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Extract from the Beaugency Travel Guides:
Six kilometres southwest of Meung along the Loire,
BEAUGENCY
is a pretty little town, which, in contrast to its innocuous appearance today, played its part in the conniving games of early medieval politics. In 1152, the marriage of Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine was annulled by the Council of Beaugency in the church of Notre-Dame, allowing Eleanor to marry Henry Plantagenet, the future Henry II of England. Her huge land holdings in southwest France thus passed to the English crown, which already controlled Normandy, Maine, Anjou and Touraine: the struggles between the French and English kings over their claims to these t...
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