A Prophecy Refuted – Richard III - Timeline Concept

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A Prophecy Refuted – Richard III TL

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Joan of Portugal with Infant Jesus

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On March of 1485, a Proxy marriage between the Duke of Beja and Elizabeth of York was successfully proposed and accepted by the King of Portugal and a proxy groom was sent to England, the marriage between Beja and Elizabeth of York is a political one so is another Political marriage between Joan of Portugal and Richard III which Joan of Portugal is still thinking of.

The Proxy marriage between Elizabeth of York and Manuel, duke of Beja was celebrated on June of 1485 on the arrival of the Proxy groom, this rids of the bride for Henry Tudor to marry, this negated the return of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York is sent to Portugal to meet her husband for her to marry him in Portugal.

Joan of Portugal would have reservations since she still has a prophetic dream that Richard III would be defeated by a Lancastrian claimant, her reservations would be cleared by meeting Elizabeth of York who is now married to Manuel of Portugal on 1485 which melted her own objections to the marriage, which would mean there is no challenge and objection to the marriage between Richard III and Joan of Portugal.

She was shocked and sad at the same time, she said.

"The Prophetic dream I had was refuted."

On November of 1485, Joan of Portugal arrives in England, she is a princess of 33 years of age and still on her fertile years, however majority of that time spent on a convent due to her piousness, she is a Princess of Lancastrian descent and would merge the Lancastrian and York lineages.

The marriage would turn as a success since she would give birth to a son named Edward on December of 1486, named after his brother, Edward of Middleham.

The marriage between Richard III and Joan of Portugal is described as a political marriage between them but the marriage between Elizabeth of York and Beja would have the most repercussions in Portugal and England.

The two apparently did not like each other but the two would bed each other due to their own duty to have heirs and spares.
 
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Isabella of York
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On 1485, Elizabeth of York marries Manuel of Beja as his own wife, taking the name Isabella of York, a princess seen as illegitimate due to the accusations of her father's marriage being bigamous, she is married to the Duke of Beja to prevent her from marrying Henry Tudor who had sworn to marry her, Elizabeth of York arrived in Portugal and was very cordial to her new relatives including the future English Queen Joan of Portugal.

She would announce her pregnancy on the early months of 1486

At all Elizabeth of York and Manuel of Beja would have eight children

John(Joaõ) (October 2 1486)

Margaret of Portugal(Margarida)( November 20 1489)

Henry(Henrique) (June 4 1491)

Isabella(Isabel)(2 July 1492 – 14 September 1495)

Maria (March 15 1496)

Edward(Duarte) (b. 1498)







Her marriage to Manuel of Beja would seem to be a blessing in disguise but initially she seen it as an exile from the court of England, she was elated when she became the Queen of Portugal with her husband on the death of Alfonso VI on 1496 and Alfonso VI left a daughter with Isabella of Aragon who died in childbirth on 1494 named Isabella(b. 1494), she betrothed her child, John to Isabella of Portugal who was the heir to the three Kingdoms of Portugal, Aragon and Castile, however Isabella died in 1502.

Elizabeth of York herself would die in 1500, Manuel I would remarry to Margaret of Austria on 1502, the marriage of the old Margaret, former Princess of Asturias and Manuel I would make her his second queen.

Margaret and Manuel would have all in all

Infanta Beatrice (December 3 1504)

Infante Manuel, Duke of Alentejo (March 5 1506)

Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Guarda (June 20 1507)

Infante Afonso (April 10 1509 d. 1509)

Henry(Henrique) (January 20 1512)

Infanta Maria (February 4 1513)

Infante Edward, Duke of Guimarães(Duarte) (October 25 1515)

Infante Anthony (September 12 1516 d. 1516)
 
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Perkin Waybeck
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The marriage between Elizabeth of York and Manuel of Beja and Joan of Portugal and Richard III had ended the long war of Roses between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists, the dual marriage negated the return of the return of the Lancastrians to the throne of England and the marriage to Joan would merge the Lancastrian and York claims with Richard.

Richard and Joanna would have two further children named Joan b. 1489 and Henry of England b. 1491 and nothing else followed.

He arranged marriages with the younger sisters of Elizabeth of York to his loyalists which would strengthen his case against any revolts.

