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Portuguese Prosetylization

Because of the growing Islamic force in Demak and Cirebon, the Hindu king of Sunda, Sri Baduga, sought assistance from the Portuguese at Malacca. He sent his son, Crown Prince Prabu Surawisesa, to Malacca in 1512 and again in 1521, in order to invite the Portuguese to sign a peace treaty, to trade in pepper, and to build a fort at his main port of Sunda Kalapa. By 1522 the Portuguese were ready to form a coalition with the Sundanese king in order to gain access to the profitable pepper trade.

The commander of the fortress of Malacca at that time was Jorge de Albuquerque. In 1522, he sent a ship, the São Sebastião under Captain Henrique Leme, to Sunda Kalapa with valuable gifts for the king of Sunda, despite the fact that the Portuguese would be quite slow in defending the lands of Sunda from the Demak they will bring them in their own missionaries and would be successful in defending them.

The Portuguese themselves would experience some success in Christianizing Sunda and Bali and defending the Kingdom of Sunda against Demak in the following decades and the Catholic Portuguese prosetylizers and colonizers would spread to the other old Majapahit lands such as the Lesser Sunda Islands and the lands in the North named Saludong which would end up as Portuguese Colonies and they would have some access to the Spice Islands as well, the land of Saludong in this case would find the Portuguese as an alternative to the yoke of the Bruneians in the loss of Tondo and accepting the muslim religion and the Bruneian raids of their resources and rape of their women which they were forced to accept and chose the alternative of having to swear fealty to the Portuguese once they would find that the Portuguese would be successful in defending Sunda against Demak, the first areas that accepted Catholicism and the Portuguese in Saludong was the towns of Faro, Caboloan and Macabebe, the Portuguese would call the lands of Saludong as Zambales as it is a term for a tribe they would encounter initially and the word of the languages in Saludong for war which is also Sambali.

 

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Defeat of Demak

However, in 1527, Fatahillah, on behalf of the Demak attacked the Portuguese in Sunda Kelapa and failed in conquering the harbour on 22 June 1527, the Portuguese would also defend Kediri to help Prabu Udara who would die under alliance with the Portuguese, later Sunda Kelapa is given to the Portuguese as a harbor and became a loyal Christian city afterwards named as Nova Lisboa, which would be ceded, the city of Kediri (Quedires) would be willed to the Portuguese by Prabu Udara who would die under Portuguese alliance, however Kediri would be seized by the Muslims later on with the Kingdom of Sunda under Portuguese Protection.

Seeing the Victory, Saludong which is under Majapahit influence in the North would see the Portuguese as the continuation of the Majapahit Empire and invited them in the North to swear fealty destroying their peace treaty with the Bruneians, the first ones to convert to Christianity would be the Saludong(known to the Portuguese as Zambales) towns of Faro, Macabebe and Caboloan would be converted to Christianity, then the Portuguese would seize and raise the parts of Samtoy held by the Bruneians but they would not expand south and east of the Pampanga river and parts of the Batan Peninsula which would be held by the Bruneians until Miguel Lopez de Legaspi came.

 

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The Roots of Proselytization in Japan

On the beginning of the Prosetylization of Selurong or Sambali/Zambales, the Portuguese would encounter the Wokou or the Japanese pirates or traders in Saludong who would also convert to Christianity alongside with the Zambales colony of the Portuguese.

On 1547,Francis Xavier would meet a man named Anjiro who would convert to Christianity and travelled to Japan via the Portuguese colony of Selurong/Zambales on 1550 and converted the first batch of Christians in Japan and went to Canton in order to proselytize with the Chinese, however on his death on 1553, he would not be able to convert many Christians in Japan or China.

The fact that Saint Francis Xavier would land in Selurong would be the reason why the Portuguese colonies in the North of the Philippines to be called as Ilhas de São Xavier by the Portuguese and the mainland of Portuguese Selurong/Luzon as Zambales São Xavier as they were in the route of the saint.

During this time the Portuguese would show their interest in the Kingdom of Ryukyu and trade with them and built factories in Nagasaki and Okinawa which would be neglected by the authorities at that time.

 

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The End of the Jagiellonians in Hungary

On 1516, shortly after the death of Vladislaus II of Hungary, Anna Jagiellon, his own daughter would succumb to the tuberculosis and die which would deny the Habsburg any natural claim to the Jagiellonian claims to the Bohemian throne.

On 1520, Louis II of Hungary would follow his sister and die due to him being sickly as well and retarded, which would force the Habsburgs to give the rest of Upper Silesia(the original duchy of Opole and Raciborz ruled by Mieszko I Tanglefoot) and the Duchy of Glogow to the Jagiellonians as a consolation which would be negotiated by Queen Bona Sforza and a new betrothal between Hedwig Jagiellon and Ferdinand I of Bohemia which would end up as a marriage on 1528 when Hedwig was of age, while her sister Isabella of Poland would be married to John Hector of Brandenburg later on.

Later on the Towns of Rychtal and Miedzyborz would gradually defect to Poland due to their population being more closely tied to Poland and remaining having Ethnic Polish majority.

