Portuguese marriage
The favored sons

This TL is concerned about Prince Afonso, the husband of Isabella of Aragon and Charles Orlando, the son of Charles VIII and Anne of Brittany.


Portuguese marriage

Her first marriage was to Prince Afonso, the only son and heir of king John II of Portugal from his marriage with Eleanor of Viseu. The wedding, by proxy, took place in the spring of 1490 in Seville. On 19 November of that year, Isabella arrived in Badajoz, where she was welcomed by Afonso's uncle Manuel. Afonso and Isabella were reunited in Elvas on 22 November and, on the following day, Isabella met her mother-in-law, Queen Eleanor, in the Convento do Espinheiro in Évora, where the court had gathered to ratify the marriage that had been celebrated earlier in Seville.

Though the marriage had been arranged by the Treaty of Alcáçovas, the marriage quickly became a love match. Isabella proved a popular figure with the Portuguese royal family due to her knowledge of their language and customs brought about by the years she spent in Portugal as a child.

On November 10, 1492, Isabella would celebrate the birth of a baby girl named Catarina or Catherine,

All in all, Isabella and Afonso would have 5 children.

Catherine of Portugal November 10, 1492

John of Portugal May 10, 1494

Beatrice of Portugal May 29, 1498

Ferdinand of Portugal June 2, 1500

Eleanor of Portugal January 10, 1501

On 1495, she is crowned with her husband, Afonso VI of Portugal as the queen consort, Isabella would assume the responsibilities as Princess of Asturias as Margaret, Princess of Asturias would give birth to a stillborn daughter after the death of her husband, the late Prince of Asturias, Isabella would die due to complications after giving birth to Eleanor of Portugal on 1501, she was just 31.
 
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Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus

After continually lobbying at the Spanish court and two years of negotiations, he finally had success in January 1492. Ferdinand and Isabella had just conquered Granada, the last Muslim stronghold on the Iberian Peninsula, and they received Columbus in Córdoba, in the Alcázar castle. Isabella turned him down on the advice of her confessor. Columbus was leaving town by mule in despair when Ferdinand intervened. Isabella then sent a royal guard to fetch him, and Ferdinand later claimed credit for being "the principal cause why those islands were discovered".

In the April 1492 "Capitulations of Santa Fe", King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella promised Columbus that if he succeeded he would be given the rank of Admiral of the Ocean Sea and appointed Viceroy and Governor of all the new lands he could claim for Spain. He had the right to nominate three persons, from whom the sovereigns would choose one, for any office in the new lands. He would be entitled to 10 percent of all the revenues from the new lands in perpetuity. Additionally, he would also have the option of buying one-eighth interest in any commercial venture with the new lands and receive one-eighth of the profits.

At about 2:00 in the morning of 12 October (21 October, Gregorian Calendar New Style), a lookout on the Pinta, Rodrigo de Triana (also known as Juan Rodríguez Bermeo), spotted land, and immediately alerted the rest of the crew with a shout. Thereupon, the captain of the Pinta, Martín Alonso Pinzón, verified the discovery and alerted Columbus by firing a lombard. Columbus later maintained that he himself had already seen a light on the land a few hours earlier, thereby claiming for himself the lifetime pension promised by Ferdinand and Isabella to the first person to sight land.

Columbus called the island (in what is now the Bahamas) San Salvador (meaning "Holy Savior"); the natives called it Guanahani. Exactly which island in the Bahamas this corresponds to is unresolved. Based on primary accounts and on what one would expect from the geographic positions of the islands given Columbus's course, the prime candidates are San Salvador Island (so named in 1925 on the theory that it was Columbus's San Salvador), Samana Cay, and Plana Cays.

He would jumpstart the tyranny of the Castilians in the carribean since 1492.

Columbus was later arrested in 1500 and dismissed from his posts. He and his sons, Diego and Fernando, then conducted a lengthy series of court cases against the Castilian crown, known as the pleitos colombinos, alleging that the Crown had illegally reneged on its contractual obligations to Columbus and his heirs.

Due to the survival of the progeny of Isabella, Princess of Asturias, on 1498 the Spanish would not worry of wanting to compete with the Portuguese and instead focused on integrating the Portuguese realms with the Spanish ones.
 
