Glorious Bloody Mary

The death of the Fat Man's waited heir and war of succession
Glorious Bloody Mary


The death of the Fat Man's waited heir and war of succession

On 1 July 1543, Henry VIII signed the Treaty of Greenwich with the Scots, sealing the peace with Edward's betrothal to the seven-month-old Mary, Queen of Scots. The Scots were in a weak bargaining position after their defeat at Solway Moss the previous November, and Henry, seeking to unite the two realms, stipulated that Mary be handed over to him to be brought up in England. When the Scots repudiated the treaty in December 1543 and renewed their alliance with France, Henry was enraged. In April 1544, he ordered Edward's uncle, Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford, to invade Scotland and "put all to fire and sword, burn Edinburgh town, so razed and defaced when you have sacked and gotten what ye can of it, as there may remain forever a perpetual memory of the vengeance of God lightened upon [them] for their falsehood and disloyalty". Seymour responded with the most savage campaign ever launched by the English against the Scots.The war.

Edward himself would die in the latter months of 1544, formally Ending the betrothal of Mary Queen of Scots at this point, Mary Tudor was sad and was said to be relieved at the death of her brother which would mean that she would be the heiress.

Henry VIII would arrange a betrothal between Mary with Charles V and Elizabeth with Philip, Prince of Asturias, however the betrothal would be denied as Maria Manuela is married to Philip of Spain, Maria Manuela of Portugal would die giving birth to Charles, the eldest son of Philip.

Charles V would agree to the marriage and Mary would arrive to Spain and married to Philip, Prince of Asturias instead of Charles V and Henry VIII would try to sire a son with his wife, Catherine Parr, but he would die himself due to trying on 1546 and the protestants would not want to confirm Mary as the Queen of England due to her married to Spain.

The supporters of Elizabeth and France would want to install her as Queen, the 13-year-old Elizabeth would marry Charles, duke of Orleans which would make French have a claim to the French throne.

Mary Tudor and her husband Philip would return to England and claim the English crown in January of 1547, Mary Tudor is heavily pregnant months after her return.

Mary Tudor gives birth to a son named Henry in February 10, 1547, naming her son after her father in law and cousin Charles V, this would be followed by daughters named Isabella b. August 12, 1550, Catherine December 10, 1553 and a son named Juan May 2, 1560.

She would labor to give birth to her child in the front of her supporters who have seen the birth of her son, Henry who is now even made the Prince of Wales.

Mary Tudor rallied her supporters, months after she would expel Elizabeth and her supporters back to France on 1548 and had herself crowned on June 1548 as Mary I of England, France and Ireland.

She would rejoin the Church of England to Rome after her father had separated it from Rome and she would change the tomb of Queen Catherine of Aragon on her reign for propaganda as the Queen of England refusing to recognize Anne Boleyn as the Queen when she was a princess.

She would use her husband's Lancastrian ancestry as a part of her propaganda.

Rejoining the English Church to Rome meant opposition and she has to tie many of her enemies to a stake.

Mary Tudor would describe Elizabeth, her younger sister to her supporters not as the rightful heir as Elizabeth herself is a product of an extramarital affair and she would do everything to reverse everything her father had done and even doubted her as the daughter of her father.

Charles would be given the inheritance of the Spanish Netherlands in order to quell the opposition of the Dutch nobility so that the Lowlands would be independent, however this would mean that the low countries and England would be under personal union.

On the birth of her daughter Isabella of England would be betrothed fastly to Louis of Valois b. 1549 in order in order for her to keep an eye on her bastard sister Elizabeth just like what her great grandmother Isabella did to her rival Juana La Beltraneja.
 
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Mary, Queen of Scots
Mary, Queen of Scots

When Henry II of France died on 10 July 1559 from injuries sustained in a joust, fifteen-year-old Francis and sixteen-year-old Mary became king and queen of France. Two of the Queen's uncles, the Duke of Guise and the Cardinal of Lorraine, were now dominant in French politics, enjoying an ascendancy called by some historians la tyrannie Guisienne.

On 1559, Isabella of England, Infanta of England and Castile is married in proxy to Louis of Valois, Isabella of England would carry the territory of Franche Comte – land wanted by France as her own dowry, Mary would insist on the marriage in order for a peace between France and England to happen and for them to stop supporting Elizabeth.

