The Major and Minor Britain, A Plantagenet Timeline

Emma Watson as Matilda of Brittany in the Series the Plantagenets.
The Other Breton Girl and the Castilian Maiden
On 1189, a sick girl was able to recover and that girl is Matilda of Brittany, the daughter of Constance of Brittany and her late husband Geoffrey of Brittany, the girl is the other sister of the presumed heir of Richard I of England, Arthur of Brittany.
Eleanor and Matilda both became fatherless at the age of two and was brought up by her uncle King Richard and grandmother Eleanor of Aquitaine.However, Richard's ward also meant that she was under Angevin custody, and thus even her mother Constance never considered her a potential heir to Brittany, which weakened her later claim to the duchy. As her younger brother Arthur was the heir presumptive to England and Brittany, she was one of the most marriageable princesses at that time. In 1190, after Richard failed to marry his younger sister Joan to Al-Adil I, brother of Saladin, he proposed that Eleanor should be the bride instead, but the negotiation was also in vain, as Al-Adil showed no interest in Christianity. In 1193, she was engaged to Frederick, son of Leopold V, Duke of Austria, as part of the conditions to release Richard, who had been taken prisoner by Emperor Henry VI. However, when she was on the way to Austria with Baldwin of Bethune and the next year, the duke died, so the marriage never took place, and under order of Pope Celestine III she returned to England, accompanied by her grandmother Eleanor and Richard was forced to handover his niece Berengaria of Castile to him because she is already married to Conrad of Swabia.
After this, Eleanor of Brittany is arranged to be betrothed to Eudes II of Burgundy but the King of France prevented the marriage of Eudes II to Eleanor of Brittany and instead Matilda of Brittany was married to Eudes of Burgundy, the men of Eudes picked up Matilda to the court of Eudes II of Burgundy on 1195.
On the early part of 1196, Matilda of Brittany is married off to the recently divorced Eudes II of Burgundy after she arrived in Dijon as a replacement for her sister who was proposed to be married to him, her sister, Eleanor was the one originally proposed but the marriage was not allowed by Philippe Auguste due to Eleanor being the prestigious bride and her being the third line to the Angevin domains, upon her marriage, she is the duchess of Burgundy, although the marriage will take time to be consummated because she is barely 10 year old but she is now away from the drama of her relatives and the Plantagenet rivalries, while Eleanor of Brittany, herself is betrothed to Louis of France but the negotiations did not push through yet, Eleanor of Brittany’s fate is in limbo and just like her brother whose fate could go worse if their uncle dies, in the same time, the first husband of Berengaria of Castile, Conrad of Swabia of had died on 1194 at the invasion of Sicily after that she stayed in the English court and Richard the Lionhearted proposed that the marriage of Berengaria should be with Peter II of Aragon and not Alfonso IX of Leon, the alliance with Aragon was important and they were married the same year her cousin, Matilda was married.
This was said that both Berengaria of Castile and Matilda of Brittany were both married in order for the Plantagenets to gain more powerful allies in France but the two marriages will change France for the better, but Berengaria and Matilda were happy in the long run.
