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Margaret of France’s pregnancy
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Margaret of France’s pregnancy
Her husband became co-ruler with his father in 1170. Because Archbishop Thomas Becket was in exile, Margaret was not crowned along with her husband on 14 July 1170. This omission and the coronation being handled by a surrogate greatly angered her father. To please the French King, Henry II had his son and Margaret crowned together in Winchester Cathedral on August 27, 1172. When Margaret became pregnant, she held her confinement in Paris , where she gave to their eldest son William on August 19 1177[1], Margaret of France would give to two further surviving children namely Alice of Normandy b. December 2, 1178 and Henry b. January 4 1181.


1. The POD.
 
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Ooh, interesting. If William survives he'll be 12 when Henry dies. Who'd be his Regent? Richard? Eleanor? The Marshal? Marguerite?

And what happens to Aquitaine in this scenario? I can't see Richard willingly handing it over to his nephew...
 
Ooh, interesting. If William survives he'll be 12 when Henry dies. Who'd be his Regent? Richard? Eleanor? The Marshal? Marguerite?

And what happens to Aquitaine in this scenario? I can't see Richard willingly handing it over to his nephew...
Eleanor still lives long so she chooses her successor.
 
Henry the Young King’s death
Henry the Young King’s death
Henry the Young King died, aged 28, in the summer of 1183, during the course of a campaign in Limousin against his father and his brother Richard the Lionheart. He had just completed a pillage of local monasteries to raise money to pay his mercenaries. He contracted dysentery at the beginning of June. Weakening fast, he was taken to Martel , near Limoges . It was clear to his household that he was dying on 7 June, when he was confessed and received the last rites.
Henry's remains are in Rouen Cathedral, where his tomb is on the opposite side of the altar from the tomb of his younger brother, Richard I of England, with whom he was perpetually quarrelling. The tomb of the Archbishop of Rouen, who had married him to Margaret, lies nearby in the ambulatory.
The death of Henry the Young King would be devastating to his family and Margaret of France would stay in the English court with her father in law.
Eleanor would make Richard as her heir in Aquitaine dividing the Angevin inheritance and had him married to the young Berengaria of Navarre in 1184 which would cancel his betrothal to Princess Alice of France who is exposed to have an affair with her prospective father in law, another marriage was also arranged in 1185 and it would be between Constance of Sicily and John of England, this would maintain the alliance of Sicily and England in case Joan of England would not bear children for her Sicilian husband.
 
Yes, but Richard was well--known to be Eleanor's favourite. And she's raised him as her heir. I know which way she's going. Which Henry and William are going to resent.
Yes they would...my plan is having Alice, their sister as Philippe Auguste’s second wife..or better yet Philip of Germany’s or Conrad of Swabia’s wife.
 
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Henry of Swabia and Alice of France
Henry of Swabia and Alice of France
Henry of Swabia was the second son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa and his consort Beatrix of Burgundy. In 1186 he was married to Alice of France, a daughter of Constance of Castile and Louis VII.
The marriage happened after a Richard had repurdiated Alice in favour of the younger Berengaria of Navarre in 1184, Alice would have a good relationship with her husband.

Alice would have given birth to two surviving children, Constance of Swabia b. 1186 and Frederick b. 1194, Richard and Alice would be able to meet in the Holy land on 1199 and talked about what happened to their engagement and it turned that the two are happy on what has happened on each other’s marriages.
 
Temujin
Temujin
For the next several years, the family lived in poverty, surviving mostly on wild fruits, ox carcasses , marmots , and other small game killed by Temüjin and his brothers. Temujin's older half-brother Begter began to exercise power as the eldest male in the family and would eventually have the right to claim Hoelun (who was not his own mother) as wife. Temujin's resentment erupted during one hunting excursion when Temüjin and his brother Khasar killed Begter .
In a raid around 1177, Temujin was captured by his father's former allies, the Tayichi'ud , and enslaved, reportedly with a cangue (a sort of portable stocks). With the help of a sympathetic guard, he escaped from the ger (yurt) at night by hiding in a river crevice, however the water movements would have taken him to a more deeper side of the river killing him
 
Berengaria and Constance
Berengaria and Constance
The marriages of Richard and John would be successful as Richard’s wife, Berengaria would bear two children, Eleanor b. 1485 and William, while John would have the following children with Constance of Sicily; Henry b. 1186, Richard b. 1187 and Constance b. 1190.
In November 1189 William died at Palermo , leaving no children. Though Robert of Torigni records a short-lived son in 1181: Bohemond, who was named Duke of Apulia.
After his death Norman nobles led by Matthew of Ajello supported Tancred, Count of Lecce , an illegitimate cousin of William, to succeed him while Constance herself would desire to take the throne which would be possible by 1194 when Richard helped his brother take the kingdom that rightfully belongs to his brother’s wife.
 
So we have these are the thrones for the Plantagenets

William > England and Normandy
Richard> Aquitaine
Geoffrey> Brittany
John > Sicily
 
Ida of Boulogne
Ida of Boulogne

Her father continued to rule until his death in 1173, when she succeeded. Upon the advice of her uncle, Philip I, Count of Flanders , she married first in 1181, to Gerard of Guelders, but he died the same year. She next married Berthold IV, Duke of Zähringen , but he too died in 1186, she would have remarried to Henry of Champagne, which would have been pleased the Plantagenets and produced two daughters, Alice b. 1188 and Philippa b. 1192.
 
Toulouse
Toulouse

In 1168, Alfonso granted Provence to his brother, Ramon Berenguer III. Douce was thus finally dispossessed of her inheritance but retained the comital title. She moved to the court of her paternal grandmother, Beatrice, Countess of Melgueil. In April 1172, Beatrice decided that the County of Melgueil should be divided between her daughter, Ermessende of Pelet, and Douce, still betrothed to Raymond of Toulouse.



Douce II of Provence would recover from her ailment in 1172 and was sent to Toulouse in 1173.



By 1176, Douce II of Provence and Melgueil marries Raymond of Toulouse who is her fiancé since her childhood.



The marriage between Douce II of Provence would mean that Toulouse and the French crown would remain allied in the future and the Raimondins would remain loyal vassals of France, but it would not prevent the Raimondins from promoting the Occitan language in their domains.



On the death of her aunt Ermessende in 1176, Douce inherited all the county Melgueil and the partition held by her Aunt.



On 1180, the Raymond VI of Toulouse would reclaim the inheritance of Provence from the kings of Aragon with the assistance of the King of France, however that would mean that the Counts of Toulouse and Provence would remain in alliance with the King of France against the Plantagenets and the Counts of Barcelona and one of that would be an alliance and even made a betrothal and alliance with the Counts of Urgel, betrothing Alfonso of Toulouse with Gersende of Forcalquier which would unite Forcalquier to the Tolosain inheritance.



Douce II of Provence and Melguelil and Raymond VI of Toulouse would have the following children:



*Constance b. 1177



*Alfonso b. 1178



*Sanchia b. 1182



*Margaret b. 1186



*Raymond b. 1192
 
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