In Scotland, the power of the Protestant Lords of the Congregation was rising at the expense of Mary's mother, who maintained effective control only through the use of French troops. The Protestant Lords invited English rebel troops into Scotland in an attempt to secure Protestantism, and a Huguenot rising in France, called the Tumult of Amboise, in March 1560 made it impossible for the French to send further support. Instead, the Guise brothers sent ambassadors to negotiate a settlement. On 11 June 1560, their sister (Mary's mother) died, and so the question of future Franco-Scots relations was a pressing one. Under the terms of the Treaty of Edinburgh, signed by Mary's representatives on 6 July 1560, France and England undertook to withdraw troops from Scotland and France recognised Elizabeth's right to rule England. However, the seventeen-year-old Mary, still in France and grieving for her mother, refused to ratify the treaty.

King Francis II died on 5 December 1561, of a middle ear infection that led to an abscess in his brain. Mary was grief-stricken. Her mother-in-law, Catherine de' Medici, became regent for the late king's eleven year old brother, Louis XIII (who is now married in Proxy to Infanta Isabella), who inherited the French throne. Mary returned to Scotland nine months later, arriving in Leith on 19 August 1562. Having lived in France since the age of five, Mary had little direct experience of the dangerous and complex political situation in Scotland. As a devout Catholic, she was regarded with suspicion by many of her subjects, as well as by the Queen of England. Scotland was torn between Catholic and Protestant factions, and Mary's illegitimate half-brother, the Earl of Moray, was a leader of the Protestants. The Protestant reformer John Knox preached against Mary, condemning her for hearing Mass, dancing, and dressing too elaborately. She summoned him to her presence to remonstrate with him unsuccessfully, and later charged him with treason, but he was acquitted and released.

On her return Mary I of Scotland would be given an offer to marry Henry, Prince of Wales in order to stop the catholics from ruling Scotland and she herself decided that marrying Charles, Prince of Wales would be the best solution and Mary Stuart is now 20 years old on 1562 and decided the best for the Catholic cause in Scotland by marrying the Prince of Wales who is now 16 year old, this would make sense for her in order to protect her country, the marriage would have met stiff opposition, however she herself would be fine with that as she did not want her country to be on protestant rule.

On 1562, in the same time Isabella of England and Spain would embark to dover to marry her groom and later crowned as the Queen of France, she would keep an eye on Elizabeth and her children for her mother Mary and her plot for Mary I of Scotland to marry her eldest son and preventing her from marrying France again would have succeeded now.

Henry, Prince of Wales would marry Mary I of Scotland on 1564 after she gained the dispensation to marry her new fiance, making Henry go to Scotland on 1564 and becoming the consort of Mary I, however that would not mean that it would not face opposition, however the Catholics would favor Mary.

Catherine of England would now be betrothed to Matthias of Austria due to his brother being uninterested in her.

Mary I of Scotland and Henry Prince of Wales would have four children

Margaret of Scotland b. February 20 1564

Catherine of Scotland b. December 10 1568

James b. June 10, 1570

Charles b. May 20, 1578
 
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Infante Carlos
Infante Carlos

In 1556, the 56 year old Emperor Charles, grandfather of Carlos, abdicated to a monastery in Yuste in southern Spain, leaving the Spanish holdings of his Empire to his son, Philip, who was Carlos’ father. The emperor died in retirement at the age of 58 in 1558, and the following year, in 1559, Prince Carlos was betrothed to Elizabeth of Valois, eldest daughter of King Henry II of France. However, for political reasons, she instead married his father, King Philip, in 1560. Three other brides were then suggested for the Prince: Mary, Queen of Scots; Margaret of Valois, youngest daughter of Henry II of France; and Anna of Austria, who was to later become Philip's fourth wife, and was a daughter of Philip's cousin, the Emperor Maximilian II. It was agreed in 1564 that Carlos should marry Anna.

The 15 year old Carlos was recognized in 1560 as the heir-apparent to the Castilian throne, and three years later as heir-apparent to the Crown of Aragon as well. He became also the 218th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece. He often attended meetings of the Council of State (which dealt with foreign affairs) and was in correspondence with his aunt Margaret, who governed the Low Countries in his father's name.

Infante Carlos would marry instead Eleonora D’Este, eight years his senior on the latter part of 1560 instead of Elizabeth of France because her brothers are sickly and instead had Elizabeth betrothed to the heir of Navarre, Antoine to prevent the split of Brittany in case the sons of Henry II had no children, which would prevent the Split of Brittany, and also did not accept the hand of Anne-Marie b. 1552, the daughter of Elizabeth Tudor and Charles Valois.

