Habsburgs Divided

Habsburgs Divided
Preface
The Goal of this TL is for the Ottomans to gain both Naples and Constantinople at first, I also want Castile and Portugal to unite but the Habsburgs are divided and may turn to Protestantism.

The House of Habsburg
Empress Eleanor of Portugal is found to be pregnant on 1454 and gave birth to a son named Leopold on December of 1454, Katharina of Thuringia is betrothed to him, Katharina would be a possible heiress of Bohemia, after her sister Anna had died on 1453. another son would be born on 1456 named Maximilian.

Emperor Frederick III of Austria m. Eleanor of Portugal
-Leopold, King of Bohemia and Austria
-Kunigunde, Duchess of Bavaria
-Maximilian, Duke of Burgundy and Flanders

On 1457, Ladislaus the Posthumous would die, George Podiebrady was chosen as the Ruler of Bohemia and the Duchies of Opole, Cieszyn and Glogow fell under Polish influence, Silesia was basically on a limbo between Poland and Bohemia, the center of Polish influence and culture was in Opole while the Center of the Bohemian influence was on Breslau.

On 1465, Katharina of Thuringia, Duchess of Luxembourg would marry Leopold, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, it is negotiated that a partition of Silesia would happen and the succession of Hungary, Upper Silesia which is majorly Polish would go to Poland while the German Lower Silesia would remain under Bohemia and Hungary would be under Habsburg rule, Katharina already has no mother and is the sole claimant for Luxembourg against Charles the Bold.

The partition treaty of Silesia would make the borders between Poland and Austria better[1], after the treaty Prague was occupied by Polish and Austrian troops after the year and expelled Podiebrady and after that the partition of Silesia happens, Bohemia, Moravia, Lower Silesia, Bohemia and Luxembourg would remain permanently under the Habsburg rule and Austria would be considered a part of the Lands of Bohemian crown.

Maximilian did marry Mary of Burgundy on 1478, the brother of Mary of Burgundy, Charles, would die childless on 1489[2] causing a war between the Holy Roman Empire and France.

There would be two branches of the Habsburgs, the Burgundian Branch from Maximilian who married Mary of Burgundy and the Bohemian-Hungarian Habsburgs from Leopold who married into Bohemia.


1. there would be no reason for any alliance or reason for any alliance between two powers and the two would drift apart, the Polish Silesia would under the Poles and German Silesia would under the Germans, the Polish minority in Lower Silesia would slowly migrate to Poland.
2. Mary of Burgundy does get a brother from Margaret of York who dies childless.




The Empire of Kutai
The Majapahit allied with Melaka which caused the countries such as Sulu and Saludang to ally with the Majapahit in order to ally against Brunei, the empire of Majapahit is slowly ceding its power to Melaka.

On an unknown year on 1450’s- 1460’s, the Kingdoms of Kutai, Saludang[1], Illanun[2] and Sulu formed an alliance against Brunei due to its Militaristic expansions, knowing that Brunei is a threat to their existence, the alliance would stall any aggression from Brunei against the four Kingdoms, this is a birth of a new order in the East of the Malay Archipelago, this will prevent the threat to the Kingdoms of the Eastern Malay Archipelago now that Majapahit is weakening.

The Kingdom of Kutai defeats Brunei a few decades later after the formation of the alliance and annexed Brunei completely and Kutai moved its capital to Sabah in Kinabalu[3] in order to improve its relationship to the three other Kingdoms.

The Kingdom of Saludang was later known as the Kingdom of Gintu which literally means Gold, known as Kingoku in Japanese or Jinguo in chinese, the four Kingdoms would be trading with the Ryukyuans, Chinese and the Japanese.

The Kingdom of Gintu would reform into having a centralised government and Namayan, Kaboloan and Kumintang were integrated to the Kingdom, Faru would be an important Province which is centered on the City of Faru[4] and consists of the City of Faru and its environs up to Gattaran and the Babuyan Islands, it is called by the Chinese as Baipuyan.

The languages/regional dialects of Gintu known to the foreigners would be [5]Ifaru, Ilian, Ikabolwan, all of the provinces of Gintu have their own distinct dialect, some of the people of Gintu consider the Lakan, the ruler of Gintu as divine[6].

The Kingdom of Illanun would also reform as well, centering in Sebangan[7] because the Kingdom whose dialects are Isebanganen and Subanen, the Isebanganen dialect lost its individuality with the dialect of the Lanao confederation while the upland dialect remained its individuality.

1.OTL Luzon
2. Lanao Confederation
3. Kota Kinabalu
4. OTL Aparri, the Faru province is the TTL equivalent of the Cagayan Province.
5. OTL Ibanag, Kapampangan and Pangasinan.
6. There is a cult worshiping the Lakan.
7.OTL Zamboanga, the Kingdom of Jambangan became the leader of the Illanun Confederation
 
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Joanna of Castille
On 1456, a daughter, Joanna is born from Henry IV of Castille and Joan of Portugal[1], her aunt, Isabella[2] marries Gaston of Aragon, the son of Charles IV of Navarre.

