The marriage between Elearnor and Louis VII falls apart. Eleanor wants to join her uncle Raymond, Prince of Antioch's crusade to Aleppo while Louis wants to go on pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Raymond is beheaded by Nur ad-Din and Eleanor...

In the 1100s, Aquitaine (now a region in western France) was a lively and highly covetted area for the French crown. In 1137, the Duke of Aquitaine dies, leaving his teenage daughters in control. A marriage between his eldest daughter,...

On Christmas day, 1145, Louis VII announces his intent to start a crusade to return the town of Odessa to Christianity and Eleanor decides to join him. A lack of competant and organized leadership from Louis VII and Eleanor along with...

A marriage between Eleanor's sister, Petronilla and the already married Raoul I of Vermandois triggers hostilities between Louis VII's and Theobault II, the brother of Raoul's first wife. This tension culminates in Louis VII burning of...