Season 1
Episode 11: The Second Crusade Begins!
Episode 12: Teasing Laughter and Glowing Smiles
Episode 13: The Scandal of Antioch
Episode 14: Great Damascus
Season 2
In the year 1148, the Second Crusade begins with an eclipse of the sun on the banks of the Bosphorus, a fearful prophecy that plays out in the battle of Dorylaeum
A crushed and bleeding army follows its king and queen to the comforts of Antioch.
Alienor and her uncle Raymond of Antioch were said to be lovers…………and the French royal marriage is left in tatters…..
It’s 1148: the Second Crusade turns to the conquest of great Damascus……..but instead finds treachery and exhaustion, and melts back into the stunned disbelief of Christian Europe.
Could even the Pope himself save the troubled marriage of Louis Capet and Alienor of Aquitaine?
The golden masks of the Fates were raised to bring Henry Plantagenet into the troubled marriage of Alienor of Aquitaine and her husband Louis Capet.
Alienor of Aquitaine wins her freedom from Louis Capet and France but she won’t be single long. Henry Plantagenet waits impatiently in the wings.
The newlyweds, Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine, are about to create the greatest kingdom in Western Europe.
The most marvelous of times for the newlyweds as Henry takes England, making an empire for the Plantagenets.
The new King, intelligent, educated, and fiercely energetic, takes on the challenges of rebuilding England after the Anarchy.