A Voyage never taken or a more glorious marriage

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Maria of Portugal, Queen of France

Double Portuguese-French marriage

On 1535, the French and Portuguese would make a double marriage pact and it is a marriage between Maria of Portugal to Francis III, duke of Brittany and a marriage of Madeleine of France to Alfonso of Portugal and Maria of Portugal would see her aunt Catherine of Austria as the Queen of France, however, Francis III, duke of Brittany would die before the marriage and Henry, Duke of Orleans who is now the dauphin and Duke of Brittany and she would marry the Duke of Orleans who became the new Dauphin, she would start giving birth in 1544, when she is already 23-24, due to the deformities of the Duke of Orleans, however, the previous dauphin was weaker than the previous one and Henry, duke of Orleans is also in love with his stepmother, Catherine of Austria which would complicate things regarding Maria of Portugal.

Children of Henry II of France with Maria of Portugal

Francis b. January 19 1544

Elizabeth b. 2 April 1545

Claude b. 12 November 1547.

Louis b. February 3, 1549

Charles b. June 27, 1550.

Henry b. September 19, 1551

Margaret of France b. May 14, 1553

Hercules b. March 18, 1555

While in Portugal, Queen Madeleine of France would marry Alfonso, Prince of Portugal would have a son named Manuel b. November 2, 1541 and a daughter named Eleanor b. May 10, 1549, while Eleanor of Portugal, the youngest daughter of John III of Portugal would be the second wife of Charles V after the death of Isabella of Portugal on 1540, the marriage of Eleanor and Charles would happen on 1542, however the marriage would produce a daughter named Margaret of Spain November 10, 1544.

On 1549, Marie of France is married to the Duke of Savoy, Emmanuel Philibert, a marriage that would produce a son named Charles Emmanuel in 1553 and a daughter named Eleanor in 1566.

 

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Jeanne III of Navarre

It is tough to be a Navarrese Heiress

The other son Claude and Francis II, Charles, the now duke of Orleans would die in 1545, and he was engaged to Jeanne of Navarre, however her brothers have died in early 1540’s on their childhoods with her mother Renee dying on 1540’s forcing her to be the heiress and her second betrothal with Louis, duke of Angouleme would be a success and her marriage would produce two children who survive their childhood since Charles and Madeleine would die in the 1560’s and Jeanne would inherit the throne of Navarre in 1555 after the death of her father.

Compared to any of the sons of his brother, Henry, Louis’s son Henry was sturdier than anyone of the son of Henry II which would be a source of family clashes.

Children of Francis, duke of Angouleme and Jeanne III of Navarre

Henry b. December 13, 1551

Charles b. 1553

Madeleine b. 1554

Catherine b. February 7, 1559

 

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Henry VIII

The Divorce and the Daughters of Henry VIII

Since 1525, Henry VIII would be pressing for a divorce with his wife, Catherine of Aragon and since he himself is superstitious and believed that Catherine is the source of the bad luck and started to press a divorce with her.

On 1532, King Henry would divorce Catherine of Aragon however, Clement VII would not accept the divorce and despite that he would marry Anne Boleyn and declare supremacy, dissolve the monasteries and split from the Catholic Church which would result in a daughter named Elizabeth of England in September 7, 1533 and a son named Edward, Prince of Wales born in October 12, 1537 and he would not have another child afterwards and King Henry VIII would be content about the birth of a son, however the people brought in by Anne Boleyn would lead in Edward VI to be a protestant monarch, on 1542 in order to further the alliance between Spain and England and to avoid a French threat to the English, Princess Mary is betrothed to Philip the Prince of Asturias and Mary would embark to Brussels to marry her groom and the marriage would happen on 1543 after a long time of choosing a marriage for the Princess, since he would use it to strengthen his son’s claims and even had his son betrothed to Joanna of Spain since it is no longer possible for him to marry Christina of Denmark and even attempted to return his country to Catholicism by marrying Mary to the Prince of Asturias in 1543 which did happen and it would be his daughter who would restore Catholicism in England.

In the same time, Eleanor of Ansbach the daughter of the previous queen of Aragon and a landless scion of Ansbach would marry Henry VIII as his last wife, this marriage would result in a single daughter named Margaret of England b. January 2, 1545, who would end up marrying Henry de Bourbon of Auvergne in 1460, his efforts to have another son and spare would be a failure in the end.

