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Baltasar Carlos Survives

Survival of the heir

After the ceremony, the royal family moved to Zaragoza. On October 5, the eve of second anniversary of the death of Queen Elisabeth, Philip IV and Balthasar Charles attended Vespers that night in her memory. That evening, the prince was ill and the next day, Saturday October 6, he had to stay in bed while the king went to the funeral. The disease, smallpox, spread rapidly, and on Tuesday, October 9, at 8 in the morning, the Archbishop of Saragossa gave him the Last Sacraments. It is said that the Host was exhibited until 3 o'clock, when it became a general procession to the Convent of Jesus, which then proceeded to Our Lady of Cogullada and brought in procession to the altar of La Seo where it was surrounded by candles and prayers. Balthasar Charles would recover and survive from Small Pox and marry Maria Anna of Austria.

By the late 1640’s sometime after the recovery of Baltasar Carlos and along with the peace with the Netherlands the Spanish would swap the Provinces of Cagayan, Ilocos Pangasinan, Zambales and Pampanga[1] with Mollucas with Portugal and the Spanish would focus on Mollucas and Sulawesi along with Mindanao, the Five provinces would be the remaining parts of Luzon or Selurong under Majapahit influence which was not conquered by the Bruneians and the Portuguese would use that as a base of the missions to Japan, this would be a bad news for the Sultanates of Maguindanao and Sulu as the Spanish would covet the riches of Mindanao.

The main reason for the land swap was that Selurong/Luzon was part of the Core lands of the Portuguese Empire which is the Majapahit Empire’s lands and that it was very rebellious, and flood filled which would not work for the Empire.

King Philip IV of Spain would soon remarry to Anna Marie Louise, Duchess of Montpensier after the recovery of his child.






1. The Spanish give parts of Luzon to Portugal instead of Celebes.
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