Reina Alienor, Reina de França Aquitana/Catalana - Eleanor of Aquitaine Timeline

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Eleanor of France, Queen of Portugal

Queen Maria of Leon

Eleanor of Aquitaine heard that Marie of France, Queen of Leon had just given birth to a son on 1164 named Infante Alfonso which was celebrated in France as well because the alliance will remain for a long time.

Marie of France styles herself as Maria de Francia, Reina de Leon during the time when her husband reigned.

Marie of France gave birth to many children for Ferdinand of Leon, these are the four that survived to childhood
-Infante Alfonso - 1164
-Infante Ramon - 1167
-Infanta Maria - 1170
-Infanta Leonor - 1175

Marie of France of visited the court of France on 1173 and fetched her sister Eleanor in order to marry her to another Iberian monarch, she wanted her sister, Alienor to marry that monarch instead of her daughter Maria who herself is betrothed to Alfonso, Prince of Castile[1], Alienor is married to Sancho I of Portugal on 1174 where she became known as Leonor de Francia, as Queen of Portugal.

1. The OTL husband of Eleanor of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine's OTL daughter

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Updated the first chapter, the first chapter was originally based on a verse from another timeline here, i needed to paraphrase it.
 
Glimpses of the Present...lets go forward to the present before I present that last couple chapters, since I am not planning to go forward after the death of Eleanor of Aquitaine.


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Boleslaw X of Poland, descendant of Agnes of France
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Louis XV and his wife Sophia Kommena(Byzantine Princess)
Louis XV is a direct descendant of Philippe II

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Eduardo X of Spain, descendant of Marie of France and Eleanor of France
 
Guilhem the Duke of Aquitaine and the Count of Provence
On 1178, Guilhem begun to serve as the Duke of Aquitaine, Viscount of Millau and Count of Gevaudan.

He married his bride Alienor Dolça of Provence also called as Eleanor of Provence who inherited the county of Provence from her father, Berenguer Raimon on 1192, after he died without Male heirs.

He lost the control of Counties of Auvergne, Marche, Thouars and Angouleme from his brother which were made direct vassals of France.

the marriage produced three children

1182 Guilhem Anfos of Aquitaine
1185 Adelaida of Aquitaine
1190 Peire Raimon of Aquitaine

For Charles and Constance of Brittany they were also blessed with three children
1182 Eleanor
1185 Adelaide
1187 Arthur
 
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Louis the Lionhearted and the Sicilian ambition

Constance was not betrothed until she was thirty, which later gave rise to stories that she had become a nun and required papal dispensation to marry. The betrothal was announced 29 Oct 1184 at Palermo and she married Louis of France on 1186, Constance gave birth to a son named Henry on 1187 and later a son named Louis followed on 1189

The death of her younger nephew Henry of Capua in 1172 made Constance heiress presumptive to the Sicilian crown,after her elder nephew King William II, who did not marry until 1177, and whose marriage remained childless.

Nor would the kingdom's Norman nobles welcome a Capetian king. William made his nobles and the important men of his court promise to recognize Constance's succession if he died without direct heirs. But after his unexpected death in 1189, his cousin (and Constance's nephew) Tancred seized the throne. Tancred was illegitimate, but he had the support of most of the great men of the kingdom.

Constance accompanied her husband at the head of a substantial imperial army to forcefully take the throne from Tancred. The northern towns of the kingdom opened their gates to Lous, including the earliest Norman strongholds Capua and Aversa. Salerno, Roger II's mainland capital, sent word ahead that Louis was welcome, and invited Constance to stay in her father's old palace to escape the summer heat. Naples was the first time that Louis met resistance on the whole campaign, holding well into the southern summer, by which time much of the army had succumbed to malaria and disease and the imperial army was forced to withdraw from the kingdom altogether. Constance remained in Salerno with a small garrison, as a sign that Louis would soon return.

Once Louis had withdrawn with the bulk of the imperial army, the towns that had supposedly fallen to the French troops immediately declared their allegiance to Tancred, for the most part now fearing his retribution. The populace of Salerno saw an opportunity to win some favour with Tancred, and delivered Constance to him in Messina, an important prize given that Henry had every intention of returning. However, Tancred was willing to give up his negotiation advantage, that is, the Empress, in return for Pope Celestine III legitimizing him as King of Sicily. In turn, the Pope was hoping that by securing Constance's safe passage back to Rome, Louis would be better disposed towards the papacy and he was still hoping to keep the Empire and the Kingdom from uniting. However, french soldiers were able to intervene before Constance made it to Rome, and they returned her safely to France, ensuring that in the end, both the papacy and the kingdom failed to score any real advantage in having the Constance in their custody.

Louis was already preparing to invade Sicily a second time when Tancred died in 1194. Later that year he moved south, entered Palermo unopposed, deposed Tancred's young son William III, and had himself crowned instead.
 
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Jean Lackland and Jeanne of France, Queen of England

On 1180, the young Jeanne of France married Richard of England, the marriage turned out to be a happy one producing many children including Edward I of England, Eleanor saw this marriage as a marriage alliance, Jeanne would fix the relations between Eleanor of France and Margaret of England, Dowager Queen of Portugal the last wife of Afonso Henriques.

For Jean Lackland, he married his bride, Berengaria and stayed in Navarre where his progeny would be given some lands in Navarre after being banished from the court of France.
 
The Imprisonment of Eleanor of Aquitaine and later life

It was due to the fact of her scheming that she got imprisoned on 1180 and her sons Jean and Louis were expelled from the realm marrying Princesses.

She was imprisoned and on the death of Louis VII, she was released on 1190, on 1200, on the reign of Philippe II, she took the veil in a nunnery in Bordeaux she has founded where she died on 1202.

She is buried in Bordeaux but her tomb was transferred to St. Denis in the a later time and interred with her husband Louis VII.

Fin.
 
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