18 Mai 1152

Aliénor & Henry : A Royal wedding

     On Sunday, 18 May 1152,  Aliénor d’ Aquitaine (1124-1204) and Henry II (1133-1189) were married in the cathedral of St Pierre, Poitiers, the match that was to result in forging the greatest empire of the 12th century-Europe.   Henry Plantagenet, son of Geoffrey V,  already the duke of Normandy, heir to England, Anjou and Maine, was lucky to win the greatest prize on  the marital market- the former queen of France now free to be wed again, the eldest daughter and heiress of Duke William X of Aquitaine. She had divorced  two months  previously, her first marriage to the king of France, declared null and void by the Pope on grounds of consanguinity.

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