1055
| 1055 • Theodora becomes reigning empress of the Byzantine Empire. |
1152
Age: 97y
| 1152 • Eleanor of Aquitaine marries Henry of Anjou after getting her previous marriage to Louis VII annulled. Henry had claimed the County of Anjou, the County of Maine, and the province of Touraine upon the death of his protector Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, the previous year. With the addition of Eleanor's lands, he now controls territory stretching unbroken from Cherbourg to Bayonne.King John by Warren. Published by the University of California Press in 1961. p. 21 |