France is in for a rough couple of years now. And yes, Ferdinand is heading into France with a army while Juan is happily taking Roussilion.
The Grand Duchy of the West - A Valois-Burgundian TL
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Sweet
And pretty happy that Charles of lorraine is now the Scourge of France.
Kingslayer is another sweet title
Charles of Lorraine is who Chuck Norris checks under his bed for before going to sleep at night. I mean can you imagine the memes he would have gotten if this had happened in real history?
Man, the history textsbooks from 1505 to 1514 must have been wild. French historians must be muttering curses while teaching students!
yeah indeed, and any Portuguese claimants would be relatively neutral for what they are, which makes them perfect as a compromise candidate.
Considering how the next French king would regain power and the such prob yeah, but I think things will get worse. The only thing that won't make this as bad for france is that the heartlands of France would be relatively unscathed.
I think that the Estates general and the non-noble populace will side with the king against the nobles after this. Because given that its gonna be even worse in the next chapter, I think that having too powerful dukes and counts running around the place will be seen as destructive to the commoners and merchants.
hmm considering what you're constantly alluding to I can see why the populace would like the king after all that. I just hope France doesn't get as destructive as otl as Brabant really can't deal with one that is powerful.
Nah, he was the man you send to kill the boogeyman. I once saw him kill three men... with a pencil, with a fucking pencil! And one of the men he killed was the French king!
Better a powerful monarch then the constant chaos of infighting.
Lol. That is very good.
Chapter 31 - France in 1509 to 1510
Chapter 31 – France in 1509 to 1510
At the end of 1508 the Estates of France had raised 150,000 livres for ransoming Charles IX and his companions. Alain d’Albret had managed to raise the sum of an additional 70,000 in the beginning of 1509, to free his son Jean even faster. The infighting between him and Orléans had become even worse with the Spanish allies up from the south. The duke of Angouleme managed to raise an army with the support of the crown and invaded the Albret lands in Gascony. The estates had declared Alain a traitor as he engineered a foreign invasion of France, while Alain called his fellow duke’s traitors as they had not moved against England in Boulogne. Angouleme directly assaulted Périgueux and Limoges, while another part of his forces moved down to the seat of the Albret house. Angouleme was accompanied by his fifteen-year-old son François, a youth willing to prove himself as grand a lord as any.
Ferdinand, Duke of Cádiz had crossed the Pyrenees with his army and had actively beaten back resistance in the Comminges region. Bearn and Biggore had been subdued as he had entered Tarbes from near Navarre. The fertile regions in in late summer Gers proved to be a fine region for the Spanish army to ravage and Ferdinand ordered his captains to take as much grain, food and wine as they could to prevent others from resupplying. The Spanish entered Armagnac a month later, a county that would prove to be tougher then Comminges to beat. Charles IV of Alençon had no intention of letting the infante steamroll him and he sent messengers to his other lordships in Alencon and Rodez to gather men to cut Ferdinand of from the east. Charles sent a quick messenger to Angouleme that he wished to ally himself with him, including a loose proposal to wed his only daughter, Marguerite. The cities of Auch and Lectoure prepared for siege, gathering supplies and weapons to repel the Castilians and Charles himself marched towards the Duke of Cádiz from Bazas where his forces and the Angouleme men had gathered. The Marshal of France, Pierre Terrail also moved with a huge force down from Auvergne with support from the duke of Bourbon. They aimed to crush the Spanish and the rebellious Albrets, all at once.
Charles IV, Duke of Alencon
Jean VI of Brittany threw a huge wrench in their plans in September of 1509. The duke had spent over a decade consolidating his grip on his duchy and building up his strength to defend himself. He had formed a close relationship with René of Lorraine, the second son of Nicholas I of Lorraine and Mary of Burgundy. As Nicholas I had inherited the duchy of Anjou as well in addition to his other patrimonies and since the distance between Lorraine and Anjou had been to great for one son to govern efficiently, he had bestowed Anjou and Maine to René, leaving Lorraine and Bar to his firstborn. The invasion in 1476 had convinced him that it was the best option to safeguard it all. René had been sent to Anjou at the age of 14 in 1496 to govern, even if he was still supported by his father’s lieutenant in the area. He had married Anne of Foix-Candale in 1498 as a French proxy for peace between the House of Anjou and Valois. Anne came with a royal dowry and good connections with the upper nobility as well. Anne had been well educated in the court and the marriage had been rather fruitful by 1509. Their first son, Nicholas had been born in 1500, followed by two daughters, Katherine and Marie. Prior to the invasion, René sent a ambassador to England, seeking the hand of Richard IV’s youngest sister Anne of York for Nicholas. Like Brittany, René saw England as a ally to safeguard his duchy.
