Recent content by Karolus Rex

That would be a matter for the Cortes that would most likely swear in Duarte, thanks to his claim and his long list of connections, but if you want to debate which claim is better, there's no better as there's no law or ordinance regulating this, the only ordinance comes from the Mental Law that...

Filipe was able to get the Kingship after paying off Duchess, both monetarily and granting her and her husband giant concessions that basically turned the domain of the Dukes of Bragança a fully autonomous domain inside the kingdom, and granting considerable concessions to the Portuguese Cortes...

I never referenced any kind of salic law or anything of the like. I very much even pointed out that Portugal did not have any laws regulating succession, with only the Mental Law of King Duarte regulating to a degree inheritance of Royal Estates. The main reason why Duarte would be the main...

By what few regulations there were on the succession on royal property, and even those it's iffy if they would even apply, Duarte is the most likely candidate to be acknowledged as King in the Cortes. He's a rich and influential Duke, from his father's side he's the grandson of Manuel I and from...

Alcacer Quibir was a project solely of Sebastião, everyone in the kingdom was against it, everyone told him that it was lunacy and already by João III's reign Portuguese policy in Morocco was to abandon most of the possessions there and just hold to a few enclaves that for political reasons...

The married a foreigner is most likely an invention and wasn't considered, there were no laws of successions regulating how the crown should be passed in Portugal, which is how after Cardinal-King Henry was alive Filipe of Spain and Catarina of Portugal spent their time arguing in court over...

The foederati were integrated into the power structures and were in many ways the main backers of Emperors, as that justified and legitimised themselves, stronger Emperors used the foederati to also strengthening themselves but the 400s is a period of Emperors that do not fit the system that had...

I am assuming in that the Germanic conquests here are a reference to the migrations. Honestly, there is no way to answer this without just writing a book on the topic, as it's still a very up to debate which were the most influential factors. I will try to give a brief summary answer of it...

He wasn't at Castile, he was exiled in Castile after murdering his wife, he was quite popular pre-murder, but post-murder eh.

Yeah they were engaged in 1479, half the dowry being war indemnities.

Relevant in what sense? Economic, military?

Thanks for the feedback! Edited the map and changed it to try to make the contrast better and change the city name placement.

My attempt at a map of the Trojan War based on Homer's Catalogue of the Ship and the List of the Trojans and their allies.

A trojan war map that I have been working in my free time, still a long way from finished but been trying to do it only with the drawing tablet on inkscape and at the least made the stress on the hand from drawing the coastlines far less of a problem.

He was far from a nobody, the Bragança were some of the major landowners in Portugal since Afonso of Bragança, the first duke, married Beatriz Pereira de Alvim, heiress of the Count of Barcelos and Constable of Portugal Nuno Álvares Pereira that was the richest and most powerful man in the...