Eleanor of Brittany, mother of Europe

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On 1196, surviving a violent fight, remembering his engagement with Berengaria of Castile the angry Conrad II of Swabia would see that she had annulled her betrothal with her that he would seek the hand of one of the nieces of Richard I of England aside from Berengaria and Eleanor would be proposed to marry Conrad and they would send Eleanor of Brittany in 1197 as the bride of Conrad, the death of her brother-in-law, Henry VI of HRE on 1197 caused her first husband to be the King of Germany and husband would die assassinated in 1200, she would two daughters with Conrad of Swabia named Constance of Swabia, born in late 1198 and Judith of Swabia in Spring 1200, she would leave behind her daughters in the care of Philip of Swabia, their uncle and returned to Brittany to her mother.[1]

On 1201, due to an alliance between the French and Constance, Duchess of Brittany, she will be forced to remarry to Louis, the Lion as the Widow of Conrad II of Swabia and Arthur of Brittany would enter a betrothal with Marie of France, this would end in the death of Arthur, Duke of Brittany in action against the English in 1203 due to the conflict due to the marriage of Isabella of Angouleme and the rebellion of the French Vassals of the Plantagenets, Arthur would be succeed by his brother, Conan V of Brittany(1200), she would be an instrument of the French crown to reclaim the continental lands against the Plantagenets, her father in law would annex Anjou, Maine, Normandy, and Aquitaine from the Plantagenets and gave Gascony to the Castilians in 1206, after her uncle inherited Aquitaine from her grandmother.

On 1216, she and her second husband would be chosen by the barons as the King and Queen of England but she and her husband would lose and forced to renounce England in favor of Henry, she would be crowned as Queen of France in 1226, with her second husband, Louis VIII and her second husband would die in 1234 and she would don the veil of Fontravraud in 1234 and would die in 1240 and buried with her second husband in the St. Denis Cathedral in 1240.


Children of Eleanor of Brittany

With Conrad IV of Germany
Constance of Swabia b. 1198
Judith of Swabia b. 1200

With Louis VIII
Philip III of France b. 1205
Eleanor of France b. 1207
Louis, Count of Auvergne b.1212
Robert, Count of Artois b. 1214
Geoffrey, Count of Anjou b. 1216
Isabelle of France 1220

1. The POD is Conrad II of Swabia surviving instead of dying in his fight in 1196

 

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Constance of Brittany m. Geoffrey of Brittany(a) Guy of Thouars(c)
1a. Eleanor of Brittany b. 1184 d. 1240 m. Conrad IV of Germany d. 1200(a) Louis VIII d. 1234(b)
2a. Matilda of Brittany b. 1185 d. 1189
3a. Arthur of Brittany b. 1187 d. 1203
4b. Conan V of Brittany b. 1200 m. Marie of France
5b. Margaret of Brittany b. 1201 m. Andrew III of Vitre

 

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On the autumn of 1200, Eleanor of Brittany would enter her second marriage with Prince Louis of France, she had left her two children with her first husband, Conrad II and she would never see her eldest daughter again but she would see her second daughter after she had suggested her daughter, Judith as the wife of Ferdinand of Leon who was made the Duke of Gascony.

The outcome of this marriage was that Normandy would be taken by Philip from John of England and given it to Arthur, him later trying to gain Aquitaine and England would cost his life a few years after him gaining these lands, he would start to scheme to gain Aquitaine and England after John I married Isabella of Angouleme which would cause him to be killed in action in Mirabeau in 1203 after fighting John and his barons.