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Louis was born in 1120, [1] the second son of Louis VI of France and Adelaide of Maurienne. [2] The early education of the young Louis anticipated an ecclesiastical career. As a result, he became well learned and exceptionally devout, but his life course changed decisively after the accidental death of his older brother Philip in 1131, when Louis unexpectedly became the heir to the throne of ...
Born 4 October 1160, [1] Alys was the daughter of Louis VII, King of France and his second wife, Constance of Castile. [2] She was the half-sister of Marie and Alix of France, Louis's children by Eleanor of Aquitaine, and the younger sister of Margaret of France.
Margaret was the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile. [1] Her older half-sisters, Marie and Alix, were also older half-sisters of her future husband. She was betrothed to Henry the Young King on 2 November 1160. Henry was the second son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was five ...
France, Aquitaine and Poitiers in 1154 with the expansion of the Plantagenet lands. Eleanor's life can be considered as consisting of five distinct phases. Her early life extending to adolescence (1124–1137), marriage to Louis VII and Queen of France (1137–1152), marriage to Henry II and Queen of England (1152–1173), imprisonment to Henry's death (1173–1189) and as a widow until her ...
They had nine children, the second of whom became Louis VII of France. Diploma issued by King Louis VI and Queen Adelaide for the canons of the cathedral chapter of Paris (1127) Adelaide was one of the most politically active of all France's medieval queens. Her name appears on 45 royal charters from the reign of Louis VI. [5]
Marie was a daughter of Henry I, Count of Champagne, and Marie, [2] daughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine. [3]According to the chronicle of Gislebert of Mons, on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171. [4]
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When Louis VII's second wife, Constance of Castile, died in childbirth in 1160, he was devastated and became convinced that he would die young as well, fearing that the country would fall into chaos as he had no male heir. As he was desperate for a son, King Louis married 20-year-old Adela of Champagne five weeks later, on 13 November 1160.