Plantagenets Victorious

Plantagenets Victorious
The marriage between the lineage of the count of Urgell and the House of Valois-Anjou changed history, the tide turned to the Plantagenets.

Basically this will be the allegiences i am planning.

Valois-Anjou(Urgell) - HRE - Valois-Burgundy vs Valois - Armagnac - Trastamara vs Plantagenets
 
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The rise of Henry V



On 11 August 1415 Henry V sailed for France, where his forces besieged the fortress at Harfleur, capturing it on 22 September. Afterwards, Henry V decided to march with his army across the French countryside towards Calais, despite the warnings of his council. On 25 October 1415, on the plains near the village of Agincourt, a French army intercepted his route. Despite his men-at-arms being exhausted, outnumbered and malnourished, Henry V led his men into battle, decisively defeating the French who suffered severe losses. It is often argued that the French men-at-arms were bogged down in the muddy battlefield, soaked from the previous night of heavy rain, and that this hindered the French advance, allowing them to be sitting targets for the flanking English and Welsh archers. Most were simply hacked to death while completely stuck in the deep mud. Nevertheless, the victory is seen as Henry V's greatest, ranking alongside Crécy and Poitiers.
During the battle, Henry V made a decision that arguably tarnished his reputation. He ordered that the French prisoners taken during the battle be put to death, including some of the most illustrious who could be used for ransom. Cambridge Historian Brett Tingley posits that Henry V was concerned that the prisoners might turn on their captors when the English were busy repelling a third wave of enemy troops, thus jeopardizing a hard-fought victory.
The victorious conclusion of Agincourt, from the English viewpoint, was only the first step in the campaign to recover the French possessions that belonged to the English crown.

Command of the sea was secured by driving the Genoese allies of the French out of the English Channel. While Henry V was occupied with peace negotiations in 1416, a French and Genoese fleet surrounded the harbour at the English-garrisoned Harfleur. A French land force also besieged the town. To relieve Harfleur, Henry V sent his brother, John of Lancaster, the Duke of Bedford, who raised a fleet and set sail from Beachy Head on 14 August. The Franco-Genoese fleet was defeated the following day after a gruelling seven hour battle, and Harfleur was relieved. Diplomacy successfully detached Emperor Sigismund from France, and the Treaty of Canterbury (1416) paved the way to end the schism in the Church.

So, with those two potential enemies gone, and after two years of patient preparation following the battle of Agincourt, Henry V renewed the war on a larger scale in 1417. Lower Normandy was quickly conquered, and Rouen cut off from Paris and besieged. This siege raised a darker shadow on the reputation of the king than his order to slay the French prisoners at Agincourt. Rouen, starving and unable to support the women and children of the town forced them out through the gates believing that Henry V would allow them to pass through his army unmolested. Henry V refused to allow this and the expelled women and children died of starvation in the ditches surrounding the town. The French were paralysed by the disputes between Burgundians and Armagnacs. Henry V skilfully played them off one against the other, without relaxing his warlike approach.
In January 1419, Rouen fell. Those Norman French who had resisted were severely punished: Alan Blanchard, who had hanged English prisoners from the walls of Rouen, was summarily executed; Robert de Livet, Canon of Rouen, who had excommunicated the English king, was packed off to England and imprisoned for five years.

By August, the English were outside the walls of Paris. The intrigues of the French parties culminated in the assassination of John the Fearless by the Dauphin's partisans at Montereau (10 September 1419). Philip the Good, the new Duke, and the French court threw themselves into Henry V's arms. After six months of negotiation, the Treaty of Troyes recognised Henry V as the heir and regent of France (see English Kings of France), and on 2 June 1420, he married Catherine of Valois, the French king's daughter. From June to July, Henry V's army besieged and took the castle at Montereau. He besieged and captured Melun in November, returning to England shortly thereafter.
Catherine went to England with her new husband and was crowned as Queen in Westminster Abbey on 23 February 1421. In June 1421, Henry returned to France to continue his campaigns.
By this time, Catherine was several months pregnant and gave birth to Prince Henry on 6 December 1421 at Windsor.

Henry V came back to England as a hero because he had defeated the French forces.

Louis III born 25 September 1403 was titular King of Naples 1417–1426, Count of Provence, Forcalquier, Piedmont, and Maine and Duke of Anjou 1417–1434, and Duke of Calabria 1426–1434.
He was the eldest son and heir of Louis II of Anjou and Yolande of Aragon, Queen of Four Kingdoms.
The throne of Aragon fell vacant in 1410 (Louis was then 6 years old) when king Martin I of Aragon died. Louis' mother Yolande was the surviving daughter of sonless King John I of Aragon, Martin's predecessor. They claimed the throne of Aragon for the young Louis.
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Elizabeth was born on 12 March 1409 the eldest daughter of James II, Count of Urgell, a candidate to the throne of the Crown of Aragon at the Compromise of Caspe, and Elizabeth of Aragon. Elizabeth was one of five children.
The county of Urgell was dissolved in 1413, following her father's revolt against the new King Ferdinand I of Aragon who had been chosen to succeed to the throne of Aragon in 1412 despite James being the closest legitimate agnate to the Royal House of Aragon.
James of Urgell knowing that all of his sons had died he decided to Marry his daughter Elizabeth to Louis III of Anjou count of Provence in January 5,1424.

