The King is dead - A Renaissance TL

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isabella said:
Marguerite, Duchess of Bourbon was feeling rather numb. She had tried to get up from the chair when the incapacity of her mother to keep her mouth shut had transformed the visit from her mother from a joyous moment in which share the happy news of her second pregnancy in the worst ever shouting match between her husband and her mother as Louise’s latest dispregiative comment had been the last straw for her husband’s tolerance and the Duke of Bourbon had started to tell to his mother-in-law exactly how much he hated her and why. The regent Louise for a while had listened with disbelief to her son-in-law’s accusations to have caused all the dampened to France for which she always lamented with her greed and avidity, too stunned for replying anything, but then had started to reply, reminding to the Duke who he had betrayed France passing at service of the Emperor and causing the greatest defeat ever of France and the death of her son, who was also his King and also the one of Marguerite’s first husband, the same Alençon whose honour he was so busy to defend right now. Marguerite, unable to believe who her mother could be so dense, had tried to stand up, mostly for stopping an exasperated Charles from doing anything too rash (like scrolling her mother) but she had just the time to take a step before starting to fall towards the floor. Luckily her husband had no be so distracted by his anger and rage to not note her movements and was not too far away so the fall ended with her caught in his arms instead of being on the floor. Louise also reached them, worried for her daughter’s health, and followed them while Charles brought Marguerite in her chamber, leaving her on the bed telling her to relax and stay there while he would send for the midwife as he was worried for the effect who that scene had on her and their kid. After kissing her forehead the Duke left the room, but not before telling Louise with an icy voice who he had to ask forgiveness to his elder sister (Louise, wife of the Prince of La Roche-sur-Yon ) as he would NEVER name a daughter after her as he could not condemn his future daughter to share the name with that demon of Marguerite’s mother. The Duchess of Bourbon submitted herself to her mother’s care, just wishing who Louise could understand for once who her actions had effects on other people and who the consequences could be disastrous for everyone, but looked like she would have to force her mother to open her eyes, once she recovered, as unluckily she had not the strength for that right now. Still Marguerite could not believe to her luck when her mother asked her if her husband had tried to put on her the blame for Pavia and the deaths of Francis and Alençon… Marguerite had to reassure her mother who Francis’ own stupidity and desire of glory had been the reason for that disaster, but Bourbon being the enemy’s commander… well that was her fault as she had not left him any other choice, when she had pushed her claim to the Duchy of Bourbon. Francis had supported her, as he had always done, and that meant who nobody would have given reason to Charles of Bourbon, whatever Louise was right or wrong and well, Louise truly believed who her current son-in-law was the kind of man to let other stripping him of what he believed was rightfully his without reacting or to let himself bullied to accept an disadvantageous match when he had other options? Her mother usually had a ready answer so the fact who this time she had none likely was a good sign who her mother had finally learned the lesson who her brother had not the time for digesting: sadly the world doesn't revolve around them so they need to take in consideration the possible consequences of their actions, instead of trying to take everything they wished simply as they had an excuse for doing that.
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Amazing work as always!
 
Making plans - Ferdinand
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    Ferdinand, King of Hungary and Bohemia, had started to wonder when his luck would end: until that moment the campaign against the Ottomans had gone quite well but they had not yet fought any true battle against the main army of the Ottomans. Still they had been able to keep control of Buda and recover some other fortresses, in which they had left garrisons, as the Ottomans had withdrawn from a large part of the country, likely believing who the reaction of the Christians would not be so quick or strong. Well they had lost that bet and Ferdinand was determined to take the biggest advantage possible from this mistake of his enemy. Anna had given him a son, a couple of months earlier and the King was determined to secure for Maximilian Louis the full inheritance of his maternal ancestors. At least he had no internal rival as none of the Zapolya or the Corvinus was still alive and nobody in the other families had the will or the power to oppose him. Ferdinand had named Stephen Bathory of Somlyo, who now had sweared loyalty to him and demonstrated to be trustworthy as new Voivode of Transylvania, as he had previously been the deputy of the late Janos Zapolya.
    Ferdinand wondered if he would be able to attend to his brother’s double coronation in Milan and Rome, planned for the next spring, or the first session of the Great Council who Paul III had called. If he knew well them both Anna and Maray would be glad to assist at the double coronation, so he had decided who, if the war would require his presence in Hungary, he would sent them as his representatives, unless they refused to go alone, as he would never force either of them to take such journey… Still he hoped to be able to take the journey as he wanted see again Charles and Eleanor and he doubted would have soon another chance, if he lost that one as Charles felt who his presence was needed in Spain more than elsewhere at the moment.
     
