married to Alfonso of Leon, who is divorced due to consanguinity and affinity due to being related to Geoffrey of Perche but their children are legitimate, compared to Berengaria she lacks the issues that Berengaria has and they are few years apart.


The arrangement of the two marriages they said would be in the benefit of the Plantagenets, especially the Eleanor of Brittany marriage because since Eleanor of Brittany married Conrad and Conrad was crowned as the Holy Roman Emperor with his wife Eleanor of Brittany, the Welfs have been silenced till the death of her first husband in 1208, she is the ancestor of the German and the Polish nobility due to her marriage as well as the Italian nobility in her second marriage, the union between Emperor, the two only produced four daughters until her first husband died due to crusade, she remarried to Azzo VI of Este as suggested by her Welf cousins, he was the love of her life.



1a)Agnes of Hohenstaufen 1197

2a)Eleanor of Hohenstaufen 1200

3a)Marie of Hohenstaufen 1203

4a)Alix of Hohenstaufen 1206

5b)Ferdinando of Este(Ferdinand Welf) of Ferrara 1209

6b)Alfonso of Ferrara(Alphonse Welf) 1210

7b)Isabella of Ferrara(Elisabeth Welf) 1212

8b)Constanza of Ferrara(Constance) 1215




In the side of the Aragonese they would use the marriage with Berengaria against the French and the Tolsans..


Berengaria of Castile m. Peter of Aragon

Eleanor of Aragon b. 1199

Ferdinand of Aragon b. 1201

Berengaria of Aragon b. 1204

Isabella of Aragon b. 1205

Alix of Aragon b. 1210

Richard of Aragon b. 1212


Countering the marriage between Ingeborg and Philippe by marrying his presumptive heir to Richeza of Denmark, the marriage arrangement was made soon in 1198, however it was cancelled.


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When Richard died on April 6, 1199, on his deathbed he proclaimed his brother John as his heir, fearing Arthur was too young to look after the throne. Arthur was only twelve years old at the time and under the influence of the French king. John immediately claimed the throne of England, but much of the French nobility were resentful at recognizing him as their overlord. They preferred Arthur, who declared himself vassal of Philip. Philip recognized Arthur's right to Anjou, Maine, and Poitou. Upon Richard's death Arthur led a force to Anjou and Maine. From April 18, he styled himself as Duke of Brittany, Count of Anjou and Earl of Richmond.


The Treaty of Le Goulet was signed by the kings John of England and Philip II of France in May 1200 and meant to settle once and for all the claims the Norman kings of England had as Norman dukes on French lands, including, at least for a time, Brittany. Under the terms of the treaty, Philip recognised John as King of England as heir of his brother Richard I and thus formally abandoned any support for Arthur I, Duke of Brittany. John, meanwhile, recognised Philip as the suzerain of continental possessions of the Angevin Empire, Louis, the son of Philip II is married to Urraca of Castile.


Philip had previously recognised John as suzerain of Anjou and the Duchy of Brittany, but with this he extorted 20,000 marks sterling in payment for recognition of John's sovereignty of Brittany.

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The new peace would only last for two years; war recommenced in the aftermath of John's decision in August 1200 to marry Isabella of Angoulême. In order to remarry, John first needed to abandon Isabel, Countess of Gloucester, his first wife; John accomplished this by arguing that he had failed to get the necessary papal permission to marry Isabel in the first place – as a cousin, John could not have legally wed her without this. It remains unclear why John chose to marry Isabella of Angoulême. Contemporary chroniclers argued that John had fallen deeply in love with Isabella, and John may have been motivated by desire for an apparently beautiful, if rather young, girl. On the other hand, the Angoumois lands that came with Isabella were strategically vital to John: by marrying Isabella, John was acquiring a key land route between Poitou and Gascony, which significantly strengthened his grip on Aquitaine.


