1492 – A different renaissance

1492 – A different renaissance


On 1492, Queen Isabella of Castile was persuaded by her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon decided to focus on the battle moors and the reunification of Iberia, North Africa and Jerusalem rather than to finance the impossible expeditions of Columbus.


She decided that she would continue to the conquest of Northern Africa on her own reign and Spain’s succession would be secure and separate from any other entity.


It was theorized that if Isabella commissioned the expedition of Columbus, the Mexica and Tawantinsuya would be decimated, since the two Kingdoms benefited from the Cabralian conquest which resulted in immunity from small pox of the people of Tawantinsuya and Mexica.



The Queen with religious fervor agreed with her husband and changed her mind, Columbus went to France where he is received by Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany, Charles VIII funded Columbus and his brother Bartholomew instead, in this time Anne of Brittany has a son named Charles Orlando, on the French court is also Catherine of Navarre, another relative of the Catholic Monarchs, in this time, the King of France guaranteed their support to the Navarrese Kingdom if Catherine of Navarre would marry their daughter, Anna of Navarre to the future King of France, Charles Orlando.


Isabella in this time sent a message to her namesake daughter and told her to stay in Portugal and marry the heir of the current king, Manuel of Beja, as it would retain the alliance with the Kingdom of Portugal with the other Kingdoms and in order not to possibly undo the efforts of the King of Spain, so she was obliged to marry Manuel of Beja, on 1492, the marriage did happen between the two.


Isabella gave birth on an another year to a son named John on the latter part of 1493, On John’s later reign Iberia would be united with the Cabralian and the Indian Colonies, while a daughter named Isabella would be born on 1496.


The Catholic Monarchs made two marriage arrangements in the same time as the urgency, one was to betroth Joanna of Aragon to Philbert of Savoy and betroth John of Asturias to Germaine de Foix, after the death of her own brother in 1493 due to sickness.


The betrothal between Germaine de Foix and John, Prince of Asturias and her later marriage would counter the French-Bearn/Navarrese alliance, the betrothal was given a dispensation by the pope as the bride and groom are cousins, the father of Germaine de Foix is John, Viscount of Narbonne, is disputing the inheritance of Navarre in the Pro-Spanish party, the marriage alliance would result in the full conquest of Navarre after the defeat of the French forces,.



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Germaine of Foix is 10 years younger than John of Asturias so is unlikely who such match will happen, while Philibert of Savoy at this point is only a member of a junior branch of the Ducal House and the Duke Charles II of Savoy is only four years old so I do not see how the Spanish sovreigns can take in consideration a match with Savoy.
 
Having a little trouble parsing this one. Are you positing that a more limited Conquista would prevent smallpox from reaching Mexico and the Andes?

I'm not necessarily sure limiting colonization to Brazil would put anyone in the Americas out of reach of smallpox. There are still people there who will transmit it. It may transmit more slowly, but eventually it will reach Mesoamerica if nowhere else simply through trade - even without the sorts of well-developed trade routes and pilgrimages of Europe, trade was still going on. You might see the Caribbean peoples who trade with the northeastern South American peoples pick it up, and from there it'll only spread as neighbouring cultures trade with each other, likely spreading to Mesoamerica and Ecuador. The northern Inca might also get mixed up in it and transmit it along.

Maybe it won't be as virulent as it was in life but I don't think, once Europeans have landed, there's any way to immunize much of the New World from smallpox, unless you're going to have it roll in while Europeans don't bother to colonize for the next couple hundred years while indigenous populations bounce back.
 
Germaine of Foix is 10 years younger than John of Asturias so is unlikely who such match will happen, while Philibert of Savoy at this point is only a member of a junior branch of the Ducal House and the Duke Charles II of Savoy is only four years old so I do not see how the Spanish sovreigns can take in consideration a match with Savoy.

I am not butterflying the deaths of Charles II and John, Prince of Asturias, my real intention was to marry Germaine to the Alt! Miguel da Paz


Having a little trouble parsing this one. Are you positing that a more limited Conquista would prevent smallpox from reaching Mexico and the Andes?

