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The fair Gisele – An Angevin timeline

The fair Gisele

On 1184, Gisele of Swabia, the woman betrothed to Richard , the lionheart and daughter of the German Emperor, Frederick Barbarossa would survive from her illness and travel to Bordeaux to meet her future husband on 1185, the marriage does not mean it had complications as Richard is betrothed to Alice of Vexin, the daughter of the King of England, she would marry her husband which would mean problems with France and the dowry of Alice which would mean Alice would be sent back to the Kingdom of France.

Alice of France would now be married to Henry, the eldest son of Frederick Barbarossa, which would have been her own prestigious marriage while her sister Margaret is married Bela II, the two marriages would balance out the marriage of Gisele of Swabia with Richard I of England as well as the marriage of Margaret of Blois to Eudes which was the alliance of Eleanor of Aquitaine to the Hohenstauffens.

Gisele of Swabia would meet with the children of Geoffrey and Constance of Brittany, Eleanor and Mathilde, Constance of Brittany would give birth to three other children, Constance of Brittany(1186), Arthur(1187) and Marguerite (1191), Gisele of Swabia would find herself pregnant for the first time, giving birth to a son herself, named Henry on 1186 which would be followed by a daughter named Marie on 1187 on another son named William on 1188 who would be the heir to the Duchy of Aquitaine himself, she and her husband would separate as he would focus on the crusade and after the crusade, she would have two further children, Fulk(1196) and Elias (1200).
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