Editing Eleanor of Aquitaine (section)

==== Revolt and arrest (1173–1174) ====

From 21 to 28 February 1173, Henry and Eleanor were together at [[Montferrand (district of Clermont-Ferrand)|Montferrand]] for the betrothal of Prince John to Alice of Maurienne.{{efn|Alice died shortly thereafter}} The occasion was marred by open conflict between the two Henrys over the delegation of powers. From Montferrat, the royal entourage moved to [[Limoges]], where matters worsened.{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}} The Henrys then headed north in March to Chinon, where they arrived on the 5th. In the morning, Henry II discovered his son had escaped his custody and travelled to Paris and Louis VII. The latter then informed King Henry II that he was now supporting his son as the new reigning monarch. This was the beginning of the [[Revolt of 1173–1174]].{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=198–200}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}

Later chroniclers assigned much of the blame to Eleanor, adding to her deepening reputation and leading to much speculation regarding motive, despite lack of evidence, although they carefully added "so it was said" to their accounts. Other evidence implicates the Young King's father-in-law, Louis VII.{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}} From Paris, William of Newburgh recounts, "the younger Henry, devising evil against his father from every side by the advice of the French king, went secretly into Aquitaine where his two youthful brothers, Richard and Geoffrey, were living with their mother, and with her connivance, so it is said, he incited them to join him."{{sfn|Newburgh|1988|loc=[https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/williamofnewburgh-two.asp#7 Book II cap. 27]}}{{sfn|Weir|2012|p=200}} Roger of Hoveden gives a somewhat different account, stating that Eleanor sent the younger sons to France and their older brother "to join with him against their father the King."{{sfn|Hoveden|1853|loc=cited in {{harvnb|Weir|2012|p=200, note 12}}}} Young Henry and his brothers then returned to Paris in the spring and Eleanor encouraged her vassals to support her sons.{{sfn|Weir|2012|p=201}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}

Later, in April, Eleanor too would set out to travel to Paris to join her sons. But she was seized on the road to Chartres and taken to Henry II in Rouen.{{efn|Other accounts place Eleanor's flight to Paris after war broke out and as Henry II's forces approached Poitou, at a later date, in November 1173. The major source for her flight is Gervase of Canterbury{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}}} The King did not announce the arrest publicly but had her confined, and for the next year the Queen's whereabouts were unknown.{{efn|The most likely site of Eleanor's imprisonment is Chinon Castle{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}}} Meanwhile, Louis held court in Paris, where the French nobles swore allegiance to the Young King.{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=202–203}} Of Henry II's sons, only seven-year-old John remained with his father. Hostilities commenced in May, with the forces of Young Henry and Louis VII's invading Normandy, although neither side prevailed during 1173.{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=203–204}} After a brief winter truce, Henry II entered Poitiers in May 1174, and took his daughter Joanna together with other noble ladies back to his stronghold in Normandy.{{sfn|Weir|2012|p=206}} On either 7 or 8 July 1174, Henry II, facing imminent invasion of England, took ship and sailed with Eleanor, John, Joanna and the other ladies from [[Barfleur]] to Southampton, from where Eleanor was taken to an unknown place of confinement.{{efn|Eleanor may have been initially confined at either [[Winchester Castle]] or [[Old Sarum|Sarum Castle]], Salisbury. Turner favours the Salisbury site{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}}}{{sfn|Weir|2012|pp=206–207}}{{sfn|Turner|2009|loc=cap 8}}