The bride never taken – A Plantagenet timeline

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On 1199, Constance of Brittany agreed to ally with Philip II and betroth her daughter Eleanor of Brittany to Louis, Prince of France as a condition of the Treaty of Le Goulet, later Louis VIII and support the decisions of Innocent III and Philippe Auguste for the good of her duchy, this would lead to the Angevins gradually losing their lands after the death of Eleanor’s brother, Arthur.

On the death of Arthur, the Duke of Brittany in 1203, the Bretons would initially have Eleanor as their duchess and allied with the French but the Bretons would revolt in 1208 seeing that Aquitaine lost its independence from the French crown and chose Alix as their Duchess and allied with the English which would later cause Alix, Duchess of Brittany to enter into a betrothal with Henry III on 1216 which would end into a marriage, after the death of King John I which would lead to the Duchy of Brittany being the long term English continental possession after the loss of the rest of the Angevin domains.

The Duchy of Aquitaine and Gascony would be lost from John I in 1204 after the death of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the French and would end up being partitioned between the French and the Castilians as the Duchy of Gascony would end up under Castilian ruler after the French King, Philip II and Alfonso VIII would decide that the Duchy of Gascony be under Castilian rule in 1206, the English would completely lose any control over any part of Aquitaine on the death of John as Isabella of Angouleme returned to her Duchy in 1216 and chose to marry the Count of Lusignan in 1220 and made her children with her second husband as the heirs to Angouleme in 1220.

The marriage of Louis VIII and Eleanor of Brittany and the military tactics of Philip II would allow the great expansion of the royal domain of France as the Duchies of Normandy, Aquitaine, and the Counties of Maine, Anjou, and Touraine became Royal domain of the King of France, Philip II which would be the great accomplishment of Philip II himself.



Issue of Eleanor of Brittany and Louis VIII
Constance (1203 d. 1256) married to Theobald I of Navarre
Philip (1207-1217)
Geoffroy (1211 d. 1211)
John (1211 d. 1211)
Louis IX (1212-1270) married to Sofia of Denmark
Robert, Count of Artois (1214-1250)
Philip (1216 – 1218)
John (1217 d. 1232)
Geoffroy (1218 d. 1290), by marriage, Count of Toulouse
Philip Dagobert (1220)
Isabelle (1220-1290)
Charles (1224 d. 1300), Count of Anjou and Maine, by marriage Count of Provence and Forcalquier

 

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On 1199, Constance of Brittany would submit to Philippe Auguste and Innocent III in regards to the fate of the Archbishoropic of Dol which would be subject to the Metropolitan of Tours and agreed on a betrothal of her daughter, Eleanor to Louis, the son of Philippe Auguste as an alliance between the Duchess of Brittany and the King of France and also to enact peace between the King of France and the King of England.

“The Treaty of Le Goulet was signed by Kings John of England and Philip II of France in May 1200. It concerned bringing an end to the war over the Duchy of Normandy and finalising the new borders of what was left of the duchy. The treaty was a victory for Philip in asserting his legal claims to overlordship over John's French lands. A consequence of the treaty was the separation of the Channel Islands from Normandy.

The terms of the treaty signed at Le Goulet, an island in the middle of the Seine river near Vernon in Normandy, included clarifications of the feudal relationships binding the monarchs. Philip recognised John as King of England, heir to his brother Richard I, and thus formally abandoned his prior support for Arthur I, Duke of Brittany, the son of John's late brother, Geoffrey II of Brittany. John, meanwhile, formally recognised the new status of the lost Norman territories by acknowledging the Counts of Boulogne and Flanders as vassals of the kings of France, not those of England, and recognised Philip as the suzerain of the continental lands in the Angevin Empire. John also bound himself not to support any rebellions on the part of the counts of Boulogne and Flanders.

Philip had previously recognised John as suzerain of Anjou and the Duchy of Brittany, but with the treaty of le Goulet he extorted 20,000 marks sterling as "relief" in payment for recognition of John's sovereignty of Brittany.

The treaty also included territorial concessions by John to Philip. The Vexin (except for Les Andelys, where Château Gaillard, vital to the defence of the region, was located) and the Évrécin in Normandy, as well as Issoudun, Graçay, and the fief of André de Chauvigny in Berry were to be removed from Angevin suzerainty and put directly into that of France.