Eleonora D’Este would have two daughters named Juana b. May 20, 1561, Margaret b. December 2, 1565 and a son named Philip on December 4, 1568.

Eleonora would bring in her own humanistic ideals to the French court herself and she would be in suspicion as her mother is suspected to be a heretic herself.

Don Carlos would die on 1575, predeceasing his own father with his own son, Philip as the heir to Spain.

Philip II would give the Burgundian Inheritance to his own Daughter, Isabella, the Queen of France and the Habsburg Netherlands to his other son, Charles, Prince of Wales and Philip would repudiate the betrothal of Catherine of England and Spain for her to marry Alfonso II of Ferrara on 1560.


The Children of Philip II of Spain

With Maria Manuela

Charles, Prince of Asturias married to Eleonora d’Este

With Mary I of England

Charles, Prince of Wales married to Mary I of Scotland

Isabella of England, Queen of France married to Louis XIII

Catherine, Duchess of Ferrara m. Alfonso II of Ferrara

John, Prince of York
 
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Birth of Saludong
Birth of Saludong

Princess Kandarapa's betrothal to one of the Saludongese nobles fell apart in the late 1560's due to the break in the relationship between Soliman and Tarik Soliman and in this time the people would not support the alliance between the Muslims in Saludong and the the people of Manila who are scions of the Bruneians aka the Luzones and that would further break the relationship of Saludong with the Luzones, the alliance between the Spanish and Lakandula in 1570 would case conflict between Rajah Sulayman and Rajah Lakandula because Rajah Sulayman would remain a vassal of the Bruneians and Tarik Sulayman would keep Rajah Sulayman as an ally and buffer against the Spanish which would buy time for the people of Saludong to unite and form their own domain.

The Pagans and Hindus would be against the peace of the Lowland muslims with the Bruneian scions since the marriage of Panginoan since the marriage treaty would mean that they would have to renounce Tondo, the lands of Burakan and the lands in Samtoy occupied by the Bruneians.

The Spanish would fight with the Luzones lead by Rajah Soliman after the break of the peace treaty Sambali/Saludongese with the Luzones and some of the Luzones or the Bruneian Scions would fight against the Spanish led by Rajah Sulayman which would be defeated by Lakandula.

When Lopez de Legazpi died in 1572, his successor, Governor-General Guido de Lavezaris, did not honour their agreements with Sulayman and Lakan Dula. He sequestered the properties of both kings and tolerated Spanish atrocities, however the friars and Juan de Salcedo would easily be able negotiate peace with them, Juan de Salcedo marries Dayang Kandarapa.

Born to a poor family in the city Raoping of Chaozhou, Limahong had an early start in criminal activity and progressed to piracy, becoming leader of around 2000 pirates. His activities and attacks on ports and ships throughout South China increased and a warrant was issued by the authorities to capture him alive and send him to the city of Tay Bin. He was married to Nataracy.

He shifted his activities to piracy on the high seas and out of reach of China's power. He was able to accumulate up to 40 ships, whereupon he once again raided cities and ports in South China. Limahong attacked a city occupied by Vintoquián (Lin Daoqian), another Chinese pirate, but Vintoquián was able to escape along with 5 of Limahong's ships. However, Limahong was able to capture 55 of Vintoquián's fleet and thus increased his own to 95 ships. He was now a veritable king of the high seas of South China.

In late 1573, he gathered an army of 3,000 Chinese warriors, renegades and vagabonds and fled to the island of Saludong. There, he and his band of outlaws sought refuge.

By this time, a force of 40,000 soldiers and 135 ships was sent by the Wanli Emperor to kill and capture the pirates.

After learning the strength of the new Spanish colony in the South, he would decide to conquer it but he would fail to conquer it, however he would fail and he would go back to Pangasinan wherein he was able to talk with Kasikis and Tarik who said would give him troops.

He would conquer the Spanish held Kumintang and establish a short-term domain there but the Spanish troops led by Salcedo would defeat him.

The Spanish would establish Cebu again as a temporary capital of the Spanish East Indies, but the Spanish would still plan to get Manila, this would mean the Spanish would have a conquest campaign against Manila.

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I inserted the Tarik's domain scenario in this TL.
 
