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King of Portugal and Algarves
1495-1523 Afonso VI “o Aventurado” (House of Aviz)[1]
King of All Spain
1423-1528 Juan I “Rey de toda España” (House of Aviz)[2]
[2] Juan Avis was the eldest child of Alfonso VI and Isabella of Aragon. At age 2, his raising would be taken over by his grandmother, Isabella of Castile. While she was a doting grandmother, she was also controlling and fanatically religious. Though, Alfonso would bond with his grandfather, Ferdinand.
In response Juan developed an idealized impression of his parents and siblings, sure that as soon as he was allowed to return to them, he would be free from these restrictions. The idea was dashed, when he Isabella of Castile died. He would reunite with his parents at his mother’s coronation, they had meant to be earlier but the ship had been delayed, and it didn’t go well. The broken relationship would cause Alfonso and Isabella to wear black for the rest of their lives.
Juan would eventually build relationships with two of his brothers, though he had no time for his sisters.
Juan would be betrothed to a Avis cousin, continuing the family tradition of inbreading. But his bride-to-be would die in 1511. And a new betrothal would be arranged to his cousin on the other side, Eleanor of Austria. They would suffer from fertility issues and only one child would survive to adulthood. (This does leave from for a child king if anyone wants)
Isabella of Aragon would pass away in 1520, and Juan would swiftly travel, first to Aragon and then Castile, where he was crowned King. Three years later Alfonso would die and Juan would be crowned king of Portugal.
He would spend the rest of his reign working to combine his various realms into one. He mostly succeeded with the Iberian lands, but saw much less success in Italy.
He would die after being thrown from a horse and would be succeeded by _________.
1) Alfonso Avis m. Isabella of Aragon
King of Portugal and Algarves
1495-1523 Afonso VI “o Aventurado” (House of Aviz)[1]
King of All Spain
1423-1528 Juan I “Rey de toda España” (House of Aviz)[2]
[1] Afonso, prince of Portugal, was born in 1475, son of King John II "The Perfect Prince" and his wife, Leonor of Viseu. Very much well loved by his father, upon his birth, the smaller island of the archipelago of Sao Tomé e "Princípe" would be named after him. Promised to the daughter of the catholic monachs, the eldest Isabella of Aragon, marrying her upon reaching majority. The couple would quickly fall in love, being almost a perfect fit for each other. The reign of the younrg monarch would almost not happen, as while riding on the banks of the Tagus river, he would fall from his horse, but would, thankfully, recover. In 1495, John the II of Portugal would pass away, seeing Afonso and his wife, Isabella, rise to the throne.
His reign would famously start with a good omen - Queen Isabella bearing the couple's first of 5 children barely a few months into the new King's reign. It would be in these first few months that the emergence of his Kingly character would appear - an expansionist, a christian, an autocrat with the well-being and growth of his people and Empire, a stubborn man of many failures but even greater achievements. In the words of his wife, Afonso would be the only man "more Man than his own father", in reference to Isabella the Catholic's pet name for Afonso's father - "El Hombre".
Afonso's reign would start with a turn towards internal stability - the conflict of his father with the Aviz-Beja's, a branch of the royal house that also held the dukedoms of Viseu and the ambitions of his bastard brother, Jorge of Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra, would see a run ahead rather quickly - The Duchy of Beja would be bought from Duke Manuel, who would only keep the Duchy of Viseu in his hands, while Coimbra, a city dear to Afonso, who was a patron of education, was returned to the crown, with Afonso giving his half-brother John the Duchy of Aveiro as compensation.
With royal power assured and expanded, the second of Afonso’s great dealings came from his wife and his castilian and Aragonese in-laws - the expulsion of the jews from Spain. The history of the Jewish community in Iberia had always been tenuous and shifty, and the top cadres of the Jewish community were plenty influential in the biggest cities and were close to the Iberian monarchies. But nowhere was this true that in Portugal - Portuguese jews were famous financiers of the maritime expeditions undertaken by Portugal and would during Afonso’s VI reign become a cornerstone of such - with a sephardic jew, Carlos Camargo, becoming Viceroy of India (And an extremely successful one, at that) after the famous Afonso de Albuquerque.
