Cronica di Federico
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.