What Venus's Gift Hath Wrought

This is really more of a nitpick (and a way to express the fact that I'm following this without a pointless post ...), but wouldn't it be Knights Hospitaller, rather than the Knights Templar?

Because I distinctly remember something about the Pope thoroughly shutting down the Templars some centuries earlier.:p
 
This is really more of a nitpick (and a way to express the fact that I'm following this without a pointless post ...), but wouldn't it be Knights Hospitaller, rather than the Knights Templar?

Because I distinctly remember something about the Pope thoroughly shutting down the Templars some centuries earlier.:p
You are completely right, I have no idea why I kept saying Templar. Too much conspiracy theory on the history channel/National Treasure...

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You are completely right, I have no idea why I kept saying Templar. Too much conspiracy theory on the history channel/National Treasure...

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and thats why i often avoid the History Channel, to much pseudoscience and non-historical programs (at least here in the Netherlands and we get either the British or American version)

good update, and nice to see a point of view of Phillip II other than what i learned in history class (which wasn't positive)
 
Awesome update, IV, Im glad to see that many of my questions about Phillip and the Spanish Hapsburg crew covered in the latest installment. It seems like your eiher planning for a potential cousin marriage between Don Ernesto and one of Phillip's daughters, or Phillip may have to fork over yet another throne, possibly Naples? Or even cooler would be somewhere in New Spain lol...Keep it comming IV:D
 
and thats why i often avoid the History Channel, to much pseudoscience and non-historical programs (at least here in the Netherlands and we get either the British or American version)

good update, and nice to see a point of view of Phillip II other than what i learned in history class (which wasn't positive)

Well, he was the bogeyman of the Dutch, though to be honest he was no more or less nuanced than the average Renaissance monarch whose rep was less than average in no small part due to the Black Legend.
 
Well, that's intriguing.

I wonder what will happen to Maximilian's son, then...
Which son? ;)

and thats why i often avoid the History Channel, to much pseudoscience and non-historical programs (at least here in the Netherlands and we get either the British or American version)

good update, and nice to see a point of view of Phillip II other than what i learned in history class (which wasn't positive)

Well, he was the bogeyman of the Dutch, though to be honest he was no more or less nuanced than the average Renaissance monarch whose rep was less than average in no small part due to the Black Legend.
Philip gets and deserves a bad rap for his actions in the Netherlands, but honestly that as far as I'm willing to accept personally. The rest of the Black Legend (the English, Don Carlos, etc.) I reject as propaganda that until recently was treated as history.

Awesome update, IV, Im glad to see that many of my questions about Phillip and the Spanish Hapsburg crew covered in the latest installment. It seems like your eiher planning for a potential cousin marriage between Don Ernesto and one of Phillip's daughters, or Phillip may have to fork over yet another throne, possibly Naples? Or even cooler would be somewhere in New Spain lol...Keep it comming IV:D
Don Ernesto will be an interesting character for sure.

As for the actual Spanish Habsburgs, I had been planning for Elisabeth of Valois to bare an heir from the early stages of the TL and settled on Ferdinand being alternate male Isabella Eugenia Clara, after the survival of twins that IOTL Elisabeth miscarried. Don Carlos's demise was just a happy find in my research, otherwise I was just going to let him go the way he did IOTL.
 
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