The Queen and her vase - A French Timeline

The Queen and her Vase - A French Timeline

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Eleanor of Aquitaine's vase


The Hope of France
On 20, July 1150, the Queen went to labor and the future of the realm and her marriage as well as her own happiness is at stake, later she gave birth to a healthy son, Eleanor of Aquitaine was unhappy of the birth of a son, she felt depressed at hearing of the birth of a son as she cannot have a reason to divorce her husband.
 
Rumors in the court and a marriage alliance
The birth of a son was disastrous for Eleanor of Aquitaine and it has been rumored that Louis VII is not the real father of the new born Prince and the real father is the son of the Count of Anjou, Henry which infuriated Louis VII, Eleanor of Aquitaine was forced to make love with the King again just after the baptism of her new born son, a few weeks after it was discovered that she is pregnant again with a new child while returning to France.

It has been decided that Marie, the daughter of Eleanor and Louis would marry Ferdinand, Prince of Leon.

Eleanor of Aquitaine turned her attention to poetry and became the patron of the troubadours of Southern France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine changed her mind about her own marriage when her husband, Louis VII promised her that he would give her back to her and her sons her rightful inheritance of Toulouse and Provence which she believes rightfully belongs to her, the new expansion strategy would expose the King of France to a conflict with Aragon, the marriage with Castile would help Eleanor in regaining the lands lost by her ancestress, Philippa of Toulouse.
 
The Castilian marriage

On the fourth of April of 1152, Eleanor of Aquitaine gave birth to another son, the son was baptized as Guillaume and called as Guilhem by her, he will be called as Guilhem in the most of his timeline, he was granted the title of the Count of Poiters.

It was the time for Marie of France to leave France and join the court of her husband, Prince Ferdinand, the heir to the Kingdom of Leon, Princess Marie was very lonely at leaving her family behind, this would be the last time she would see her brothers as a Princess of France.

Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanied her daughter, Marie of France to Castille, she met her future husband, Ferdinand and married him a few weeks after meeting him.

Eleanor of Aquitaine left Marie of France in the court of her husband after her marriage to the Prince of Leon.
 
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Eleanore, Louis VII and their sons: Philippe, Louis, Charles and John and their daughter, Eleanore of France from the movie Leon de Invierno.

The rekindled affair
The marriage between Eleanor of Aquitaine and Louis VII became more stable and was better because of the birth of Guilhem the Count of Poiters.

In the following decade the two shown that they were fond of each other and bore 7 more children in the following decade making a set of 10 children from the marriage.


by 1166 they had total of 9 children
Marie(Maria) of France, Princess of Leon - b. 1144
Philippe of France b. 1150
Guilhem(Guillaume) of Poiters b. 1151
Alix of France b. 1153
Agnes of France b. 1155
Louis of France b. 1157
Charles of France b. 1158
Eleanore(Alienor) of France b. 1162
Joan of France b. 1164
Jean of France b. 1166

Louis had 5 sons, namely, Philippe, Guilhem of Poiters, Louis the Lionheart, Charles, Duke of Brittany and Jean Lackland.

For the two sons, Guilhem and Robert, the two had great betrothals that ended into marriages, namely for Guilhem, he is betrothed to Dolça of Provence, daughter of Ramon Berenguer of Provence, while for Charles he is betrothed to Constance of Brittany.

note:
The John Lackland of this TL is a composite of Philippe Auguste and John Lackland, one of the brothers, John Lackland and Louis the Lionheart were able to snag Constance of Sicily and the French seize and annex Sicily..
 
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Henry the Lion
In 1147, Henry married Clementia of Zähringen, thereby gaining her hereditary territories in Swabia. He divorced her in 1162, apparently under pressure from Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, who did not cherish Guelphish possessions in his home area and offered Henry several fortresses in Saxony in exchange. In 1168, Henry married Alix of France, the daughter of Louis VII of France and Duchess Eleanor of Aquitaine and sister of Philippe II of France.
 
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