The joint Breton-Anjou forces invaded Alecon and Perche as allies of the english and Lorraine in early September, knocking Charles off his momentum down in the south. Perche was not far located from Paris, the heart of all France and Chartres risked being besieged if they were not stopped. Louis of Orléans became very alarmed at the sudden intrusion so close to Paris, and persuaded the Estates to levy a army to beat it back. The estates however raked him over the coals for his sudden concern over France, as they perceived him a hypocrite given his past actions. The pressure to ransom Charles IX grew increasingly hard and blame was put from all corners on Orléans, Angouleme, Bourbon and Albret for bringing on the unsteady situation in the first place instead of working together to strengthen France.
Jean VI of Brittany
Down south things weren’t going to well. The Armagnac and Albret feud between different magnates and lords had been worsened and Infante Ferdinand had engaged Angouleme and Alecon in battle close to Tartas. The support from Terrail had been halved, as parts of them had been sent to Roussillon and Narbonne where the kings of Castile and Aragon had pushed themselves over to Perpignan. Prince Juan prepared to meet them in Narbonne, having been entrusted with the defence. Gaston of Foix, always loyal to his prince, had joined him in the county that he held the lordship of.
Two news arrived to Castile shortly before the fighting in Narbonne was to start. Yolande of Lorraine, Princess of Asturias and Viana had given birth to a son, named for his father and grandfather in late august of 1509. Baby Juan was a big and healthy boy, roaring like a barbary lion at his birth, according to his grandmother Catherine, who wrote quickly to her husband and son with great pride. To Yolande, Juan’s arrival had been a great relief, as her only living child had been the six-year-old Isabel, and a son cemented her position and further strengthened the Trastamara realms.
The second news came from the Duke of Cádiz. Charles of Angouleme had been killed in battle in Tartas. The duke had met his end at the infante’s Toledo steel sword and the young François had been taken captive as well. It had been another body blow to the French forces and the triumvirate between Orléans, Albret, Angouleme and Bourbon crumbled away completely.
An injured Charles of Alencon, seeing the writing on the wall, retreated back to Armagnac where he could muster his strength. A furious Ferdinand had no intention of letting him escape and pursued him, burning villages and plundering fields and orchards as he went. To many in Gascony, the Spanish seemed like a dark force straight from hell, as the infante did not reign in his soldiers much in lootings or other acts of terror. Wealthy merchants saw their possessions taken, and many women who couldn’t flee from the soldiers fast enough ended up violated. The city of Lectoure held out for a while, but eventually it was overwhelmed and savaged, with roaming soldiers tearing everything of value out, even the cathedral lost its finery. Many buildings suffered fire damages and Ferdinand ordered several of the city officials hanged in retribution. The sack of Lectoure sent a clear message to Charles that his realm was far from secure. Charles however knew that Terrail marched to his aid and were near the city of Cahors at the present moment. His forces had swelled with men from Rodez and Turenne, while Ferdinand only had a army of 2,500 at his command. Queen Catherine had levied another 1,400 from Foix and Bigorre, but they were still a distance away from L’Isle-Jourdain, the current location of the infante. Ferdinand, seeing that he risked being boxed in from above Armagnac, moved his troops further now south, hoping to place himself near Castelnaudary, closer to Foix. Pierre decided to cut him off from that route and marched extremely fast to Lavaur while summoning Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, who also held the lordship of L’Isle-Jourdain as well to attack from Castres. Nemours had been spectacularly furious about the duke of Cádiz wreaking havoc in the area, so he made sure that the infante could not move further down south. Ferdinand, as a result, ended up forced towards Toulouse with his army. Fortunately, the support from Foix arrived before the French army, leaving Ferdinand with more men. Frederick of Foix, the bastard son of Jacques de Foix, Queen Catherine’s youngest uncle served as their commander.
The additional forces were not as much as the enemy that were now days away from reaching him had, but the infante had no intentions of surrendering.
