Re: To Wear two crowns

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Re: To Wear two crowns

Richard I as Portrayed in the Movie Robinhood


On December of 1194, the Duke of Austria died causing possible marriage negotiations between Eleanor of Brittany and Frederick of Austria to falter and Eleanor of Aquitaine would choose her other niece, Alice of Blois as the bride of Frederick as Alice is closer to age to Frederick and would end any issues between England and the Emperor and would allow her son to be released soon and the other reason was to quell the opposition of the Emperor to a probable marriage between Eleanor of Brittany and Louis of France.

On 1194, Eleanor of Aquitaine prior to the death of the Duke, would fetch Alice of Blois so that she can marry the Duke of Austria.

Alice of Blois and Eleanor of Aquitaine would arrive and Alice of Blois was escorted by her grandmother Eleanor, Alice of Blois who would marry Frederick of Austria due to her connections and piety as she was considering to be a nun prior to her marriage with Frederick I of Austria the marriage would mean that the ransom would never be returned.

Alice of Blois, is the younger sister of the Countess of Burgundy and the Count of Blois, she was chosen by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine herself and Eleanor of Brittany now would be the peace bride to the French as Philippe II of France has wanted himself and the Holy Roman Emperor would no longer object to a marriage of Eleanor of Brittany to the French.

The marriage would end any of the issues between the Emperor and the English Kings.

On the death of her first husband on 1196, she would remarry to Louis I of Bavaria where in she is the mother of Otto II of Wittelsbach on 1206 wherein she would be the ancestor of the Wittelsbachs of the Palatinate and Bavaria and also have a daughter named Helena of Bavaria b. 1199, Otto II and Helena would be her only children who survived infancy.

 

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Eleanor of Brittany and Louis VIII as depicted on the series the Capetians

In the summer of 1195, a marriage between Louis and Eleanor of Brittany was signed due to the marriage between a niece of Richard I and Frederick I of Austria already happened, and an alliance between Richard I and Philip II was signed as Alice of Blois the younger had taken her place.

Richard I would recognize Arthur and his line as his heir on Aquitaine and Anjou and John as his own heir to England and Normandy on the treaty of Rouen signed on 1196 which sent Eleanor of Brittany to Philippe II of France and married Eleanor of Brittany to Louis VIII and a marriage between Alice of France and John was made as well on the same time.

The marriage between Alice of France would not last as Alice of France would die after she gave birth to a daughter named Eleanor of England, named after her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine on the mid part of 1197.

But the treaty would not be followed as on the death of Richard I on 1199, as the hostilities between Arthur, Duke of Brittany and John I of England started due to Constance of Brittany supporting Arthur’s pro-French alliance and his claim to the English throne, but it was later revealed that it was never Philippe II’s intention for the treaty to be followed either.

The marriage between Eleanor of Brittany and Louis VIII thus secured connections between the Capetians and the dynasties of the Bosonids, Plantagenets and Welf, securing a connections with the Bosonids would have meant that the Capetians would have planned a future expansion into Italy.

During that time the Count of Provence and his wife Garsenda would give birth to two daughters, Azalais(1199) and Garsenda(1203) and the french would want the two daughters in marriage.

On Summer of 1201, Eleanor of Brittany would announce the birth of her first son, Philippe named after his grandfather as the two had consummated their marriage on the winter of 1200.

-Philippe III of France b. 1201 m. Azalais of Provence

-Constance of France b. 1203 m. Ferdinand III of Castile

-Mathilde of France b. 1203 m. William the Lion of Scotland

-Robert I of England b. 1204 m. Mahaut of Boulogne

-Eleanor of France b. 1208 m. Valdemar the Younger of Denmark(Valdemar III)

-Louis b. 1210 m. Isabella II of Jerusalem

-Isabelle b. 1212

-Agnes b. 1218

 

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After Eleanor of Brittany gave birth to a son, she would hear about the birth of her twin siblings, Margaret and Conan and thus she is now kept out of the Breton succession even if her brother dies but she has a claim to the English crown but her mother sadly died due to the stress of giving birth.
John, the Lackland or John, King of England as his mother’s favored heir to Aquitaine would marry the Pretty Isabella of Angouleme which would offend the Lusignans and Arthur would use it to gain England and Aquitaine for himself and Philippe Auguste, Arthur of Brittany and the Lusignans would declare a war with John of England, Arthur of Brittany is brash and Philippe Auguste knows it.
On 1202 Arthur of Brittany would die in action besieging Mirabeau seeing his which would cause Philippe Auguste to declare Anjou and Maine as reverted fief and the confiscation of Normandy, although the Duchy of Brittany would go to his brother, Conan V with his father as his regent and he would guarantee an independent Brittany for years to come.

