Eleanor of Aquitaine and the crusade scandals

1149

Louis VII's queen was rumored to have had an affair with her own uncle Raymond of Antioch during the French stop in the Crusader states. The marriage never recovered from the gossip. Within three years the couple's annulment would redraw the European political map. Eleanor's subsequent marriage to Henry of Anjou would bring Aquitaine into the Plantagenet orbit, creating an empire that stretched from Scotland to the Pyrenees.