End of Soliman and the Establishment of Spanish Luzon/Nueva Castilla
End of Soliman and the Establishment of Spanish Luzon/Nueva Castilla

The alliance between the North and Sulayman would completely break due to the Pagans and the Muslims reconciling which would mean that the Spanish would attack Sulayman’s territory and while Kasikis, Malang and Tarik’s troops would conquer Sulayman’s lands, however Sulayman would surrender to the Spanish, the Spanish would defeat the Troops of Kasikis, Malang and Tarik and for that the Spanish would gain the territories of Sulayman and all the lands in Bruneian orbit, the Spanish would not venture further north, realizing that the Northern half of the island is unvaluable to them, the Spanish would not touch the lands of Tarik, Malang and Kasikis of Kaboloan in the North, which would develop into the Sultanate of Saludong in the North like Brunei in the south is ignored.

Due to Lakandula subjecting with the Spanish the lands of Buracan, Tondo and the lands occupied in Samtoy would go to Spanish hands as well.

The Islam religion would penetrate the lower Kayakayam on the Bannag River valley region although the upper Bannag/Karayan river or the Irraya would remain Hindu/Pagan.

Tarik Sulayman would be considered as the first Sultan of Saludong after his win against the Spanish, however is more as a legendary ruler not as a ruler recognized by others.

decades after the Spanish got the Bruneian scions in Saludong, the newly born Sultanate of Saludong under the rule of Sultan Mahmud I which would jumpstart the Sultanate’s outside affairs to the other states.

Meanwhile the lands in the south would be strongly under the Spanish due to the Bruneian scions and the Visayan nobility being under Spanish alliance and Spanish rule and have given up their independence completely to the spanish.

By the end of the 16th century the Lower Kayakam River basin, a tributary of Bannag River basin would completely revert to islam and the Agno river basin would completely revert to Islam as well.

The almost complete shell of conversion would make the lowlands of Saludong near the sea completely converted to Islam, which would strengthen the Sultanate of Saludong.

Sultan Mahmud I would send gold to Tay Fusain order to improve the fledgling state's relationship with the Japanese and giving the Japanese rights on trading with Saludong as an intermediary to the Malay world and made peace with the Spanish and made a cease fire which would leave the areas of Meycauayan and Tondo to the Spanish and trade rights of the Spanish in its port cities.

Hideyoshi and his successor Ieyasu would make some relations with Saludong, a land previously invisible as they were a part of Majapahit.

However the Dutch would make relations with the Sultanate of Saludong and they would want it to sway to their side so that they can destabilize the Spanish colony of the Philippines in their south, and it would not only be Saludong who would they want to sway it would also be the Sultanate of Sulu and Sultanate of Maguindanao as well.

By 1590’s the Spanish had subjugated the three entities of Bruneian Luzon, Madya-as, Ybalon, Sugbu in the Philippines, however the Sultanate of Saludong, Sultanate of Sulu and Sultanate of Magindanaw would remain independent although both the Sultanates of Sulu and Saludong would make peace with the Spanish, giving the Batan Peninsula and the City of Bigan in Samtoy, since both Samtoy and Bigan are under Bruneian influence.

Due to Saludong making a permanent peace with the Spanish, the Spanish would now have a reason to attack Mindanaw or Mindanao instead, the Spanish would establish the Northern Coasts of Mindanaw as permanent territory of the Spanish as well as the eastern coasts including the Butuan Gulf which would deprive the fledgling Magindanaw Sultanate of territory, the Manobos and Subanon would be driven to the mountains.

The future Sultan Kudarat would see what is happening to Mindanao and for that he would be aggressive against the Spanish due to his territory being surrounded by Spanish territory, he would be very vindictive, both the Subanon and Manobos would be under him.

A sister of the future Sultan Kudarat would be sent to Saludong to marry into the aristocracy of Saludong.

Saludong and Magindanaw Sultanates would be called by the Spanish as the Kingdoms of Luzon and Maguindanao.
 
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Portuguese succession crisis
Portuguese succession crisis

The Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 (Portuguese: Crise de sucessão) came about as a result of the death of young King Sebastian I of Portugal in the Battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578. As Sebastian had no immediate heirs, this event prompted a dynastic crisis, with internal and external battles between several pretenders to the Portuguese throne; in addition, because Sebastian's body was never found, several impostors emerged over the next several years claiming to be the young king, further confusing the situation. Ultimately, Philip II of Spain and King Consort of England gained control of the country and confirmed his grandson, Philip as the King, uniting the Portuguese and Spanish Crowns in the Iberian Union, a personal union.

Philip II would assign Eleonora d’ Este as the regent for Portugal and she would rule Portugal efficiently as the Queen regent until her son, Philip came of age.