I'm not necessarily sure limiting colonization to Brazil would put anyone in the Americas out of reach of smallpox. There are still people there who will transmit it. It may transmit more slowly, but eventually it will reach Mesoamerica if nowhere else simply through trade - even without the sorts of well-developed trade routes and pilgrimages of Europe, trade was still going on. You might see the Caribbean peoples who trade with the northeastern South American peoples pick it up, and from there it'll only spread as neighbouring cultures trade with each other, likely spreading to Mesoamerica and Ecuador. The northern Inca might also get mixed up in it and transmit it along.

Maybe it won't be as virulent as it was in life but I don't think, once Europeans have landed, there's any way to immunize much of the New World from smallpox, unless you're going to have it roll in while Europeans don't bother to colonize for the next couple hundred years while indigenous populations bounce back.

Yes, but it is not 100% immunity but at least just manage to survive..
 
Kasumigenix I was saying who Philibert of Savoy will not be considerable for a match before 1499 and that only if his first wife (and her brother before her) still die as OTL.
 
On 1492, Queen Isabella of Castile was persuaded by her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon decided to focus on the battle moors and the reunification of Iberia, North Africa and Jerusalem rather than to finance the impossible expeditions of Columbus.


She decided that she would continue to the conquest of Northern Africa on her own reign and Spain’s succession would be secure and separate from any other entity.


It was theorized that if Isabella commissioned the expedition of Columbus, the Mexica and Tawantinsuya would be decimated, since the two Kingdoms benefited from the Cabralian conquest which resulted in some immunity from small pox of the people of Tawantinsuya and Mexica.


The Queen with religious fervor agreed with her husband and changed her mind, Columbus went to France where he is received by Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany, Charles VIII funded Columbus and his brother Bartholomew instead, in this time Anne of Brittany has a son named Charles Orlando, on the French court is also Catherine of Navarre, another relative of the Catholic Monarchs, in this time, the King of France guaranteed their support to the Navarrese Kingdom if Catherine of Navarre would marry their daughter, Anna of Navarre to the future King of France, Charles Orlando.


The journeys of Colombus led to the discovery of a new land they dubbed as New Brittany(OTL Quebec).


Isabella in this time sent a message to her namesake daughter and told her to stay in Portugal and marry the heir of the current king, Manuel of Beja, as it would retain the alliance with the Kingdom of Portugal with the other Kingdoms and in order not to possibly undo the efforts of the King of Spain, so she was obliged to marry Manuel of Beja, on 1492, the marriage did happen between the two.


Isabella gave birth on an another year to a son named John on the latter part of 1493, On John’s later reign Iberia would be united with the Cabralian and the Indian Colonies, while a daughter named Isabella would be born on 1496.


In this point Germaine de Foix is betrothed to John, Prince of Portugal on 1498 in order to advance the cause of the beamontese party against the Agramontese party which supports the cause of the King of France and Catherine of Navarre.




to be continued...
 
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In 1496, Joanna, at the age of sixteen, was betrothed to Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy (titular), in the region of Flanders in the Low Countries. Philip's parents were Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and his first wife, Duchess Mary of Burgundy. The marriage was one of a set of family alliances between the Habsburgs and the Trastamaras designed to strengthen both against growing French power. Joanna entered a proxy marriage at the Palacio de los Vivero in the city of Valladolid, Castile. In August 1496 Joanna left from the port of Laredo in northern Spain on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay.


In order to achieve an alliance with Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Maximilian started negotiating the marriage of their only son and heir, John, Prince of Asturias, to Margaret, as well as the marriage of their daughter, Joanna, to Philip. Margaret left the Netherlands for Spain late in 1496. The marriage took place in 1497. John died after only six months, however, Philip of Burgundy was also sick and died, however, Maximilian was able to prove that Joanna had not consummated her marriage with his own son and was able to marry her, however the attempts to have a heir failed with her, however, Joanna was able to give birth to surviving daughter namely Eleanor(1499), Catherine(1504) and Anne(1507), however she also gave birth to two still born twin boys on 1500.



For Margaret of Austria, she would get married to Frederick III of Saxony on 1498 just after she arrived from Spain, she would in future inherit Austria and Burgundy as the Holy Roman Empress, Margaret, she is dubbed as the Mother of Germany as her marriage united majority of Germany.


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