Elizabeth of Urgell gave birth to a son immediately after their marriage in October 5, 1425 to a son named Raymond or Raimon then in April 6, 1426.

They aligned closely to the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg because of their sour relations with the Trastamaras and the other Valois.

John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford born on 20 June 1389 also known as John Plantagenet, was the third surviving son of King Henry IV of England by Mary de Bohun. Jacqueline of Hainaut marries John, first Duke of Bedford in 1423 instead of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, Jacqueline of Hainaut gives birth to a boy named John in 16 October 1424 named after named after his father.

Sigismund of Luxembourg and Louis III of Anjou attack Eastern Languedoc and French Provence in in order to reclaim the Aragonese lands in France and the French HRE lands, Gevaudan, March of Provence, Dauphine, Montpellier were annexed to Provence in the HRE this caused the weakening of the French crown and the claims of the Dauphin in 1427.


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The Dauphin and Philip the Good.

Charles VII born in 22 February 1403, Humiliated, and in fear of his life, the Dauphin fled to the protection of Yolande of Aragon, the so-called Queen of the Four Kingdoms, in southern France, where he was protected by the forceful and proud Queen Yolande, and married her daughter, Marie to him he later has a son from her named Louis who was born in 3 January 1423.
He was defeated by the armies of Sigismund of Luxembourg and Louis of Anjou in 1427 who confiscated HRE lands owned by France and annexed Gevaudan and Montpellier hurt by the treachery the Duchy of Anjou was transferred to Rene of Anjou in 1428, it caused controversies.
Philip the Good, Born in Dijon in July 31, 1396, he was the son of John the Fearless and Margaret of Bavaria-Straubing. On 28 January 1405, he was named Count of Charolais in appanage of his father and probably on the same day he was engaged to Michele of Valois (1395–1422), daughter of Charles VI of France and Isabeau of Bavaria. They were married in June 1409.
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Philip subsequently married Bonne of Artois (1393–1425), daughter of Philip of Artois, Count of Eu, and also the widow of his uncle, Philip II, Count of Nevers, in Moulins-les-Engelbert on November 30, 1424. The latter is sometimes confused with Philip's biological aunt, also named Bonne (sister of John the Fearless, lived 1379 - 1399), in part due to the Papal Dispensation required for the marriage which made no distinction between a marital aunt and a biological aunt.
Philip became duke of Burgundy, count of Flanders, Artois and Franche-Comté when his father was assassinated in 1419. Philip accused Charles, the Dauphin of France and Philip's brother-in-law of planning the murder of his father which had taken place during a meeting between the two at Montereau, and so he continued to prosecute the civil war between the Burgundians and Armagnacs. In 1420 Philip allied himself with Henry V of England under the Treaty of Troyes.
His third marriage, in Bruges on January 7, 1430 to Isabella of Portugal (1397 - December 17, 1471), daughter of John I of Portugal and Philippa of Lancaster, produced three sons:
Antoine born on 30 September 1430, Brussels
Joseph 24 April 1432 , Count of Charolais
Charles born on 15 June 1467, Count of Charolais and Philip's successor as Duke, called "Charles the Bold" or "Charles the Rash"
After the attack of Louis III of Provence, Philip also later started small campaigns against the dauphin
Joan of Arc’s rebellion is defeated in 1428 and Joan of Arc was executed in the orders of Philip the Good.
In the mean time the future Henry VI is betrothed to Blanche II of Navarre in 1430 while Catherine Valois gives birth to Mary of England on 6 January 1430.
In the mean time Yolande of Anjou marries Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester in 1430 because she was introduced by Louis III of Anjou, they instantly fall in love and got married and had a son named Arthur born in 3 August 1431, Yolande of Aragon did not think this marriage as a threat since he is just a minor noble.


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Later in my timeline, Arthur, the Son of Humphrey marries Isabella of Castille and uses the claims of his grandmother, Yolande to unite Spain.

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Two generations of Isabellas


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Isabella of Portugal was married to the elderly king John II of Castile as his second wife. His first wife, Mary of Aragon, had given him four children, though only one, the future Henry IV of Castile, had survived. Henry had been joined to Blanche II of Navarre in an unconsummated marriage for seven years and was called "El Impotente." Because of this, John decided to seek another wife, and the eyes of his trusted adviser and dear friend Alvaro de Luna fell on the much younger Isabella. The two were wed on 22 July 1447 when John was 42 and Isabella only 19.

De Luna had dominated the king for years and doubtless expected this to continue after the marriage. De Luna tried to control the young queen as well, even going as far as to attempt to limit the couplings between the amorous king and his bride. Isabella took exception to de Luna's influence over her husband and attempted to persuade her husband to remove this favourite.
She had little success until after the 1451 birth of her daughter and namesake who would become Isabella I of Castile. The queen's confinement was long and difficult, and the new mother sank into a deep depression during which she refused to speak to anyone but her husband. Alternatively hysterical and withdrawn, Isabella tired out the weak-willed John, and he agreed to rid himself of de Luna. To do this, the royal couple employed the help of a nobleman, Alfonso Pérez de Vivero. When de Luna discovered this, he murdered Pérez. When de Luna's crime was discovered, John used it as an excuse to execute him. The death of his favourite saddened the old king, and his health began to decline rapidly. On 15 November 1453, Isabella gave birth to a son, Alfonso, and nine months later, John came to his deathbed, expiring at last on 20 July 1454. Henry IV, became king.