Portuguese nobility was worried about the maintenance of their independence and sought help to find a new king. By this time the Portuguese throne was disputed by several claimants. Among them were:

Infanta Catherine, Duchess of Braganza

Ranuccio Farnese, Hereditary Duke of Parma

Philip, Prince of Asturias

António, Prior of Crato

Emmanuel Philibert, Duke of Savoy

The 11-year-old Ranuccio Farnese, Hereditary Duke of Parma and Piacenza, was the grandson of Infante Duarte of Portugal, the only son of Manuel I whose legitimate descendants survived at that time. Ranuccio was according to primogeniture the heir to the throne of Portugal. However, his father Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma was an ally and even a subject of the Spanish king, another contender, so Ranuccio's rights were not very forcibly claimed at that time. Ranuccio became reigning Duke of Parma in 1592.

Instead, Ranuccio's mother's younger sister Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, claimed the throne, very ambitiously, but failed. Catherine was married to João I, Duke of Braganza (descendant in male line from Afonso I, Duke of Braganza, an illegitimate son of King John I of Portugal), who himself was grandson of the late Duke Jaime of Braganza, also a legitimate heir of Portugal, being the son of Infanta Isabella, sister of Manuel I and daughter of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, second son of King Duarte I. The duchess also had a son, Dom Teodósio de Braganza, who would be her royal heir and successor to their claim. The duchess's claim was relatively strong, as it was reinforced by her husband's position as one of the legitimate heirs; thus they would both be entitled to hold the kingship. Moreover, the Duchess was living in Portugal, not abroad, and was not underage, but 40 years old. Her weaknesses were her gender (Portugal had not had a generally recognized reigning queen) and her being the second daughter, there thus existing a genealogically senior claimant.
 
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Kasumigenx I am wrong or here Don Carlos (Philip’s son from fis first wife) is alive or at least has surviving children? If the situation is this one the Portuguese succession crisis had not reason to exist here. Carlos was Sebastian’s first cousin from both sides and the claim on the crown of Portugal he inhereited from his mother was indisputably better than the one of all the other claimants (he was like Sebastian a descendant of King John III, while everyone else was only a descendant of his father Manuel I). Philip will not try to take that crown for himself, not if he has a Prince of Asturias with a much better and absolutely uncontestable claim
 
Kasumigenx I am wrong or here Don Carlos (Philip’s son from fis first wife) is alive or at least has surviving children? If the situation is this one the Portuguese succession crisis had not reason to exist here. Carlos was Sebastian’s first cousin from both sides and the claim on the crown of Portugal he inhereited from his mother was indisputably better than the one of all the other claimants (he was like Sebastian a descendant of King John III, while everyone else was only a descendant of his father Manuel I). Philip will not try to take that crown for himself, not if he has a Prince of Asturias with a much better and absolutely uncontestable claim


I changed the Post the crown of Portugal is for TTL Philip III.
 
Dutch and French Turbulence
Dutch and French Turbulence

Netherlands

William I of Orange was stadtholder of the provinces Holland, Zeeland and Utrecht, and Burgrave of Antwerp, and he was the most influential noble in the States General who had signed the petition. After the arrival of Alba, to avoid arrest as had happened to Egmont and Horne, he fled to the lands ruled by his wife's father — the Count-Elector of Saxony. All his lands and titles in the Netherlands were forfeited to the Spanish King.

In 1568, William returned to try to drive the highly unpopular Duke of Alba from Brussels. William's nominal purpose was to remove misguided ministers like Alba, end rebellion, and thus restore the proper authority of King Phillip. This view is reflected in today's Dutch national anthem, the Wilhelmus, in which the last lines of the first stanza read: den koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd (I have always honoured the King of Spain). In pamphlets and in his letters to allies in the Netherlands William also called attention to the right of subjects to renounce their oaths of obedience if the sovereign would not respect their privileges. William's forces moved into the Netherlands from four directions. Armies led by his brothers invaded from Germany while French Huguenots invaded from the south. The Spanish had won the Battle of Rheindalen near Roermond on 23 April 1568, but the Battle of Heiligerlee, fought on 23 May 1568, is commonly regarded as the beginning of the Eighty Years' War, and it was a victory for the rebel army. But the campaign ended in failure as William ran out of money and his own army disintegrated, while those of his allies were destroyed by the Duke of Alba.