 

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Following the siege of Constantinople in 1203, on August 1, 1203 the pro-Crusader Alexios Angelos was crowned as Emperor Alexios IV of the Byzantine Empire. Alexios attempted to pacify the city, but the riots between the Anti-Crusader Greeks and the Pro-Crusader Latins broke out later that month and lasted until November, during which time most of the populace began to turn against him.

On January 25, 1204, the death of co-Emperor Isaac II set off rioting in Constantinople in which the people deposed Alexios IV. He turned to the Crusaders for help, but was imprisoned by the imperial chamberlain, Alexios Doukas, who declared himself Emperor on February 5, before executing Alexios IV on February 8 by strangling him. Emperor Alexios V then attempted to negotiate with the Crusaders for withdrawal from Byzantine territory without payment, but they refused in order to avenge Alexios IV and receive the money that was promised. In March 1204, the Crusader and Venetian leadership decided on the outright conquest of Constantinople in order to settle debts, and drew up a formal agreement to divide the Byzantine Empire between them.

On 1195, Agnes of France would marry Theodore I Laskaris and arranged peace between the Laskarid Empire of Nicaea and the Latin Empire on 1205 which allowed the Empire of Nicaea to expand, Agnes of France is said to be one of the people who helped in the revival of the Eastern Roman Empire and one of the mothers of the Greek nation.

Children of Agnes of France and Theodore I Laskaris

Agnes and Theodore had two daughters and two sons:

Nicholas Laskaris (died c. 1212)

John Laskaris (died c. 1212)

Alexandra Doukaina Komnene Laskarina, who married first the general Andronikos Palaiologos and then John III Doukas Vatatzes

Helena Laskarina, who married King Béla IV of Hungary*



*Named after Eleanor of Brittany.

 

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On 1213, the betrothal between Azalais of Provence and Philippe of France was made and Garcenda was betrothed to the heir of Bearn, Azalais was once betrothed to Raymond of Toulouse.

To repel the crusaders, the Cathars turned to Peter II of Aragon for assistance, however the French would have Peter II married to Marie of France as his second wife, avoiding Aragonese assistance to the Cathars, even in fact Eleanor of Aragon has married Raymond VI.

As the Crusaders continued their advance, Raymond VI and his son Raymond of Toulouse were forced to flee to England. In November, Simon de Montfort entered Perigord and easily captured the castle of Dommel and Montfort; he also occupied Castlenaud and destroyed fortification of Beynac. In 1215 Castlenaud was recaptured by Montfort, and the crusaders entered Toulouse. The town paid and indemnity of 30,000 marks. Toulouse was gifted to Montfort. The fourth council of the lateran in 1215 solidified the Crusader control over the area by officially proclaiming Simon as the Count of Toulouse, Simon would be forced sell Toulouse to Louis VIII as it is part of Eleanor of Brittany’s rightful inheritance.

 

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On 1209, Alfonso II of Provence would die leaving the throne to his daughter and heiresses, Azalais and Garcenda, Azalais is betrothed to Raymond of Toulouse, however on 1213, Azalais of Provence would now be bethroted to Philip of France, the son of Eleanor of Brittany and Louis VIII, the wedding would happen on 1215 and the two would take over of Provence on 1218 when Azalais would be on her majority and leave Azalais mother ruling on Forcalquier.

The Acquisition of Provence would mean that Provence would be a part of France completely in the future and completed the acquisition of France from the Cathar Crusade, this would also mean a shift of France in linguistics.

 

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On 1200, Constance of Aragon would give birth to a girl named Agnes of Hungary, however, Constance of Aragon would die on 1201 a year after the birth of the said daughter.

