What if Eleanor of Aquitaine gives birth to a male heir and bosses around her husband and has male lovers and the male heir has dubious fatherhood, how would France develop in this scenario?
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What if Eleanor of Aquitaine gives birth to a male heir and bosses around her husband and has male lovers and the male heir has dubious fatherhood, how would France develop in this scenario?
In short she ends up imprisoned as she was in OTL, I wonder what would her ITTL son would have thought of her, would he act like Richard and be sympathetic of her and try to free her from imprisonment.How long until Eleanor is sent to a nunnery?
Because unlike Peter III, Louis VII isn't despised by most of his nobles. Eleanor trying to do unto him what Catherine did unto Peter is going to hurt her far more than Louis.
You are completely wrong.Part of the reason Catherine could get away with it was that the royal line came through her and not her husband.
Part of the reason Catherine could get away with it was that the royal line came through her and not her husband.
What if Eleanor of Aquitaine gives birth to a male heir and bosses around her husband and has male lovers and the male heir has dubious fatherhood, how would France develop in this scenario?
but wasn't Margaret of Anjou rumored to pulled a Catherine the Great on Henry VI.That has little to do with her ability to be an effective female leader in an era where there were very few, if any, worth noting.
Louis in this scenario would have to be royally (note my extraordinarily witty pun) feckless and despised, and even then, it would be unlikely that it would work. Catherine was a brilliant ruler, and she had to constantly fear for her throne all the same.
but wasn't Margaret of Anjou rumored to pulled a Catherine the Great on Henry VI.