Glorious Wettins a Wettin Germany

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The TL is about a Wettin Germany


On 1492, Queen Isabella of Castile was persuaded by her husband, Ferdinand of Aragon decided to focus on the battle moors and the reunification of Iberia, North Africa and Jerusalem rather than to finance the impossible expeditions of Columbus.(POD)


She decided that she would continue to the conquest of Northern Africa on her own reign and Spain’s succession would be secure and separate from any other entity.


It was theorized that if Isabella commissioned the expedition of Columbus, the Mexica and Tawantinsuya would be decimated, since the two Kingdoms benefited from the Cabralian conquest which resulted in some immunity from small pox of the people of Tawantinsuya and Mexica.


The Queen with religious fervor agreed with her husband and changed her mind, Columbus went to France where he is received by Charles VIII of France and Anne of Brittany, Charles VIII funded Columbus and his brother Bartholomew instead, in this time Anne of Brittany has a son named Charles Orlando, on the French court is also Catherine of Navarre, another relative of the Catholic Monarchs, in this time, the King of France guaranteed their support to the Navarrese Kingdom if Catherine of Navarre would marry their daughter, Anna of Navarre to the future King of France, Charles Orlando.


The journeys of Colombus led to the discovery of a new land they dubbed as New Brittany(OTL Quebec).


Isabella in this time sent a message to her namesake daughter and told her to stay in Portugal and marry the heir of the current king, Manuel of Beja, as it would retain the alliance with the Kingdom of Portugal with the other Kingdoms and in order not to possibly undo the efforts of the King of Spain, so she was obliged to marry Manuel of Beja, on 1492, the marriage did happen between the two.


Isabella gave birth on an another year to a son named John on the latter part of 1493, On John’s later reign Iberia would be united with the Cabralian and the Indian Colonies, while a daughter named Isabella would be born on 1496.




In this point Germaine de Foix is betrothed to John, Prince of Portugal on 1498 in order to advance the cause of the Beaumontese party against the Agramontese party which supports the cause of the King of France and Catherine of Navarre, her brother had just died due to small pox.


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In 1496, Joanna, at the age of sixteen, was betrothed to Philip the Handsome, Duke of Burgundy (titular), in the region of Flanders in the Low Countries. Philip's parents were Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor and his first wife, Duchess Mary of Burgundy. The marriage was one of a set of family alliances between the Habsburgs and the Trastamaras designed to strengthen both against growing French power. Joanna entered a proxy marriage at the Palacio de los Vivero in the city of Valladolid, Castile. In August 1496 Joanna left from the port of Laredo in northern Spain on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay.



In order to achieve an alliance with Queen Isabella I of Castile and King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Maximilian started negotiating the marriage of their only son and heir, John, Prince of Asturias, to Margaret, as well as the marriage of their daughter, Joanna, to Philip. Margaret left the Netherlands for Spain late in 1496. The marriage took place in 1497. John died after only six months, however, Philip of Burgundy was also sick and died, however, Maximilian was able to prove that Joanna had not consummated her marriage with his own son and was able to marry her, however the attempts to have a heir failed with her, however, Joanna was able to give birth to surviving daughter namely Eleanor(1499), Catherine(1504) and Anne(1507), however she also gave birth to two still born twin girls on 1510, rendering her infertile.

For Margaret of Austria, she would get married to Frederick III of Saxony on 1498 just after she arrived from Spain, she would in future inherit Austria and Burgundy as the Holy Roman Empress, Margaret, she is dubbed as the Mother of Germany as her marriage united majority of Germany.


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For Margaret of Austria, her loss of Spain was also her gain, on 1499, after her marriage with Frederick III she gave birth to a son named Frederick, followed by five other children


Margaret of Austria m. Frederick III of Saxony

Frederick b. 1499

Charles b. 1502

Margaret b. 1503

Catherine b. 1506

Mary b. 1508

Isabella b. 1510


Vladislaus II of Bohemia’s third wife, Anne of Foix-Candale, was crowned on 29 September 1502 when she was about 18 years old and he was 46. She gave birth to his only two surviving legitimate children, she died on the birth of Margaret of Bohemia


Anne of Bohemia and Hungary b. 1502

Margaret of Bohemia and Hungary b.1505


On 1500 it was signed that if Vladislaus II does not have a son, the Kingdom of Bohemia would be inherited by the Emperor…so on 1512, the two daughters of the King would be betrothed to the sons of Margaret of Austria and Frederick III of Saxony once they had secured the succession of Austria and the Holy Roman Empire.

