I never got why the senate seemed so obstinate with not letting anyone build on the site of old Carthage. It’s generally agreed now a days that the North African provinces were held back by not building on that site and it was already unbelievably rich for centuries until the North African...
Really? So even when the British nobility were suffering a major decline in wealth and influence from the 1870s onward with falls in agricultural income the Russian Aristocracy were suffering an even greater fall in there income at the time?
While the greatest noble families of England never...
The decline of British aristocratic wealth compared to the Russian nobility was because of the agricultural depression of 1870s onward right? when food preservation on ships advanced far enough that it became economical to transport large amounts of food across the ocean to the uk with stuff...
Yes the idea of John paying a huge ransom was agreed in 1359 but in the treaty of Brétigny its was lowered down by 25% to three million ecus with him being freed after a 33% down payment and handing over a bunch of new hostages as a security to make sure John ii still ends up paying the whole...
Wasn’t the ransom agreed by the treaty of bretigny something that only happened after the Dauphin was able to haggle Edward and his diplomats down and making the 1359 campaign a disappointment for the English thourgh Fabian tactics? Who’s going to do that now with the Dauphin imprisoned with the...
But of course who is going to raise the money for all those ransoms without the Dauphin? The Duke of Orléans is currently highest ranking male member of the French royal family still at large(he was also at Poitiers but was able escape just like in otl) he is also next in line after his older...
What if the vanguard led by the Dauphin alongside his two middle brothers, failed to disengage properly and ended up being shattered by the black princes army with John ii three eldest sons now prisoners of war alongside there father and youngest brother. How would this affect the course of the...
So even though the black prince was one of the most eligible bachelors of medieval Europe he only got married at the age of 31 to his 33 year old cousin Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, one of the most beautiful women of her day in what is commonly thought to be a love match. But what if things...
If it’s supposed to be a historical slander like the Tudor propaganda on Richard iii or Anne Boleyns six fingers why are we talking about it in a thread where your planning out a alternate history time line? That claim by its very nature isn’t supposed to be historically accurate so it can’t be...
Are you really going to give credence to what almost certainly would be the 15th centuries equivalent of fake news? Also I’m not sure Warwick would have kept hidden the fact that he was rebelling to avenge his daughters rape. In fact it would probably be at the forefront of his grievances with...
This seems like one of those slanderous rumors that gets passed off as history by people who didn’t like the yorkist at the time then anything likely to have happened. I’d say you can almost safely dismiss it
Yeah deastroying classical knowledge had jack all to do with why western Rome fell(and if anyone is going to say it was well the gothic war is probably a more suitable source of ire given how much Italy was wrecked by it). And the very concept of the dark ages being some great blow to human...
It doesn’t matter how much the Woodvilles actually got, what matters is how much the Woodvilles are perceived to be getting by the nobility. The nobility is not going to stand for the Woodvilles being given that big of a prize when they already hated what little the king already gave them.
Wait what does the accusation against Jacquetta Woodville and the murder of her husband and son have to do with causing Warwicks fall? Edward seemed pretty quick to brush all that under the rug. And for that matter how can the countess be assured that she’s going be well treated by Anthony when...