There was a secret POD of Henry V becoming a lich.Either a typo, or one HELL of a butterfly...
One presumes you meant Henry VI...
There was a secret POD of Henry V becoming a lich.Either a typo, or one HELL of a butterfly...
One presumes you meant Henry VI...
There was a secret POD of Henry V becoming a lich.
*Salic Law intensifies*It's kind of weird how the French royal families keep on having this process of 'split into lots of branches-they all die off-throne goes to distant branch' going on.
The Valois must have had a genetic predisposition to female children, because the ratio of daughters to sons in all of the branches is quite skewed. Also, the war and internecine strife really did a number on them. Note the relative youth and lack of issue of our claimants, barring the two who were imprisoned for decades and the one who was an English ally. A good number of their predecessors died from complications due to Hundred Years' War.It's kind of weird how the French royal families keep on having this process of 'split into lots of branches-they all die off-throne goes to distant branch' going on.
And thank heavens for it. Just the idea of compiling all of the matrilineal claimants gives me a headache.*Salic Law intensifies*
And thank heavens for it. Just the idea of compiling all of the matrilineal claimants gives me a headache.
Oh, I have plans for the HRE. Don't you worry about that.Do you even Holy Roman Empire?
*Remembers the 6 territorial divisions of the House of Reuss*
*Shudders*
Oh, I have plans for the HRE. Don't you worry about that.
Just imagine trying to keep them all straight when they were alive.And thank heavens for it. Just the idea of compiling all of the matrilineal claimants gives me a headache.
It's all part of the cunning plan you see. That and the bordergore, it keeps the sane and the educated plebs from thinking clearly. Of course then the damned Revolutionaries had to "fix" the problem with the guillotine and Napoleon....Just imagine trying to keep them all straight when they were alive.
I swear, it's a miracle anything got done back then.