On the latter part of 1480's to early 1490's Richard III would face Perkin Waybeck and his supporters, on 1491, Perkin Waybeck landed in Ireland although he failed and went back to Burgundy, Richard III would tell his sister Margaret to stop supporting the pretender to the English throne from bothering the Kingdom and stop supporting him and send him.

Margaret would respond to Richard III proclaiming her support to him and denouncing Perkin Waybeck on 1492, this would end the war of roses completely, Henry Tudor would die on complete animosity on 1503 in France.

On 1493 the King of England, Richard III would propose a marriage between Catherine of Aragon and his son Prince Edward of Wales to the Catholic monarchs which the Catholic Monarchs would accept as soon as the marriage proposal was sent to them as long as the King of England, Richard III's rule is secure from enemies.
 
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Joanna I of Castile
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On 1498, Maria of Aragon is married to the King of Scotland, James IV of Scotland, which would mean that Scots' alliance with France would be broken temporarily, all in all Maria and James IV would have 7 children all in all.

James (October 4, 1500)

Margaret (June 3 1504)

Arthur (October 4 1506)

Robert (June 2 1508 d. 1508)

Mary (June 4 1512)

Anne (April 10 1515 d. 1515)

Eleanor (May 2 1517)

The death of Joanna's brother John, the stillbirth of John's daughter and the deaths of Joanna's older sister Isabella and Isabella's daughter Isabella made Joanna heiress to the Spanish kingdoms. Her remaining siblings were Maria (1482–1517) and Catherine (1485–1536), younger than Joanna by three and six years, respectively.

In 1502, the Castilian Cortes of Toro recognised Joanna as heiress to the Castilian throne and Philip as her consort. She was named Princess of Asturias, the title traditionally given to the heir of Castile. Also in 1502, the Aragonese Cortes gathered in Zaragoza to swear an oath to Joanna as heiress; however, the Archbishop of Saragossa expressed firmly that this oath could only establish jurisprudence by way of a formal agreement on the succession between the Cortes and the king.

In 1502, Philip, Joanna and a large part of the Burgundian court travelled to Spain for Joanna to receive fealty from the Cortes of Castile as Princess of Asturias, heiress to the Castilian throne, a journey chronicled in great detail by Antoon I van Lalaing (French: Antoine de Lalaing). Philip and the majority of the court returned to the Low Countries in the following year, leaving a pregnant Joanna in Madrid where she gave birth to her and Philip's fourth child, Ferdinand.

By virtue of the agreement of Villafáfila, the procurators of the Cortes met in Valladolid, Castile on 9 July 1506. On 12 July, they swore allegiance to Philip I and Joanna together as King and Queen of Castile and León and to their son Charles, later Charles I of Castile, Leon and Aragon and Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, as their heir-apparent. This arrangement only lasted for a few months.

On 25 September 1506 Philip died suddenly of typhoid fever in the city of Burgos in Castile. Some suspected that he had been poisoned by his father-in-law Ferdinand II who had always disliked his foreign Habsburg origins and with whom he never wanted to share power. Joanna was pregnant with their sixth child, a daughter named Catherine, Joanna would become an eligible heiress and many men wanted to marry her due to the lands discovered by her parents via Columbus.

Joanna I of Castile would remarry to John, Prince of Portugal, the son of the King of Portugal, Manuel I and Elizabeth(Isabella) of York as soon as her first husband, Philip died and after giving birth to a daughter named Catherine on 1507 as suggested by her father Ferdinand to avoid Castile and Aragon from having a union with the Germans and have their sons from the marriage with John as the ones who will be ahead the succession of Castile and Aragon not the Austrian sons of Joanna.

All in all Juana would give birth to 5 children with her second husband, Juan.

John(Juan)(October 4 1508)

Mary(Maria)(June 2 1510)

Beatrice(Beatriz)(April 4 1512)

Alfonso (June 2 1513)

Claudia(June 5 1515)
 
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Catherine of Aragon
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On 1498, Mary of Aragon is married to the King of Scotland and Richard III would demand that a formal betrothal between Edward, Prince of Wales and Catherine of Aragon be made, he also made a betrothal between Henry and Anne of France, the stepdaughter of King Louis XII but the marriage proposal was soon abandoned as soon as the betrothal between Catherine and Edward was made.

