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Leopold V’s ransom of Richard
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Leopold V’s ransom of Richard

On 1194, Leopold V of Austria would see that his own tournament horse is unwell and it would fall even before his tournament causing him to focus on the arrangement of his own marriage with Eleanor of Brittany, the niece of Richard I of England and sister of the heir of the King of England, Arthur of Brittany.

Baldwin of Bethune and Eleanor of Brittany would arrive in Austria along with Beatrice Commena, the Damsel of Cyprus, Eleanor of Brittany and his son Frederick would marry, this would mean that the uncle of Eleanor of Brittany, Richard would be ransomed and Eleanor of Brittany would marry Frederick of Austria whose marriage is used to make peace between Austria and the Angevins and the conditions of the release of her uncle, Richard the Lionheart, she would see her uncle being released and greeted him but that was the last time she would see her own uncle or any of her own dynasty.

Due to the marriage with the son of the Duke of Austria her own destiny would change as she would be the link to the Angevins, the House of Babenberg and Plantagenets and as well as the mother of Helena, Queen of Poland.

However for her husband despite the fact that she would have three children with him named Helena of Austria(1199), Leopold(1202) and Henry(1204) he would predecease his own father on 1205 and her husband would not be able to succeed as the duke of Austria and left behind a minor heir for her own father in law, she would disappear for a time until she would remarry to Emperor Frederick II on 1208, further antagonizing her cousin, Otto IV of Germany.
 
Constance of Sicily
Constance of Sicily

On 1199, the ill Constance of Sicily would give the guardianship of her own son, Frederick to the Pope herself causing Frederick to gain religious education which would help him the governship of the Sicily and the Holy Roman Empire.

Constance of Sicily would die and sign off Frederick I of Sicily to the pope in order raise him and put the Kingdom of Sicily under regency under Philip of Germany who is now married to Irene Angelina temporarily while he would grow up to his majority and receive Catholic Education since 1199 and Philip of Germany and Irene Angelina would take care of the administration, on 1200 Irene Angelina would finally give birth to a son named Konrad, named after the dead brother of Philip of Germany.

On 1199, Marguerite of Blois would finally give birth to a male heir for Otto, Count of Burgundy who she would name as Philip, count of Burgundy, the heir of the Count of Burgundy, as he is born and he would be betrothed to Marie of France, the only surviving daughter of Philippe Auguste.

But during his being under custody of Innocent III, Frederick would learn the skills of administration under Pope Innocent II himself, Frederick would be held by the pope when he is learning himself administrative skills and clerical practices under church supervision, he would be treated by Innocent III as his own son.

On 1200, Constance of Aragon would give birth to a daughter named Constance of Hungary and she would remarry to Vratislaus, the heir of Bohemia a few years after the death of her husband as she decided not to return to Aragon.

“The Hohenstauffens’s future has been decided as they would have both the branches surviving.”

Mathew de Paris
 
Henry of Champagne
Henry of Champagne

On 1197, Henry of Champagne would land from the window and was able to wake up after his fall from the first floor of his house with Isabella of Jerusalem, Henry of Champagne was said to be one of the guilty people in the death of Conrad of Montferrat and the co-conspirator of Richard the Lionheart, he would be one of the people who would be blamed for the death of Conrad of Montferrat and on his route on his return to Champagne in early 1198 he would be imprisoned by Leopold of Austria and Henry VI of the Holy Roman Empire which would cause the King of England to go to the Holy Roman Empire to make a negotiation in order to free the Duke of Champagne from his imprisonment.

Finally a son named Henry of Champagne who would be the heir of Jerusalem and Champagne would be born on 1199.

Theobald was made the count of Poitiers and the heir to Aquitaine and married to Blanche of Navarre in order to promote him as the heir to Aquitaine in case of a childless death of Richard, both Arthur and Theobald were made heirs of Richard, it was said that had Henry of Champagne died in 1197 it would be Otto who would be the heir to Aquitaine in case Richard had no children and Theobald would be given the land of Aquitaine in the will of Richard I on 1199 while John would be given Normandy, Anjou and England which Constance of Brittany and Arthur would protest.

On 1199, Theobald and his wife, Blanche of Navarre would take Aquitaine as the heir of Richard and the co-duke of Eleanor of Aquitaine leaving Arthur and John fight in Anjou, Normandy and England.
 
Treaty of Le Goulet
Treaty of Le Goulet

The Treaty of Le Goulet was signed by Kings John of England and Philip II of France in May 1200. It concerned bringing an end to the war over the Duchy of Normandy and finalising the new borders of what was left of the duchy. The treaty was a victory for Philip in asserting his legal claims to overlordship over John's French lands. A consequence of the treaty was the separation of the Channel Islands from Normandy.