Isabella of Castille was born in Madrigal de las Altas Torres, Ávila to John II of Castile and Isabella of Portugal on April 22, 1451 She was named "Isabella" after her mother which was a name that was uncommon then in Castille. She was the granddaughter of Henry III of Castile and Catherine of Lancaster. At the time of her birth, her older half brother Enrique was in line for the throne before her. Enrique, referred to as the English version of his name Henry, was twenty-six years old at that time and he was married but he was childless. Her younger brother Alfonso was born two years later in 1453 and displaced her in the line of succession. When her father, John II, died in 1454, Henry became King Henry IV. Her brother, mother, and she then moved to Arévalo. It was here that her mother began to gradually lose her sanity, a trait that would haunt the Spanish monarchy and the royal houses of Europe that descended from her.
These were times of turmoil for Isabella. Isabella lived with her brother and her mother in a castle in poor conditions. She also suffered from shortage of money, a fact she would later weave into the mythos and propaganda surrounding her rise to the throne. Even though her father arranged in his will for his children to be financially well taken care of, her half-brother Henry did not comply with their father's wishes, either from a desire to keep his half-siblings restricted or ineptitude. However her mother was able to give her a good education and Isabella often chased after rabbits in the fields, went horseback riding, hunted in the forest, and waded in streams with her brother Alfonso.
When King Henry's wife, Queen Joan of Portugal, was about to give birth, Isabella and her brother were summoned to court (Segovia) and taken away from their mother to be under more control and direct supervision by the king and finish their educations. Queen Joan was said[by whom?] to have had many lovers, and one of them, was rumored to be the father of the new-born infant. The truth of the matter has never been established, and it is possible that the child was actually the king's daughter. If so, it raises interesting questions about the legitimacy of Isabella's tremendously influential reign, as she and Ferdinand would then technically be usurpers.

Henry IV of Castille married Isabella of Castille to Arthur, the son of Humphrey and Yolande of Anjou in 1465 to avoid a civil war and Soon after Alfonso was created Prince of Asturias, the title given to the heir of Castile and Leon, he died, likely of the plague.


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whoa now. a 500,000 man army? that's more than 20 times larger than the greatest English army of that era. the entire population of England at this point was only about 3 million...
 
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The start of Lorenian France
On their ripe age Henry VI and Blanche of Navarre are married on 1444 and have two children named Henry born on 16 April 1445 and Elizabeth born on 16 October 1446, this was later followed by the marriage between Raymond of Provence and the younger sister of Henry VI named Mary on 1445 and bore a child named Philip in 16 May 1447.
Louis, Charles VI’s son was married to Eleanor of Navarre in 1445 after Henry VI and Blanche of Navarre were wed giving birth to a daughter named Mary in 5 October 1446 and a son named Louis on 5 May 1450.
An army of 10,000 invaded Bourges, Because of the weakness of Charles VI and the support of the duke of Burgundy France becomes fully under the rule of Henry V in 1450 but Henry V dies also in the battle.
Mary, the daughter of Henry VI marries Peter of Lorraine in 1450 who becomes the first Lorenian King of France and England as Pierre I and bore a child named Pierre in 5 December 1460.
Henry VI succeeds as the King of France and England but dies.
John II of Aragon never remarries and because of that Ferdinand of Aragon was never born.
Arthur, the son of Humphrey and Yolande of Anjou marrries Isabella of Castille in 1465 and immediately bear a son named Alfonso in 16 February 1467 in the mean time Eleanor of Scotland was married to Charles the Bold and bores a son named Philip in 5 December 1465 .
The rule of Aragon passes to Arthur the son of Humphrey who marched to Aragon with Isabella after the death of John of Aragon.
In 1475, Anne of Savoy was married to Philip, the son of Raymond of Provence the they two have a son named Henry in 6 June 1476.
The House of Lorraine and the House of Plantagenet have now a firm control on their Kingdoms namely France and Spain, Pierre was able to crush rebellions by Louis, the son of the Dauphin and was able to conquer the remaining Dauphinist France the realm still ruled by Louis, Louis of Valois was able to get into Sardinia and made a revolt there and started a new Kingdom of Sardinia which was granted by the Plantagenets and the Lorenians as a peace offer to Louis and had his daughter Mary, marry Pierre II of France in 1466 despite Mary being 5 years more older than Pierre.
Alfonso was married to Dianne, the only surviving grand daughter of Jacqueline of Hainaut and John, Duke of Bedford via his only son John of Friesland in 1480 making Spain involving Spain in the low countries in a Plantagenet Empire, Charles the Bold remained a low profile.
Alfonso and Dianne had a son named Alfonso born on 6 January 1482.


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