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Or it just would be.
Or just be like, oh, I didn't look at my family tree before.
They just would be because it's like something like six degrees.
Like you can't be like six cousins.
They all were like that.
And they all were because like these royal families are all so.
I mean, the last Queen Elizabeth and her husband were only like third cousins or something like that.
Oh, my God.
Y'all ever heard of something called the Crusades?
Bit of a tone shift here.
So the Crusades were this thing in the medieval times when all the people from Europe decided that the Christians needed to own the Holy Lands.
So the Holy Lands are like the modern, like the Middle East kind of like.
And they were like, we don't like that Muslims are, you know, non-Christians own them.
So we're going to go do some war over it.
It's super fucked up and cool.
Nice job.
And that's what Louis decides he's going to do.
This is called the Second Crusades.
And so he's like, I'm going to go do the Second Crusades.
And he decides he's going to take Eleanor with him.