The betrothal between Catherine and Edward was made in 1500 as soon as the two were able to consent to the marriage, Edward, Prince of Wales is enamored with Catherine of Aragon and the dispensation from the pope will be made between the two, Joan of Portugal would encourage her son, Edward to marry her.

Catherine would arrive on a ship from Spain in 1501 with a rich retinue which included Black slaves from Africa like John Blanke, the marriage between Catherine and Edward, Prince of Wales would be celebrated in the end of 1501.

Joan of Portugal and Catherine of Aragon became quite fond of each other due to them two knowing Spanish and Portuguese taught to them in the court of their homeland, Iberia, Joan of Portugal would lose her homesickness due to Catherine of Aragon being in the Royal court and Joan would apreciate her marriage with Richard III and her duties as Queen.

Edward and Catherine would like each other as the two are both Spanish or Iberian in heritage and the marriage would mean that there would be an Anglo-Iberian alliance in the future.
 
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Richard III would die on 1502 due to a sweating sickness, he is said to have died suddenly due to a fever, however some said he died due to poison, whatever they said, Richard III is a King that stabilized his own country and is better than King John who is also implicated for killing his own nephew.

Richard III's last words was for Elizabeth of York which was an apology for what happened to her family which is sent to Portugal, however, it is late as Elizabeth of York is already dead, however, her son Juan was able to get the appology from Richard III.

Richard III is buried on the Westminster abbey after his own death afterwards.

He is remembered for what he did to his own niece who became the Mother of John I of Spain, due to this he is respected for the mercy he gave to his own niece who was given a life of queen even if it is not on her own land.

Edward V would take the throne as the King of England with his wife Catherine of Aragon who is a beautiful bride from Spain, Catherine is delighted that she is his own Queen and that she would love Edward very much, the two have a vision for the future of England.

The beautiful Catherine and Edward V would consummate their marriage on the very first time and Edward V said that he is delighted to take Catherine of Aragon as his wife and that he is happy that she is in his court as she is a very intelligent queen who is an asset to his own Kingdom.

Joan of Portugal would retire as a nun after the death of Richard III restoring her own old religious life saying that she has done everything that she had done as a queen, she would again stay in a convent for a longer part of her own life as she has done her part as queen of England.

Joan of Portugal would tell her daughter in law, Catherine of Aragon to take care of her son, Edward V which Catherine of Aragon says that she will do.


 
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Anne of Brittany

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When Charles VIII, heir of the rights of the Kings of France over Brittany, died as the result of an accident on 4 April 1498, Anne was 21 years old with her infant daughter and namesake Anne as her heiress to Brittany. She then personally took charge of the administration of the Duchy of Brittany. She restored the faithful Philippe de Montauban to the chancellery of Brittany, named Jean de Châlon, Prince of Orange, as Hereditary Lieutenant General of Brittany, convened the Estates of Brittany, and ordered production of a gold coin bearing her name and appointed his squire Gilles of Texue as responsible of the Château de Brest.

Around her, there was a famous circle of court poets, among them the Italian humanist Publio Fausto Andrelini from Forlì (who spread the New Learning in France), historian Jean Lemaire de Belges and poet Jean Marot. She also took into her service the most famous musicians of her time: Johannes Ockeghem, Antoine de Févin, Loyset Compère and Jean Mouton. Anne of Brittany was undoubtedly the first Queen of France to appear as a patron sought after by artists and writers of her time.

Three days after her husband's death, the terms of her marriage contract came into force; however, the new King, Louis XII, was already married, to Joan, daughter of Louis XI and sister to Charles VIII. On 19 August 1498, at Étampes, Anne agreed to marry Louis XII if he obtained an annulment from Joan within a year. Days later, the process for the annulment of the marriage between Louis XII and Joan of France began. In the interim, Anne returned to Brittany in October 1498.

