The dreaded plague

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The dreaded plague

Casimir III’s children

On 1341, a few months after his marriage with Adelaide of Hesse, she would announce her own pregnancy which would surprise both Casimir III and the Hungarians as the Hungarians would have no chance to gain the throne of Poland they will feel worried if the pregnancy will produce a son or not.

By June 10 of 1342, Adelaide of Hesse gave birth she would feel birth pains the whole dawn of June 10, 1342 and the royal midwives and physicians would take care of the birth of Princess Adelaide as she gave birth.

The baby of Adelaide of Hesse would turn out to be a male, a son, which was waited by her husband, Casimir III since when his first wife, Aldona was alive.

Adelaide’s son would be named as Wladyslaw Kazimierzowic, this would be followed by a set of Fraternal twins named Jadwiga and Kazimierz or Casimir on December 3, 1343 on which time, Casimir III would.

When the news of the birth of a son of Casimir, Elizabeth of Poland would be surprised and unhappy as her son would no longer be the heir to the crown of Poland.

Elizabeth of Poland would feel angry about what has happened but she would feel comforted a little as the birth of the sons would be said to will save the country of Poland from the clutches of the Luxembourgs who will try to marry Casimir’s granddaughters whether by Elizabeth or Kunigunde.

Adelaide of Hesse would leave the Polish court on March of 1344 after the birth of her twins as she and Casimir III are at odds with each other while Casimir III would continue to take in mistresses.

Casimir III would betroth one of his daughters, Kunigunde to one of the Silesian Piasts, the future Przemyslaus Noszak of Cieszyn to prevent him from being totally loyal to the crown of Bohemia and he was right about the marriage as it dislodged the shackles of Bohemia further into Upper Silesia, he would delay the attack in Silesia and make no peace treaty with the Bohemians, however, he already has an ally on his nephews in Silesia who are loyal to him but they would bide their time for that.

 

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Joanna of England

On 1348, after suffering the plague for a day, Princess Joanna of England would recover from her disease which is the bubonic plague and her surviving retinue would treat that as a miracle and she was meant to marry her fiancé Peter of Castile.

She is happy to announce to her retinue that she had survived and they would need to continue to the Kingdom of Castile for her to meet her future husband, Peter of Castile and they would further journey to the County of Dax and into Navarre where they met Charles the Bad, the King of Navarre who was surprise to meet her and then she would go to the border of Navarre and Castile and continue to the court of Castile on 1549 where she met her husband to be Peter I of Castile and married him, taking the name Juana on her coronation as the Queen of Leon and Castile.

On the first sight Joanna of England and Peter I of Castile would be kind with each other even if the two did not love each other enough and the match would remain political.

Juana de Inglaterra as she is known in Castile, she would be a good queen and a person who would be beloved in the court and she would tolerate the prescence of his husband’s mistress Maria de Padilla who would be her own lady in waiting.

Joanna of England would later provide her husband of two children named Alfonso(1353) and Leonora, Queen of Navarre(1360), she would be the reason why Castile and England would be on alliance for a long time despite the fact that Castile once allied with France and not England itself.

 

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Isabella of England

On 1349, Joanna of Bourbon would enter a marriage with Amadeus of Savoy which was a success and make Savoy closer to France and due to that Isabella of England would be able to be used to sign a treaty with England in order to marry her with Dauphin Charles in exchange for a larger Duchy of Aquitaine, however, the Valois under King Jean I would state that England and Aquitaine should be separate in the marriage and peace treaty between the Valois and the Plantagenets and thus John of Ghent was made the Duke of Aquitaine.

The treaty between the Plantagenets and the Valois would be signed in 1351 between Jean I of France and Edward III changing the custody of Princess Isabella but the King of France, Jean I would want Blanche of Bourbon married to Edward the Black Prince in order to completely seal the treaty in reverse and the two double marriages would be seen by the two kings in order for them to see for themselves that the marriage happened, the treaty would be called as the treaty of Bordeaux as it was signed in Bordeaux.

Isabella of England would prove to be fertile and an able Queen and produced three surviving children, Philip(1353), Joanna(1360) and Charles(1362), but the marriage would prove to be unstable and the marriage was on paper as the two would have their own lovers after Philip was born, the good thing that was from that marriage is their son, Philip marrying Jeanne of Burgundy and Auvergne, the sister of the former fiancé of Margaret of Flanders after her husband has died in 1362.

 

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A plague and a divorce
On 1349, Margaret Maltausch was known as the Countess of Tyrol was granted the legitimacy of her 2nd marriage and the annulment of her first one and both of her sons would have issue and survive adulthood but that was not the only issue as her husband John Henry would die of plague which would cause the Luxembourgs to double time on their reproduction and married to Anna of Swidnica after the death of his 2nd wife, Anna of Bavaria who was childless and his third wife would be Margaret of Burgundy after the death of Anna of Swidnica on 1362.

During the 1349, Bohemia would be ravaged by the Black Plague which would not affect Poland which would mean that the Polish populations of Silesia and Poland itself would have better chances of Spreading and the Polish crown getting more influence in Silesia itself which would cause the Duchies of Opole, Cieszyn and Glogow to formally ally and be a vassal of Poland due to Marital ties.

The children of Charles IV that survived infancy would be the following; from Blanche of Valois: Margaret of Bohemia, Queen of Hungary(1335), Catherine of Bohemia, Duchess of Austria(1); from Anna of Swidnica(1358): Elizabeth of Bohemia; From Margaret of Burgundy: Anna of Bohemia(1362), Agnes of Bohemia(1368).

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An Angevin Hungary inheriting Bohemia would mean that the alliance between Louis and Casimir III would be destroyed.