On 1208, wanting an annulment the King of Aragon, Peter II would marry his sister, Sanchia to Frederick I of Sicily who would later assume and become the ruler of Holy Roman Empire as Emperor Frederick II to aid his divorce, but luckily, Maria of Montpellier would die on 1212, taking Marie of France as his second wife, Sanchia of Aragon would give birth to two surviving sons, Henry b. 1210 and Philip b. 1213, both born prior to the coronation of her husband on 1216 but she would die on 1215 due to the stress of her duties moving back and forth from Sicily and Swabia, he would take Margaret of Flanders as his second wife on 1217 despite the fact that she is currently affianced to Avesnes as they were able find to find a proof that Avesnes had already taken vows as a priest.

 

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By 1209, King John I of England was excommunicated due to investiture issue with Innocent III and some of the people would look for a new King of England and they would approve of Eleanor of Brittany’s husband Louis VIII as the new King of France, however, Eleanor would not be interested in ruling England as she would be interested in the issues of France first and she would have respected her grandmother’s wish of giving her son John I the rule of the Duchy of Aquitaine as it has been already willed to him by her grandmother.
The Interdict would give Philippe II of France the justification to annex the Duchy of Aquitaine to the royal domain on 1210 and as well as the loss of the Angouleme inheritance of Queen Isabella of Angouleme, the wife of John I of England, the Duchy of Aquitaine was seized and annexed by Philippe II of France completely leaving the Kingdom of England free of its continental entanglements, however, the Channel Islands would remain under John I’s rule.

 

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On 1212 After the wedding of Joanna of Flanders and Ferdinand of Portugal, they were captured by the French causing Joanna to be forced to transfer Artois to Louis VIII, causing Joanna of Flanders to ally with John I of England and Otto IV of the Holy Roman Empire.

Due to the defeat of the alliance in the battle of Bouvines Ferdinand of Portugal would be imprisoned for 12 years and Joanna would break the alliance of Frederick II of Holy Roman Empire by marrying Frederick II to her sister Margaret of Flanders on 1217.

On her husband’s release on 1226 due to a treaty, Joanna would fail to give birth to a child who would survive infancy afterwards, this would cause the County of Flanders and Hainault to fall to the Holy Roman Empire on her death on 1246.

 

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On 1216, Louis VIII would attack England to reclaim England with his wife Eleanor of Brittany but John I would die on 1216 and instead the people would prefer a separate King in the person of Eleanor’s son William who is now affianced to Matilda of Boulogne, the heiress of the former King Stephen and both Eleanor and Louis VIII would be briefly crowned but was forced to give the crown to a second son named William.

Louis VIII would uphold the laws of the Magna Carta for his son who would be made as the new King of England, Isabella of Angouleme and her sons would go to Ireland and rule Ireland as claimants to the Kingdom of England.

By 1220, William III of England and his wife Matilda of Boulogne would embark to England and a new dynasty and a new King of England would now reign.

 

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Young William III stepping to England as portrayed in the movie the stolen crown AD 1989 as portrayed by Kenneth Brannagh

 

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Frederick II of the Romans children would have some disputes of inheritance but he has decided that his first son, Henry would marry Margaret of Austria who is older than him and inherit Swabia and the German Inheritance and his second son, Philip inherit Sicily itself, Margaret would have two children who survived infancy and childhood, Joanna b. 1218 and Otto b. 1226 the children from his second wife Margaret would only hope to inherit Flanders and Hainault which is the inheritance from their mother, after the death of their aunt as their mother ascended to the rule of Flanders in 1246, the House of Hohenstaufen would inherit Flanders and Hainault on their mother’s death on 1256.

 

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On 1195, Otto, the Nephew of Richard I of England would marry the sister of Queen Berengaria, Blanche of Navarre and on 1196, he would have been assigned as the Duke of Aquitaine, the marriage between the two would continue the alliance of England and Navarre even after the death of Richard I.
The marriage between Blanche of Navarre and Otto would produce two children, Henry I of Navarre(1196) and Anna of Navarre(1199).
Blanche of Navarre and Otto IV would be crowned as King and Queen of the Romans, Otto IV would give up the Duchy of Aquitaine to back to Richard I, not knowing that his son would inherit Navarre in the end.