No Mirabeau - an Arthur of Brittany timeline

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No Mirabeau

No Mirabeau

John initially adopted a defensive posture like that of 1199: avoiding open battle and carefully defending his key castles. John's operations became more chaotic as the campaign progressed, and Philip began to make steady progress in the east. Arthur and the Lusignans would instead decide to Join Philippe Auguste in the seizure of Normandy by Philippe instead of battling John and his grandmother herself.

After the chaos was settled, John was forced to leave the continent to England with his mother and wife and leave the continental possessions behind to Duke Arthur of Brittany, who is now the Duke of Normandy, Count of Maine and Anjou and the Duke of Aquitaine.

On 1203, He would arrange for his sister, Eleanor to marry Alfonso, the heir to Portugal and she would leave to Portugal so that he would be able to have an alliance with the Portuguese.

On 1203, Eleanor of Aragon would marry Arthur I, Duke of Brittany to create an alliance between the Aragonese and the Plantagenets, on the birth of his three sons with Eleanor, Henry(December 10, 1204), William(June 2, 1206) and Geoffrey(May 2, 1207), he would decide to leave Aquitaine to William and Anjou and Maine to his son Geoffrey and Henry would be betrothed to Mahaut of Boulogne, a claimant to the English crown, due to the marriage between Eleanor of Aragon and Arthur I of Brittany this left Raymond VI of Toulouse without allies on his wars against the French crusaders leaving the Aragonese and the Plantagenets to pick up what was left after his demise but that was not the only issue, he was also excommunicated which would lead to his death on 1213 on the hands of Simon de Montfort and his son was forced to be in a French dungeon until his death causing the County of Toulouse to revert to the French royal domain.

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Afonso II of Portugal

Offspring

In 1203, he married Eleanor of Brittany, The offspring of this marriage were:

Infanta Constança (December 10, 1203-1233), wife of Henry I of Castile

Infante Sancho (September 8, 1204), succeeded his father as Sancho II, 4th King of Portugal

Infante Afonso (May 5, 1209 – 16 February 1279), succeeded his brother Sancho as Afonso III, 5th King of Portugal

Infanta Leonor (Eleanor) (1211–1249). Married Valdemar the Young, son of Valdemar II of Denmark and Margaret of Bohemia, daughter of Ottokar I of Bohemia;

Infante Fernando (1218–1246), Lord of Serpa and married to Sancha Fernández de Lara with whom he had no issue. He was the father of an illegitimate son, Sancho Fernandes, prior of Santo Estêvão of Alfama.

 

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The Barons war

On 18 October 1216, John contracted dysentery, which would ultimately prove fatal. He died at Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire, and with him the main reason for the fighting. Louis now seemed much more of a threat to baronial interests than John's nine-year-old son, Prince Henry and the support of the Plantagenets would now become divided into two it is between Arthur, Duke of Normandy, Duke of Brittany Count of Anjou and Duke of Aquitaine, Louis would be forced to change his mind to support Arthur but he would decide to move forward his own son, the Duke of Normandy and decided that they two would concede to the boy who would be given the title of being Duke of Normandy himself.

A great deal of the country was loyal to Prince Louis, with the southwest but with Henry of Normandy uniting the supporters of Arthur and Louis, Henry the son of John would be forced to retreat to Ireland with William Marshal wherein he would rule and his mother, Isabella of Angouleme would be forced to flee to the continent to her domains in Angouleme and remarry to Hugh of Lusignan who was betrothed to her.

Henry of Normandy and his wife, Mahaut of Boulogne would arrive on 1218 with French troops now that they have secured the support of the barons, this was just the beginning for them as the French would no longer be kind to them after the death of his own father.