The Tudor Rose

The Tudor Rose

Henry VIII
Known in her youth as one of the most beautiful princesses in Europe, Mary was betrothed in December 1507 to Charles of Castile, later Holy Roman Emperor. However, changes in the political alliances of the European powers meant this wedding did not take place. Instead, Cardinal Wolsey negotiated a peace treaty with France, and on 9 October 1514, at the age of 18, Mary married its 52-year-old King, Louis XII of France in Abbeville, Kingdom of France. One of the Maids of Honour who attended her in France was Anne Boleyn. Mary was described by the Venetian Ambassador as "a Paradise—tall, slender, grey-eyed, possessing an extreme pallor". She wore her glorious silken red-gold hair flowing loose to her waist. Despite two previous marriages, Louis had no living sons, and sought to produce an heir; but he died on 1 January 1515, less than three months after marrying Mary, reputedly worn out by his exertions in the bedchamber. Their union produced no children.

Mary gave birth to a daughter named Catherine on 1515 they were forced to stay in the French court, Catherine and Renee became playmates, and a year after, Mary the daughter of Henry VIII would be born.

Anne Boleyn, one of Mary’s attendants became the mistress of Francis I in the displeasure of her former friend, Claude of Brittany.

On 1517, a year after the birth of Princess Mary, a son was born to Henry VIII, it was the son that was waited by Henry VIII, the son would live a long life said the astrologers.

After the labor of Catherine of Aragon, Queen of England, the son was bathed and treated like it was the most special child, Catherine of Aragon, the Queen of England is happy of the news that her child is a bouncing baby boy, there is a twin girl which was given birth a few minutes after the boy was born and was given the same treatment..

The two children were named Henry and Elisabeth.

Henry VIII m. Catherine of Aragon
-Mary b. 1516
-Henry b. 1517
-Elisabeth b. 1517

However, the happiness of the two would falter after Catherine of Aragon’s health worsened which ended to her death in January of 1518.

The King was saddened by the death of Catherine of Aragon, but he was able to recover sooner after the death of Catherine of Aragon.

Henry VIII have choices of new wives as told by his advisors
-Catherine of Austria
-Anne Boleyn
-Germaine de Foix
-Anne of Navarre

Henry chose the Gascon woman, Anne of Navarre, she was a beauty, however their marriage faltered a bit, she was considering going to the nunnery that time but her parents insisted that she should marry Henry VIII.
 
I take it, the PoD you have gone for is having Mary Tudor, Queen of France, giving birth to French Princess, meaning she stays in France.

But how does this help King Henry conceive a set of twins with Catherine of Aragon?
 
I take it, the PoD you have gone for is having Mary Tudor, Queen of France, giving birth to French Princess, meaning she stays in France.

But how does this help King Henry conceive a set of twins with Catherine of Aragon?

because it butterflies the events in OTL and the twins were a random event but the POD is in early 1510's before Mary Tudor's marriage.
 
Fernão Magalhães

On 1513, the Ternatean wife of Fernão Magalhães gives birth to a healthy son, the wife tells Magalhães to stay in Ternate and never leave her.

Due to this, the Portuguese and the later unified Iberia and the Habsburg were able to monopolize the trade to the orient.

The birth of this child would change the history forever, Charles V would not have means to find a route to the indies…at this point of time, the people of the Land of Gold are under Bruneian yoke and the minor states in it were under Bruneian vassalage and it gets gold from the mountains of that land while the Visayan states are warring with each other.

The people of the Golden Land[1] want to end the Bruneian yoke and the extraction of gold in their land.

The people of the Golden Land gain the courage to rebel against the Bruneians but at what expense…the people of the Golden Land have no leader and the people in the north are too afraid of the Bruneians and are very disunited which brings us to this, they should unite against the Bruneians.

The Salalila Dynasty, a branch of the Bolkiah Dynasty in the Golden Land are losing their ties to the Bolkiah Dynasty…time will tell when the Bruneian yoke in the Golden Land will be lifted..

On 1530, the Kingdom of Tondo(Katagalugan) controlled as a puppet of Brunei had a civil war on who will control it since one of its factions still want control of Brunei and one does not want it.

The faction of the Kingdom of Tondo who wanted independence grabbed Pangasinan, Benguet and the Upper Reaches of the Pampanga river as their base forming a new Kingdom which is so called Upper Tondo, Aparri and Lingayen both became neutral to these due to their importance to trade but the existence of Upper Tondo cut the supplies of gold to the Bruneians from Cordillera, killing their gold trade, meaning that Brunei will weaken, gradually, the Kingdom of Upper Tondo would get the control both Aparri and Lingayen which are flourishing in trade.

The Lower Tondo is weakening and Manila lost its importance and eclipsed by new cities namely, Macabebe and the Trading cities of Aparri and Lingayen.

The Pangasinan language and Kapampangan language were the main language of the new successor of the Kingdom of Tondo.

In this point, we shift our focus to Sulu, due to the weakening Bruneian Empire and its loss of its Gold Trade, Sulu would regain its trading prominence, the Kingdom of Upper Tondo would starve Brunei of its Gold Trade.

One of the sons of Ferdinand Magellan and his wife ended up in the Bruneian court as one of the advisors of the Sultan of Brunei, his name was Alfonso and converted a part of the Bruneian court and converted some of the people of Brunei to Christianity..

1. One of the Former names of Luzon.
 
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