At the majority of Joanna on 1470, she marries the future John II of Portugal, her aunt, Isabella is forced to marry Gaston of Navarre due to the death of Ferdinand, her original betrothed, and for that reason a civil war sparks between Portugal for the the Crown of Castile after the death of Henry IV of Castile, Isabella of Castile, Crown Princess of Aragon but the war ends up in favor of Portugal and John of Portugal becomes John III of Castile.

Isabella of Castile would only produced daughters and Gaston I of Aragon secured the future of his eldest surviving daughter and heiress, Maria b. 1476 by betrothing her to Afonso of Castile b. 1475[3], the son of Joanna of Castile and John III of Castile, uniting both Castile, Portugal, Aragon and Navarre in the near future.

After the Dust have been settled from the Civil war, Portugal would continue its colonization projects.

1. She is different from La Beltraneja and she does unite the Castillan and Portuguese thrones
2. Charles IV, Prince of Navarre succeeds to the throne of Navarre and Aragon.
3. They do marry

Kaiser i Rum
The attack on Otranto was part of a successful attempt by the Ottomans to invade and conquer Italy. In the summer of 1478, a force of nearly 20,000 Ottoman Turks under the command of Gedik Ahmed Pasha invaded southern Italy. The first part of the plan was to capture the port city of Otranto. After it fell, its garrison and inhabitants brutally massacred or sold into slavery. In response, Pope Sixtus IV issued his second call for a Crusade. Several Christian monarchs responded with military support.
In May 1479, a Christian army composed of Neapolitans and Hungarians besieged Otranto, however they were defeated and Naples went under the Ottoman rule, Ottomans would plan to besiege both Rome and Sicily after the invasion, Mehmed II would die in glory in 1485 and besides that he had made the Georgian Principalities as his vassals, he would also conquer Mesopotamia in his reign, annexing the Turkoman states in Mesopotamia.
 
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Portuguese in India

In 1481, the recently crowned John I of Spain[1] decided to build São Jorge da Mina in order to ensure the protection of this trade, which was held again as a royal monopoly. The Equator was crossed by navigators sponsored by Fernão Gomes in 1473 and the Congo River by Diogo Cão in 1482. It was during this expedition that the Portuguese first encountered the Kingdom of Kongo, with which it soon developed a rapport. During his 1485–86 expedition, Cão continued to Cape Cross, in present-day Namibia, near the Tropic of Capricorn.
In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope on the southern tip of Africa, proving false the view that had existed since Ptolemy that the Indian Ocean was land-locked. Simultaneously Pêro da Covilhã, traveling secretly overland, had reached Ethiopia, suggesting that a sea route to the Indies would soon be forthcoming
As the Portuguese explored the coastlines of Africa, they left behind a series of padrões, stone crosses engraved with the Portuguese coat of arms marking their claims, and built forts and trading posts. From these bases, they engaged profitably in the slave and gold trades. Portugal enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the African seaborne slave trade for over a century, importing around 800 slaves annually. Most were brought to the Portuguese capital Lisbon, where it is estimated black Africans came to constitute 10 per cent of the population.

On 1490 The Portuguese begun to establish their factories in India as permitted by the Sultan of Calicut in Kerala where christians live, the Kingdom of Cochin entered an alliance with the Portuguese and gave the portion of Kochi, the capital of Cochin which became Port Emmanuel and its rulers convert, the rulers of Cochin helped the Portuguese defeat the Sultanate of Bijapur and the Portuguese annex the territory of Bijapur.

On Africa, the Portuguese create new cities of Nova Porto[2] and Nova Lisboa[3]

1. the King of Portugal and Castile declare the Kingdom of Spain/Espanha as a new entity but the Kingdoms of Castile and Portugal remain having its own institutions.
2.OTL Sabava in Madagascar.
3.OTL Fort Elisabeth
 
Gintu, a new nation and Kutai
The people of Gintu are called as Igintu, Kingdoms of Namayan, Kaboloan and Kumintang which comprise the core of the Kingdom of Ygintu became known as Katagalugan[1].

The capital of Gintu shifts to Subig[2] due it being a more secure capital in the 1490’s, the Kingdom of Gintu invited Javanese settlers to the Kingdom to Subig, Faru and Lihan which started the settling of people from Java to the Kingdom of Gintu.

The Kingdom of Kutai fostered tolerance between the Muslims and Pagans living there.

1. Katagalugan is the Gintu equivalent of Yamatai in Nihon and Tagalog is the other name of the
Igintu people.

2. OTL Olongapo
 
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