Recent content by Avrorrange

They tried really hard and failed, so we already had the answer. Could a more genius emperor do it? Perhaps?

It’s actually 14 for married women, 16 for single women, and 21 for males, so Margaret is already of age. Time to kick out the regents.

That depends on whether the king/queen assert their authority much earlier. No one questioned Edward III’s right to rule for example when he overthrew the regents and seized power at the age of 17.That said, I don’t think the age of majority in England was 21. Henry VI was declared of age at the...

If John made an explicit request to meet his great aunt, I think it would be difficult for Blanche to shoot him down without consulting Adrienne first.Nevertheless, if she did meet him, the response would likely be a bit more diplomatic, but just the same.

The French Kings made the pope their bitch. Now you have the chance to make the pope YOUR bitch. At any rate, the pope still had plenty of influence over the other monarchies, and as the example of Louis exemplified, the Pope clearly still had power over investiture etc even in France until...

And The investiture controversy ended in the Pope’s favour.So the monarchs no longer had the right to choose bishops. That right now belonged to the pope. Yes GALLICAN Church. Louis XIV IOTL broke the Pope’s power over the French Church by taking back the right to administrate the Catholic...

Why should she do that?If the Lascarid Empire is in any position to send any forces, they could just take everything for themselves, including Constantinople.

Time to place a Lascarid creature on the papal throne in Rome that legitimises all their demands like a degree of autonomy, Greek rites , right to appoint their own bishops etc(like the Gallician Church) ?

I am surprised he didn’t turn to Adrienne the elder instead of Blanche.Ioannes’ father helped get her out of the marriage with the Serbian dude and she technically is still a Palaiologos. It probably wouldn’t end well seeing as she will likely be pissed over his role in the war(and likely her...

They are 100% Habsburgs.

You mean the Habsburg dynasty is secured? The Tutors are dead, long live the Big Chins!

Depends?There were rich donors for sure, but at the same time, there really were a lot of second sons of nobility who filled up the rank and file of the armies.

If you loot Cyprus enough, it’s probably not something you can just shrug off, nor something you can counter with fortifications.He’s badly haemorrhaging money at the moment, and the campaign has been anything but profitable so far. Now assuming if you don’t loot it and the landing of the small...

@Silver01 Yeah, I don’t know what @Putnam is on about either. The most serious of the Pecheneg Wars took place in earnest after the loss of Anatolia to the Turks. Alexios and John ended the Pechenegs with pitched battles, not sieges or anything. The only way you can destroy nomads is through all...

Crusaders don’t know what they were doing most of the time, but even the ones in the Crusader states eventually developed tactics to counter the Turks. The Romans know what they are doing due to having to fight the Turks on a daily basis and had plenty of Turkic auxiliaries amongst their ranks...