Unfortunately, Isabella was already engaged to Hugh of Lusignan, an important member of a key Poitou noble family and brother of Count Raoul of Eu, who possessed lands along the sensitive eastern Normandy border. Just as John stood to benefit strategically from marrying Isabella, so the marriage threatened the interests of the Lusignans, whose own lands currently provided the key route for royal goods and troops across Aquitaine. Rather than negotiating some form of compensation, John treated Hugh "with contempt"; this resulted in a Lusignan uprising that was promptly crushed by John, who also intervened to suppress Raoul in Normandy.


Although John was the Count of Poitou and therefore the rightful feudal lord over the Lusignans, they could legitimately appeal John's actions in France to his own feudal lord, Philip. Hugh did exactly this in 1201 and Philip summoned John to attend court in Paris in 1202, citing the Le Goulet treaty to strengthen his case. John was unwilling to weaken his authority in western France in this way. He argued that he need not attend Philip's court because of his special status as the Duke of Normandy, who was exempt by feudal tradition from being called to the French court. Philip argued that he was summoning John not as the Duke of Normandy, but as the Count of Poitou, which carried no such special status. When John still refused to come, Philip declared John in breach of his feudal responsibilities, reassigned all of John's lands that fell under the French crown to Arthur – with the exception of Normandy, which he took back for himself – and began a fresh war against John.


Meanwhile Arthur fled to Scotland and married Princess Margaret of Scotland, in this point Alexander, Prince of Scotland contracts Pneumonia and dies, the couple had the support of the Germans and the Aragonese, the husbands of Berengaria of Castile and his own sister, Eleanor of Brittany.


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Good timeline.
Philip could have taken all the land to himslef and Arthur could legaly have done nothing.
The Union of Scotland England plus the Continental land cant hold the Scot would want another king after his death.
 
Good timeline.
Philip could have taken all the land to himslef and Arthur could legaly have done nothing.
The Union of Scotland England plus the Continental land cant hold the Scot would want another king after his death.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine died peacefully on 1204 a death also attended by the representatives of Empress Eleanor and Urraca of Castile.


In the latter part of the year that Princess Margaret married Arthur on 1202, Arthur fled to his sister Empress Eleanor’s court with an English entourage on 1205, however the marriage between Emperor Conrad and Eleanor ended on the death of Conrad on 1208, after the death, she had decided the marriages of her daughters; Agnes, Eleanor, Marie and Alix, which was co-planned by Philip of Germany.


Agnes is married to Conrad the Curly of Lubusz, Eleanor is married to Leszek the white of Poland on 1215, while Marie is married to Ladislaus III of Hungary while Alix marries Theobald I of Navarre on 1220.


Note: The marriage of Philip’s children will be similar to OTL but they will have at least one surviving issue, Elisabeth married Henry I of Portugal and adopted the name Isabella.


However on 1209, Eleanor remarried to Azzo of Este, a Welf scion, causing a weakening of the Hohenstauffen cause the marriage would produce the children; Ferdinando, Alfonso, Isabella and Constanza.



On 1209, the Dowager Empress Eleanor, the Pearl of Brittany would arrange a treaty adding ceding the claims of Anjou to the territories of the French King and Lusignan and Auvergne become directly under the French King and the claims also became Urraca’s own dower lands and that Arthur would retain Aquitaine and Poitou, Empress Eleanor was very smart during the time.



Frederick of Sicily’s marriage with Constance of Aragon, dowager Queen of Hungary would last two years on 1209 – 1211, which would produce a daughter named Bertha.

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On 1213, Philip Augustus of France defeated an army consisting of Imperial German, English and Flemish soldiers, led by Otto of Brunswick and John who apparently objected to Arthur’s treaty because John does not want to step down for Arthur. Other leaders included Count Ferrand of Flanders, William de Longespee and Renaud of Boulogne. The defeat was so decisive that Otto was deposed and replaced by Frederick II Hohenstaufen; Ferrand and Renaud were captured and imprisoned and King John of England was forced to step down to Arthur who recognized the treaty made by his sister. Philip was himself able to take undisputed control of most of the territories in France that had belonged to King John of England, Otto's maternal uncle and ally, however the war would end on 1220 as John still held on England till 1220, , however Aquitaine and Normandy is given back to Arthur after the war but not Anjou(which includes Maine and Touraine) which is Urraca’s dowry.