The first confrontation saw Ferdinand meeting the French vanguard with success and inflicting heavy wounds on the duke of Nemours. The injuries did not turn out to be fatal, but he would lose his right eye and be taken off the battlefield for a long while. While the French had a larger army as their advantages, many of the Spaniards and their war captains had experience fighting in Grenada and had been trained by El Gran Capitán himself, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, one of Isabel and Ferdinand’s most trusted field commanders. Both of their sons had been mentored by de Córdoba, as the decade of warfare against the emirate had been the best of learning. Ferdinand also had a vast array of firearms that he would deploy against Terrail when it all came to pass.
Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Cádiz and Pierre Terrail, Marshal of France
(its noted that the painting does not show the November weather and the wet and snowy rain that fell at the final battle, but rather seems to take place in the summer season.)
The final confrontation between Ferdinand and Pierre Terrail would take place near the city of Toulouse in the bitter and chilly November. Both sides took heavy losses in the struggle, while the firearms and cannons also added to the chaos. A heavy and wet snowy rain came down at the end, causing the Spanish and French to lose their vision. Terrail called for his forces to retreat for the day, but the obscuring weather had worked in Ferdinand’s favour right then. Terrail had been unable to see or hear the Castilians who now came crashing into his rearguard. The forces of Gaston of Foix had moved quickly from Narbonne to Castelnaudary to aid the duke of Cadiz on the orders of Juan III, who feared for his sole brother’s life. Gaston himself, a young man of merely twenty years, charged directly at Terrail with the recklessness of someone daring God himself to strike him down. While Terrail had been focused on the duke of Cádiz, the sudden appearance of a roaring and fully armoured young warrior emerging suddenly from a storm did startle him long enough for Ferdinand to mount a counterattack straight at him. Pierre found himself suddenly unhorsed and his troops scrambled as everything turned into a bloody disarray. A full volley from the Spanish firearms hit at that precise moment, turning men and horses into a bloody mess as the snow kept the ground wet and slippery. Pierre had just managed to reorient himself, while a new horse had been found for him to get back in the saddle, when a sudden shout went up from the right of him. Terrail managed to turn around, but not swiftly enough. From the corner of his eye, he would have seen Ferdinand bearing down on him from the left side, in his dark and bloodstained armour from atop a black warhorse, wielding a halberd raised above his head. A heartbeat later the weapon came down on the Marshal of France and ended the battle once and for all.
After the battle, several Castilians, riding high on the victory against the French forces decided to make Toulouse theirs. Approaching the city gates wearing French banners and armours taken from the battlefields, they successfully fooled the city officials into believing they were letting in allies instead of enemies. The citizens, who had no way of knowing how the fighting had ended, as the heavy sleet obscured much, did not realise their fatal mistake until far to late. For the next couple of days Toulouse endured much grief and ruin. Spanish soldiers looted churches, monasteries and merchants’ homes to the bare bones. Gold, silver, jewellery, silks and furs was ripped from coffers and rooms. The basilica of Saint-Sernin did fortunately not endured ravages. Ferdinand forbade any of his men to enter the cathedral upon the penalty of death. Jean d'Orléans-Longueville, archbishop of Toulouse had been brave enough to put himself before the cathedral gates when a group of soldiers sought to enter the sanctuary and managed to hold them at bay. Ferdinand himself rode up to the bishop and after a few minutes of talking directed his men to the rest of the city and swore to the brave archbishop that the sanctuary for those inside the basilica would be respected. In return the riches of Saint-Sernin would be given as spoils. The rest of the city was not so fortunate. Toulouse had been rich in many trades, as woad dye, bordeux wines and textiles in 1509. After the Spanish savages the place, precious few riches remained. Even the university saw cruelty, when their works of art and books were looted. Scholars ended up as prisoners too and were taken back to Castile. Ferdinand, despite his brutality, was a very keen scholar and a patron of the arts. It was perhaps fitting that the city of Toulouse, the scenery of the infamous Albigensian Crusade, a religious movement against the catholic church, would most likely be the start of Ferdinand’s interests in the reformists tendencies that seeped in even more strongly in the 16th century. It would be a great irony that the son of Isabel and Ferdinand, the catholic monarchs who reintroduced the Inquisition and expelled the Jews from Spain would himself be suspected of heresy in his lifetime.
