The Young King’s son

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On 1177, William, son of Henry, the Young King would recover from his ailment as an infant, he would be known as King William III of England in 1189, he would succeed his father as the successor of his grandfather after his death in 1183, and in the Age of 12 as the successor of England and Normandy, while Richard would inherit Aquitaine and Anjou which would pass to John after he died without issue after marrying Berengaria of Navarre on 1199 after trying to set off a rebellion, John would remarry to Isabella of Angouleme after annulling his previous illegal marriage which was forbidden to be consummated by the pope as the Duke of Aquitaine.

William III would establish ties with Navarre by marrying Constance of Navarre, a younger sister of Blanche of Navarre, Countess of Champagne and Berengaria, Duchess of Aquitaine in 1195.

Mathilde of Brittany became married to Peter II of Aragon in 1196 which would give the King of England and the Dukes of Aquitaine an alliance with the Aragonese against the Kings of France due to the marriage of Mathilde to Peter II, and the marriage of Eudes III of Burgundy to Eleanor of Brittany would give the Kings of England and Duke of Aquitaine an alliance with Burgundy against the Kings of France.

On the death of Richard, Duke of Aquitaine in 1199, he would give Aquitaine to his brother John and Anjou to his nephew William III.

 

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The Treaty of Le Goulet was signed by King William III 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 Angevin 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. William III recognizes Aquitaine, Boulogne and Flanders as a fiefs of France.

Philip had previously recognised William III as suzerain of Anjou, but with the treaty of le Goulet he extorted 20,000 marks sterling as "relief" in payment for recognition of William'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 his uncle John as heir to his still-living grandmother, Eleanor. The treaty was sealed with a marriage alliance between the Angevin and Capetian dynasties. William III’s cousin Eleanor, daughter of his Uncle Geoffrey and Constance of Brittany, married Philip's eldest son, Louis VIII of France (to be eventually known as Louis the Lion).

Treaty of Le Goulet

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In this TL, Arthur of Brittany dies in Infancy instead of his sister Mathilde.

 

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Hmmm wouldn’t the heir of England receive both Normandy and Anjou?
Aquitaine going to the second son and favourite of Eleanor, Richard, seems fair.
ITTL I’d suppose Richard would have been interested in gaining the kingdom of Navarra. Maybe he’s still unlucky, but wouldn’t he and Berengaria at least have some stillborn children?

 

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Hmmm wouldn’t the heir of England receive both Normandy and Anjou?
Aquitaine going to the second son and favourite of Eleanor, Richard, seems fair.
ITTL I’d suppose Richard would have been interested in gaining the kingdom of Navarra. Maybe he’s still unlucky, but wouldn’t he and Berengaria at least have some stillborn children?

They don't because Richard is more interested in Crusading and Men than his wife and I did not change that.

 

[Janprimus]

They don't because Richard is more interested in Crusading and Men than his wife and I did not change that.

Richard hardly was the first ruler with this preference and orientation, yet many of them fathered at least a few children, though often below average.
OTOH didn’t Richard IOTL have a bastard son, Philip of Cognac?

 

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Richard hardly was the first ruler with this preference and orientation, yet many of them fathered at least a few children, though often below average.
OTOH didn’t Richard IOTL have a bastard son, Philip of Cognac?

I think the problem with Richard was with Berengaria.

 

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In 1187, Constance of Brittany would have a stillborn son and on her marriage with Ranulf in 1196, Constance of Brittany would give birth to a daughter named Margaret of Chester named after her mother, she would annul her second marriage in 1198 and remarry to Guy of Thouars giving birth to a son named Conan on 1200 and a daughter named Alix on 1201 which would mean that Burgundy will not inherit Brittany in the long run due to her daughter marrying in Burgundy which would mean that the succession will be complicated, she had considered having her brother, William to be released from his vows so that he can inherit the Duchy instead of her but the birth of her own son would derail those plans, she would die after giving birth to her daughter Alix and her third husband would be the regent for her own son until his own majority.

 

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Constance of Navarre would provide her husband Henry III, the son that he needed, she would provide a daughter Eleanor(1208) named after their relatives and two sons named Richard(1200) and Geoffrey, Duke of Anjou(1210), the two were happy in their marriage and the marriage would be very much fruitful and she would have some miscarriages as well and this would also improve the alliance between the house of Champagne and that of Anjou which is ruling England which would be good for the Kingdom of Navarre and that of England.

Geoffrey would be the Holy Roman Emperor after some time after the death of Frederick II, while Richard would reign as Richard II of England.

 

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On 1200 AD, John I of Aquitaine would marry Isabella of Angouleme after a consanguineous marriage with Isabella of Gloucester which was briefly annulled, John I would sire two daughters named Eleanor II of Aquitaine and Isabella of Aquitaine and he would die on 1218 due to natural causes and Isabella of Angouleme would remarry to the Count of Lusignan and La Marche.

Eleanor II of Aquitaine would marry to Theobald I of Navarre on 1222 which would expand the Champignon influence to Aquitaine and she would have her sister Isabella married to Frederick II of HRE as his second wife.

They would have the following children;

Eleanor, married Frederick III, duke of Lorraine

Theobald II of Navarre

Beatrice, married Hugh IV of Burgundy

Henry I of Navarre married Eleanor of Castile

 

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On 1208, Frederick II would marry Constance of Aragon, giving him one surviving son named Henry(1211), his second wife would be Isabella of Aquitaine giving the Hohenstauffens an alliance with the Kingdom of England, Navarre and the house of the Plantagenets which would dilute the alliance of the Hohenstauffens and the Capetians in favor of the Plantagenets and would enable the rise of the Plantagenets in the Throne of Germany sometime after the death of Frederick II and Isabella of Aquitaine would give birth to a son named Conrad(1226) and Margaret(1230).