'El Imperio Espanol Mundial'

Originally posted by LacheyS
I appreciate the work, but I am going to assume that any attempt by William to take advantage of the Aragonese War failed or was bribed off. I'm also going to take the policy that, unless a rebellion by a local is a success, part of a greater rebellion across the kingdom or is a repeated problem (i.e., continually having to put down rebellions), it won't get a mention. Otherwise, this entire timeline will get bogged down with regional messiness and I want a broader scope.

It is totally plaussible, and truly you have reason respect to it is better that it adquires a broader scope (butterflies are afecting yet France and England, after all Europe and the World -with Fadrique Cortes for example-).

I like this TL and could be I am being too much enthusiastic because this I am too much searching details when the important is that once that the TL has showed that is plaussible we could enjoy of how much updates better, so as you say this could be thwarted by regional messiness.

So go on with this TL, it is having a good number of updates:) and I like the updates:D
 
The War of the Valois (1422-1431) was the third phase of the wars between France and England. The conflict is remembered primarily for the massive setback inflicted upon the ambitions of Burgundy, which was reduced to a scattered group of territories across north-west Europe, and the betrayal by Castile of their English allies, an act which ensured France's ultimate success. It is also noteworthy for the death of King Edmund I of England, who fell in battle in 1427.

In 1422, in response to the murder of the Burgundian duke, France broke down into civil war between two lines of the Valois dynasty. King Charles VII and Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, were the major protagonists. Taking advantage of the division, the English moved to reclaim their Continental possessions, but were delayed by actions of the Scots. The Castilian involvement was limited to actions in Gascony, outside the main theatre of the war, but nonetheless significant in determining the future borders of France and Spain.

The early stages of the war primarily involved the two Valois factions and were marked by a series of defeats for the armies of the rebellious Duke. Regularly outmanoeuvered, Burgundian forces experienced catastrophic setbacks. They held out for two years. During this first stage of the conflict, troops from England were occupied with inflicting damage upon the armies of Scotland's King David III. At the same time, forces from Castile/Aragon crossed the Pyrenees and struck into Gascony, focusing particularly on Armagnac.

The Scots campaign ended in the absolute surrender of England's northern neighbour after a smashing victory at the Battle of Glasgow (1423). In 1424, King David was deposed from his throne and the status of Scotland as a kingdom came to an end. The king's brother, James, was named as the nominal leader of the new Duchy of Lothian, and swore an oath to become a vassal of England. The Armagnac campaign was equally successful for the aggressor, with Count John IV killed in battle and his homeland crushed. The Castilian army also sieged across the south, most notably defeating a large French contingent at the Battle of Toulouse (1424). It was this defeat which forced Charles VII to recognise Castilian sovereignty over Armagnac in return for a withdrawal of enemy forces from all French territory.

By 1425, French and Burgundian representatives signed the Treaty of Metz. Under the peace, Burgundy was allowed to hold its capital and hinterland, as well as possessions in Metz, Holland, Utrecht and Antwerp. The remainder of the duchy's vast estates was ceded to France. The removal of the third parties allowed the two major protagonists the opportunity to confront each other for the first time in the war. The English victories at the battles of Caen, Rouen and Flanders gave them control over a wide region and, by mid-1427, English soldiers were approaching the French capital from the west.

Increasingly desperate, King Charles VII offered a substantial bribe to his former enemies in Castile to re-engage in the war, this time as a French ally. With a significant army already in Armagnac, King Alfonso happily accepted the boost to his treasury and opened a new theatre in the south against the English. A further French advantage came when an ambush took the life of the English king. His successor, Henry IV, was crowned on the battlefield and, despite his superior ability as a general, the new monarch began to experience setbacks.

The final phase of the war saw the English advance slowly turned back. An appeal to Portugal went unheeded as Castilian troops advanced, winning battles at Bayonne, Bordeaux and Saintes and seizing the English citadels in the south. In the north, the French forces were similarly successful, managing to displace the English from most, but not all, of their territory. By 1429, the situation had become static, with English landings in the south being repulsed and the territories in the north passing back and fro between the English and French. King Henry IV sought a peace and the representatives of the three kings met in Compiegne on 4 September of that year.