After his death in 1549, his son Edward VI and his advisors and regents would briefly plunge England in the rule of the Protestants for a brief time and Catholics would be banned from key positions and Henry VIII is also suspicious of the people that Anne put in in his court that he tried to remove them before his death in 1549 but he is not successful in that regard.

Mary Tudor would have children with her husband, Philip, Prince of Asturias named Charles b. November 10, 1544 and Isabella Clara Eugenia b. May 2, 1546, Catherine b, November 10, 1550 and another son named Philip in May 10, 1553.

 

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The next update will be about Bloody Mary.

 

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Louis II of Hungary and Mohacs

Mary of Austria travelled to Hungary in June 1521, two and a half years after Emperor Maximilian's death.

Uh, you know this is Mary of Hungary, right (At least in OTL).

 

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Uh, you know this is Mary of Hungary, right (At least in OTL).

Yep, I indicated that in my new revision.

 

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Mary I

Bloody Mary to Mary the Great

On 1553, Edward, the son of Henry VIII would die, and Henry would create a provision in the succession barring Mary from the succession and her catholic descendants from the English throne, favoring his second daughter Elizabeth, the problem was Elizabeth herself is considered a bastard by the other powers and it is Mary, Princess of Asturias who is the one that is recognized by the external powers who is the successor of Edward VI council would take over to decide who is his successor and they chose Mary over the choice of Edward VI of Jane Grey and the English Catholics would prefer Mary over Jane Grey since they loved the late Catherine of Aragon and the fact that Mary is the eldest daughter of Henry VIII not Jane Grey, when Mary landed in 1555 from Spain and assumed the rule of England and crowned as queen she would tie and burn her protestant enemies to the stake including the advisors and regents of her brother, Edward VI on his reign which would be a step to reverse the break of England from the Church of Rome, her successors are more successful since they would reap the fruits of her own labor.

The French would declare a war to support Elizabeth in the latter part of 1555, but Marian forces would win and force Elizabeth to comply and join her in her court, so that she would meet her kids and her husband, however, Elizabeth afterwards is sent to Portugal in a year to marry Edward, Duke of Guimaraes, who would be her husband due to Mary and Philip

Mary I would marry Elizabeth to someone of her choice which is Edward, duke of Guimaraes in Portugal since she would want Elizabeth to marry someone who is not harmful to her and banned protestants in high positions, however Elizabeth would die in childbirth with her only child in 1560 who died with her and the marriage would not result in any children and she would betroth and promise her daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia to James VI of Scotland, this would secure her son’s Philip, who the parliament chosen to succeed her after her death, the abdication of Charles V and Philip leaving would make Mary I in charge more of her Kingdom and on her death on 1559, Philip would be the regent for her son, Philip the Younger, initially during her term she would be known as the Bloody Mary by her detractors but she is known as Mary the Great later on due to her restoring Catholicism in England by the later generations.

 

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Brunei on its height

Proselytization

On 1540’s the Portuguese would start their plans in spreading Christianity to Japan due to Francis Xavier meeting Anjiro in 1549 and started the evangelization of Japan, after Francis Xavier left Japan in 1550's, Anjiro would be driven out into piracy and he would die in the sea, Christianity would be promoted by a handful of missionaries from Portugal who arrived in Japan via Macau, since the Christianity is a significant minority they would not influence the Japanese themselves and the Shoguns would not treat it as a threat even by 1570, and would not affect the policies of the emperor and the shogun, Christianity would be a substantial religion with only Nagasaki as the city with Christian majority by 1580’s.

On 1570, the Muslims have already completely converted the coastal and bay regions of Saludong except for the area of Sambals, this process has been going in decades since the first decades of the 16th century and the initial areas where islam became the only religion whose initial areas where in they are the majority are in the towns of Faru, Makabebe and Binalatongan in the early 16th century due to peace agreement with the Bruneians have made after the invasion of Tondo a couple of decades ago, in the 1580’s the Muslims would completely proselytize the regions of the lower banks of Matalag and Kayakayam which are the tributaries of River Kahayan or Bannag in the town of Piat and in upper reaches of Agno in Kaboloan to Islam and the Sultanate of Saludong is established with the center in Macabebe in the 1580’s and they would adopt the Jawi or Arabic Alphabet as their writing system.