On 1516, shortly after the death of Vladislaus II of Hungary, Anna Jagiellon, his own daughter would succumb to the tuberculosis and die which would deny the Habsburg any natural claim to the Jagiellonian claims to the Bohemian throne.

On 1520, Louis II of Hungary would follow his sister and die due to him being sickly as well and retarded, which would force the Habsburgs to give the rest of Upper Silesia(the original duchy of Opole and Raciborz ruled by Mieszko I Tanglefoot) and the Duchy of Glogow to the Jagiellonians as a consolation which would be negotiated by Queen Bona Sforza and a new betrothal between Hedwig Jagiellon and Ferdinand I of Bohemia which would end up as a marriage on 1528 when Hedwig was of age, while her sister Isabella of Poland would be married to John Hector of Brandenburg later on, while Maria of Austria would marry Albert, Prince of Poland.

The Duchy of Opole would pass to the Polish crown on the death of Duke John of Opole and Maria of Habsburg is betrothed to Albert Jagiellon, the second son of Bona Sforza.

The Towns of Rychtal and Miedzyborz would gradually defect to Poland sometime after the treaty due to their population being more closely tied to Poland and remaining having Ethnic Polish majority.

 

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Maximilian I at 70

Maximilian's policies in Italy had been unsuccessful, and after 1517 Venice reconquered the last pieces of their territory. Maximilian began to focus entirely on the question of his succession. His goal was to secure the throne for a member of his house and prevent Francis I of France from gaining the throne; the resulting "election campaign" was unprecedented due to the massive use of bribery. The Fugger family provided Maximilian a credit of one million gulden, which was used to bribe the prince-electors. However, the bribery claims have been challenged. At first, this policy seemed successful, and Maximilian managed to secure the votes from Mainz, Cologne, Brandenburg and Bohemia for his grandson Charles I of Spain, however, Maximilian would live until 1530 which would change his plans and seeing that his second grandson who is now the ruler of Bohemia, Ferdinand I, he would make his grandson, Ferdinand as his own heir in the Holy Roman Empire and he seemed very competent and he would die at the old age of 70, which would mean that Ferdinand I of the Holy Roman Empire would secure the rule in Germany and Austria and Ferdinand was easily crowned as the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire at his late 20’s with his wife, Hedwig of Poland.


Children of Emperor Ferdinand I of HRE and Hedwig of Poland

Elisabeth 9 July 1529

Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor 31 July 1530 Married to Maria of Spain

Maria 15 May 1531

Magdalena 14 August 1532

Catherine 15 September 1533

Eleanor 2 November 1534

Margaret 16 February 1536

John 10 April 1538

Barbara 30 April 1539

Charles II, Archduke of Austria 3 June 1540

Ursula 24 July 1541

Helena 7 January 1543

Joanna 24 January 1547

 

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The End of Lady Mary

On 1539, the 23 year old heiress of Henry VIII, Lady Mary would passionately fall in love with Philip of Palatinate who had been courting her and she would be in crossroads whether to accept to give up her own succession rights and marry for love, she was introduced to Philip of Palatinate by her own stepmother, Anne of Cleves and the love affair would be passionate for a month and in the middle of 1539 she would choose her own mother’s memory or marrying her husband..

Mary had to choose whether she would marry Philip of Palatinate or remain protesting for her own mother, Catherine of Aragon, this would drag in months until one day in 1539, Mary Tudor had the courage to visit her own mother’s grave and prayed to god whether it would be good for her to marry a heretic and give up her own inheritance she would pray seriously in the church.

She would have a dream of Catherine of Aragon, her own mother who was sad about her divorce with her bride and she would tell that she herself feels miserable over her parent’s divorce and did not like her father’s attitude and the man that she falls in love is a good option, her mother would smile and comfort her daughter in her dream.

A realization would come up to her and it would be that her mother would be happy if she is happy and that she should marry Philip of Palatinate.

She felt that her happiness is important and her mother would be happy for her to be happy and on the latter part of 1539, she would sign a document to her father in order to renounce her own succession to her father’s throne so that she would marry her love, Philip of Palatinate, this passionate love would lead her to Bavaria and marry Philip of Palatinate on January of 1540 in England before their departure, it was found out that she is pregnant on 1540 and gave birth to a daughter named Catherine of Palatinate on November 10, 1540, months after her own arrival in Bavaria, the daughter is named after her own mother, Catherine of Aragon, which would not be followed by another child and she would be widowed on 1546 when her first husband died, Mary Tudor would not stop the French from wanting a marriage between Catherine of Palatinate and Dauphin Francis wanting to use her own claims to the English throne, and Mary Tudor would marry Philip II on 1547 after the death of her first husband, she would give birth to a son named Philip on May 2, 1549 and a daughter named Catherine on June 2, 1553 and after wards she would die of puerperal fever on 1553 a few days after the birth of Infanta Catherine of Spain, causing him to remarry to Elizabeth of France on 1559, who would give him two further children Isabella Clara Eugenia (May 2, 1563) and Infante Diego(Dec. 2 1569).

