Episode #143- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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Eleanor - A Political Actor in Her Own Right
Two months after her marriage to louis was officially annulled, eleanor would once again wear the dress of a bride. She wasted absolutely no time in arranging a second marriage and getting herself engaged. The speed at which all this happened suggests that eleanor had actually been planning this for quite some time. But there was also a practical reason for the haste - when Eleanor became a single woman, she once again became a target for kidnappers. Not one, but two kidnapping attempts took place as she travelled from paris back to her home court in poitiers. In 11 54, two years after marrying eleanor, Henry, duke of normandy,
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