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From Biscay to Rhine

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On 1460, the children of Louis, the Dauphin, Louis and Louise would prove to be strong and healthy and Louis corresponded to his friend, Charles, duke of Viana, the de jure King of Navarre and his sister, Blanche of Castile, Louise would be followed by two children, Anne (1462) and Jeanne (1464).

On 1460, Charles the Duke of Viana would accept that he would rule Naples and Sicily in the place of his father as the King of Navarre who will be the King of Navarre till the time he dies and Marries Magdalena of France, who would bear a son named John on May 2, 1463, a daughter named Blanche on August 2, 1464 and another son named Charles on March 2, 1469, Charles, Duke of Viana would set his eyes on Juana(January 4, 1462), the only daughter of Henry IV to marry his only son John so that Aragon, Castile and Navarre would unite, after the marriage of Joanna, Charles VII dies a few months after the marriage of Magdalena of Valois and Louis XI starts his own reign.



Charles the Duke of Viana's nephew, Gaston of Foix would marry Catherine of Portugal, the earlier bride of Charles of Viana in order to secure an alliance between Portugal and Navarre, the marriage between Catherine and Gaston of Bearn would mean that the alliance between Portugal and Navarre would prosper, the duke of Viana would pick Magdalena of Valois so that he could pick a more fertile woman that he could marry, Gaston of Bearn would bear two children from Catherine of Portugal, Francis(December 4, 1462) and Catherine(1464).

Meanwhile Isabella of Bourbon, the wife of Charles the Bold, the duke of Burgundy would be pregnant and give birth to a daughter named Beatrice on December 2, 1461, as another daughter of the Burgundian duke, the birth of another daughter to Isabella of Bourbon would mean another chance to gain an alliance with another power, Beatrice is betrothed to the son of the King of Poland, Vladislaus to secure the inheritance of Burgundy.

The Duchess of Burgundy, Isabella would die on 1465, prompting Charles the Bold to remarry to Zoe Palaiogina, an heiress of the Byzantine Empire due to the suggestion of his own father in order for them to conquer the lands of the Greeks back from the Ottomans, Zoe would give birth to a daughter named Sophie on December of 1467, something that would disappoint Charles the Bold because that would mean that the Burgundian inheritance would fall to France once he dies if he marries his daughter to the Dauphin and because of that he would try and try again to conceive for a son which would not happen as Sophia would only have another daughter named Eleonore on May of 1471, he is forced to confirm the betrothal between his daughter Mary of Burgundy and Dauphin Louis on 1471.
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