The Duchy of Aquitaine was not included in the treaty. It was still held by John as heir to his still-living mother, Eleanor. The treaty was sealed with a marriage alliance between the Angevin and Capetian dynasties. John's niece Eleanor, daughter of his brother Geoffrey, married Philip's eldest son, Louis VIII of France (to be eventually known as Louis the Lion). The marriage alliance assured that the Angevin lands would be lost to the English Kings on the death of Arthur, Duke of Brittany. Philip declared John deposed from his fiefs for failure to obey a summons in 1202 and war broke out again. Philip moved quickly to seize John's lands in Normandy, strengthening the French throne in the process.”

Treaty of Le Goulet - Wikipedia

 

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On 1204, after the Death of Eleanor of Aquitaine, John I of England would lose control over Aquitaine as they chose the rule of Philip II in the name of the legitimate Duchess Eleanor of Brittany, the wife of Louis, Prince of France is the rightful heiress of the Duchy of Aquitaine especially, Hugh of Lusignan who John I had stolen his bride from, however the County of Angouleme would remain under the rule of the regent chosen by John I for his wife, Isabella of Angouleme.

On 1206, Philip II would grant Alfonso VIII the control over the Duchy of Gascony and the County of Bordeaux as a French fief to secure an alliance with the Castilians over the Duchy of Aquitaine.

On 1208, the Bretons would revolt against the French in favor of another sister of Eleanor, Alix, wanting to avoid the Duchy of Brittany fall under the French completely, this would end the Pro-French policies of Constance, Arthur, and Eleanor of Brittany as the Dukes of Brittany would choose a more Pro-English policies under Alix of Brittany.

On 1216, a war between the Duchy of Brittany and the English against the French would happen in regards to the claims Eleanor of Brittany in England and Brittany and also the claims of the Plantagenets in their continental possessions as the English would ally with Otto III against Philippe Auguste, which would result in the French winning in the continental possessions, however, the English and the Bretons would be able to expel the French, the treaty would result in the treaty in 1216 wherein Eleanor and Louis were forced to sign a cease fire, although the English claims to the continental possessions aside from Brittany and the French claims to England and Louis IX’s claims to Brittany was given up in the later treaty of Paris in 1259.
On 1216, a betrothal between the Duchess of Brittany, Alix and Henry, Prince of England was made before the death of John I in the same year.

On 1220 Isabella of Angouleme would remarry to Hugh of Lusignan which would complete the loss of the English inheritances in France as the children of Isabella with Hugh of Lusignan would inherit Angouleme instead of the English King.

 

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On 1204, Blanche of Castile would be chosen as the replacement bride for her sister for Ferdinand of Leon as Mafalda would have died in 1204 which would have opened the possibility of another marriage for her as the Aragonese have chosen for a marriage with Marie of Montpellier instead of her and Blanche would have married Prince Ferdinand on 1205, the bride would be seventeen and the groom would be thirteen, the marriage would be consummated on 1206, her brother, Ferdinand of Castile would refuse to marry Dulce or Sanchia of Leon, Sanchia would end up marrying Henry I of Castile, a marriage that would end up as childless and she would serve as his queen consort, Blanche and Ferdinand’s marriage would prove to be fruitful as they would have many children even if Ferdinand did not succeed his father, but Blanche of Castile would prove to be a confident and skillful regent.

Ferdinand of Leon would die in 1214 without him being the King, however, Blanche would remain in Leon to raise their children up to their majority and she would be regent when her son would be in crusade.

Children of Blanche of Castile and Ferdinand of Leon
Eleanor b. 1207
Alfonso b. 1209 d. 1227
Juan b. 1213 d 1213
Ferdinand III of Leon b. 1214

 

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On 1205, Jeanne, Countess of Burgundy would enter a marriage negotiation with Frederick I of Sicily which would end up in a marriage in 1210 after the Death of Philip in 1208, the King of the Romans, the marriage of Countess of Burgundy to Frederick I would give the blood of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the main Hohenstauffen line and she herself would give birth to a one pregnancy who would survive infancy, namely, Henry, Count of Burgundy who would be the successor to Jeanne on the death of Jeanne in 1220 when she was crowned Holy Roman Empress with her husband Frederick II of HRE, Henry would be chosen as the King of Sicily as well as heir to Frederick II in Sicily.

