History 1200-1250 (British Brittany)

This page chronicles the history of the British Brittany alhist from 1200 to 1250.

1200s

 * 1203: Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of the English king Geoffrey I, died. Later that same year, Geoffrey's wife, Queen Constance, died. After these deaths, especially the second, King Geoffrey fell into a depression and left much of running his various lands to his son Arthur and others.


 * 1204: War began again between England and France. Neither kingdom had been exhausted by their last war, and a vaguely defined border in Aquitaine (an English possession) provided a spark to begin another war. England's armies were not headed by King Geoffrey, however; instead his son Arthur commanded the main army on the Continent.


 * 1205: Geoffrey I of England died from illness after only nine years of rule. His son Arthur was still in France, and consequently was crowned King Arthur I in a short ceremony in a castle somewhere in Aquitaine.

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