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On 1505, Germaine de Foix arrived to Portugal on 1505, to meet her betrothed, John of Portugal, which was for the advancement of the cause of the Beaumontese party against the Agramontese party, in the opposing side, Anne of Navarre is married to Dauphin Charles Orlando of France on the same year in order to advance the allegiance of Navarre to France, after a year, the heir of Navarre, Henry of Navarre dies on 1506 and on the same year, Catherine of Navarre suffered a miscarriage of another boy, she would only give birth to a girl named Isabella of Navarre b. 1510 which forced the Navarrese to side with the Beaumontese that supported Germaine rather than Anne, the Future Queen of France.


This would start a war between France and the Three Kingdoms of Portugal, Aragon and Castile.


The Beaumontese would support Germaine’s claims and the Agramontese supported the claims of Anne of Navarre..the main reason they supported the Germaine is that they don’t want it to end up like Brittany ended up.


In this point Portugal already had discovered Brasil and have colonies in India and occupied Socotra, at this point as well, Castile had continued its Reconquista in Morroco and conquered the most of Morroco reducing it to the Western Saharan part.

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[kasumigenx]

--note: This is an interlude in the OTL Philippines--


In the end of the 15th Century or the beginning of 16th century, Volcano of Pinatubo erupted and destroyed the lives of the people in the plains of the Pampanga river, the ashes and lahar ravaged the lands, around this time a large earthquake also happened in the Island of Selurong.


On the end of the 15th Century or the beginning of 16th century a part of population of Pampanga River plains migrated to the Tondo and Burakan area as well as the Southern Sambal and Irraya area after the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo due to the destruction it has caused to the area.



The destruction of the area of the Pampanga river enabled the area of Burakan, Tondo, Irraya and Sambal area to flourish while the actual core area is just recovering, the ashes that fertilized the land helped the recovery of the area.

(so basically, in this point the downtown of the OTL Metro Manila which is empty before is settled by Kapampangan settlers instead of OTL where it is settled by the people of Calatagan)


Soliman II was able to make the Kingdom of Selurong which ruled the island as a Majapahit Vassal converted into a Sultanate named Selurong Sultanate, however the Kingdom became divided because the Kingdom of Kumintang comprising of Batangan and Ibalon seceded due to due Lakandula wanting a fief in the Kingdom, the Kingdom of Kumintang also became a sultanate due to Lakandula become muslim as Kumintang Sultanate, the Two Kingdoms will have peace for a long time.


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Henry VIII married Catherine in 1509. She was extremely popular with the people of England.


In August 1509, two months after the wedding, Catherine's first pregnancy was announced. On 5 March 1510 she gave birth to Eleanor of England.


By early 1513, Catherine was pregnant again. In 6 March 1513, she went into labour and gave birth to a son, the Henry, Duke of Cornwall.


In June 1514, Catherine announced her third pregnancy. On 8 January 1515, she gave birth to a Edward, Duke of York.


In the summer of 1515, Catherine announced her fourth pregnancy; On 18 February 1516, Catherine delivered a healthy girl at 4 a.m. at Greenwich Palace, Kent. She was named Mary and christened three days later (21 February) with great ceremony at the Church of Observant Friars.


In February 1518, Catherine announced her sixth pregnancy. In March, she visited Merton College, Oxford and also made a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Frideswide, asking for a healthy son. On 10 November 1518 she gave birth to a daughter, she was named Isabella, named after her mother, Isabella of Castile and her mother in law, Elizabeth of York.


Catherine of Aragon m. Henry VIII

b. 1510 Eleanor of England

b. 1513 Henry, Duke of Cornwall

b. 1514 Edward, Duke of Clarence

b. 1516 Mary of England

b. 1518 Isabella of England







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[Samuel Von Straßburg]

I am interested to see where you will take this. Subbed.

 

[kasumigenx]

The Kingdoms of Castile and Aragon focused on their Reconquista against the moors in Iberia, taking victories against the Wattasid Sultanate taking the North of Morroco in 1500, however the Kingdom of Castile is not satisfied, they also established factories in the Niger region that they believe that has been assigned to them.


