29TH GENERATION

508069006. Louis VII King of France⁽¹⁰⁹⁸⁾ was born in 1120 in France. He was christened in 1120 in France. He Ruled Kingdom of France between 1137 and 1180 in France.^{(1099) (1100)} Louis VII called "the young" or "le Jeune" son of Louis VI, King of France between 1137Ad and 1180AD. Conquered Champagne 1142-1144; Joined the 2nd crusade (q.v.); Louis gave up Aquataine after his divorce from Eleanor (1152); Spent years 1157-1180 fighting with Eleanor's new husband, Henry II of England. Many parts of the kingdom of France held by the English. He ruled until 1180, and was succeeded by his son, Philip II Augustus. He Crusader in 1147 in Holy Land. ^(1101)(1102) Louis VII of France led an army, including the Golden Horde female army of his wife, Eleanor, on a crusade in 1147. The Pope Eugenius III sent out an emissary in 1146 to raise a new crusade. Louis VII venture as a Crusader was a total failure. (Great reading in the book about the women of the crusades told in "Heroines of the Crusades" by C. A. Bloss published in 1853.) He died on 18 Sep 1180 in Reims, France. He was also known as Louis The Younger/le Jeune. Went on 2nd Crusade (1147-1149) with his wife Eleanor. They had 2 small daughters which she abandoned when Louis and she were divorced. Father of Alix (Alice) and Marie of France. He was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of England in 1137 in Bordeau, France. Annulled after 15 yrs. He was divorced from Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of England in 1152 in France.

508069007. Eleanor of Aquitaine Queen of England ⁽¹¹⁰³⁾ was born in 1122 in Poitou/Aquitane, France. Eleanor of Aquitaine -Duchess of Aquitaine and Guienne. She Crusader to the Holy Land in 1145 in Jerusalem. She Prisoner of Henry II between 1170 and 1189 in Winchester, England.⁽¹¹⁰⁴⁾ After Eleanor of Aquitaine discovered the love affair of her husband, Henry II, with Rosamund de Clifford, and Eleanor went to France to confront her former husband, King Louis, her husband Henry II intercepted her plan, made her prisoner, and sent her to England to be kept at Winchester. (ca. 1170.; which led her sons to take up the quarrel with their father). Eleanor was kept a prisoner by her husband, Henry II, and upon his death in 1189, her son Richard released her, and made her regent of the Kingdom of England, while he was on crusade. She Regent of the Kingdom of England between 1189 and 1199. She Ruled as Duchess of Aquitaine in 1199 in France.⁽¹¹⁰⁵⁾ After Eleanor's son Richard the Lion Heart died in 1199 and her son John I became King of England, Eleanor, Dowager Queen of England, gave up the Regency to the throne of England, and returned to her homeland in Aquitaine where she ruled again as duchess of Aquitaine. She retired at age 80 to the convent off Fontevraud, and died three years later. She retired in 1202 in Convent Fontevraud, Maine-et-Loirre, France. She died on 31 Mar 1204 in Abbey Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France.^{(1106) (1107)} Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England and duchess of Aquitaine, died age 83 in 1204 at the convent. She had outlived all of her children except Eleanor and John. She was buried on 31 Mar 1204 in Abbey Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, France. Eleanor of Aquitaine, Dowager Queen of England, Duchess of Aquitaine died in 1204, and was buried at the Abbey of Fontrevaud near her son, Richard I the Lion Heart. She was also known as Alienor of Guienne'. ELEANOR OF AQUITANE: aka Eleanor of Guienne (Alienor), Damsel of Brittany. Succeeded her father William X as Duchess of Aquitaine. Married and Divorced King Louis VII of France - supposedly because they were too closely related (1152) The southern provinces of France - Poitou, Saintogne, Auvergne, Perigord, Limousin, Angoumois, and Guienne, were named by the Romans as the Province of Acquitaine. The birthplace of this
Eleanor. Eleanor of Acquitane, at age 15, was named heir to the Province of Acquitaine by her Grandfather, William VII Duke of Aquitaine and Poitou. She was married (1137) to Louis VII, The Young, of France. She made much mischief, and wreaked havoc with the people of France and Champagne, by urging Louis to wage war, in her vendetta against Adelais of
Champagne, and her brother, Thibault, children of Count Thibault of Blois. After having caused the burning of the village of Vitry, after the town had surrendered, Eleanor convinced King Louis to do penance, and joined him on the 2nd Crusade to the Holy Land from 1147 to 1149. Led in sermons by St. Bernard, Louis and Eleanor enlisted an army and headed for
Jerusalem in 1146. Eleanor took being a "female crusader" quite seriously, and armed her female retinue "with helmet and hauberk, having golden crosses embroidered on the left shoulder, gilt slippers, glittering spurs, and silver-sheathed falchions, suspended from the side, and were mounted on richly-caparisoned steeds, and formed a brilliant squadron." They paraded around Paris, calling themselves "The body-guard of the Golden-footed Dame." They stopped in Constantinople, as the guests of Manuel Commenus, on the throne of Constantinople. Comnenus saw a means to divide and delay the crusade, and persuaded Louis and Eleanor to stay a while and enjoy the pleasures of this city. The French army, encumbered by extra baggage for the female troops, and still more acquired in
Constantinople, was attacked by the Arabs near Laodicea. The Queen and her escort, leading the way, stopped to admire a peaceful valley by the Mediterranean, with King Louis and his retinue, with all the baggage, bringing up the rear. After the Moslems attacked the rear guard, the Earl of Warrenne escaped to spread the alarm to the Queen's army, who was
escorted by Count Maurienne. The Count took his few soldiers and went to the rescue of the King. The Arabs plundered all of the baggage, including most of the food, and killed several thousand of the French army. King Louis was rescued, and the rag-tag army made its way to Antioch, and the castle of Prince Raimond, the uncle of Eleanor. One thing led to another, and the frustrated and angry King Louis left Eleanor with her uncle, and
proceeded to Jerusalem. Eleanor, in the meantime, undertook to convert Saladin to Christianity, an innocent intention which soon began to look like a love affair. Louis was joined in the fight to liberate Damascus by Baldwin III and Conrad III of Germany, and the part of the French army designated the Knights of the Temple, who had established a hospital in Jerusalem, under the patronage of King Godfrey. A later organization
became the Knights Templar. The crusade faltered, Conrad took his German army home, leaving Louis with about 300 French soldiers, and Eleanor and her female army. He had forbidden Eleanor to have any contact with Saladin, but learned she had convinced her sister Petronella to write him in her behalf. Enraged and jealous, Louis took Eleanor and the remaining French soldiers - male and female - back to France from Constantinople. He
was determined to ask for a divorce, but was dissuaded by Abbot Suger, who reminded him that with Eleanor came the Province of Acquitane. Back in Paris, the French court was visited ca. 1150 by Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and his son, Henry. Henry Plantagenet was young and good looking, and Eleanor soon transferred her attention from Saladin, still in Turkey, to this new young conquest. Meanwhile, Eleanor, tired of the
constraints imposed by her jealous husband, suddenly discovered they were 4th cousins succeeded in having the Council at Beaugencie set aside the marriage, in the presence and with the consent of both Louis and Eleanor.