Frederick II would choose a betrothal between Margaret of Austria and his son, Henry which would end up in a marriage which would guarantee claims to Austria of the Hohenstauffens and Frederick II would choose a marriage with Isabella of Jerusalem and later to Isabella of England who would both give birth to further heirs, however, the line of Frederick II would be extinct in the male line, decades after the death of Frederick II of HRE.

During the time when Jeanne, Countess of Burgundy was living, Frederick II would have affairs with the mother of Enzo of Sardinia which would contribute to her poor health as she would be sad after hearing about her husband’s affairs.

On 1220, Frederick II would arrange the marriage of his relative, Elizabeth of Swabia to Valdemar the Young of Denmark, the Junior king of Valdemar II.

 

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Don’t take this the wrong way mate but are you planning on sticking with this idea or is it going to just die off like your other timelines and you just go onto your next Whatever number you’re on now TL about the Philippines, just want to know if I should bother keep watching this or not

 

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Don’t take this the wrong way mate but are you planning on sticking with this idea or is it going to just die off like your other timelines and you just go onto your next Whatever number you’re on now TL about the Philippines, just want to know if I should bother keep watching this or not

I had written about the future and the immediate outcome of this timeline in the initial chapter so I can stop any time in this timeline, the other chapters are just to elaborate on the timeline.

 

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“During the Albigensian Crusade in May 1216, Raymond set out from Marseille and besieged Beaucaire, which he captured on 24 August. He fought to reconquer the county of Toulouse from Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester and later Simon's son Amaury VI of Montfort.

He succeeded his father in 1222. At the moment of his accession, he and the new count of Foix, Roger Bernard II the Great, besieged Carcassonne. On 14 September 1224, the Albigensian Crusaders surrendered and the war came to an end, each southern lord making peace with the church. However, in 1225, the council of Bourges excommunicated him and launched a crusade against him, the king of France, Louis VIII, called the Lion, wanting to renew the conflict in order to enforce his royal rights in Languedoc and the rights of his wife. Roger-Bernard tried to keep the peace, but the king rejected his embassy and the counts of Foix and Toulouse took up arms again. The war was largely a discontinuous series of skirmishes and, in January 1229, Raymond, defeated, was forced to sign the Treaty of Paris (also known as the "Treaty of Meaux"). By this treaty he ceded the former viscounty of Trencavel to Louis IX and his daughter Joan was forced to marry Geoffroy, brother of the king.

In 1242, Raymond allied with Count Hugh of La Marche and King Henry III of England against King Louis IX. Louis sent against him an army under the Constable Imbert de Beaujeu and Bishop Hugh of Clermont. He was forced to surrender the castle of Saverdun and Bram.

When Raymond died, Geoffroy became count of Toulouse, and after Geoffroy’s death the county was annexed by France. Raymond VII was buried beside his mother Joan in Fontevrault Abbey.”

Raymond VII - Wikipedia

 

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On 1200 Louis of France and Eleanor of Brittany had married and all of the Plantagenet domains would have been seized by Philip II because of the death of Arthur, Duke of Brittany, Count of Anjou under the hands of John I of England in 1203 and John ignoring the summons of Philip II, however Brittany itself had revolted and chose Alix as the new duchess of Brittany in 1208, and Eleanor and Louis would have many kids, however, only Constance of France, Queen of Navarre(1203), Louis IX(1212), Geoffroy, Count of Toulouse(1218), Robert, Count of Artois(1214), Isabelle of France(1220), and Charles I, Count of Anjou(1224) would survive to adulthood.

On 1226, Louis VIII and Eleanor of Brittany would be crowned as Philip II would die and Ingeborg of France would leave the court and the two would take over all of the duties, Brittany would be an issue of dispute during her husband’s reign and as her sister Alix would marry Henry III of England that would bring England again to the continental issues.

