Henry the Young King(1155-1199)

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On 1183, Henry, the Young King of England would start the process of annulling the marriage with Margaret of France in favor Gisele of Swabia as Margaret of France is in forbidden affinity as Eleanor of Aquitaine was once married to Louis VII, as his marriage with Margaret of France produced no offspring despite the fact that their marriage was dispensed already.

He had just recently, recovered from dysentery in a rebellion with his father, Henry II of England which almost killed him and he would have a difficult relationship with his own father Henry II of England even if he is his successor.

Urban III would dissolve the marriage between Margaret of France and Henry the Young King in the end of 1183 which would enable Henry the Young King to marry Gisele of Swabia who was originally betrothed to Richard whose betrothal shifted in favor of Henry the Young King after the annulment, Gisele would arrive in the end of 1184 and was able to provide him with surviving offspring compared to his first wife.

Margaret of France who is in Paris would learn that the marriage was annulled when a message arrived in the French court and Alice of France who was also betrothed to Richard of England, the heir of his mother Eleanor to Aquitaine would have his betrothal with Alice of France annulled as well, which would cause the Angevins to return Vexin to the French Royal Domains.

The dissolution of the marriage of Margaret of France would guarantee that Margaret of France is known to be barren and Philip II Auguste would have her go to a convent but as Alice of France, daughter of Constance of Castile with Louis VII only had a rumor on being a mistress of Henry II, she would be still be a marriage pawn to Philip II, the loss of the marriage of the Capetians and the Angevins would cause animosity between the Angevins and the Capetians.

 

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Gisele of Swabia would arrive in the end of 1184 and marry Henry the Young King which was enabled by the dissolution of the marriage with Margaret of France.

Compared to Margaret, Gisele of Swabia would have two sons, namely, William(1186) and Henry(1191) before she would perish in 1191 after Henry was was born and Henry the Young King would gain the custody of Geoffrey of Brittany’s three daughters with Constance of Brittany, Eleanor(1184), Matilda(1185), and Margaret(1187) who would be under the care of Gisele of Swabia while she was still alive, Geoffrey II of Brittany would be killed in a joust before the birth of his third daughter and his three daughters would be the marriage pawns of their uncle.

Gisele of Swabia would be crowned as Queen of England in 1189 as the consort of her husband Henry III.

The two sons of Gisele of Swabia would have both the Angevin and Hohenstauffen blood which will make them also interested in the Holy Roman Empire in the future.

During the time when she was alive, a marriage between the Angevin and Navarre would be arranged in 1190 which is the marriage between Berengaria of Navarre to Richard which would secure the alliance between Navarre and the Angevins, after the death of Gisele, Henry III of England would embark in a crusade which his brothers, Richard and John has already embarked on.

 

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After the annulment of the marriage between Margaret of France and Henry, the Young King, Margaret of France would choose Fontravraud after Philip II had decided to send Margaret to a nunnery which would cement the annulment of Henry the Young King with Margaret of France and Alice of France would be sent back to France by the Angevins.

Margaret of France would choose the Fontravraud Abbey in Anjou as the abbey or nunnery that she will stay after Philip II had decided about her going to the nunnery which will make her meet Eleanor of Aquitaine in the future, Eleanor of Aquitaine was surprised about what happened to Margaret of France.

After Alice of France, daughter of Constance of Castile was sent back to France, she would be married to Bela III of Hungary in 1186 as the rumors against her was unsubstantiated and Agnes of France has never returned to the French court after the deaths of her two husbands and chose to remain in the Greek lands.

 

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On 1183, Margaret of France would be divorced by Henry the Young King and he would get Gisele of Swabia as his new wife and Alice of France would be sent to France and Richard I of Aquitaine would marry Berengaria of Navarre in 1190 as he was focused on the crusades, he is not able to sire children with Berengaria of Navarre.

Richard I of Aquitaine would pick Henry II of Champagne as the husband for Isabella II of Jerusalem and ended up being trapped by Leopold V of Austria due to him hating him due to his alliances against his relatives and he is forced to have his niece Isabella of Blois married to Leopold of Austria.

On 1199, Richard I of Aquitaine would die without an issue and Eleanor of Aquitaine would pick her other surviving son, John as her heir and new duke of Aquitaine who would rule Brittany and picked Eleanor of Brittany as the bride of Louis, Prince of France in the new treaty while Matilda of Brittany would marry Peter II of Aragon in the end of 1199, as John I of Aquitaine has a marriage with Hawise of Gloucester which is illegal for him to consummate he had the marriage with Hawise annulled and married Isabela of Angouleme in the end of 1200 which would cause issues with the French after the treaty with France in Le Goulet was signed which recognized William III as the King of England as the heir of Henry III of England who died in 1199 and John as the heir of Eleanor of Aquitaine and the Duke of Aquitaine himself.

Eleanor of Aquitaine would remark that the divorce of Margaret of France divorce started the end of the union of Aquitaine with England like it started the union of Aquitaine and England.

 

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On 1199, William III of England would die in December of 1199 after the death of Richard I of Aquitaine with England, Normandy and Anjou being inherited by William IV of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine would choose her last surviving son, John as the Duke of Aquitaine and before the end of 1199, Matilda of Brittany had married Peter II of Aragon in the end of 1199.

In May 1200, the treaty of Le Goulet was signed by King William IV and Philip II of France.

The treaty included a territorial concession by William to Philip which is for Vexin and Issoudun to be made as French Crownlands and William IV of England and Philip II of France recognizing John of Aquitaine as the Duke of Aquitaine and heir to Eleanor of Aquitaine and also William IV and his brother being excluded from the inheritance of the Duchy of Aquitaine and Aquitaine, Flanders, Brittany, and Boulogne would be recognized as French vassals and not vassals of the English King.

William'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) as part of this treaty.

Constance of Brittany would be initially alarmed of the Treaty as the French could annex Brittany but her last pregnancy bearing a son named Conan in 1200 after the treaty after the birth of her daughters Alix(1191) and Catherine(1195) with Guy of Thouars would end her fears of the Duchy being swallowed by the French, she would still have three unmarried daughters, Margaret(1187), Alix(1191), and Catherine(1195), with Margaret not being in her care as she is the daughter of Geoffrey of Brittany.

 

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On 1202, John of Aquitaine would be summoned by Philip II of France about the complaints of John’s own Vassals against John, particularly due to the marriage of Isabella of Angouleme to John of Aquitaine, Hugh X of Lusignan would be angry about the marriage of Isabella of Angouleme to John of Aquitaine.

Philip II of France would decide to settle things by having Margaret of Brittany, the last unmarried daughter of Geoffrey to marry Hugh of Lusignan, the son of Hugh X of Lusignan to settle the problems in a treaty between John and Hugh X of Lusignan where John of Aquitaine would compensate Hugh X of Lusignan as a condition of the treaty of Poitiers 1203 between the Plantagenets, the Capetians and the Lusignans which would fix the issues between the Lusignans and the Plantagenets of Aquitaine and Eleanor of Aquitaine would have Ferdinand of Leon , the son of Berengaria of Castile as the heir to Gascony as a punishment for the elopement of Isabella of Angouleme and John of Aquitaine and due to the issues of Dowry of Eleanor of England, Queen of Castile.

 

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