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Anne of Brittany
Anne of Brittany

By the marriage of 1491, Anne of Brittany became Queen consort of France. Her marriage contract stated that it was concluded to ensure peace between the Duchy of Brittany and the Kingdom of France. She made Charles VIII her perpetual representative. On 8 February 1492, Anne was crowned Queen of France at St. Denis Basilica. She was the first Queen crowned there and consecrated, "anointed in the head and chest" by André d'Espinay, Archbishop of Bordeaux. Her husband forbade her to use the title of Duchess of Brittany, which became a bone of contention between the two. Gabriel Miron became in the Chancellor of the Queen and her first doctor; he signed the marriage contract of the Queen with King Louis XII on 1 January 1499.

Anne's marriage began badly: she brought two beds with her when she came to marry Charles, and the King and Queen often lived apart; despite this, she was pregnant for most of her married life (with a child every fourteen months on average). When her husband fought in the wars in Italy, the regency powers were exercised by his sister Anne of Beaujeu, who had held this position between 1483-1491. Anne of Brittany had a limited role in France and Brittany and sometimes had to accept being separated from her children in infancy. She lived primarily in the royal castles of Amboise, Loches and Plessis or in the towns of Lyon, Grenoble or Moulins (when the king was in Italy). At Amboise, when Charles VIII had work, she mainly resided in the nearby Clos Lucé, the future home of Leonardo da Vinci. She built her chapel.

When Charles VIII, heir of the rights of the Kings of France over Brittany, died as the result of an accident on 4 April 1498, Anne was 21 years old and has given birth to a son. She then personally took charge of the administration of the Duchy of Brittany. She restored the faithful Philippe de Montauban to the chancellery of Brittany, named Jean de Châlon, Prince of Orange, as Hereditary Lieutenant General of Brittany, appointed her squire Gilles of Texue as responsible of the Château de Brest, convened the Estates of Brittany, and ordered production of a gold coin bearing her name.

Three days after her husband's death and crowning of her son, the terms of her marriage contract came into force; however, the new regent, Louis of Orleans, was already married, to Joan, daughter of Louis XI and sister to Charles VIII. On 19 August 1498, at Étampes, Anne agreed to marry Louis of Orleans if he obtained an annulment from Joan within a year. Days later, the process for the annulment of the marriage between Louis of Orleans and Joan of France began. In the interim, Anne returned to Brittany in October 1498.

If Anne was gambling that the annulment would be denied, she lost: Louis's first marriage was dissolved by Pope Alexander VI before the end of the year. Anne's third marriage contract, signed the day of her marriage (Nantes, 7 January 1499), was concluded under conditions radically different from those of the second. She was no longer a child, but a Dowager Queen, and determined to ensure the recognition of her rights as sovereign Duchess from that point forward. Although her new husband exercised the ruler's powers in Brittany, he formally recognized her right to the title "Duchess of Brittany" and issued decisions in her name.



Her marriage with Charles VIII of France who died in 1498 produced seven pregnancies with four surviving infancy:

Charles Orland, Dauphin of France (October 11 1492).

Margaret of France(April 2 1494).

Francis, duke of Berry (July 1497).

Anne of France (20 March 1498).



Her marriage with Louis, duke of Orleans, produced at least another nine pregnancies with two surviving infancy:

Claude of Orleans(13 October 1499)

Renée of Orleans (25 October 1510)
 
Joanna of Spain
Joanna of Spain

By 1495 Joanna showed signs of religious skepticism and little devotion to worship and Catholic rites. This alarmed her mother Queen Isabella, who had established the Spanish Inquisition in 1478, and Joanna was especially afraid of her. Indeed, letters of Mosen Luis Ferrer, gentleman of the bed chamber of Ferdinand, refer to the coercive punishment known as "La cuerda", which Juana was subjected to. This involved being suspended by a rope with weights attached to the feet, endangering life and limb. In the background was the 'Holy' Inquisition. Two thousand men and women were burned, and a still greater number condemned to perpetual imprisonment, while immense numbers fled to France, Italy, and other countries. The Queen declared she would rather the country be depopulated than have it polluted by heresy. Deviance by a child of the Catholic Monarchs would not be tolerated, much less heresy. Sub-Prior Friar Tomas de Matienzo and Friar Andreas complained of her refusal to confess - or to write to him or her mother - and accused her of corruption by Parisian 'drunkard' priests.