On 1230, Louis VIII would die and Louis IX would succeed and Louis would marry Sophia of Denmark on 1229, Sophia of Denmark is a daughter of Valdemar II and a relative of both the Countess of Flanders and Ingeborg of Denmark, Eleanor of Brittany would don the veil in Fontevraud Abbaye and would die in 1240 and buried with her husband, Louis VIII but her heart would be buried in Fontevraud Abbaye where her relatives were buried.

 

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On 1221, Alix, Duchess of Brittany, betrothed since 1216 to Henry III of England would marry Henry III of England which would anger Philip II of France and her sister Eleanor but the nobles of Brittany would support the marriage between Alix and Henry III of England and the Duchy would not be under the clutches of the French although England and Brittany would be under a personal union for one generation until the death of Alix, Duchess of Brittany who would prioritize the independence of Brittany and she would undo the policies of her siblings and her mother in Brittany which attached the Duchy to France since her ascension as Duchess in 1208, she would die in 1260.

Alix, Duchess of Brittany b. 1200 m. Henry III of England

1a. Richard II of England b. 1223

2a. Yolande of England b. 1226

3. Conan V of Brittany b. 1226

4a. Margaret of England b. 1230

 

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So this concludes the first part of the story, there is no obligation for me to continue this but I would try if I have more ideas.

 

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The cession of the Duchy of Aquitaine peacefully to the crown of France and Gascony being part of the territories of the Castilian King would have been helpful to the Kingdom of France itself and the Duchy of Aquitaine would have been speaking the Occitan language and the Poitevin dialect of Langue D’Oil in the Duchy of Aquitaine while the Duchy of Gascony would have spoken the Gascon variety of Occitan, the Occitan and Oil varieties of the Duchy of Aquitaine would be helped by the fact that the Duchy of Aquitaine would have a healthy and peaceful political status.

The Duchy of Gascony being under the Castilian King would have meant that the Gascon dialect of Occitan and the Castilian language would influence each other and the Gascon language would have been one of the languages of the Castilian court and the Castilian Kings would have duties with the King of France as the Duchy of Gascony is a French fief as it is a part of the Kingdom of France and because of that the King of Castile would make tribute with the King of France.

 

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On 1216, Queen Ingeborg of France would die, she would be remembered as the pious queen of France and have been also the friend of Eleanor of Brittany herself, after she had been reconciled with her husband due to the urging of Eleanor of Brittany on the end of 1204, Ingeborg would give birth to two daughters, Agnes(1210) and Mathilde(1216) who died in infancy.

Philip II himself would choose to marry Eleanor of Castile, a cousin of Eleanor of Brittany on 1217 and in her place her relative, Berengaria of Leon would later take place in the betrothal with the Prince of Aragon, Jacme the Conqueror, Eleanor of Castile would prove to be pretty and would be able to give birth to a daughter named Adelaide or Alix who would be born in 1222 adding another bride that the French would want to be married off aside from Isabelle who is the daughter of Eleanor of Brittany and Prince Louis and also Constance of France had also married the King of Navarre which would strengthen the relations between France and Navarre, on 1226, Eleanor of Castile would be widowed by the death of Philip II and she would decide to retire in Paris with her daughter, Alix until she would be married off by her brother the King of France.

Berengaria of Leon was once betrothed with the Prince of France, the son of Louis and Eleanor instead before his death in 1217 and her marriage with the King of Aragon will help her brother’s ascenscion to the Kingdom of Castile after his uncle’s death without issue.

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I am talking about this Eleanor

Eleanor of Castile (died 1244) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

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On 1220, Jeanne, Countess of Burgundy would die and Frederick II would not be in a hurry to marry again and he would choose to marry Yolande of Jerusalem which would mean that Yolande would give birth to another son that would be the Duke of Swabia, which he would name as Conrad, while his son, Henry would govern the County of Burgundy and would be waiting for his own marriage with an Austrian Princess which would later happen on 1224 when he was in majority, after Yolande’s death Frederick II would remarry to Isabella of England.

Frederick II would would encounter the campaign of Ogodei Khan after his marriage to Isabella of England which would lead to the unity of the Christians after Ogodei’s return in 1242 as Frederick II had supported the pope after Ogodei resupplied the Mongols which would destroy the Kingdom of Poland and Hungary completely leaving them desolated by the Mongols, the desolation of Kievan Rus would start a new migration period in which the Slavs of Kievan Rus would migrate to Poland, Hungary, and Germany which would cause a resurgence of the Slav population in Eastern Germany, even if Frederick II declared a crusade they would still be defeated and the Mongols would end their terror in 1250.

