Prince William "Adelin" Survives the White Ship Disaster

Well Louis VII surely will not like it at all but can not do much for stopping that wedding (as he had neither the power, the will or the strength for blocking it). Geoffrey has at least one younger brother so he is in no hurry to marry and a match between him and Eleanor can be agreed as simple alliance before her brother’s death. In OTL Geoffrey was married to Maud and busy trying to recover her inheritance with a very young son but here he is free and the most powerful neighbor of Aquitaine so the advantages of a match would be pretty clear.
His father would be a different discourse but Louis VI died just months after William so he would be unable to do anything
I imagine the only way he could stop the marriage would be to send a crack team of operatives deep into Aquitaine to abduct Eleanor, smuggle her back to Louis, and force her I to a marriage. I doubt he has the pull or the money to actually even able to consider this, but wealthy heiresses faced this problem the minute their fathers died all the time and many of them were sadly forced into these marriages. If someone truly cunning and cutthroat was in Louis' ear, perhaps he orders an audacious mission like this. Then again, it might just be easier to assassinate Geoffrey, but Geoffrey had brothers to take his place and still marry Eleanor....unless Geoffrey's brothers are treacherous.
 
I imagine the only way he could stop the marriage would be to send a crack team of operatives deep into Aquitaine to abduct Eleanor, smuggle her back to Louis, and force her I to a marriage. I doubt he has the pull or the money to actually even able to consider this, but wealthy heiresses faced this problem the minute their fathers died all the time and many of them were sadly forced into these marriages. If someone truly cunning and cutthroat was in Louis' ear, perhaps he orders an audacious mission like this. Then again, it might just be easier to assassinate Geoffrey, but Geoffrey had brothers to take his place and still marry Eleanor....unless Geoffrey's brothers are treacherous.
Please too much complicated for Louis the Monk
 
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