But the Alhambra decree, which expelled the jews of Castille and Aragon from the respective Kingdoms, saw a huge amount of jews immigrate into Portugal, which created problems with the local jewish community and the monarchy itself. It was indeed thought by many that King Alfonso would send many of these jews to Portugal’s colonies over the ocean - Cape Verde and the fortresses in the Gold Coast, but Portugal would end up proving their new home when Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, Afonso’s in-laws, would, through their daughter, Afonso’s beloved wife and Queen, try to have Alfonso enforce his own expulsion of the jews. It would be a through mistake, one that would see the relations between the two Kingdoms and Portugal sour - the Afonsine Aviz’s, who had often quarreled with the Trastamaras, and especially Afonso, who’s coming to the throne had hardened him to the intrigues of Queen Isabella, saw this as an offence, believing that the request was an attempt by the Catholic monarchs to enforce their authority upon him. The request was denied, and diplomatic ties between Spain and Portugal broken (For a short time).
It was in this that Afonso and Isabella’s marriage came to it’s first rift - Isabella of Aragon was as fanatic as her mother, Isabella of Castille, and the couple would publicly quarrel in Portugal’s new royal palace - the palace of Ribeira, Afonso’s pet project. Isabella would publicly call Afonso a sinner but a messenger would come from Castille bearing news - John, Prince of Asturias and Girona, had died. Angered at his wife’s public defiance, Afonso would famously reply “And oh look, oh my most pious wife, who it is that sins.”
The death of John of Castille and Aragon would completely bury the hatchet of the jewish matter, as another matter took further importance in Afonso’s mind - the inheritance of the spanish Kingdoms. Isabella was now heiress of Castille and Aragon, and one of their five living children would be heir after her. Afonso and his wife would reconcile before embarking on a trip to Castille and Aragon with their children, where Afonso and Isabella would be made Princes of Asturias and Girona, but in their return home Isabella and Ferdinand would demand that Afonso’s heir - and the heir to all of Iberia, remain in Castille to be cared by his lonely grandmother. It was, essentially, forced upon Afonso, and in his return to Portugal a few months later it would only be the intervention of the pope which would see no war between Portugal and the rest of Iberia.
It would be the final hatchet in the ties between the Aviz and the Trastamaras. While Afonso would be allowed to keep tabs on his heir, and could steer his education, he would be under the care of Isabella of Castille, who, despite her very bad relations with her oldest child, Isabella, and her son-in-law, would be very doting upon the child. Afonso and his wife, however, would wear black for the rest of their lives, even after they would eventually get back their heir after the death of Queen Isabella in 1509.
Afonso and his wife, Isabella, reconciled, would turn their backs on Castille and Aragon, while her parents would never intrude in Portugal’s matters again. Afonso would throw himself into the maritime expeditions of his ancestors, and so would in his reign be discovered the maritime path to India (1498) and Brazil (1499) and Santa Cruz de Botuque (OTL Newfoundland). His reign would see Portugal become the center of a huge world Empire which would straddle the Gold Coast, Mozambique, much of East Africa’s coast all the way up to Mogadishu, many cities in India topped by the jewel and capital of the Indian Viceroyalty in Goa, Hormuz, Ceylon, Malacca and the isle of Timor - Afonso would become the suzerain of the Kongolese Kings, of many East African sultanates, he would also become Sovereign of Arabia, or more precisely, Southern Arabia, as he would become the suzerain over the Shia Sultanate of Yemen, of the Sunni Sultanate of Hadramut and Mahra, and of the Ibadi Sultanate of Oman, which would expand into north under Portuguese protection. Hormuz would be directly annexed by Portugal and would be ruled from Goa.
