1463 a Renaissance Timeline

The Birth of another daughter
1463

Netherlands, Germany AD 2000

The Cities of Antwerpen, Leuven and Den Haag were cities that the German Empire would use as warm water Port since the Habsburg acquisition of the Netherlands, the Low countries have a French or Walloon community in the South but it has a German/Dutch Majorities in the North, the Walloon/French community in the south is concentrated on Walloon Brabant(Sud-Brabant) and Walloon Flanders(Lilloise Flanders) similar to the French communities in Alsace and Lorraine in Germany and Romandy in the Swiss Confederation.




The Birth of two daughters


During this time, Isabella of Bourbon is pregnant, there is a chance that Isabella would bear a son and a possible son would excite both Philip the Good and Isabella of Portugal, however, Isabella of Bourbon later gives birth to a daughter named Isabella on January 2, 1464 which would disappoint Philip the Good.

Louis, the Dauphin would be one of the Godfathers like her sister Mary of Burgundy.

Reactions to the child were mixed: the baby's grandfather, Duke Philip the Good, was unimpressed of the birth of another daughter and "chose not to attend the baptism as it was another girl", whereas her grandmother Isabella of Portugal was delighted at the birth of another granddaughter.

The birth of another heiress to Burgundy would cause the inheritance of Burgundy to potentially cleave in the Future while Charles the Bold would be sure at her birth that she can have a son in the future since Princess Isabella is born.

However, a year after the birth of the another daughter, Isabella of Bourbon would die of Tuberculosis and Charles would want an English marriage.
 
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Grey’s disapproval
Grey’s disapproval

On 1464, Elizabeth Woodville would decide not to marry Edward IV of England and Edward IV would want to choose brides and of Savoy, a younger sister of Queen of France, Carlotta of Savoy would seem to be an attractive choice to marry, the choices were Agnese and Bona.

On Calais the same year a marriage between Agnese di Savoia and Edward IV would be celebrated in the middle of the year, the marriage would mean that Warwick and Edward IV have good relationship and would marginalize the Lancastrians led by Margaret of Anjou and her son, Agnese di Savoia is crowned as queen of England, she would be known as Agnes of Savoy, Queen of England.

Margherita and Edward IV would have ten children namely Agnes(1466), Mary(1467), Cecily(1469), Edward(1470), Elizabeth(1472), Richard(1473), Anne(1475), George(1477), Catherine(1478) and Charlotte(1480).

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they have the same birthdates as their OTL equivalents.
 
Wedding with Margaret of York
Wedding with Margaret of York


The marriage contract for Margaret of York and Charles the Bold was completed in February 1468, and signed by Edward IV in March. The Papal dispensation arrived in late May, and preparations to send Margaret to Burgundy began. There was little enthusiasm for it outside Burgundy – the French naturally detested this union between their two enemies, whilst the English merchants, who still suffered from restrictions on the sale of their cloth in England, showed their disapproval by attacking Dutch and Flemish merchants amongst them.


Margaret left Margate for Sluys on 23 June 1468. Lord Scales and Richard Boyville were among those who escorted her to meet her future bridegroom. Despite Louis XI having ordered his ships to seize her on her journey, her convoy crossed without incident, reaching Sluys on the evening of the 25th. The following day, she met with her bridegroom's mother, Isabella, and daughters, Mary and Isabella; the meeting was a success, and the three of them would remain close friends for the rest of their lives. On 27 June, she met Charles for the first time, and the pair were privately married between 5am and 6am on 3 July, in the house of a wealthy merchant of Damme. Charles then left for Bruges, allowing the new Duchess the honour of entering separately a few hours later.