 

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New Queen for Scotland

In the following years, Amalia of Cleves Family family attempted to secure her a marriage with as much profit as possible. There were long negotiations with the Margraviate of Baden concerning a possible strategic marriage between the two dynasties. The Margrave had two sons; first, Bernard, who had been turned out due to his immoral and raucous behavior, before being welcomed back after his sisters pleaded with the Margrave; and second, Charles, who was born in July 1529 and thus, almost twelve years younger than Amalia.

William, respecting his sister, refused to marry Amalia off to someone like Bernard, whom he believed could not have heirs with Amalia due to his dissolute life. The duke also refused to force Amalia to marry Charles.

On 1542, Mary of Guise would die from a complication of Miscarriage, causing the King of Scotland to try to find a match with Amalia of Cleves who would marry the King of Scotland on 1543, giving birth to a surviving son named Robert(May 10, 1544) and a daughter named Anne of Scotland on May 2, 1559.

On 1559, Elizabeth Tudor would wed Prince Robert of Scotland as an alliance between the Scots and the French against the Marian claimants in France and Spain, the Marian Claimants led by Philip II is a big threat to his rule in England as the supporters of Catherine of Palatinate are the Catholics in the South.

Robert of Scotland, Prince of Rothesay and Elizabeth Tudor would finally have a son named James of Scotland(May 10, 1561), named after Robert’s father, James V of Scotland and a daughter named Elizabeth of Scotland(June 2, 1568) which would secure the Protestant succession after Edward VI died in 1561 due to him creating a law blocking catholics from having the English throne since her rise in 1561 to prevent the kin of his sister Mary Tudor from the English throne, causing the cause of Marianism to start.

On 1560’s Catherine of Palatinate, the Queen of France would give birth to two sons for Francis II of France named Henry(1562) and Francis(1570), Dauphin Henry would be affianced to Anne of Scotland on the beginning of the reign of Elizabeth I of England and her consort Robert of Scotland, Prince of Rothesay.

 

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Miguel Lopez de Legaspi

In 1570, having heard of the rich resources in Luzon, Legazpi dispatched Martín de Goiti to explore the northern region. Landing in Batangas with a force of 120 Spaniards, de Goiti explored the Pansipit River, which drains Taal Lake. On May 8, they arrived in Manila Bay. There, they were welcomed by the natives. Goiti's soldiers camped there for a few weeks while forming an alliance with the Muslim leader, Rajah Ache, who was a vassal under the Sultan of Brunei. Legazpi wanted to use Manila's harbor as a base for trade with China. Legaspi would learn that the Northern Half of the Island is already under Portuguese Suzerainty and Christian which he would report to his liege King Philip via a letter, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi would have the Bruneian scions in the Bruneian held Luzon/Saludong swear fealty with the Spanish with the help of Lakandula causing parts of the Batan peninsula and the other conquests by Bolkiah in the north except from that was razed by the Portuguese in Samtoy to fall under the Spanish.

López de Legazpi governed the Philippines for a year before dying suddenly of a stroke in Manila on August 20, 1572 after scolding an aide. He died poor and bankrupt, leaving a few pesos behind due to having spent most of his personal fortune during the conquest. He was laid to rest in San Agustin Church, Intramuros.

 

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Union of Spain and Portugal

After attaining his majority in 1568, Sebastian dreamed of a great crusade against the kingdom of Morocco, where over the preceding generation several Portuguese way stations on the route to India had been lost.

A Moroccan succession struggle gave him the opportunity, when Abu Abdallah Mohammed II Saadi lost his throne in 1576 and fled to Portugal. After arriving, he asked for King Sebastian's assistance in defeating his Turkish-backed uncle and rival, Abu Marwan Abd al-Malik I Saadi.

During the Christmastide of 1577, Sebastian met with his uncle King Philip II of Spain at Guadalupe. Philip refused to be party to the crusade as he was negotiating a truce with the Ottoman Empire, though he promised a contingent of Spanish volunteers.

Despite his lack of a son and heir, King Sebastian embarked on his crusade in 1578. The Portuguese army of 17,000 men, including a significant number of foreign mercenaries hired from the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, Spain, and the Italian States, and almost all of the country's nobility, sailed at the beginning of June from Lisbon. They visited Cádiz, where they expected to find Spanish volunteers who failed to appear, then crossed into Morocco.

There was a danger for Spanish acquisition of Portugal if King Sebastian dies, however due to the deadly miscarriage of Maria Manuela on 1545 that would not happen, and Philip II would remarry to Mary Tudor, the heiress of Edward VI.

However despite the fact that Cardinal King Henry tried to release himself from vows, Philip would block it and Philip II would acquire the Portuguese crown on 1580, which would temporarily resolve the issue of the Island of Saludong which is divided by the two crowns between Xavierinas and Filipinas but did not prevent the formation of the nations of Zambales Xavierinas and Timor Leste which would continue to form in the Portuguse Empire and loyal to the Portuguese crown.