Duarte II of Portugal - A miraculous Story

Where is the "risk" for Florence?
Where is the "risk" for France in giving their hunchbacked daughter?
Duarte is a royal Duke and not some Duke whose own Duchy is overtaken by someone else.
Risk to waste a daughter on an inferior match as that girls can be married better (aka to a ruler who can be an useful ally for their family)
Claude can still marry a ruler (Lorraine or Navarre) and in any case marrying a vassal of her father is better for her future and more useful for Henry/Catherine than gambling on Duarte’s possible inheritance...

(If you want Elisabeth for Duarte kill off don Carlos, Mary I of England, Henry II of France and the Dauphin Francis in quick succession so Philip II will remarry to Mary Stuart instead of Elisabeth of France)
 
Risk to waste a daughter on an inferior match as that girls can be married better (aka to a ruler who can be an useful ally for their family)
Claude can still marry a ruler (Lorraine or Navarre) and in any case marrying a vassal of her father is better for her future and more useful for Henry/Catherine than gambling on Duarte’s possible inheritance...

(If you want Elisabeth for Duarte kill off don Carlos, Mary I of England, Henry II of France and the Dauphin Francis in quick succession so Philip II will remarry to Mary Stuart instead of Elisabeth of France)
We will see in the next update.
There also comes a new Brideoffer into the play.
 
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