In 1496, Joanna, at the age of sixteen, was betrothed to Philip 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 Trastámaras 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 (her parents had secretly married there in 1469). In August 1496 Joanna left from the port of Laredo in northern Spain on the Atlantic's Bay of Biscay.

Joanna began her journey to Flanders in the Low Countries, which consisted of parts of the present day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, and Germany, on 22 August 1496. The formal marriage took place on 20 October 1496 in Lier, north of present-day Brussels. Between 1498 and 1507, she gave birth to six children, two boys and four girls, all of whom grew up to be either emperors or queens.

Joanna would prove to be the perfect choice to be the Empress of Germany due to her own attitude compared to her own parents and said to be even supported Martin Luther.



Children

Eleanor November 15, 1498

Charles February 24, 1500

Isabella July 18, 1501

Ferdinand March 10, 1503

Mary September 10, 1505

Catherine January 10, 1507

Frederick May 10, 1512
 
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon

Catherine and Arthur met on 4 November 1501 at Dogmersfield in Hampshire. Little is known about their first impressions of each other, but Arthur did write to his parents-in-law that he would be "a true and loving husband" and told his parents that he was immensely happy to "behold the face of his lovely bride". The couple had corresponded in Latin, but found that they could not understand each other, since they had learned different pronunciations. Ten days later, on 14 November 1501, they were married at Old St. Paul's Cathedral. A dowry of 200,000 crowns had been agreed, and half was paid shortly after the marriage.

Once married, Arthur was sent to Ludlow Castle on the borders of Wales to preside over the Council of Wales and the Marches, as was his duty as Prince of Wales, and his bride accompanied him. The couple stayed at Castle Lodge, Ludlow. A few months later, they both became ill, possibly with the sweating sickness, which was sweeping the area. Arthur died on 2 April 1502; Catherine recovered to find herself a widow.

At this point, Henry VII faced the challenge of avoiding the obligation to return her 200,000 ducat dowry, half of which he had not yet received, to her father, as required by her marriage contract should she return home. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth in February 1503, King Henry VII initially considered marrying Catherine himself, but the opposition of her father and potential questions over the legitimacy of the couple's issue ended the idea. To settle the matter, it was agreed that Catherine would marry Henry VII's second son, Henry, Duke of York, who was five years younger than she was. The death of Catherine's mother, however, meant that her "value" in the marriage market decreased.

However, a better offer came in the betrothal and marriage of Catherine of Portugal, the daughter of the daughter of Isabella, Princess of Asturias and Henry, duke of York and Catherine of Aragon was allowed to go home, Catherine of Portugal would prove to be a dutiful bride and a better match for the future Henry VIII.

However, she was remarried twice to the two dukes of Savoy, Philibert I(1503)I and Charles II(1505), only the marriage of Charles II produced children, providing two children, Charlotte b. 1510 and Emmanuel Philibert b. 1520.
 
Margaret of Austria
Margaret of Austria

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, Juana, to Philip. Margaret left the Netherlands for Spain late in 1496. The marriage took place in 1497. John died after only six months, on 4 October. Margaret was left pregnant, but on 2 April 1498 she gave birth to a premature stillborn daughter. The Dowager Princess of Asturias returned to the Netherlands early in 1500, when her brother and sister-in-law invited her to be godmother to their newborn son, Charles of Austria.

After the death of her first husband, Juan Prince of Asturias, Freidrich of Saxony would push a marriage with Margaret of Austria and Philibert and Freidrich of Saxony would be fighting for her marriage and Maximilian would want to marry her to Vladislaus II of Hungary, howeverr, Anne of Brittany arranged the marriage of Vladislaus and Anne of Foix Candale and Fredrich would be persistent in wanting to marry Margaret of Austria, Margaret of Austria was initially liking Philibert of Savoy but Maximilian would want to secure support of the Habsburgs in Germany so he would decide that Freidrich would be the one marrying Margaret of Austria and so she would comply.