If Anne was gambling that the annulment would be denied, she lost: Louis's first marriage was dissolved by Pope Alexander VI before the end of the year. Anne's third marriage contract, signed the day of her marriage in Nantes, January 7, 1499, was concluded under conditions radically different from those of the second. She was no longer a child, but a Dowager Queen, and determined to ensure the recognition of her rights as sovereign Duchess from that point forward. Although her new husband exercised the ruler's powers in Brittany, he formally recognized her right to the title "Duchess of Brittany" and issued decisions in her name. Also, she ensured that their second child, son or daughter, would inherit the duchy of Brittany, a clause that would not be respected in the future. Anne's second coronation ceremony as Louis XII's consort took place on 18 November 1503, again at St. Denis Basilica.

Anne of France would later give birth to two further daughters named Claude November 4, 1499 and Renee of France November 2, 1510 and a son named Louis who died at his own birth b. June 2, 1508.

Anne of Brittany would tour her duchy on 1505 and fiercely defended the independence of her own duchy and due to that on during the latter part of her own reign as queen she planned a marriage between Charles of Burgundy or Prince Henry of England, Anne would defend the independence of her duchy, she pursued Henry of England the brother of Edward V of England again in 1510 for the hand of her daughter Anne remembering the but her husband Louis XII was against the proposed matches of Anne it from happening and had Anne married to Francis of Angouleme the heir presumptive to the French throne.

Anne of Brittany would die on 1514 due to a kidney stone attack.
 
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An Island in Saludong area

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In the former province of Saludong of Majapahit that was a victim of an attack of the Bruneians a few decades ago by Ragam Bolkiah and the trading towns of Faru, Tondo, Makabebe and Bigan would start to adopt islam completely from Borneo, Java and Aceh, the former majapahit vassals, the Kingdom of Sapa and Kaboloan, now under the rule of the descendants of the rulers of Singhasari and Majapahit just like the kingdom of Mataram, Tondo and parts of Saludong is under Bruneian occupation and Kumintang are allies of the Bruneians and its coastal and trading cities are vassals of Brunei, the trading city states of Faru, Makabebe and Bigan which are direct vassals of Majapahit and the Malays from Sumatra and Javanese would start migrate to these trading towns which would assimilate into the locals and the Bruneians would have some control of the muslim parts of the Kingdom of Saludong like what it had when the towns that formed it were starting to convert to islam.

After the eruption of Mt Pinatubo Ragam Bolkiah razed and attacked the Majapahit Province and defeated its Vassal Kingdoms of Kaboloan and Sapa and seized the city of Tondo and established Kota Saludong and also settled tagalogs in parts of the Northern Manila bay in the environs of Tondo and Meykawayan displacing many of its original inhabitants inland and west to Makabebe and Hagunoy after the destruction of attack by the Borneans in Tondo.

Sultan Bolkiah's victory over Majapahit in the north by defeating the vassals of Majapahit and the Majapahit forces there and as well as his marriage to Laila Mecanai, the daughter of Sulu Sultan Amir Ul-Ombra, widened Brunei's influence in the North East.

This increased Brunei's wealth as well as extending Islamic teachings in the region, resulting in the influence and power of Brunei reaching its peak during this period. Bolkiah's rule reached essentially all of coastal Borneo, as far south as Banjarmasin, and as far north as the island of Saludong.

After the Majapahit capital of Trowulan fell to Demak in 1530, the Kingdoms of Kaboloan and Sapa would gradually take the place of Majapahit as the rulers of the old Majapahit Province of Saludong, however since the Bruneians were one of the Prosetylizers of the old Majapahit Province of Saludong, the city states of Faru, Makabebe and Bigan and the coastal areas of Saludong would start to convert due to Malay, Borneans and Javanese traders coming to their area which is said to be the start of the new wave of migrants from the Western Indies to Saludong.
 
Interesting thread.

Richard and Joanna would have two further children named Joan b. 1489 and Henry of England b. 1491 and nothing else followed.

Henry seems an unlikely choice for a name, considering the Yorkists had overthrown Henry VI. More likely choices would be the names of Richard's brothers George or Edmund, or his father Richard, or John, the anglicized name Joanna's brother.
 
Interesting thread.



Henry seems an unlikely choice for a name, considering the Yorkists had overthrown Henry VI. More likely choices would be the names of Richard's brothers George or Edmund, or his father Richard, or John, the anglicized name Joanna's brother.
Yes, true..this tl is just a timeline concept.
 
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