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    isabella said:
    Ferdinand, King of Hungary and Bohemia, had started to wonder when his luck would end: until that moment the campaign against the Ottomans had gone quite well but they had not yet fought any true battle against the main army of the Ottomans. Still they had been able to keep control of Buda and recover some other fortresses, in which they had left garrisons, as the Ottomans had withdrawn from a large part of the country, likely believing who the reaction of the Christians would not be so quick or strong. Well they had lost that bet and Ferdinand was determined to take the biggest advantage possible from this mistake of his enemy. Anna had given him a son, a couple of months earlier and the King was determined to secure for Maximilian Louis the full inheritance of his maternal ancestors. At least he had no internal rival as none of the Zapolya or the Corvinus was still alive and nobody in the other families had the will or the power to oppose him. Ferdinand had named Stephen Bathory of Somlyo, who now had sweared loyalty to him and demonstrated to be trustworthy as new Voivode of Transylvania, as he had previously been the deputy of the late Janos Zapolya.
    Ferdinand wondered if he would be able to attend to his brother’s double coronation in Milan and Rome, planned for the next spring, or the first session of the Great Council who Paul III had called. If he knew well them both Anna and Maray would be glad to assist at the double coronation, so he had decided who, if the war would require his presence in Hungary, he would sent them as his representatives, unless they refused to go alone, as he would never force either of them to take such journey… Still he hoped to be able to take the journey as he wanted see again Charles and Eleanor and he doubted would have soon another chance, if he lost that one as Charles felt who his presence was needed in Spain more than elsewhere at the moment.
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    Amazing work as always! Hoping the Best For Ferdinand on his war agaisnt the ottomans
     

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    Dragonboy said:
    Amazing work as always! Hoping the Best For Ferdinand on his war agaisnt the ottomans
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    For now they got lucky and recovered almost half of Hungary without fighting any major battle and the fighting season is almost over… things could change next year, or they could agree to a truce…
     

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    Awkwardvulture said:
    Ah very good to see how things are going well for Ferdinand, though I imagine the Turks are waiting to gether their forces...
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    Likely. Still they had made a lot of mistakes and wrong assumptions since Mohacs here (see the attack on Zapolya and his men when they had been told who the “king of Hungary and Bathory” were at the head of that army and had misunderstood believing who they were Ferdinand and the Palatine) and they were not expecting a so strong reaction from the Christians so they had retreated from a good part of Hungary… still some of the last fortresses recovered had been abandoned by the Ottomans when the Christian army was arriving… so the battle could arrive earlier than Ferdinand believe
     