Louis and Eleanor had two children: 1. Alix (Alice) of France b. 1138 2. Mary (Marie) of France b. 1139 Both of whom were left with their Father in the royal court at France. Thus free once more, Eleanor then persued, and allowed young Henry Plantagenet to catch and marry her at Bordeau 1 May 1152. Thus all those provinces of Acquitane became part of
the English crown. Her second marriage, only a short month after her divorce, shocked all of Europe. Henry took his bride to live at Bayeaux, formerly the home of William the Conqueror. The lately divorced Louis of France then tried to enlist King Stephen (of Blois?), brother of Thibault, to help take Normandy from Henry. Henry's brother, Geoffrey Plantagenet,
had taken part in an earlier try to kidnap Eleanor. All were prevented by Eleanor's calling out of her navy from Bordeaux. Eleanor and her groom, young Henry, left for Hampshire coast of England in December of 1154. They went to reside in Winchester where they were crowned and returned in triumph to London. From there Eleanor's life reads like a romance novel,
with intrigues, affairs, illigitimate children by an unfaithful husband, imprisonment by her husband, and she had much sorrow and disgrace to the family in later years. Eleanor outlived Henry by 20 years. She tried to make amends for the follies and vices of her early life. Ruled as Regent of England, and also as the head of the house of Acquitane, spent much of
her last years in acts of mercy and beneficence, setting free all persons confined for breach of English forest laws, and other trivial offences. While Richard, the son, Couer de Lion, was on crusade, then imprisoned, she administered the government of England with "prudence and discretion"... At the age of 80 she retired to the convent of Fontevrand, and after 3 more years of sorrow at family events, died in Acquitane. MOTHER OF: 1. William Plantagenet b. 1153 2. Henry Duke of Plantagenet b. 1155 3. Matilda of England b. 1156 4. Richard (Coeur 'd Lion) b. 1157 5. Geoffrey Count of Brittany b. 1158 6. Eleanor of England b.
1161 7. John I Lackland King of England b. 1166 8. Joanna Plantagenet b. 1165
Children were:

i. Alice of France was born about 1138. She was also known as Princess of France.
254034503 ii. Mary of France.