Frederick II would die in 1260 but his male progeny would be extinct after his death.

 

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Capet
Children of Eleanor of Brittany and Louis VIII
Constance (1203 d. 1256) married to Theobald I of Navarre
Louis IX (1212-1270) married to Sofia of Denmark
Robert, Count of Artois (1214-1250)
Geoffroy (1218 d. 1290), Count of Toulouse due to his marriage with Joanna, Count of Toulouse
Isabelle (1220-1290)
Charles (1224 d. 1300), Count of Anjou and Maine, by marriage Count of Provence and Forcalquier due to his marriage with Margaret of Provence

Plantagenet
Children of Henry III and Alix of Brittany
Richard II of England b. 1223 married to Eleanor of Provence
Yolande of England b. 1226
Conan V of Brittany b. 1226
Margaret of England b. 1230

Hohenstauffen
Children of Frederick II and Joanna, Countess of Burgundy
Henry, Count of Burgundy b.1211 married to Margaret of Austria and Beatrice of Savoy
Children of Frederick II and Yolande of Jerusalem
Conrad of Swabia b. 1228
Children of Frederick II and Isabella of England
John b. 1238
Margaret b. 1241

House of Barcelona
Children of Marie of Montpellier and Peter II of Aragon
James the Conqueror b. 1208 married Berengaria of Leon b. 1204

 

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Battle of the Queens - Jean Plaidy

The story of two women Isabella of Angouleme, widow of King John of England, and Eleanor of Brittany, Queen of France (who claims both England and Brittany) who hated each other from their first meeting.

 

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In popular culture

In the 19th century there is a play regarding the agony of Eleanor of Brittany when she was old and Queen of France regretting her actions and the destruction of the Angevin Empire in England which would contradict the historical records of Eleanor being a vengeful and passionate Queen of France.

Eleanor of Brittany

Wikipedia

 

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On 1206, the Duchy of Gascony would be granted to the Kingdom of Castile and it would be under Castilian rule since 1206, a few years after Eleanor of Aquitaine’s death as a collateral of Eleanor of England’s dowry while the Duchy of Aquitaine would be either directly in the King’s suzerainty or royal demesne.

On 1216, King Henry I of Castile would succeed as King of Castile and made homage to the Duchy of Gascony and on 1220 when Queen Ingeborg died, he would marry his sister Eleanor to the King of France himself although her previous betrothed James of Aragon would be betrothed now to Berengaria of Leon who was prepared for a Portuguese betrothal, Henry of Castile would part with his first wife, Mafalda of Portugal due to consanguinity and remarried to Sanchia of Leon, the marriage with Sanchia of Leon would prove to have no children and Henry would choose his nephew, Ferdinand as his own heir who would succeed him in Castile and Gascony after his death on 1230.

Henry I of Castile would correspond with his sister, Blanche, the mother of the King of Leon to improve the relations of Leon with Castile.

 

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On 1201, Theobald III of Champagne would survive his illness and on 1202 would deny Alexios, the brother-in-law of Philip of Swabia, his request to divert the crusade to Constantinople and said to Philip of Swabia and Alexios for them to do it themselves and they would not want to harm another Christian themselves and want to restore Jerusalem to the Christians and Queen Isabella of Jerusalem who needed their help.

On 1204, Theobald III of Champagne would lead the crusade to Jerusalem and helped Queen Isabella in restoring Jerusalem to its rightful ruler, Queen Isabella of Jerusalem who would reign until 1210 on her death, he would return to Champagne in 1206 wherein he would die in 1208 but not before he secured the betrothal of his son, Theobald to Constance, the Princess of France, daughter of Eleanor of Brittany and Prince Louis and the marriage of his daughter, Maria of Champagne to Ferdinand of Leon, who would succeed as King of Castile after the death of his uncle.

Philip of Swabia would try to help his brother-in-law, Alexios to free his father and restore him and his father in the Byzantine crown but Philip of Swabia would die in 1208 before he would be able to secure the funds to the crusade which would cause him to die in obscurity in 1220.

 

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