The claim of the now deceased Philippa of Toulouse was pressed again when Louis VII besieged Toulouse in 1141, in right of his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, the granddaughter of Philippa, but without result.

He was poisoned at Caesarea, either by Eleanor of Aquitaine, the wife of Louis, or Melisende, the mother of Baldwin III, king of Jerusalem suggesting the draught.

De Amore was written at the request of Marie de Champagne, daughter of King Louis VII of France and of Eleanor of Aquitaine.

As these were the days when kidnapping an heiress was seen as a viable option for obtaining a title, William had dictated a will on the very day he died, bequeathing his domains to Eleanor and appointing King Louis VI of France as her guardian.

Within hours, then, Louis had arranged for his 17 year-old son, Prince Louis, to be married to Eleanor, with Abbot Suger in charge of the wedding arrangements.

( left scene ) 14th-century representation of the wedding of Louis and Eleanor ; ( right scene ) Depiction of Louis leaving on Crusade

Possessing a high-spirited nature, Eleanor was not popular with the staid northerners ( according to sources, Louis ´ s mother, Adélaide de Maurienne, thought her flighty and a bad influence ).

Louis accordingly bolted the gates of Bourges against the new Bishop ; the Pope, recalling William X's similar attempts to exile Innocent's supporters from Poitou and replace them with priests loyal to himself, blamed Eleanor, saying that Louis was only a child and should be taught manners.

Eleanor urged Louis to support her sister's illegitimate marriage to Raoul of Vermandois.

In eastern Europe, the French army was at times hindered by Manuel I Comnenus, the Byzantine Emperor, who feared that it would jeopardize the tenuous safety of his empire ; however, during their 3-week stay at Constantinople, Louis was fêted and Eleanor was much admired.

However, this may have been a mask, as Raymond through Eleanor tried to forcibly sway Louis to use his army to attack the actual Muslim encampment at nearby Aleppo, gateway to recovering Edessa, the objective of the Crusade by papal decree.

Eleanor then reputedly requested to stay with Raymond and brought up the matter of consanguinity – the fact that she and Louis were actually related within prohibited degrees.

Rather than allow her to stay, Louis took Eleanor from Antioch against her will, and continued on to Jerusalem, with his army dwindling.

Even before the Crusade, Eleanor and Louis were becoming estranged.

When Eleanor declared her intention to stand with Raymond and the Aquitaine forces, Louis had her brought out by force.

Pope Eugenius III did not, as Eleanor had hoped, grant an annulment ; instead, he attempted to reconcile Eleanor and Louis, confirming the legality of their marriage, and proclaiming that no word could be spoken against it, and that it might not be dissolved under any pretext.

Eventually, he arranged events so that Eleanor had no choice but to sleep with Louis in a bed specially prepared by the Pope.

Still without a son and in danger of being left with no male heir, facing substantial opposition to Eleanor from many of his barons and her own desire for divorce, Louis had no choice but to bow to the inevitable.

Hugues de Toucy, Archbishop of Sens and Primate of France, presided, and Louis and Eleanor were both present, as were the Archbishops of Bordeaux and Rouen.

On 21 March, the four archbishops, with the approval of Pope Eugenius, granted an annulment due to consanguinity within the fourth degree ( Eleanor and Louis were fourth cousins, once removed, and shared common ancestry with Robert II of France ).

Louis Sherry once stayed a fortnight at the Palace, and he was so pleased with omelet Arbogast that he introduced it at his restaurant in New York J. Pierpont Morgan had come in his private train to San Francisco, to attend an Episcopal convention, and brought the restaurateur with him.

And you wonder if that is why the little man lost his job and his car and stayed drunk about a year before he straightened out and moved to St. Louis, where he got to be a big unhappy success.

While others were leaving the country for new and greater opportunities, David stayed to help destroy the old order ; he was a regicide who voted in the National Convention for the Execution of Louis XVI.

However, Louis IV had silenced the papal claims and John XXII stayed the rest of his life in Avignon.

Also the Habsburg dukes stayed loyal to Louis.

Anne stayed with Margaret from spring 1513 until her father arranged for her to attend Henry VIII's sister, Mary Tudor, Queen of France, for Mary's marriage to Louis XII of France in October 1514.

In 1797, several decades after the city's founding, Louis Philippe, later the King of France from 1830 to 1840, stayed in Wilkes-Barre while traveling to the French Asylum settlement.

Louis Philippe also visited the United States for four years, staying in Philadelphia ( where his brothers Antoine and Louis Charles were in exile ), New York City ( where he most likely stayed at the Somerindyck family estate on Broadway and 75th Street with other exiled princes ), and Boston.

After this event, he stayed in Montreal expecting to fight against the winner of a matchup between Louis Salica and Bobby Quintana, which was schelueded to take place on December of that year.

It was dedicated to Poulenc's last lover, Louis Gautier ( a manual worker he met in 1957 ; they stayed together until Poulenc died ).

When their parents divorced in 1927, Butch and his sisters stayed with their mother Selma in St. Louis while their father Edward moved to Chicago.

San Pedro may have been the last great place to grow up in the L. A. area – a harbor, a real sense of community, a real Left, even a literary history: Charles Bukowski, Louis Adamic, even Richard Henry Dana stayed for a time.

Only one brother, Louis, stayed out of the crime family, instead becoming a priest.

It stayed there for 18 years until Louis XVIII granted Kléber a burial place in his home town of Strasbourg.

His escort, Louis Jones, then took him not to the Del Prado Hotel downtown, where the Indians players stayed, but to the black DuSable Hotel in Chicago's predominantly black South Side, near Comiskey Park.

During these years of Lisa's expeditions to the upper Missouri, his wife Polly and children stayed in St. Louis.

However, Governor Louis Mouttet and his wife stayed in the city.

While Wise stayed in the majors for another 11 years, only two of them ( 1972 and 1973 ) were in St. Louis.

Marmont stayed loyal to the restored Bourbon king Louis XVIII during the Hundred Days, and following Waterloo voted in favour of the execution of Marshal Ney.

In early 1948, Hines joined up again with Armstrong in the " Louis Armstrong and his All-Stars " small band ( rather, Hines now came to feel, as a sideman ) and stayed, not entirely happily, through 1951.

* Famed French organist and composer Louis Vierne stayed briefly in Hinckley while on a tour of England, and later wrote a carillon piece for organ called " The Bells of Hinckley ", inspired by a carillon of bells he heard there.

Denise and Claude, both married, stayed in the Dijon region, where as Catharine married Blaise de Beaubrieul, advisor of king Louis de XIV.

* 1617: Louis Hebert, an apothecary who had stayed at Port Royal twice, brings his wife and children to Quebec, thus becoming the first true habitant ( permanent settler supporting his family from the soil ).