d after. Unfortunately, Eleanor's mother and only brother both died, and being the eldest daughter of two, Eleanor became the heiress to the province of Aquitaine. Aquitaine was the largest and richest of the provinces that would become France. In 1137 when Eleanor was only 15, her beloved father died. Following this event, she immediately became the target of marriage proposals from all parts of Europe. "She had always known that she would be married off to some proud nobleman, more eager for her land than for herself," according to Polly Schoyer Brooks (Brooks). Eleanor was married to French King Louis VII and had two daughters with him, Alix Capet and Marie de Champagne. Before their two daughters, Eleanor had had a stillbirth, and an influential miracle worker told her that she was childless because God disapproved of her wicked ways. It was later rumored that she had changed and repented her ways to provide reason of her next two successful births. Eleanor and Louis were an ill fitted match from the beginning because they had very little in common being complete opposites, and eventually their marriage was annulled in 1152. The English King, Henry II, who was eleven years younger then Eleanor at 19, was Eleanor's next husband. Together they had five sons and three daughters: William, Henry the Young King, Richard I "the Lionheart", Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, John &quo
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