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As for Geoffrey and Constance's relationship, our sources are pretty sparse on the time and place just in general (which you will see plenty of academics like Everard lament). That being said, the current consensus is that they seem to have had a pretty functional relationship: In her entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Michael Jones writes, "Until Geoffrey's premature death in August 1186 Constance was frequently at her husband's side, both within and outside the duchy. She was actively associated in his government of Brittany at a critical moment in the duchy's institutional and legal development.". Everard in Brittany and the Angevins provides a detailed overview of legislation Geoffrey enacted in Brittany and how often he collaborated with Constance, including during his most pivotal piece of legislation, The Assize of Count Geoffrey. In the same book, one of the sources from the Chronicle of Saint-Brieuc claims that Geoffrey "ratione illius matrimonii, populum Britannicum, quamdiu vitam duxit, dulciter tractavit [because of his marriage, treated the Breton people kindly as long as he lived]". Melissa Pollock also observes that while, "such tenderness in charters was not commonplace", Constance nonetheless, "appeared to be genuinely fond of her first husband when she described him as ‘venerabilis maritus meus’ [my worthy husband] while he was alive, and after his death in 1186 as ‘boni viri mei' [my good man]". Eric Desbourdes argues the age of a low-relief of two knights fighting placed on Saint-Gildas de Rhuys likely coincides with a visit from Constance to attend service and make donations for the souls of her father, her daughter Matilda, and Geoffrey in 1198– in his book he argues this was perhaps an effort to preserve his memory and/or work towards seeking forgiveness for him from the Church. Also supposedly in an essay(?) or paper draft(?) Alheydis Plassmann writes, "I would further argue, that Geoffrey and Constance are quite exceptional in the manner, in which they take each other into consideration…I do not think, that we stretch our evidence too far, if we think that Geoffrey and Constance stuck together, even if this does not necessarily mean that they stood against Henry." Since I've downloaded the word file a few years back, the document has been deleted from academia.edu, and sadly Plassmann is no longer with us, so I know this reads as sort of "trust me bro" but I figured I'd add it somewhere in here for completeness. Often people will often contrast this marriage to Geoffrey with Ranulf of Chester, her second husband, with whom she very rarely cohabited, who was denied a lot of ducal authority Geoffrey enjoyed, and ended up kidnapping Constance– likely at Richard's behest. There are probably several reasons for this disparity, but one of the assumed ones is that there was probably a tangible difference in the affection Constance felt for her first vs. second husband. I could see this playing out in a number of dynamics– as I don't doubt they were both aware they had a public image to maintain– but there does seem to be ample evidence of them being at the very least very harmonious as a pair.

Queens consort of England - Margaret of France

Margaret of France (1157 – aft. 10 September 1197) was, by her two marriages, queen of England, Hungary and Croatia.She was the eldest daughter of Louis VII of France by his second wife Constance of Castile. Her older half-sisters, Marie and Alix, were also older half-sisters of her future husband.

She was betrothed to Henry the Young King on 2 November 1160. Henry was the second of five sons born to King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was five years old at the time of this agreement while Margaret was three. Margaret’s dowrywas the vital and much disputed territory of the Vexin.

Her husband became co-ruler with his father in 1170. Because Archbishop Thomas Becket was in exile, Margaret was not crowned along with her husband on 14 July 1170. This omission and the coronation being handled by a surrogate greatly angered her father. To please the French King, Henry II had his son and Margaret crowned together in Winchester Cathedral on 27 August 1172.When Margaret became pregnant, she did her confinement period in Paris, where she gave birth prematurely to their only son William on 19 June 1177, who died three days later on 22 June.

She was accused in 1182 of having a love affair with William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, although contemporary chroniclers doubted the truth of these accusations. Henry may have started the process to have their marriage annulled, ostensibly due to her adultery but in reality because she could not conceive an heir. Margaret was sent back to France, according to E. Hallam (The Plantagenets) and Amy Kelly (Eleonore of Aquitaine and the Four Kings), to ensure her safety during the civil war with Young Henry’s brother Richard. Her husband died in 1183 while on campaign in the Dordogne region of France. By virtue of her marriage to Young King Henry, duke of Anjou, she was installed as the duchess. The coronet he and she would have worn was chronicled in about 1218 as “the traditional ring-of-roses coronet of the house of Anjou”.Margaret may have taken her coronet to Hungary in 1186 on becoming Queen Consort to King Bela III. A “ring-of-roses coronet was discovered in a convent grave in Budapest in 1838, which may be the same one.

After receiving a substantial pension in exchange for surrendering her dowry of Gisors and the Vexin, she became the second wife of Béla III of Hungary in 1186. The difficult delivery of her only known child in 1177 seems to have rendered her sterile, as she had no further children.

Favourite Medieval Queen | Leonor of England, Queen of Castile and Toledo

The Patronage of the Cult of St Thomas Becket by Henry II’s Daughters | Matilda of Saxony, Leonor of England, Joan of England 

«The Anglo-Castilian connection in this period is also represented by the queen’s efforts to  cleanse  her father’s  memory  after the murder of Thomas Becket. Leonor had  married  Alfonso [VIII of Castile] only a few months before the murder of the archbishop of Canterbury in his own cathedral, events that left Christian Europe in shock. News of his brutal assassination caused immediate reaction all over  Europe and must  have  soon reached  the  Castilian court  and Leonor’s ears.  Her  father was  blamed  for the  prelate’s  murder and the mighty king  of  the  English  was brought  to  his knees  through  public repentance  and  expiation. But  soon  after Becket’s horrid death, Henry II’s expiation turned into veneration and so the martyr of Canterbury – canonised in 1173 – having been a victim of Plantagenet wrath was then becoming an object of Plantagenet piety and devotion.

Kay Brainerd Slocum has studied the spread of the cult in Europe due to the patronage of Henry’s daughters and  has  suggested that  the  queen of Castile «departing from  the  usual  practice, wished to establish her own very close connection, and that of her natal family, to the Canterbury martyr». The wonderfully coloured prayerbook of Henry of Saxony and Bavaria, married to Matilda of England, and the stunning mosaics of Monreale in Sicily, commissioned during the  queenship of her youngest sister, Joan, bear witness to  the agency  of  Henry II’s daughters in the promotion of Becket’s cult across the continent.

Leonor paid her dues in Castile and her contribution to the cult was manifest and resolute. The queen joined her father’s cry for divine forgiveness in the dedication of altars at the cathedrals of Sigüenza and Toledo and perhaps in the commission of wall paintings at a church in Soria».

Cerda, José Manuel: The Marriage of Alfonso VIII of Castile and Leonor Plantagenet: the first bond between Spain and England in the Middle Ages, in: Aurell, Martin (ed.): Les Stratégies matrimoniales (IXe-XIIIe siècle), Turnhout, Brepols, 2013, pp. 143-153, pp. 146-147.

Richard, Count of Poitou turns his back on his father and pays homage to Philip II, King of the Franks (AD 1188)