The terms of the treaty signed at Le Goulet, an island in the middle of the Seine river near Vernon in Normandy, included clarifications of the feudal relationships binding the monarchs. Philip recognised John as King of England, heir to his brother Richard I, and thus formally abandoned his prior support for Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, the son of John's late brother, Geoffrey II of Brittany. John, meanwhile, formally recognised the new status of the lost Norman territories by acknowledging the Counts of Boulogne and Flanders as vassals of the kings of France, not those of England, and recognised Philip as the suzerain of the continental lands in the Angevin Empire. John also bound himself not to support any rebellions on the part of the counts of Boulogne and Flanders.

Philip had previously recognised John as suzerain of Anjou and the Duchy of Brittany, but with the treaty of le Goulet he extorted 20,000 marks sterling as "relief" in payment for recognition of John's sovereignty of Brittany, while Aquitaine’s succession to Theobald of Champagne, the brother of Henry II of Champagne would also be confirmed on the treaty.

The treaty also included territorial concessions by John to Philip. The Vexin (except for Les Andelys, where Château Gaillard, vital to the defence of the region, was located) and the Évrécin in Normandy, as well as Issoudun, Graçay, and the fief of André de Chauvigny in Berry were to be removed from Angevin suzerainty and put directly into that of France.

John's niece Urraca, daughter of his sister Leonora and Alfonso VIII of Castile, married Philip's eldest son, Louis VIII of France.

Urraca would take the name of Eleanor after her marriage with Louis VIII in honor of her own grandmother and mother.
 
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Death of two women
Death of two women

On 1203, Blanche of Navarre would die after giving birth to two daughters named Marie(1199) and Blanche(1201) to her husband Theobald I of Aquitaine, her death would happen because of a Pneumonia which would leave him depressed and anxious after wards, Blanche of Navarre was said to be introduced to him by his uncle, Richard I of England, but that was not enough as his grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine who entered the Fontravraud Abbaye on 1202 after she entered the veil as a nun on 1204 would die in the abbey attended by Arthur of Brittany and Theobald I of Aquitaine which would start his spiral into depression.

Theobald and Arthur would talk about the death of their own grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine and Blanche of Navarre who had just died on 1203 as the death of the two ladies, Arthur would console Theobald on the death of his wife and their grandmother.

Due to the death of the women he was close to he would enter a deep depression afterwards, he would remarry to the heiress of Angouleme, Isabella of Angouleme to strengthen his hold in Aquitaine.
 
The remarriage of Eleanor of Brittany
The remarriage of Eleanor of Brittany

On 1206, seeing the pressure of Frederick of Austria with his own nephews by Eleanor of Brittany, Eleanor of Brittany would seek an alliance with the Papacy to prevent Frederick of Austria from taking the succession from her own children who are set to inherit once her former father in law dies and betrothing herself to Frederick of Sicily would prove to be useful for her as she would also gain the alliance of the King of Germany, Philip I against Frederick of Austria.

Eleanor of Brittany would leave the Austrian court with her sons in order to marry her second husband, Frederick of Sicily in order to secure her children’s hold in the throne of Austria, she would arrive in Rome and remarry to Frederick of Sicily.

She would feel suspicious about her brother in law Frederick about the succession of her children and she would doubt if he would support her children and over himself and his own children with Theodora Angelina, she.

On Sicily she would arrive an marry the King of Sicily, Frederick, Innocent III would marry Frederick I of Sicily and Eleanor of Brittany on the Saint Peter’s Cathedral crowning Eleanor of Brittany as the Queen of Sicily, after that, Leopold V of Austria, her father in law would negotiate the marriage between Helena of Austria and Henry of Silesia.
 
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Marriage woes
Marriage woes

On 1202, Sanchia of Portugal would enter a marriage with Arthur of Brittany, her arrival would be sudden as she looked like a saint and a maiden in contrast with the brash and warlike Arthur of Brittany, Arthur of Brittany would feel that he would be ready to consummate the marriage with Sanchia but Sanchia would want to wait for its consummation because she has been removed from the convent to marry Arthur of Brittany

Sanchia of Portugal would submit to her husband on 1203 on the directive of her mother in law, Constance of Brittany, who wanted to gain more in her own case against King John and make Arthur of Brittany the King of England and not John and Arthur would need children as soon as possible so that he would have successors soon.
 
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