 

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Charles V's death in 1560

Death of Charles V

On 1555, Charles V would abdicate leaving the Imperial crown and Austria to his brother, Ferdinand of Austria and Netherlands, Burgundy and Spain to his own son, Philip, he would leave and turn into religion now as a monk to rest for him moving in to Toledo as a monk, the death of Charles V’s mother Joanna would happen on 1552, the abdication of Charles V on 1555 would make the Prince of Asturias, Philip crowned as Philip II of Spain, Charles V would himself die on 1560.

Philip II would be left of the inheritance of Spain and Austria and the Burgundy and Ferdinand of Austria would be given with the inheritance of Austria itself and this would mean that Philip II would be at peace and the people would want his rule and the Netherlands would not be a headache for him, Philip II would advise his son, Charles, Prince of Asturias to marry Eleanor of Portugal and Philip would marry Elizabeth of Valois himself, a move that would surprise the King of France who expected that his daughter, Elizabeth is the one to marry the heir to the Kingdom of Spain.

The marriage between his son, Charles and Eleanor of Portugal would happen to maintain peace between the two countries of Portugal and the two joined countries of Aragon and Castile.

Elizabeth of Valois would have a daughter named Catherine Michelle in 1660 before dying in 1562, Catherine Michelle would be the later duchess of Savoy, Claude Duchess of Lorraine who have Ceres like Fertility, Philip II would remarry to Anne of Austria after Elizabeth of France died, Anne of Austria would give birth to two sons, named Diego b. 1572 and Felipe b. 1477.

 

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The Death of Sigismund Augustus and succession

Children of Sigismund the Old with Bona Sforza

Isabella (January 18 1519 – 15 September 1559), married John Zápolya, King of Hungary (Eastern Kingdom)

Sigismund II Augustus (August 1, 1520 – 7 July 1572), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania

Sophia (July 13, 1522 – 28 May 1575), married Henry V, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Anna (18 October 18, 1523 – 9 September 1596), married Stephen Báthory

Catherine (November 1, 1526 – 16 September 1583), married Louis, Prince of Bohemia

Wojciech Olbracht (born and died 20 September 1527)

On 1547, the Polish parliament are worried about that Sigismund Augustus should remarry, the third time after the death of his two wife and Barbara and chose to marry Infanta Juana of Spain, the marriage was a suggestion of his cousin, Vladislaus who married Elizabeth of Austria to reinforce the ties of Austria to Bohemia and also Catherine Jagiellon was just married at this time to Louis, Prince of Bohemia, both the marriage of Elizabeth of Austria and Catherine Jagiellon to their husbands would produce healthy children while Sigismund Augustus would not have his own kids no matter what unlucky who he married and was briefly succeeded by Anna Jagiellonica and Infanta Juana would end up in the nunnery of Poor Clares.

Louis, the younger brother of Vladislaus III of Bohemia and Hungary would later claim the throne of Poland after the death of Anna Jagiellonica since the two already have children, while Catherine Jagiellonica and Louis of Bohemia would have; Elizabeth b. 1549, Wladyslaw b. 1552, Anna b. 1560, John b. 1564, Louis II of Poland succeeded his cousin and sister in law Anna Jagiellonica in 1560.

A Swedish match was once floated for one of the daughters of Sigismund the old, but it ended with Anne of Bohemia, the daughter of Louis II of Bohemia and Hungary ended as queen of Sweden instead as wife of Eric XIV, the wife of King Eric of Sweden, and Mary of Bohemia would marry Ivan IV of Russia which would mean that the Jagiellonians, Russians and Swedes would have good relations, Wladyslaw himself would marry a daughter of Henry I, Elector of Saxony of Saxony and Anne of Cleves, Margaret b. 1544, who was their only surviving child.

 

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Margaret of Scotland

Margaret, Princess of Scots

Margaret of Scotland married the Dauphin Francis in 1560, who died of a disease 7 years after the marriage, leaving her a widow with a daughter named Margaret of France b. June 10, 1563 when she was the dauphine of France and she herself would return to Scotland in 1567 and found herself betrothed to Charles who is 9 years younger than her, which she would accept in order to unite the two countries of England and France since her brother, James VI is already married to Isabella Clara Eugenia of England and Spain, she herself would comply in the marriage.

She would give her own duties as the Queen of England once her husband, Charles has come of age in 1570, she would give birth to Henry, Prince of Wales b. November 10, 1570, Elizabeth of England b. May 2, 1572 and Charles, duke of York b. October 2, 1580.

Margaret of Scotland would be the ancestress of the Kings of France and England due to her two marriages which both produced children.

 

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