Episode #143- Who Was the Mother of Empires? (Part II)
Our Fake History
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The Golden Myth of Eleanor's Annulment
The annulment of her marriage to leuis is sometimes presented as eleanor simply insisting on it, and then getting her way through sheer grit and force of personality. Louis and those close to him were worried that eleanor would simply never produce a male heir for the french throne. But in the end, louis determined that having an heir was more important than potentially losing the aquitaine. So the king rolled the dice, and whow did that ever blow up in his face?
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