As part of the Treaty of Compiegne, England ceded its Gascon estates to become a Castilian territory with King Alfonso appointing his newly-born second son, named after his father, as the new Duke of Gascony. France agreed to allow the English annexation of the County of Flanders and the Pays de Caux in return for English recognition of King Charles VII as the legitimate ruler of France and a non-aggression pact. The Treaty would survive intact for the next twenty-two years.
 
Thus ends the story. I inadvertantly threw out my notes for this timeline two days ago while cleaning up the house and, while I can remember the general direction, I do not wish to reconstruct everything from scratch.

In case you were wondering where I was headed, I will sketch a brief outline:

The plan was Alfonso the Untrustworthy to have a conflcit with Morocco again sometime between 1435 and 1450, giving him control of Portugal's food supply through the conquest of Oran and Fez. During this time, he would also involve himself in the "Italian Wars", an effort to prevent either Milan or Naples gaining the upper hand on the Italian peninsula. The conquest of Portugal was to follow from around 1450 to 1453, at which time Alfonso would be King of Portugal, Castile and Aragon. He would marry his son to Blanche's daughter to complete the Gascon possessions, while Berenguer would have inherited Catalunya. Vast empire already, so I was still working on exact details of its government.

By the mid-1450's, he would be dying, but the Spanish would have colonised Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Azores before his death. He also would have commissioned the first expedition of Fadrique Cortes, ordering him to sail down the African coast, where he would discover Cape Verde. I can't recall if it was he or Berenguer who would commission the second expedition, but it would discover the northern coast of modern day Brazil (I can't remember the name I was going to give it) before returning home. The third journey would discover Bermuda (IIRC in 1458) and the fourth journey in 1460 would head north, locating the coast of Labrador and the abandoned settlements of Vinland (Greenland).

King Berenguer would then launch a massive settlement program to take over control of Greenland and Labrador and surrounding coast line over his surviving years. Internally, Berenguer would found Spain, restrict the powers of the bishops and the nobles, join a crusade against the Ottomans in which the latter's navy was crushed in the Aegean Sea.

In the 1470's, France would ally with Venice in an attempt to drive the Spanish out of Gascony and its holding in northern Italy (hadn't decided what part of Italy yet, but thought it would be a tenuous rebellious area resulting from interference in the Italian Wars). Spain would have, of course, won in this timeline and would have added cut deeply into French territory, but Venice would have pulled out after the fall of Ferrara. The 1470's would also have seen the beginning of colonies on the north Brazil coast, spreading up into the West Indies by the late 1480's. During this decade, I was planning to have a queen succeed to the throne, tenative name was Anna or Maria.

Around this time (say 1489), the war with France, which would have spread over a decade to include England, the Holy Roman Empire, Milan, etc would have forced a large hunk of southern France into Spanish control, and give England control of Brittany and most of France's northern coast, leaving the French with Marseilles as their only port.

Anna/Maria would have been a bit of an interesting character, siding with Milan against Sicily, having her troops occupy Paris in 1494 to force France to become a landlocked country, declaring that she would appoint her own bishops and make herself the ultimate religious authority, getting herself elected Holy Roman Empress. After being declared an apostate and excommunicated, Spain would become the home of an early Reformation which would kick off around 1500.

This was as far as I got, but the amount of detail I had was immense and to reconstruct will take far too long. Sorry to those who were enthusiastic about the idea, but I may pick it up and run with it again one day.
 
Originally posted by LacheyS
Thus ends the story. I inadvertantly threw out my notes for this timeline two days ago while cleaning up the house and, while I can remember the general direction, I do not wish to reconstruct everything from scratch.

Originally posted by LacheyS
This was as far as I got, but the amount of detail I had was immense and to reconstruct will take far too long. Sorry to those who were enthusiastic about the idea, but I may pick it up and run with it again one day.

Aaargh! Shit! Sorry, this is truly bud luck and the best example of how real life could interfere with a very interesting Timeline:(:eek:

Originally posted by Archangel
I hope you can continue the story soon, LacheyS.

I agree too
 
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