Margaret of Austria hated what happened to her with Charles VIII and promised that she would be a good wife for Freidrich of Saxony when she left the Austrian court.

On 1500, Margaret of Austria would be arranged to marry Freidrich of Saxony, a marriage that would produce two sons Frederich b. 1510 and Leopold b. 1512 and two daughters Elisabeth b. 1502 and Margaret b. 1506.
 
The last days of the Catholic Queen and the rise of John III
The last days of the Catholic Queen and the rise of John III

Isabella received the title of Catholic Monarch by Pope Alexander VI, a pope of whose behavior and involvement in matters Isabella did not approve. Along with the physical unification of Spain, Isabella and Ferdinand embarked on a process of spiritual unification, trying to bring the country under one faith (Roman Catholicism). As part of this process, the Inquisition became institutionalised. After a Muslim uprising in 1499, and further troubles thereafter, the Treaty of Granada was broken in 1502, and Muslims were ordered to either become Christians or to leave. Isabella's confessor, Cisneros, was named Archbishop of Toledo. He was instrumental in a program of rehabilitation of the religious institutions of Spain, laying the groundwork for the later Counter-Reformation. As Chancellor, he exerted more and more power.

Isabella and her husband had created an empire and in later years were consumed with administration and politics; they were concerned with the succession and worked to link the Spanish crown to the other rulers in Europe. By early 1497, all the pieces seemed to be in place: The son and heir John, Prince of Asturias, married a Habsburg princess, Margaret of Austria, establishing the connection to the Habsburgs. The eldest daughter, Isabella of Aragon, married King Alfonso VI, and the younger daughter, Joanna of Castile, was married to a Habsburg prince, Philip I of Habsburg.

Isabella officially withdrew from governmental affairs on September 14, 1504 and she died that same year on 26 November at the Medina del Campo Royal Palace. It is said that she had truly already been in decline since the death of her son Prince John of Asturias in 1497. She is entombed in Granada in the Capilla Real, which was built by her grandson, John III of Castile, alongside her husband Ferdinand. The museum next to the Capilla Real holds her crown and scepter.

Upon the death of his grandmother in November 1504, John, Prince of Asturias now John III of Castile became the king of Castile. John's grandfather, Ferdinand II, lost his monarchical status in Castile although his wife's will permitted him to govern as his own regent.
 
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Bruneian Empire
Bruneian Empire

On the late 15th century or early 16th century, Sultan Bolkiah in his prime would raze and annex Tondo and establish the city of Kota Saludong or Amanilah.

Due to the annexation of Tondo a betrothal marriage would happen between Dayang Panginoan, the daughter of Dayang Kaylangitan and a Prince from the North, Panginoan would spread the religion of Islam to the land of Saludong in the North and the Bruneian influence would also happen due to the marriage and the Sultanate of Saludong ruling the North would form in the latter part of the 16th century.

Panginoan would be the one credited for the spread of Islam in the north in Saludong because she would bring in Muslim Missionaries with her and future Muslim missionaries which would render the population of the coastal areas of Saludong as majority muslim many decades after she married there the muslim religion would spread from the cities of Makabebe, Faru and Kaboloan to the inland areas however the areas up of Pampanga river and Bannag river inhabited by hindus would not convert.

The Bruneian Empire would reach its height on the early part of the 16th century and would flourish on the 16th century and said to be rich in Gold and would have established outposts or direct vassals in Saludong and in Sugbu named Bigan and Maktan and an outpost in Panay island which would mean that the Bruneian would widen its influence.

The precedent of the Bruneian Empire's evangelization efforts would give Sultan Sharif the initiative to establish the Sultanate of Maguindanao.

The Bruneian Empire would control the entry of goods from the Indian Ocean to China itself for the coming centuries.

Countries under the influence of Bruneian Empire

-Saludong

-Sulu (Under Personal Union with Brunei)

-Madyaas

-Butuan Rajahnate

-Sugbu Rajahnate

-Kutai


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Magellan Expedition will be butterflied as implied.
 