As a Christian King, despite his famous refusal to host the inquisition due to the pope’s support for the Catholic monarchs, he would perhaps be responsible for the spreading of Christianity to many Kingdoms in India, to most of Ceylon and to many Kingdoms of Indonesia. His close alliance with Ethiopia would see Ethiopia modernize a bit and would, with Portuguese assistance, beat the Ottoman’s local allies and expand to the sea.
Afonso would die of lung cancer in 1523, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. He would be succeeded by his eldest son Juan.
His reign would famously start with a good omen - Queen Isabella bearing the couple's first of 5 children barely a few months into the new King's reign. It would be in these first few months that the emergence of his Kingly character would appear - an expansionist, a christian, an autocrat with the well-being and growth of his people and Empire, a stubborn man of many failures but even greater achievements. In the words of his wife, Afonso would be the only man "more Man than his own father", in reference to Isabella the Catholic's pet name for Afonso's father - "El Hombre".
Afonso's reign would start with a turn towards internal stability - the conflict of his father with the Aviz-Beja's, a branch of the royal house that also held the dukedoms of Viseu and the ambitions of his bastard brother, Jorge of Lencastre, Duke of Coimbra, would see a run ahead rather quickly - The Duchy of Beja would be bought from Duke Manuel, who would only keep the Duchy of Viseu in his hands, while Coimbra, a city dear to Afonso, who was a patron of education, was returned to the crown, with Afonso giving his half-brother John the Duchy of Aveiro as compensation.
With royal power assured and expanded, the second of Afonso’s great dealings came from his wife and his castilian and Aragonese in-laws - the expulsion of the jews from Spain. The history of the Jewish community in Iberia had always been tenuous and shifty, and the top cadres of the Jewish community were plenty influential in the biggest cities and were close to the Iberian monarchies. But nowhere was this true that in Portugal - Portuguese jews were famous financiers of the maritime expeditions undertaken by Portugal and would during Afonso’s VI reign become a cornerstone of such - with a sephardic jew, Carlos Camargo, becoming Viceroy of India (And an extremely successful one, at that) after the famous Afonso de Albuquerque.
But the Alhambra decree, which expelled the jews of Castille and Aragon from the respective Kingdoms, saw a huge amount of jews immigrate into Portugal, which created problems with the local jewish community and the monarchy itself. It was indeed thought by many that King Alfonso would send many of these jews to Portugal’s colonies over the ocean - Cape Verde and the fortresses in the Gold Coast, but Portugal would end up proving their new home when Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, Afonso’s in-laws, would, through their daughter, Afonso’s beloved wife and Queen, try to have Alfonso enforce his own expulsion of the jews. It would be a through mistake, one that would see the relations between the two Kingdoms and Portugal sour - the Afonsine Aviz’s, who had often quarreled with the Trastamaras, and especially Afonso, who’s coming to the throne had hardened him to the intrigues of Queen Isabella, saw this as an offence, believing that the request was an attempt by the Catholic monarchs to enforce their authority upon him. The request was denied, and diplomatic ties between Spain and Portugal broken (For a short time).
It was in this that Afonso and Isabella’s marriage came to it’s first rift - Isabella of Aragon was as fanatic as her mother, Isabella of Castille, and the couple would publicly quarrel in Portugal’s new royal palace - the palace of Ribeira, Afonso’s pet project. Isabella would publicly call Afonso a sinner but a messenger would come from Castille bearing news - John, Prince of Asturias and Girona, had died. Angered at his wife’s public defiance, Afonso would famously reply “And oh look, oh my most pious wife, who it is that sins.”
The death of John of Castille and Aragon would completely bury the hatchet of the jewish matter, as another matter took further importance in Afonso’s mind - the inheritance of the spanish Kingdoms. Isabella was now heiress of Castille and Aragon, and one of their five living children would be heir after her. Afonso and his wife would reconcile before embarking on a trip to Castille and Aragon with their children, where Afonso and Isabella would be made Princes of Asturias and Girona, but in their return home Isabella and Ferdinand would demand that Afonso’s heir - and the heir to all of Iberia, remain in Castille to be cared by his lonely grandmother. It was, essentially, forced upon Afonso, and in his return to Portugal a few months later it would only be the intervention of the pope which would see no war between Portugal and the rest of Iberia.