Arthur and Margaret already have two children before they even returned to Scotland on 1214 on the death of William the Lion, notably, Henry and Arthur who are already raised as Germans some English nobles still resisted for John, however, John’s eldest son was married to Bertha, the heiress of Sicily, the war ended on Arthur’s favor on 1220 and signed the magnacarta however, Arthur abdicated on 1230 for his three sons, Henry, Arthur, William and Fulk, whose lands he divided when Margaret died, he became a priest.



Arthur of Brittany and Margaret I of Scotland’s children


Henry III(I), King of Scotland, England and Duke of Brittany b. 1211


Eleanor of England b. 1212


Arthur II, duke of Normandy b. 1214


William, duke of Aquitaine b. 1220


Urraca and Louis’ children


Philip 1209


John b.1213


Louis b.1214


Robert b.1216


Charles b.1219


Isabella b. 1220


The treaty on 1220 on the ascension of Henry III and Margaret I of Scotland is that Aquitaine would be given to the second and third son of Arthur while Eleanor of England is married to Philip III.

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The treaty on 1220 on the ascension of Henry III and Margaret I of Scotland is that Aquitaine and Normandy would be given to the second and third son of Arthur while Eleanor of England is married to Philip III.



On 1230, Due to the machinations of Eleanor of Brittany and Berengaria of Castile the ending of the Albigensian crusade ended on their favor, the two daughters of Berengaria had been married namely Eleanor of Aragon is married to Roger Bernard II of Foix and Berengaria married John, count of Brienne. Apparently they allowed the marriage treaty for John of France to marry the late Raymond, count of Toulouse to marry the her, however the Viscounties that are vassals of Aragon are to remain Aragonese vassals and the French would and the French would also recognize the County of Barcelona as parts of Aragon.



On 1230, Ramon Berenguer IV died leaving behind two daughters Philippa, Countess of Provence b. 1221 and Eleanor b. 1225, the daughters came under Eleanor of Brittany’s care and Philippa, Countess of Provence is married to William XI of Aquitaine and Eleanor is married to Arthur II duke of Normandy while Louis of France marries Alix of Aragon, a former abbess, Robert marries Isabella of Ferrara and Charles marries Constanza of Ferrara, the marriages were a machination of the two queens who had strong wills and had clout in the Papacy and dominated Urraca of Castile, Queen of France, another queen who had the same strong will was Blanca of Castile, Queen of Portugal.

On 1230, Due to the machinations of Eleanor of Brittany and Berengaria of Castile the ending of the Albigensian crusade ended on their favor, the two daughters of Berengaria had been married namely Eleanor of Aragon is married to Roger Bernard II of Foix and Berengaria married John, count of Brienne. Apparently they allowed the marriage treaty for John of France to marry Joanna, the daughter of the late Raymond, count of Toulouse to marry the her, however the Viscounties that are vassals of Aragon are to remain Aragonese vassals and the French would renounce them and the French would also recognize the County of Barcelona as parts of Aragon.



Another machination is the marriage of Henry III of England and Isabella of France on 1230 on in the death of Philip I of Germany on 1240 due to the fact that all of his sons died in Infancy Eleanor and Berengaria asked Pope Innocent IV to give the throne of Arles to William(Guilhem) XI, duke of Aquitaine, an offer that he also accepted and Eleanor, the Dowager Empress now Duchess of Ferrara died happily on 1242..



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France in the Reign of Louis VIII

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The duke of Normandy shoulld be the king of France he seized the Duchy thus legaly (you said so in an earlier post) Arthur had thus losed all right on it his son cant be duke .
 
The duke of Normandy shoulld be the king of France he seized the Duchy thus legaly (you said so in an earlier post) Arthur had thus losed all right on it his son cant be duke .
I modified the post..it is anjou that is given to the Capetians, Auvergne, Lusignan including Marche has been given up..
 
Issues of Henry II

William IX, Count of Poitiers 17 August 1153 April 1156 died in infancy

Henry the Young King 28 February 1155 11 June 1183 married Margaret of France; no surviving issue.