Gaston of Foix, who had charged ever so bravely against the French returned to Castile with the duke of Cádiz in the beginning of 1510. Upon their return, the king praised the valiant young man before the whole of the court and bestowed upon him the epitaph that would follow him for the rest of his life: The Thunderbolt of Spain.
The Orléans feud, as it has been called in history came to an end in December of 1509, when both sides sued for peace. With all of the 500,000 livres in ransom paid at last, Charles IX of France was released from his captivity in Ghent in January of 1510 and returned to find his throne and kingdom shattered and bleed open for the whole Christendom to witness.
Author's Note: Hello naughty children, its time for death.
At the end of 1508 the Estates of France had raised 150,000 livres for ransoming Charles IX and his companions. Alain d’Albret had managed to raise the sum of an additional 70,000 in the beginning of 1509, to free his son Jean even faster. The infighting between him and Orléans had become even worse with the Spanish allies up from the south. The duke of Angouleme managed to raise an army with the support of the crown and invaded the Albret lands in Gascony. The estates had declared Alain a traitor as he engineered a foreign invasion of France, while Alain called his fellow duke’s traitors as they had not moved against England in Boulogne. Angouleme directly assaulted Périgueux and Limoges, while another part of his forces moved down to the seat of the Albret house. Angouleme was accompanied by his fifteen-year-old son François, a youth willing to prove himself as grand a lord as any.
Ferdinand, Duke of Cádiz had crossed the Pyrenees with his army and had actively beaten back resistance in the Comminges region. Bearn and Biggore had been subdued as he had entered Tarbes from near Navarre. The fertile regions in in late summer Gers proved to be a fine region for the Spanish army to ravage and Ferdinand ordered his captains to take as much grain, food and wine as they could to prevent others from resupplying. The Spanish entered Armagnac a month later, a county that would prove to be tougher then Comminges to beat. Charles IV of Alençon had no intention of letting the infante steamroll him and he sent messengers to his other lordships in Alencon and Rodez to gather men to cut Ferdinand of from the east. Charles sent a quick messenger to Angouleme that he wished to ally himself with him, including a loose proposal to wed his only daughter, Marguerite. The cities of Auch and Lectoure prepared for siege, gathering supplies and weapons to repel the Castilians and Charles himself marched towards the Duke of Cádiz from Bazas where his forces and the Angouleme men had gathered. The Marshal of France, Pierre Terrail also moved with a huge force down from Auvergne with support from the duke of Bourbon. They aimed to crush the Spanish and the rebellious Albrets, all at once.
Charles IV, Duke of Alencon
Jean VI of Brittany threw a huge wrench in their plans in September of 1509. The duke had spent over a decade consolidating his grip on his duchy and building up his strength to defend himself. He had formed a close relationship with René of Lorraine, the second son of Nicholas I of Lorraine and Mary of Burgundy. As Nicholas I had inherited the duchy of Anjou as well in addition to his other patrimonies and since the distance between Lorraine and Anjou had been to great for one son to govern efficiently, he had bestowed Anjou and Maine to René, leaving Lorraine and Bar to his firstborn. The invasion in 1476 had convinced him that it was the best option to safeguard it all. René had been sent to Anjou at the age of 14 in 1496 to govern, even if he was still supported by his father’s lieutenant in the area. He had married Anne of Foix-Candale in 1498 as a French proxy for peace between the House of Anjou and Valois. Anne came with a royal dowry and good connections with the upper nobility as well. Anne had been well educated in the court and the marriage had been rather fruitful by 1509. Their first son, Nicholas had been born in 1500, followed by two daughters, Katherine and Marie. Prior to the invasion, René sent a ambassador to England, seeking the hand of Richard IV’s youngest sister Anne of York for Nicholas. Like Brittany, René saw England as a ally to safeguard his duchy.
The joint Breton-Anjou forces invaded Alecon and Perche as allies of the english and Lorraine in early September, knocking Charles off his momentum down in the south. Perche was not far located from Paris, the heart of all France and Chartres risked being besieged if they were not stopped. Louis of Orléans became very alarmed at the sudden intrusion so close to Paris, and persuaded the Estates to levy a army to beat it back. The estates however raked him over the coals for his sudden concern over France, as they perceived him a hypocrite given his past actions. The pressure to ransom Charles IX grew increasingly hard and blame was put from all corners on Orléans, Angouleme, Bourbon and Albret for bringing on the unsteady situation in the first place instead of working together to strengthen France.