    Family affairs - Charles V
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    Charles was thinking who Isabel and baby Philip were his only joy and confort in that period and he was extremely glad to have them as everything else had not gone in the right way lately, including the plans for his own coronation as he had completely forgotten who by tradition he should be crowned as King of Italy with the Iron Crown in Pavia before his Imperial coronation and so he had been forced to change all his plans for the journey, once a letter of Eleanor, prompted by her husband, had reminded him that fact. He was not displeased for the change, as Eleanor and Francesco were glad to receive and host them and Isabel was overjoyed at the idea of spending more time with Eleanor and see her new home but he would have liked it more if he had remembered to plan the journey with the arrival in Genoa and the first stop in Milan before starting to plan as he had been encouraged to use the journey at Rome to make also a visit to his Kingdom of Naples (his original plan was to arrive at Naples and travel from there to Rome, either on lands or taking again the ships) who now had to be postponed after the coronation. The visit to Naples was necessary as Charles needed to reaffirm his power there, specially after Germaine had birthed a son to Ferdinand of Calabria, just a couple of months after Philip‘s birth. Sure Germaine and Ferdinand were loyal, had asked to Charles and Isabel to be the godparents of their son, who they had been named Carlo after him and had also agreed to have their son raised as companion of Philip, but still the existence of that boy and his undeniable claim, if not on Naples itself, at least to a big chunk of the southern part of the Kingdom as Ferdinand‘s parents had ruled over Taranto, Andria, Venosa and Altamura, was a danger for him (and another good reason for scrapping completely a match between Alessandro de’ Medici and his Isabelle Marguerite, other than his dislike of the boy… hopefully Eleanor’s hinted alternative would reveal to be a viable match for his firstborn) reason for which Charles had put his hopes in a girl. And more recently Charles had seen his hopes fully dashed also with the birth of Catarina’s child: sadly a daughter, who Joao had mercifully called Maria Manuela after both his parents, instead of the male heir who her father had awaited and could have made better the situation of his poor sister. Charles had been quick to send congratulations together with the offer for a match between his Philip and Maria Manuela, who has thus been engaged mere days after her birth, but at least would not be called as “useless daughter” by her father… Obviously Charles’ proposal included also a match between his own future daughter and Joao and Catarina’s future son and he had also send an invite to Catarina to join him and Isabel as representative of Portugal for the Imperial coronation (Charles had tactfully added who he would love also the presence of Joao, but was secure who his royal brother was too burdened with the affairs of state for being able to leave Portugal for many months… he himself would have surely felt quite usure about departing and taking Isabel with himself if he had not been so lucky to have Aunt Catalina to leave as Regent)… So as soon she was recovered from her daughter’s birth (or at the latest after the Christmas celebration) Catarina would join them and get at least some months of respite from her husband (and Charles had all the intention to push his youngest sister to confide, naturally after asking her forgiveness for having involuntarily condemned her to that hellish life).
     
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    Dragonboy said:
    Amazing work as always @isabella . Charles is wise For making tactful decisions and alliances
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    I would say who now who he had discovered to having married his sister to a madman, Charles is doing everything he can for help her without making angry her husband (as he is secure who Catarina would be the one to feel her husband’s rage if he make some bad move). The only reason for which he had asked Maria Manuela’s hand for his son and had done it so early was his desire to protect his sister and niece from Joao’s madness…
     

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    isabella said:
    I would say who now who he had discovered to having married his sister to a madman, Charles is doing everything he can for help her without making angry her husband (as he is secure who Catarina would be the one to feel her husband’s rage if he make some bad move). The only reason for which he had asked Maria Manuela’s hand for his son and had done it so early was his desire to protect his sister and niece from Joao’s madness…
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    You said it
     
