The Savoyard Legacy

The Savoyard Legacy

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Edward, the Black Prince’s son,Edward of Angoulême survives childhood and his sister Maria Ricarda is betrothed to Amadeus VII of Savoy in the hope that they will help the Plantagenets in the claim to the French throne.

Edward of Angoulême becomes the king of England in 1377 and Maria Ricarda is married on a church to Amadeus VII of Savoy in January 1382, Maria Ricarda was pregnant as well and also gives birth to a son named Ludovico in October 1382.
 
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Luigi? That doesn't seem to make sense. The northern Italian name would be Ludovico, and the Savoyards spoke French, I thought. But I'm intrigued.
 
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The Savoyard Legacy

The Savoyard Legacy

Edward, the Black Prince’s son,Edward of Angoulême survives childhood and his sister Maria Ricarda is betrothed to Amadeus VII of Savoy in the hope that they will help the Plantagenets in the claim to the French throne.

Edward of Angoulême becomes the king of England in 1377 and Maria Ricarda is married on a church to Amadeus VII of Savoy in January 1382, Maria Ricarda was pregnant as well and also gives birth to a son named Ludovico in October 1382. Edward marries Anne of Bohemia, daughter of Charles IV, King of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor and Elisabeth of Pomerania, on 20 January 1382. The marriage had diplomatic significance; in the division of Europe caused by the Great Schism, Bohemia and the Empire were seen as potential allies against France in the ongoing Hundred Years' War. The marriage was childless, and Anne died in 1394.

On June 1394, Maria Ricarda bears another son named Ricardo, she knows that her brother has been killed and she wants that her son Ludovico succeed to the English and French throne.

With national stability secured, Edward IV began negotiating a permanent peace with France. A proposal put forward in 1393 would greatly expand the territory of Aquitaine possessed by the English crown. However, the plan failed on the condition that the English king had to perform homage to the King of France – an unacceptable condition to the English public.Instead, a twenty-eight year truce was agreed upon in 1396. As part of the truce, Edward IV would marry Isabella, daughter of Charles VI of France. There were some misgivings about the marriage, however; since the princess was only six years old she was unlikely to produce an heir for many years.

In June 1399, Louis, Duke of Orléans gained control of the court of the insane Charles VI of France. The policy of rapprochement with the English crown did not suit Louis's political ambitions, and for this reason he found it opportune to allow Henry to leave for England.
With a small group of followers, Bolingbroke landed at Ravenspur in Yorkshire towards the end of June 1399. Men from all over the country soon rallied around the duke. Meeting with Henry Percy, Earl of Northumberland, who had his own misgivings about the king, Bolingbroke insisted that his only object was to regain his own patrimony.


he married the second daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti named Isabella, the second daughter of Gian Galeazzo Visconti to Isabelle Valois and Isabella had a son with Ludovico named Frederico.

Percy took him at his word and declined to interfere. The king had taken most of his household knights and the loyal members of his nobility with him to Ireland, so Henry experienced little resistance as he moved south. The Duke of York, who was acting as keeper of the realm, had little choice but to side with Bolingbroke. Meanwhile, Edward was delayed in his return from Ireland, and did not land in Wales until 24 July.

He made his way to Conwy, where on 12 August he met with the Earl of Northumberland for negotiations. A week later Edward IV surrendered to Henry at Flint Castle on 19 August, promising to abdicate if his life was spared. Both men then returned to London; the indignant king riding all the way behind Henry. On arrival, he was imprisoned in the Tower of London on 1 September.

Henry IV then decided Isabella should marry his son, the future Henry V of England, but she put her foot down and refused to have anything to do with the prince. Knowing her husband was dead, she went into mourning, ignored Henry IV's demand and eventually he let her go back to France.


On 29 June 1406, Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans. On 29 June 1406, Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans. She died in childbirth at the age of 19, leaving one daughter Jeanne.

Henry V is planning to war with France and in the mean time Ludovico of Savoy becomes the count of Savoy in 1416 after his father retired and Gian Galeazzo Visconti becomes his ally and vassal who later attacked and annexed Corsica and Genoa at 1416 and took advantage of it’s wealth, Ludovico of Savoy and Galleazzo granted Ticino as appanage for Ricardo of Savoy.
In January 1419 , Ludovico attacks Dauphiné with his big army of 10,000 men and he allies with the Count of Provence, Louis II because he promised the Kingdom of Mallorca and Kingdom of Aragon will be his territory and the area surrounding it so he sends a army of 5,000 men.

Ludovico attacked Grenoble with his 15,000 men and defeated the troops of France in Dauphiné and sacked it later Grenoble rebuilt, and later Louis of Provence got the lands promised for him with the help of Ludovico of Savoy, so he got Vivares, Montpeiller and Gevaudan and the surrounding areas in the late 1419 but they did not pursue Carlat because Carlat is in Auvergne proper.

And they war with King Ferdinand I of Aragon with their 15,000 men which they won and they got Catalonia and Aragon in the end of 1419, Ferdinand I with his troops defeated goes to Sicily.

Ludovico later also allied with Philip of Burgundy in Early 1420 and Because of that alliance Philip of Burgundy was able to get Champagne, the siege of Champagne resulted in the defection of Champagne to Burgundy, The battle of Agincourt was a success and Henry V sit on the throne at Paris with the help of Ludovico ,the French Royal Family, the Valois were exiled to Sardinia but Ludovico betrayed Henry V, he killed him and made his son the King of Ireland and got the English throne and got enthroned at England, now Ludovico has conquered France and England and has Aragon, Burgundy, Ireland and Milan.

Ludovico gave the former Plantagenet Gascony to Charles III of Evreux, the king of Navarre in 1420.

Galeazzo on the mean time has already sacked tuscany and annexed it to his realm in 1422 but the battle made him exhausted so he got sick and died, Ludovico became Louis XI of France and annexed the duchy of Milan after the death of Galeazzo, Ludovico becomes known as Louis the tyrrant.




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