Editing Eleanor of Aquitaine (section)

==== Toulouse Campaign (1159) ====

Meanwhile, Louis VII had remarried in 1154, and by 1157 had a third daughter, [[Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary|Marguerite]]. Noting a seeming inability of Louis to produce a male heir, Henry II conceived of a plan to eventually acquire the French throne by marrying his son Henry to Marguerite and began making plans in 1158, and travelling to France in August to negotiate the terms with Louis, and take the infant Marguerite into his care until she was old enough to marry. He would remain away for over four years.{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=147–148}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 5}} While Henry was away, Eleanor gave birth to a fourth son, [[Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany|Geoffrey]], on 23 September 1158,{{sfn|Weir|2012|p=149}} and shortly after rejoined Henry in France. In 1159, Henry and Eleanor made a further unsuccessful attempt at enforcing her claims to Toulouse through her grandmother, thereby alienating Louis VII again, since [[Raymond V, Count of Toulouse]], was both his vassal and now his relative.{{efn|Louis had arranged for his widowed sister [[Constance of France, Countess of Toulouse|Constance]] to marry Raymond in order to protect the county from any plans of Eleanor and Henry. While accounts vary, this took place in 1154 or 1156{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 5}}}} Although Henry had formed a coalition to conquer Toulouse, Louis came to Raymond's aid. Amongst Henry's allies was [[Raymond Berengar IV of Barcelona]]. Henry symbolically tied the two dynasties by betrothing his son Richard to Raymond Berengar's daughter.{{efn|Richard's betrothal was broken off when it was no longer a political expedient{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 5}}{{sfn|Gillingham|2002|p=30}}}}{{sfn|Gillingham|2002|p=29}} But by September Henry had been forced to a temporary truce, although this was the beginning of forty years of war between England and France. Eleanor sailed to England on 29 December, obtained funds for Henry's campaigns and escorted it to him in France before returning to England.{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=150–151}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 5}}