The Land of Cabralia have been discovered by the discoverer Cabral and the city of Malacca have been sacked by the Portuguese, on 1505, the future queen of Spain, Germaine of Foix arrived and took the name Germana.


The Kingdom of Castile under the care of Isabella of Castile took actions against the French backed rule of Catherine of Navarre in 1510 with the support of the Beaumontese party against the Agramontese party that are supported the French, Isabella of Castile helped the cause of Germaine de Foix, the future Queen of France, betrothed to John of Portugal, one of the commanders in the French side is Cesare Borgia, a French noble and son of the pope.


The war resulted France having to drop their claims to Naples and Partition Navarre into two, the partition of Navarre was in Pyrenees and Aragon ceding only the county of Roussillon but not Cerdanya, Germaine already have a claim to both Naples and Navarre of herself.


The young future Queen of France, Anne of Navarre gave birth to a son named Louis on 1509, named after the Duke of Orleans, in this point of time the aging Duke of Orleans is planning a dissolution of his current marriage.


The peace settlement between the Kingdoms of France and the Spanish Kingdoms included the marriage between Eleanor of England and Louis, the son of the Dauphin, Charles Orlando.


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[kasumigenx]

Anne of Navarre, Queen of France

Germaine de Foix, Queen of Spain

The Charles IX and Anne of Navarre's combined coat of Arms, the arms of France since ascension of Charles IX of France

 

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The death of Isabella of Castile in 1520 and Ferdinand of Aragon in 1515, means that the realms of Aragon and Castile passes to Portugal, however that would mean Iberia would be united in the foreseen future, however, the territories of Lower Navarre and Roussillon are lost from Spain and integrated to France.


In the meantime, due to the lack of heirs to Austria, Margaret and Frederick were made the heirs of Austria, the earlier agreement is that if Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary dies without male heirs or he dies childless, the Kingdom would pass to the Austrians, on 1515, after the death of Vladislaus, the Kingdom of Bohemia passed to the Holy Roman Emperor and finally on the death of Maximilian I of Holy R oman Emperor on 1520, Margaret of Austria made the German electors elect Frederick of Bohemia, the husband of Anne of Bohemia and Hungary and son of Margaret and Frederick of Saxon as Frederick IV, he was made the ruler of Bohemia and Hungary due to marriage and succession pact.


The children of Isabella Jagellion(same as in OTL), second wife of Emperor Frederick IV inherited the Duchy of Opole from its last duke as a fiefdom in Bohemia and given the Duchy of Glogow, while Archduke Charles with his wife Margaret of Hungary is given the rule of the Netherlands as regents.



The Spanish and the Germans would try to fight the ottoman aggression against Hungary and Naples after the Kingdom of Hungary passed to Austrian hands in , however due to pyrrhic victory in 1522, the Ottomans gained Transylvania and Lower Hungary as well as the Kingdom of Naples, reigniting the crusader spirit.

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In October 1517, Luther wrote his 95 Theses. Many people think that he put them on the door of a church in Wittenberg, but this is not sure. Instead, he published a copy. He presented these to church officials at Worms Cathedral. Luther called them The Disputation of Doctor Martin Luther on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences. It questioned the teaching of the western Church and its ideas about penance, the authority of the Pope and the usefulness of "indulgences". At that time, the Catholic Church was selling indulgences to get out of purgatory, and go right to Heaven after death. They were selling indulgences for money for the dead so they could go to Heaven faster. If that was true, it would mean that poor people would not be able to go to Heaven as quickly, but that the priests in the church would be rich from selling these things. Luther thought that this was all wrong, and was against the Bible.


After studying the Letters of Paul, especially the Letter to Romans, Luther came up with an idea called "sola fide". This means that faith is the only way that people can get salvation from God. According to sola fide, this would mean that many church customs were useless, and should be cast away.


First, Luther believed that he could reform (change) the Roman Church from the inside (while still being a part of the Church) with his Theses.


Majority of the Catholics in Germany supported the changes that Luther wanted including the father of the future Emperor, the annexation of Naples and the majority of Hungary to the Ottoman Empire during the reign of Emperor Frederick IV made the Lutheran Reform movement stronger and accepted in Catholicism.

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