In the High Middle Ages, there were four
sisters known by the famous moniker of “the Provençal Sisters” and
they married four of the most influential men of Europe at the
time. It is through these four marriages that the sisters:
Margaret, Eleanor, Sanchia, and Beatrice ushered in an era of
relative peace in the 1200s. A Desirable Arrangement The year was
1233, and Louis IX of France had been…
