Annulment restores Eleanor's lands but not her daughters

The council dissolves the marriage on consanguinity grounds without Louis accusing Eleanor of misconduct. Eleanor welcomes the decision and recovers independence and her lands, but her daughters remain with their father, making future contact unlikely. Without the protection of queenship, she becomes a target for forced marriage, and two nobles attempt to abduct her on the journey home. Once safe in Poitiers, she considers a new union from the position of a ruler who still needs a powerful ally to defend her domains. Later sexualized explanations are presented as baseless and misogynistic, evidence of how they continued to distort Eleanor's political choices centuries afterward.