Matilda, Duchess of Saxony and Bavaria June 1156 13 July 1189 married Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony and Bavaria; had issue, including Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Mafalda, Queen of Leon


Richard I of England 8 September 1157 6 April 1199 married Berengaria of Navarre; no issue

Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany 23 September 1158 19 August 1186 married Constance, Duchess of Brittany; had issue, including Eleanor, Holy Roman Empress and Arthur I of England and Scotland

Eleanor, Queen of Castile 13 October 1162 31 October 1214 married Alfonso VIII of Castile; had issue, including Ferdinand III, King of Castile, Berengaria, Queen of Aragon, Urraca, Queen of France, Blanche, Queen of Portugal, Eleanor, Queen of Aragon

Joan, Queen of Sicily October 1165 4 September 1199 married 1) William II of Sicily 2) Raymond VI of Toulouse; had issue

John, King of England 27 December 1166 19 October 1216 married 1) Isabella, Countess of Gloucester 2) Isabella, Countess of Angoulême; had issue, including Henry II, King of Sicily, Richard, count of Angouleme, Joan, Countess of Lusignan and Marche

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Elisabeth, a daughter of Philip I, the Holy Roman Emperor married to Ferdinand III a man a decade away from her, she took the name Isabella, same named as the Queen of the usurper John I, his brother, Henry married the beautiful Alix of Thoars, a sister of the Empress and the King of England.


Isabella of Swabia is a beauty that Ferdinand III worshiped, she is very fertile compared to his first wife, Richeza of Denmark who died in childbirth, the marriage between Ferdinand III and Richeza was arranged by Richard the Lionheart.


Ferdinand III m. Richeza of Denmark Riquilda d. 1216 (a) m. Elisabeth Isabel of Swabia(b)

1a. Alfonso b. 1211

2a. Riquilda b. 1213

3a. Sanchia b. 1216

4b. Isabella b. 1218

5b. Ferdinand b. 1220

6b. Eleanor b. 1222

7b. Philippa b. 1225


In Poland the two daughters of Eleanor of Brittany and Emperor Conrad dominated their domicile husbands, Conrad the Curly and Leszek the White, Boleslaw, the son of Leszek the White and Eleanor of Germany repeatedly raped his queen the saintly Kinga of Hungary, resulting in many sons.


Conrad the Curly of Lubusz acquired Glogow from his brother, Henry the Pious and married Agnes of Germany, the eldest daughter of Eleanor of Brittany and Emperor Conrad, they made it a law that only one would succeed as the ruler or the lands but the others would be made as Princes a practice followed by the rest of the Polish dukes, he survived his brother who died in the Mongol invasion and acquired Krakow in 1250 before his death from Boleslaw, the son of Leszek the White and Eleanor of Germany, only two of their children survive to adulthood and have children, namely Eupraxia and Riszard.




Konrad the Curly m. Agnes of Germany

1. Constance of Lubusz b. 1

2. Konrad of Lubusz b. 1217

3. Eupraxia of Lubusz b. 1218

4. Riszard of Lubusz b. 1220


Marie’s marriage to the King of Hungary, Ladislaus produced only one daughter before the two died since Marie died due to childbirth to her only and surviving daughter, Hedwig in 1228 and Ladislaus later succumbed to disease on 1230, giving way to his cousins, his daughter Hedwig would marry Mindaugas of Lithuania in the christianization.


Alix’s marriage to Theobald I of Navarre was successful and one of their children is Theobald II of Navarre.


Beatrix of Swabia would give birth to a couple of children to Otto of Brunswick named Marie, Irene, Philip and Agnes but one would be important and that is her son Philip of Brunswick b. 1218.



In the case of Mafalda, Queen of Leon the former countess of Perche who was divorced on her first husband but her children declared legitimate, she arranged the marriages of her stepdaughters to the scions of Counts of Surrey and Devon making the counts of surrey related to the Kings of Leon and Castille, she focused on religious life

She gave birth to two further children


Alfonso b. 1202


Eleanor b. 1210



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