The marriage temporarily extended the Capetian lands to the Pyrenees. The couple had two daughters, Marie and Alix. Eventually, King Louis VII agreed to an annulment, as fifteen years of marriage had not produced a son. The marriage was annulled on March 21, on the grounds of consanguinity within the fourth degree. Infanta Constance died in childbirth with their second daughter. Adela of Champagne was the third child and first daughter of Theobald II, Count of Champagne and Matilda of Carinthia, and had nine brothers and sisters.
Soon afterwards, she sought an annulment of her marriage, but her request was rejected by Pope Eugene III. Eventually, Louis agreed to an annulment, as fifteen years of marriage had not produced a son. Their two daughters were, however, declared legitimate. She may not have been anointed on this occasion, however, because she had already been anointed in Historian John Speed, in his work History of Great Britain, mentions the possibility that Eleanor had a son named Philip, who died young.
His sources no longer exist, and he alone mentions this birth. Henry was by no means faithful to his wife and had a reputation for philandering; he fathered other, illegitimate, children throughout the marriage.
Eleanor appears to have taken an ambivalent attitude towards these affairs. Geoffrey of York, for example, was an illegitimate son of Henry, but acknowledged by Henry as his child and raised at Westminster in the care of the Queen.
Her father was renowned in early 12th-century Europe for having a glittering ducal court. This, and her known age of 82 at her death make the most likely year of her birth. Her parents almost certainly married in As the heir of the House of Poitiers, rulers in southwestern France, she was one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in western Europe during the High Middle Ages. She was also known to have led armies several times in her life and was a key leading figure of the unsuccessful Second Crusade.