    Celebrations and plans - Isabel
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    Isabel was looking with interest at the little Maria Manuela of Portugal, just arrived with her mother in Valladolid. The baby girl, who had not yet reached her second month, was quite disturbed by the ringing of all the bells of the city, who Charles had ordered as celebration and for thanking God for the great victory obtained by the Catholic armies of Ferdinand against the Ottomans, as soon he had received the news.
    Ferdinand had not expected to fight against the enemy before the closing of the fighting season and had been warned of the position of the enemy just two days before the battle but had still been able to snatch an important and hard won victory over their enemies.
    Isabel knew who the thing for which Charles was so grateful was who this victory meant who the Ottomans would retreat and likely sign a truce with Ferdinand, meaning who Hungary would not be a battlefield in 1528 and Ferdinand would be able to be present in Milan and Rome for Charles‘ crownings and likely would bring his wife Anne and possibly also their sister Mary with him and Isabel was curious to meet them. She truly hoped who Mary would be present at the coronation and who the Danish Queen also would change idea and be present together with her husband, consenting to Charles to have all his siblings present to his coronation as she knew how much her husband wanted that. Isabel knew who Eleanor was trying to persuade both Isabella and Mary to came to the coronation, but she was not optimist about her chance of success, specially with Isabella, who was pretty much hating her remarriage to the Elector Palatine. Still Eleanor had involved also their aunt Margaret in her persuasion job and had not lost all the hopes to be able to host a true family reunion in Milan ahead of the coronation in Pavia and if Isabel knew her former stepmother well enough to know who the near certainty of Ferdinand’s presence and the security of Catarina’s attendance would push her to double her efforts and maybe that would be enough for persuading her sisters-in-law.
    Catarina was definitely enjoying the joyous atmosphere in Valladolid, enough to relax and laugh of her little daughter’s discomfort and that was a balm for Isabel’s heart as she had been really worried for the consequences who her brother‘s descent in madness would have on his poor wife.
    Aunt Catalina was there celebrating with them and then Charles had arrived, after a stop in the nursery for taking Philip and “bring him to meet his future wife as he had been unable to receive her” as the six month boy was sleeping when Catarina and her following had arrived some hours earlier. Philip had not understood his father‘s joking reproach or anything else of his words but Isabel, Catarina and Catalina had all laughed to the joke, without thinking too much to the far future. Isabel knew for sure who in the following days, she would have to push Catarina to confide in her and let out all the sufferance and humiliations who Joao had caused her, possible without Charles around as she doubted who her husband would be able to bear to listen to it. the only thing about Isabel was still undecided was if trying to approach the subject with her sister-in-law before or after the Christmas celebration who would start in two weeks…
     
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    isabella said:
    Isabel was looking with interest at the little Maria Manuela of Portugal, just arrived with her mother in Valladolid. The baby girl, who had not yet reached her second month, was quite disturbed by the ringing of all the bells of the city, who Charles had ordered as celebration and for thanking God for the great victory obtained by the Catholic armies of Ferdinand against the Ottomans, as soon he had received the news.
    Ferdinand had not expected to fight against the enemy before the closing of the fighting season and had been warned of the position of the enemy just two days before the battle but had still been able to snatch an important and hard won victory over their enemies.
    Isabel knew who the thing for which Charles was so grateful was who this victory meant who the Ottomans would retreat and likely sign a truce with Ferdinand, meaning who Hungary would not be a battlefield in 1528 and Ferdinand would be able to be present in Milan and Rome for Charles‘ crownings and likely would bring his wife Anne and possibly also their sister Mary with him and Isabel was curious to meet them. She truly hoped who Mary would be present at the coronation and who the Danish Queen also would change idea and be present together with her husband, consenting to Charles to have all his siblings present to his coronation as she knew how much her husband wanted that. Isabel knew who Eleanor was trying to persuade both Isabella and Mary to came to the coronation, but she was not optimist about her chance of success, specially with Isabella, who was pretty much hating her remarriage to the Elector Palatine. Still Eleanor had involved also their aunt Margaret in her persuasion job and had not lost all the hopes to be able to host a true family reunion in Milan ahead of the coronation in Pavia and if Isabel knew her former stepmother well enough to know who the near certainty of Ferdinand’s presence and the security of Catalina’s attendance would push her to double her efforts and maybe that would be enough for persuading her sisters-in-law.
    Catarina was definitely enjoying the joyous atmosphere in Valladolid, enough to relax and laugh of her little daughter’s discomfort and that was a balm for Isabel’s heart as she had been really worried for the consequences who her brother‘s descent in madness would have on his poor wife.
    Aunt Catalina was there celebrating with them and then Charles had arrived, after a stop in the nursery for taking Philip and “bring him to meet his future wife as he had been unable to receive her” as the six month boy was sleeping when Catarina and her following had arrived some hours earlier. Philip had not understood his father‘s joking reproach or anything else of his words but Isabel, Catarina and Catalina had all laughed to the joke, without thinking too much to the far future. Isabel knew for sure who in the following days, she would have to push Catarina to confide in her and let out all the sufferance and humiliations who Joao had caused her, possible without Charles around as she doubted who her husband would be able to bear to listen to it. the only thing about Isabel was still undecided was if trying to approach the subject with her sister-in-law before or after the Christoma’s celebration who would start in two weeks…
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    Amazing work as always
     
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