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  1. After the forest of Foixà: a new beginning for the House of Barcelona
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1: A new beginning (1396-1401)

    Chapter 1: A new beginning (1396-1401) Before his almost fatal hunting accident of 1396, king Juan I of Aragon had been nothing but a bad ruler and his reign was characterized, up to that year, by disastrous financial administration. However, after the already mentioned accident which took...

  2. A Capetian saga (1065-1223)
    Threadmarks: Philip I (1040 – 1109)

    PoD: The Hundred Years War begins with Alfred the Great, who after crushing the Vikings, claimed the French crown and invaded France. However, ITTL, the war is going on for more than a century and the western part of France is ruled by the Anglosaxons. Philip I (23 May 1040 – 1 July 1109)...

  3. The Skin of Sepharad: a Spanish nightmare.
    Threadmarks: Background

    Background The fall of the Bonaparte dynasty after the crushing defeat suffered at the War of the Three Emperors (1916-1919) gave birth a new world, with the Russian Empire emerging victorious but fatally weakened by the war effort and the former ally of France, Austria-Hungary, teetering on...

  4. Empire by Default: the rise of Spain
    Threadmarks: 1. The Medieval Crisis (1300-1474): Castille.

    First Part: Background 1. The Medieval Crisis (1300-1474): Castille. The origins of the troubles suffered by the Trastámara dinasty can be found in its very beginning. Enrique II (1369-1379), who became king after killing his half-brother, Pedro I of Castille, had to reward his allies with...

  5. The Age of the Prophets and the Bloody Decade (1936-1948)
    Threadmarks: 1. The road to the 1936 United States presidential elections.

    1. The road to the 1936 United States presidential elections. The history of the Second American Civil War and its aftermath, along with the United States' role in the Second World War, is, considered by historians to have been one of the turning points of the 20th century, even if its legacy...

  6. El principe de hierro - A Napoleonic tale
    Threadmarks: 1. The making of a warrior.

    Book 1. The making of a warrior. Chapter 1. A heroe is born. Prince Gabriel Antonio Francisco Javier Juan Nepomuceno José Serafin Pascual Salvador of Naples and Sicily (1752-1834₁) was, of all the sons of Carlos III of Spain, the most intelligent and hardworking. He was very cultured, renowned...

  7. ¡Viva la República! - A Republican Spain TL
    Threadmarks: Background

    The origin of this alternate retelling of Spanish (and a bit of the world) history comes from here and from here, too. A change in the succession to the Spanish throne in 1766 takes Spain into a different path, even if most of the American colonies are lost and the attempts to reform the...

  8. Mistake Erase

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  9. A House Made of Gold and Roses.
    Threadmarks: Chapter 1 The Castilian inheritance and the Mediterranean Empire (1365-1378)

    First Book: The House of Barcelona (1361-1482) First Part: Pedro V of Aragon (1361-1404) Prelude: New kings, new hopes. After being close to death in late March, 1350, during the siege of Gibraltar, King Alfonso XI of Castille emerged from his experience as a new man. He had laid in his bed...

  10. WI: Edward IV (b.1330, reigned 1370-1391)

    POD: There is no civil war in Spain, so the Black Prince doesn't waste time and money there. What if Edward III dies in 1370 and the Black Prince rises to the throne? How would our Edward IV deal with the Good Parliament of 1376? Would this Parliament have happened with him ruling? Would he had...

  11. The last Plantagenet (1445-1595)
    Threadmarks: 1. The Madness of King Henry.

    1. The Madness of King Henry. At an early age Henry had demonstrated a tendency to be easily influenced by 'unsuitable' people and to be wilful. For this reason, in 1432, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick requested that, "[Since the king] has been distracted by some from his learning...

  12. 1455: Margaret of Anjou drowns.

    April 1445. When Suffolk carries Margaret of Anjou to England, their ship sunks during the stormy crossing and both drown. Does the marriage treaty remain in place? I think not. Does Gloucester still fall? Even without Margaret and Anjou, Gloucester still has a lot of enemies willing to...

  13. Regnum Visigothorum (1282-1515)
    Threadmarks: 1. Spania after the end of the War of the Four Kings (1282-1285)

    To my readers Regnum Visigothorum Due to my infamous lack of map-making abilities I've taken this map from Crusader Kings II to use it as justification to the PODs that depart this narration from the original Regnum Visigothorum . I hope you don't mind. Spania after the end of the War of...

  14. Regnum Visigothorum
    Threadmarks: 1. The "Old" Visigothic Kingdom of Tolouse.

    Visigothic kingdom of Tolouse in 500 1. The "Old" Visigothic Kingdom of Tolouse. After murdering his brother Thorismund in 453, Theodoric II became king of the Visigothic Kingdom of Tolouse. In 466, after barely avoiding being assasinated himself by his own younger brother, Euric, the king...

  15. The Commonwealth of Catalonia
    Threadmarks: 1. The birth of a nation

    The Commonwealth of Catalonia, printed in Antwerp in 1608 by Jan Baptist Vrients 1. The birth of a nation. When King Juan II of Aragon died in his bed on the night of April 27, 1467, the war against the Catalan rebels took a turn for the worse. Fernando, his 10-years heir, was to be crowned...

  16. ¡La Constitución Vive! - A Spanish parliamentary monarchy
    Threadmarks: Summary of Events

    The origin of this alternate retelling of Spanish (and a bit of the world) history comes from here. In 1766 Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, dies, and his brother Fernando becomes king of Spain (OTL Fernando I of the Two Sicilies. His son Leopoldo Juan would inherit the kingdom of the Two...

  17. WI Hamburger Hill in 1967

    The support of the majority of Americans to the war in Vietnam began to go down in October 1967 (March 1965: 64 percent supporting, 21 percent opposed; October 1967: 46 percent opposed, 44 percent supporting). Just as the war seemed to go on endlessly and aimlessly, America’s patience ran out...

  18. ¡Viva la Constitución! - A Spanish parliamentary monarchy
    Threadmarks: 1. From Esquilache to Alfonso XII.

    1. From Esquilache to Alfonso XII. The unlucky king Charles III of Spain had reasons not to remember too fondly the year of 1766: First he lost his heir, Charles. Then, the Esquilache Riots broke out in the capital and soon a few more cities joined the revolt, which was, eventually, quelled...

  19. A Tale of Two Countries (1983-1993)
    Threadmarks: 1. El Cambio

    1. El Cambio As we have seen in the previous book, by 1983 UCD, the party that had held the government for the last six years, was utterly exhausted and involved in a deep crisis while the PSOE seemed to bring the bright promise of a new beginning. A new era was there. Under the motto Por el...

  20. A Tale of Two Countries (Spain, 1976-1982)
    Threadmarks: 1. Reunification

    1. Reunification The political and economical stagnation that the Francoist Spain was enduring since the 1960s, specially from 1965 onwards, led to an increase of the "Free World" democracies upon the totalitarian regime. In 1972, Robert Nixon send his Secretary of State, William P. Rodgers, to...
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