It would be the final hatchet in the ties between the Aviz and the Trastamaras. While Afonso would be allowed to keep tabs on his heir, and could steer his education, he would be under the care of Isabella of Castille, who, despite her very bad relations with her oldest child, Isabella, and her son-in-law, would be very doting upon the child. Afonso and his wife, however, would wear black for the rest of their lives, even after they would eventually get back their heir after the death of Queen Isabella in 1509.
Afonso and his wife, Isabella, reconciled, would turn their backs on Castille and Aragon, while her parents would never intrude in Portugal’s matters again. Afonso would throw himself into the maritime expeditions of his ancestors, and so would in his reign be discovered the maritime path to India (1498) and Brazil (1499) and Santa Cruz de Botuque (OTL Newfoundland). His reign would see Portugal become the center of a huge world Empire which would straddle the Gold Coast, Mozambique, much of East Africa’s coast all the way up to Mogadishu, many cities in India topped by the jewel and capital of the Indian Viceroyalty in Goa, Hormuz, Ceylon, Malacca and the isle of Timor - Afonso would become the suzerain of the Kongolese Kings, of many East African sultanates, he would also become Sovereign of Arabia, or more precisely, Southern Arabia, as he would become the suzerain over the Shia Sultanate of Yemen, of the Sunni Sultanate of Hadramut and Mahra, and of the Ibadi Sultanate of Oman, which would expand into north under Portuguese protection. Hormuz would be directly annexed by Portugal and would be ruled from Goa.
As a Christian King, despite his famous refusal to host the inquisition due to the pope’s support for the Catholic monarchs, he would perhaps be responsible for the spreading of Christianity to many Kingdoms in India, to most of Ceylon and to many Kingdoms of Indonesia. His close alliance with Ethiopia would see Ethiopia modernize a bit and would, with Portuguese assistance, beat the Ottoman’s local allies and expand to the sea.
Afonso would die of lung cancer in 1523, one of the richest and most powerful men in the world. He would be succeeded by his eldest son Juan.
[2] Juan Avis was the eldest child of Alfonso VI and Isabella of Aragon. At age 2, his raising would be taken over by his grandmother, Isabella of Castile. While she was a doting grandmother, she was also controlling and fanatically religious. Though, Alfonso would bond with his grandfather, Ferdinand.
In response Juan developed an idealized impression of his parents and siblings, sure that as soon as he was allowed to return to them, he would be free from these restrictions. The idea was dashed, when he Isabella of Castile died. He would reunite with his parents at his mother’s coronation, they had meant to be earlier but the ship had been delayed, and it didn’t go well. The broken relationship would cause Alfonso and Isabella to wear black for the rest of their lives.
Juan would eventually build relationships with two of his brothers, though he had no time for his sisters.
Juan would be betrothed to a Avis cousin, continuing the family tradition of inbreading. But his bride-to-be would die in 1511. And a new betrothal would be arranged to his cousin on the other side, Eleanor of Austria. They would suffer from fertility issues and only one child would survive to adulthood. (This does leave from for a child king if anyone wants)
Isabella of Aragon would pass away in 1520, and Juan would swiftly travel, first to Aragon and then Castile, where he was crowned King. Three years later Alfonso would die and Juan would be crowned king of Portugal.
He would spend the rest of his reign working to combine his various realms into one. He mostly succeeded with the Iberian lands, but saw much less success in Italy.
He would die after being thrown from a horse and would be succeeded by _________.
1) Alfonso Avis m. Isabella of Aragon
a) Juan Avis m. Eleanor of Austria
i) One child that reaches adulthood
- Some number of children that die before age 18
- two boys and two girls
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I have Juan as the eldest born a couple months after the bringing of Alfonso's reign, so either 1495 or 1496.