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The last days of the Catholic Queen and the rise of John III


Isabella and her husband had created an empire and in later years were consumed with administration and politics; they were concerned with the succession and worked to link the Spanish crown to the other rulers in Europe. By early 1497, all the pieces seemed to be in place: The son and heir John, Prince of Asturias, married a Habsburg princess, Margaret of Austria, establishing the connection to the Habsburgs. The eldest daughter, Isabella of Aragon, married King Alfonso VI, and the younger daughter, Joanna of Castile, was married to a Habsburg prince, Philip I of Habsburg.

Isabella officially withdrew from governmental affairs on September 14, 1504 and she died that same year on 26 November at the Medina del Campo Royal Palace. It is said that she had truly already been in decline since the death of her son Prince John of Asturias in 1497. She is entombed in Granada in the Capilla Real, which was built by her grandson, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (Carlos I of Spain), alongside her husband Ferdinand, her daughter Joanna and Joanna's husband Philip I; and Isabella's 2-year-old grandson, Miguel da Paz (the son of Isabella's daughter, also named Isabella, and King Manuel I of Portugal). The museum next to the Capilla Real holds her crown and scepter.

Upon the death of his grandmother in November 1504, John, Prince of Asturias now John III of Castile became the king of Castile. John's grandfather, Ferdinand II, lost his monarchical status in Castile although his wife's will permitted him to govern as his own regent.
Catherine was married twice in Savoy and Margaret remarried in Saxony, Henry VIII married another Catherine, daughter of Isabella but Maria of Aragon was married to someone?
And change the part about Isabella's tomb who is OTL
 
Catherine was married twice in Savoy and Margaret remarried in Saxony, Henry VIII married another Catherine, daughter of Isabella but Maria of Aragon was married to someone?
And change the part about Isabella's tomb who is OTL
ninja'd.

Maria is married to the King of Denmark.
 
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Prince Christian of Denmark and Maria of Aragon
Prince Christian of Denmark and Maria of Aragon

Christian was born at Nyborg Castle in 1481 as the son of King John and his wife, Christina of Saxony. Christian descended, through Valdemar I of Sweden, from the House of Eric, and from Catherine, daughter of Inge I of Sweden, as well as from Ingrid Ylva, granddaughter of Sverker I of Sweden. His rival Gustav I of Sweden descended only from Sverker II of Sweden and the House of Sverker. Christian took part in his father's conquest of Sweden in 1497 and in the fighting of 1501 when Sweden revolted.

On 1500, the Danish and the Scots were competing for the hand of the remaining princess of the Catholic Monarchs, the marriage negotiation took a toll and queen Isabella was not pleased, on 1503, after the long negotiations, the Danish would end up winning the negotiation and the hand of Maria, while, the scots would get Margaret Tudor instead.

Maria of Aragon would be married in Proxy with Prince Christian of Denmark, future Christian II as soon as the agreement was finalized, she would embark to denmark.

On her way to denmark she would be able to meet Louis XI and her sister, Joanna of Aragon who is now wife of the future Emperor Philip II.

Maria and Christian are married again on 1504, Maria would give birth to many children per year John b. June 6 1504 , Haakon b. May 2, 1506, Catherine b. June 4, 1508 and Joanna b. 1510 would be the one would survive infancy.

She would die on 1511 due to complications of a miscarriage, she was just 29 and she proved to be a dutiful wife.
 
Catherine of Portugal and her journey to England
Catherine of Portugal and her journey to England

On 1506, she in her tender age of Fourteen would go to England and marry Prince Henry of York, the new heir to the Kingdom of England.

She would change her name from Catalina to Catherine or Katherine in England and sign her letters as the Duchess of York on her marriage on 1507.

She would finally meet her groom in dover and she was as pious as her own mother and she was accompanied by Joanna of Naples who would be married to Henry VII in 1505 till his death in 1520, she would provide Henry VII of a son named Ferdinand b. May 10, 1506.

She is said to be beautiful and provided her husband with four surviving children named Elizabeth of England b. February 2, 1508, Henry, Duke of Cornwall b. January 1, 1511, Mary of England February 18, 1516, Jasper, Duke of York b. June 15, 1519.

She would be crowned as Queen on 1520 alongside with her husband as King, she is said to be very beautiful and others would covet her beauty.
 
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