The celebrations that followed were extravagant even by the standards of the Burgundians, who were already noted for their opulence and generous festivities. The bride made her Joyous Entry in a golden litter drawn by white horses, wearing upon her head a coronet. During this procession, she charmed the burghers of Bruges when she chose to wave to them rather than shut herself away from the wind and rain. In the city itself, wine spurted freely from sculpted archers and artificial pelicans in artificial trees; the canals were decorated with torches, and the bridges decked with flowers; the arms of the happy couple were displayed everywhere, accompanied by the mottoes of the pair: Charles's Je l'ay emprins ("I have undertaken it") and Margaret's Bien en aviengne ("May good come of it"). The celebrations also included the "Tournament of the Golden Tree" that was arranged around an elaborately detailed allegory, designed to honor the bride.

The two would try to have children however, Margaret would incur many miscarriages, however, she would later manage to give birth to another daughter named Margaret on May 2, 1471.
 
Birth of a son
Birth of a son

On 18 October 1469, the formal betrothal took place. Because Isabella and Ferdinand were second cousins, they stood within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity and the marriage would not be legal unless a dispensation from the Pope was obtained. With the help of the Valencian Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia (later Alexander VI), Isabella and Ferdinand were presented with a supposed papal bull by Pius II (who had died in 1464), authorising Ferdinand to marry within the third degree of consanguinity, making their marriage legal. Afraid of opposition, Isabella eloped from the court of Henry with the excuse of visiting her brother Alfonso's tomb in Ávila. Ferdinand, on the other hand, crossed Castile in secret disguised as a servant. They were married immediately upon reuniting, on 19 October 1469, in the Palacio de los Vivero in the city of Valladolid.

On October 2, 1470, Isabella of Castile, wife of Ferdinand, duke of Girona finally gave birth to a son named Juan, named after, Isabella’s father, he would be the chosen heir to the Aragonese crown, they would express a desire to betroth her son to his cousin, Juana of Castile, the birth would be followed by four daughters, Isabella(1478), Juana(1479), Maria(1482) and Catalina(1485).

Both the Aragonese and the French would have a secure succession by 1473 as Louis XI already have two sons, Charles(1470) and Francis(1473).

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I gender flip Isabella, Queen of Portugal.
 
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The Wedding with Maximilian
The Wedding with Maximilian

On 1473, Charles the Bold would arrange a marriage between his daughter, Mary of Burgundy who would be one of his potential heiress on the Burgundy and Maximilian the Future Holy Roman Emperor, the marriage would be attended by Louis XI, Emperor Frederick III and Charles the Bold himself, Frederick III would promise Charles the Bold of Protection against the French after the marriage and prevent his realm from being conquered by the French, however, the Austrians at that time would have troubles in Hungary and the Dowry of Mary of Burgundy would be used in defending Austria against Hunyadi and successors as Mathias Corvinus is currently occupying parts of Austria, in exchange of the wedding would be the recognition of Burgundy as separate from France and in equal prestige as France, sometime after the wedding.

After her husband became Emperor she would be known Empress Mary as she is known would provide Maximilian with three daughters, namely Elizabeth(January 4, 1476), Margaret(1480) and Eleanor(June 2, 1486) and two sons, namely Philip (July 22, 1478) and Francis(September 2, 1481).

Sometime after the wedding in 1474, both Mary of Burgundy, Isabella of Burgundy and Margaret are confirmed as heiresses of the Charles the Bold in the territories where female succession is possible if he does not have a son and the territories will get partitioned between them while Charles, the Duke of Nevers would become confirmed as the heir of the lands with the Salic law just like what happened on the recent death of Nicholas of Anjou, one of the suitors of the little Isabella of Burgundy and for that reason her marriage would not be that attractive choice as she herself is just an heiress of not all of Burgundy but only parts of it, sharing it with her sister Mary.

The wedding of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian was as grand as the marriage of their son Philip with Anna(1482), the eldest surviving daughter of John Cicero of Brandenburg in the 1490s as the Germans would inherit parts of the Burgundian inheritance, John Cicero had other children namely Anna(1487) and Ursula(1490) and failed to have a son, Maximilian would use the betrothal and marriage of Anna in order to get an ally to claim Hungary and Bohemia from the Jagiellonians and to get an alliance first with Brandenburg, Anna of Brandenburg is a descendant of the elder sister of Elizabeth of Austria who married into the Jagiellonians.
 
