Princess Alice FRANCE

   Another name for Alice was FRANCE Princess.

   General Notes:

Princess of FRANCE.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905
p271: [1160] "A year later the other branch of Stephen's family came into a new relationship to the politics of France and England. At the beginning of October, 1160, Louis' second wife died, leaving him still without a male heir. Without waiting till the end of any period of mourning, within a fortnight, he married the daughter of Stephen's brother, Theobald of Blois, sister of the Counts Henry of Champagne and Theobald of Blois, who were already betrothed to the two daughters of his marriage with Eleanor. This opened for the house of Blois a new prospect of influence and gain, and for the king of England of trouble which was in part fulfilled..."

A History of the Plantagenets, Vol I, The Conquering Family, Thomas B Costain, Doubleday & Co, Garden City, 1949, p40:
"...Under the circumstances they decided to patch thingsup, and if the next child she bore him had been a boy, the whole face of history would have been changed. She would have remained Queen of France, and the Hundred Years' War might not have been fought. But the child was a girl..."

Eleanor of Aquitaine the Mother Queen, Desmond Seward, 1978, Dorset Press, p58:
"...In the summer of 1150 Eleanor bore her second child- not an heir, but another daughter (Alice, who would one day be countess of Blois), whose birth did nothing to reconcile her parents..."
p62: "Alice Daughter of Eleanor of AQUITAINE and Louis VII King of FRANCE, Married Theobald V Count of BLOIS..."

   Marriage Information:

Alice married Count Theobald BLOIS, V, son of Count Theobald Champagne BLOIS, IV and Princess Mathilde CARINTHIA.