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The survival of Frederick Barbarossa and the rise of Arthur I of Brittany
On January of 1189, a butterfly flaps it's wings in a different direction deviating from how it did originally and seeped into a flower that it did not originally intend to sip on.

Emperor Frederick was impatient and wanted to cross the Saleph river just using his horse but he realized that is impossible because his armor is too heavy for him to cross so he decided to wait until the bridge is emptied so on the night on June 10 1190, he was able to cross the Saleph river safely because he waited.

Frederick of Barbarossa woke up on June 11 1190, his troops were very organized thanks to him being a really good leader, he was a very successful military strategist and a soldier and for that reason he was able to defeat the Turks and make them stay away from the Kingdom of Jerusalem, however Frederick Barbarossa is not able to completely defeat them but he was able to keep them at bay, Barbarossa was happy about his accomplishments in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. Frederick Barbarossa was able to return to his land in the Holy Roman Empire.

Frederick of Barbarossa was quite displeased of his son marrying an old woman, Constance of Sicily, he was quite irritated of the marriage and even asked his son Frederick to repudiate her but his son was devoted to her, she finally gave birth to a son named Frederick on October 4, 1191, but she a few weeks after she gave birth, he later remarried to his former wife’s niece in law Joan of England on 1192 with papal dispensation, the marriage would mean later good relations with England and the Holy Roman Empire, Joan of England was very much liked by Frederick Barbarossa.
On his way to the territory of his brother-in-law Henry of Saxony, Richard I of England was captured shortly before Christmas 1192 near Vienna by Leopold V, Duke of Austria who accused Richard of arranging the murder of his cousin Conrad of Montferrat. Moreover Richard I of England had personally offended Leopold by casting down his standard from the walls of Acre. Richard I of England and his retainers had been travelling in disguise as low-ranking pilgrims, but he was identified either because he was wearing an expensive ring, or because of his insistence on eating roast chicken, an aristocratic delicacy, Emperor Frederick took advantage of this situation and used it against both Henry of Saxony and Richard I of England.

In 1193, Eleanor of Brittany was engaged to Frederick son of Leopold V, Duke of Austria, as part of the conditions to release of Richard who had been taken prisoner by the Emperor. However, when she was still on the way there with Baldwin of Bethune the next year, the marriage took place on October 4, 1194, the marriage meant the release of Richard I of England on November 1, 1194 and ending the feud between the Plantagenets and the Babenbergs, Joanna of England gave birth to a to twins, Eleanor and Henry on December 3, 1194, Eleanor was promptly betrothed to Louis of France the son of Philippe Augustus in order to strengthen the relationship between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of France and she was a key for the Capetians to sieze some of the Feudal lands from the Plantagenets, later on Philip Augustus would return to France and also remarry to Constance of Aragon on January 2, 1195 who had the county of Gevaudan as her own dowry, Constance of Aragon was very pretty that she was a very good catch for Philip Augustus, her dowry was one of the keys for the later attack of the Cathar lands meanwhile, Richard of England was married to Alys of France on 1195 even if she is already impure and an undesirable bride already.

Frederick Barbarossa dies on January of 1195 which meant that Joan of England would be the Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, she was quite a beauty and loved by the Germans, she was known to be the Empress that made the Holy Roman Empire and England closer, on the meantime, Constance of Aragon gave birth to a son she named Philip on November 4, 1195, the son made the marriage between Constance and Philip better and Constance was compared to Eleanor of Aquitaine and Constance of Arles because of her origins from the south, Philip was made the Count of Gevaudan and Vermandois which meant that the dowry of Constance would also be just given to her own son, Philip and not reverting to the crown lands of France, Philip has plans with his namesake son, Philip, he made a peace settlement with Richard by betrothing a niece of him to his son and Eleanor of Aquitaine came to Castille in order to pick one of her granddaughters as the bride of Philip and the bride that she picked is Constance, the recently born daughter of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castille and Alfonso VIII who is sent to live with Philip in order for her to know Philip better, the marriage would happen once the marriage can be already consummated.

On June 4, 1196, Joan of England, Holy Roman Empress would give birth to a daughter named Matilda who is betrothed to Boleslaw of Silesia, the son of Henry I the Bearded of Silesia.

Constance of Aragon would give birth to a girl named December 4, 1196, she was named Constance after her mother, and she was betrothed to Arthur, the orphaned son of Geoffrey of Brittany and he was able to see the infant girl who is betrothed to him and he was quite whether he will accept the betrothal and the alliance between him and Philippe Augustus, however later on in February 1197 Richard of England suddenly died due to a sickness that he had just discovered before he died and Eleanor of Aquitaine wanted a different successor to Aquitaine and he is Otto of Brunswick, the son of Matilda to Henry the Lion but he did not accept the offer of succeeding in Aquitaine and instead focused on Brunswick, meanwhile, Alys, the dowager Queen of England married William IV Talvas, Count of Ponthieu, on 20 August 1197.

On January 1197 Arthur of Brittany mysteriously disappeared before he can be crowned and there were rumors of poisoning as well, which made John Lackland happy and his heiress, Eleanor of Brittany is in Austria and is unable to press her claims to her brother’s lands and Constance of Brittany replaced her him due to his dissappearance but on later 1197 when John Lackland crossed the English channel to be crowned as the King of England, one of the people on board was enraged of him when they talked about the deceased and uncrowned Duke Arthur of Brittany and pushed him out of the ship and he plunged to the English Channel and Drowned and his body was never discovered, Eleanor of Aquitaine was devastated of what has happened to Prince John that he died on the crossing to England but Constance of Brittany had her marriage with Ranulf de Blondeville annulled and a few months she was remarried to Guy of Thoars on June 3, 1198, meanwhile on Toulouse, Raymond VI of Toulouse marries Berengaria of Navarre, a woman who was once betrothed to Richard the Lionheart and Matilda of Brittany, a sister of Arthur and Eleanor of Brittany was married to Eudes III of Burgundy.
In Austria, Eleanor of Brittany finally gives birth to twin sons named Frederick and Gottfried on November 4, 1198.

Constance of Brittany bore her third husband, Guy of Thoars a daughter; Alix of Thouars on September 5, 1199, later the missing Arthur of Brittany was found on Austria in the court of his sister, Eleanor of Brittany and his brother in law Frederick I of Austria.


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