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Death of Charles the Bold
Death of Charles the Bold

Charles the Bold antagonized René II, Duke of Lorraine, with whom he disputed the succession in the Duchy of Lorraine, which bordered many of his territories. All of these enemies readily joined forces against their common adversary Charles.

Charles suffered a first rebuff in endeavouring to protect his kinsman Ruprecht of the Palatinate, Archbishop of Cologne, against his rebel subjects. He spent ten months (July 1474 – June 1475) besieging the little town of Neuss on the Rhine (the Siege of Neuss), but was compelled by the approach of a powerful imperial army to raise the siege. Moreover, the expedition he had persuaded his brother-in-law Edward IV of England to undertake against Louis XI was stopped by the Treaty of Picquigny of 29 August 1475. He was more successful in Lorraine, where he seized Nancy on 30 November 1475.


From Nancy he marched against the Swiss. He saw fit to hang or drown the garrison of Grandson in spite of its capitulation. Grandson was a possession of Jacques of Savoy, Count of Romont, a close ally of Charles, that had been captured recently by the forces of the Swiss Confederacy. Some days later, on 2 March 1476, Charles was attacked outside the village of Concise by the confederate army in the Battle of Grandson and suffered a shameful defeat; he was compelled to flee with a handful of attendants and abandon his artillery along with an immense booty (including his silver bath).

Charles succeeded in raising a fresh army of 30,000 men that he used to fight the Morat on 22 June 1476. He was again defeated by the Swiss army, which was assisted by the cavalry of the Duke of Lorraine. On this occasion, unlike the debacle at Grandson, little booty was lost, but Charles did lose about one third of his entire army. The defeated soldiers were pushed into the nearby lake, where they were drowned or shot at while trying to swim to safety on the opposite shore. On 6 October, Charles lost Nancy, which the Duke of Lorraine was able to recover.

Making a last effort, Charles formed a new army and arrived in the dead of winter before the walls of Nancy. Having lost many of his troops through the severe cold, it was with only a few thousand men that he met the joint forces of the Lorrainers and the Swiss, who had come to the relief of the town, at the Battle of Nancy (5 January 1477). He himself perished in the fight, his naked and disfigured body being discovered some days afterward frozen in the nearby river. Charles' head had been cleft in two by a halberd, lances were lodged in his stomach and loins, and his face had been so badly mutilated by wild animals that only his physician was able to identify him by his long fingernails and the old battle scars on his body.

The daughters of Charles the Bold assumed the rule of her father's domains upon his defeat in battle and death on 5 January 1477. King Louis XI of France seized the opportunity to attempt to take possession of the Duchy of Burgundy proper and also the regions of Franche-Comté, Picardy and Artois.

The king was anxious that either Isabella of Burgundy or Margaret of Burgundy should marry his son Charles and thus secure a part of the Burgundian inheritance for his heirs, by force of arms if necessary. Burgundy, fearing French military power, sent an embassy to France to negotiate a marriage between one of the daughters and the six-year-old Dauphin (later King Charles VIII) and returned home with a betrothal with Margaret of Burgundy, however, Isabella would choose to marry the Duke of Savoy Philibert I as soon as possible who she wanted to marry for a long time, Mary of Burgundy would return and join the fight about the disputed inheritance which would start the war of Burgundian succession which divided the lands that can be inherited by Charles the Bold’s daughters, the lowlands would go to the future Empress, Franche Comte will go to Isabella and Artois, Hainaut and Charolais would be the dowry of little Princess Margaret.

The destruction and division of the old domain of Charles the Bold would be one of the things that is said to have changed history of the Rhenish region, the King of France will not grant the lands guaranteed to the Count of Nevers as Louis XI decided to nullify the will of the late Duke.
 
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