Henry, Prince of Wales(future Henry IX of England) and consort to Mary, Queen of Scots is given the land of his inheritance of the Netherlands on 1570 which would make him the also the ruler of Netherlands, he would assisgn the Earl of Arran as the regent and William I of Orange would return to the Netherlands, this would mean that there would be religious tolerance in the Netherlands, the Split of Netherlands and Spain would mean that Bughers and Nobles of Netherlands would be happy now that the ruler would not be and absentee and a Spanish and Henry, Prince of Wales would arrange the marriage between his cousin, Anne Marie and Philip William, Prince of Orange on 1570.

France

Isabella of England would prove to be a fertile queen giving birth to many children starting on her majority on 1565, she would give birth to the long waited heir even if her husband, Louis XIII was already said to be have an inherited problem in Fertility like his own kin,she would herself give birth to sons named Charles b.September 27 1565 and Ferdinand b. February 10, 1568, she was advised by her mother in law, Catherine de Medicis what to do with her husband's fertility and in 1564, Elizabeth of France is married to the next house of France, the Bourbons of Navarre, she would not give birth to another child after she gave birth to Ferdinand as her husband would prove not to be interested in her but he would prove to be more interested in men, but she would give birth to a daugther in on May 2, 1573 named Catherine.

Henry III of Navarre was born in Pau, the capital of the joint Kingdom of Navarre with the sovereign principality of Béarn. His parents were Queen Joan III of Navarre (Jeanne d'Albret) and her consort, Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, King of Navarre. Although baptised as a Roman Catholic, Henry was raised as a Protestant by his mother,who had declared Calvinism the religion of Navarre. As a teenager, Henry joined the Huguenot forces in the French Wars of Religion. On 9 June 1572, upon his mother's death, the 19-year-old became King of Navarre.

It was arranged for Henry to marry Elizabeth of Valois, daughter of Henry II and Catherine de' Medici. The wedding took place in Paris on 18 August 1564 on the parvis of Notre Dame Cathedral, they would have three children, Charles b. 1568, Isabella of Navarre b. 1570 and Henry of Navarre b. 1572, the bride and groom are 8-9 years apart and married in order to secure the inheritance of Brittany to France.

Charles, the heir of Henry III of Navarre would be forced to be betrothed to Margaret of Spain or Infanta Margarita on 1572 by treaty, whose sister, Juana is already proxy married to Matthias of Austria.
 
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Painting of Mary I of England before her coronation

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Portrait of Henry IX of England, son of Mary I in horse and armor(OTL William III)
 
The Descendants of Philip II of Spain
The Descendants of Philip II of Spain

With Maria Manuela

Charles, Prince of Asturias married to Eleonora d’Este
-Juana b. 1561 m. Matthias of Austria
-Margaret b. 1564 m. Charles, heir of Navarre
-Philip b. 1568


With Mary I of England

Charles, Prince of Wales married to Mary I of Scotland
-Margaret of Scotland b. 1564 m. Charles Emmanuel I of Savoy
-Catherine Of Scotland b. 1568
-James b. 1570
-Charles b. 1578

Isabella of England, Queen of France married to Louis XIII
Catherine, Duchess of Ferrara m. Alfonso II of Ferrara
John, Prince of York
 
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Death of Mary I and the marriage of Philip II to Margaret of France
Death of Mary I and the marriage of Philip II to Margaret of France

Mary was weak and ill from May 1570, she died on 17 November 1570, aged 54, at St James's Palace. She was succeeded by her son, Henry IX, who is a consort to Mary, Queen of Scots.

Mary's will stated that she wished to be buried next to her mother, which was obeyed by Philip II, she was interred beside her mother, Catherine of Aragon who was given the honor as the Queen of England and husband of the King and was the consort of the King of England on times of crisis.

On 1571, Margaret of France, the youngest daughter of Catherine and Francis II is married to Philip II as his second wife, she would provide, his husband of a daughter named Catherine Michelle of Spain on November 10 of 1572 which would have a long gap in the birth with her siblings which are kings of Spain and France and Philip would himself die on 1590, which would make Margaret of France a wealthy widow on 1592, she is already on an advanced age and still beautiful and kept lovers and she is said to be a rose without a thorn.

Margaret of France would be interred with her husband, Philip II on her death on 1599, however she would have a bad reputation due to her affairs.

Margaret of France was a vector of Neoplatonism, which preached the supremacy of platonic love over physical love. She was the first woman to have done it. She was indeed one of the most fashionable women of her time, and influenced many of Europe's royal courts with her clothing.
 
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