Some months afterwards, at Whitsuntide in the same year, Henry Plantagenet, Duke of Normandy and Count of Anjou, espoused Eleanor, thus adding to his already great possessions Poitou and Aquitaine, and becoming, in France, a vassal more powerful than the king his suzerain.

Twenty months later, in 1154, at the death of King Stephen, Henry Plantagenet became King of England; and thus there was a recurrence, in an aggravated form, of the position which had been filled by William the Conqueror, and which was the first cause of rivalry between France and England and of the consequent struggles of considerably more than a century's duration.
Little more than a year after Suger, on the 20th of April, 1153, St.Bernard died also.

The two great men, of whom one had excited and the other opposed the second crusade, disappeared together from the theatre of the world.

The crusade had completely failed.

After a lapse of scarce forty years, a third crusade began.