Jean VI of Brittany
Down south things weren’t going to well. The Armagnac and Albret feud between different magnates and lords had been worsened and Infante Ferdinand had engaged Angouleme and Alecon in battle close to Tartas. The support from Terrail had been halved, as parts of them had been sent to Roussillon and Narbonne where the kings of Castile and Aragon had pushed themselves over to Perpignan. Prince Juan prepared to meet them in Narbonne, having been entrusted with the defence. Gaston of Foix, always loyal to his prince, had joined him in the county that he held the lordship of.
Two news arrived to Castile shortly before the fighting in Narbonne was to start. Yolande of Lorraine, Princess of Asturias and Viana had given birth to a son, named for his father and grandfather in late august of 1509. Baby Juan was a big and healthy boy, roaring like a barbary lion at his birth, according to his grandmother Catherine, who wrote quickly to her husband and son with great pride. To Yolande, Juan’s arrival had been a great relief, as her only living child had been the six-year-old Isabel, and a son cemented her position and further strengthened the Trastamara realms.
The second news came from the Duke of Cádiz. Charles of Angouleme had been killed in battle in Tartas. The duke had met his end at the infante’s Toledo steel sword and the young François had been taken captive as well. It had been another body blow to the French forces and the triumvirate between Orléans, Albret, Angouleme and Bourbon crumbled away completely.
An injured Charles of Alencon, seeing the writing on the wall, retreated back to Armagnac where he could muster his strength. A furious Ferdinand had no intention of letting him escape and pursued him, burning villages and plundering fields and orchards as he went. To many in Gascony, the Spanish seemed like a dark force straight from hell, as the infante did not reign in his soldiers much in lootings or other acts of terror. Wealthy merchants saw their possessions taken, and many women who couldn’t flee from the soldiers fast enough ended up violated. The city of Lectoure held out for a while, but eventually it was overwhelmed and savaged, with roaming soldiers tearing everything of value out, even the cathedral lost its finery. Many buildings suffered fire damages and Ferdinand ordered several of the city officials hanged in retribution. The sack of Lectoure sent a clear message to Charles that his realm was far from secure. Charles however knew that Terrail marched to his aid and were near the city of Cahors at the present moment. His forces had swelled with men from Rodez and Turenne, while Ferdinand only had a army of 2,500 at his command. Queen Catherine had levied another 1,400 from Foix and Bigorre, but they were still a distance away from L’Isle-Jourdain, the current location of the infante. Ferdinand, seeing that he risked being boxed in from above Armagnac, moved his troops further now south, hoping to place himself near Castelnaudary, closer to Foix. Pierre decided to cut him off from that route and marched extremely fast to Lavaur while summoning Jean d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, who also held the lordship of L’Isle-Jourdain as well to attack from Castres. Nemours had been spectacularly furious about the duke of Cádiz wreaking havoc in the area, so he made sure that the infante could not move further down south. Ferdinand, as a result, ended up forced towards Toulouse with his army. Fortunately, the support from Foix arrived before the French army, leaving Ferdinand with more men. Frederick of Foix, the bastard son of Jacques de Foix, Queen Catherine’s youngest uncle served as their commander.
The additional forces were not as much as the enemy that were now days away from reaching him had, but the infante had no intentions of surrendering.
The first confrontation saw Ferdinand meeting the French vanguard with success and inflicting heavy wounds on the duke of Nemours. The injuries did not turn out to be fatal, but he would lose his right eye and be taken off the battlefield for a long while. While the French had a larger army as their advantages, many of the Spaniards and their war captains had experience fighting in Grenada and had been trained by El Gran Capitán himself, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, one of Isabel and Ferdinand’s most trusted field commanders. Both of their sons had been mentored by de Córdoba, as the decade of warfare against the emirate had been the best of learning. Ferdinand also had a vast array of firearms that he would deploy against Terrail when it all came to pass.
Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Cádiz and Pierre Terrail, Marshal of France
(its noted that the painting does not show the November weather and the wet and snowy rain that fell at the final battle, but rather seems to take place in the summer season.)
The final confrontation between Ferdinand and Pierre Terrail would take place near the city of Toulouse in the bitter and chilly November. Both sides took heavy losses in the struggle, while the firearms and cannons also added to the chaos. A heavy and wet snowy rain came down at the end, causing the Spanish and French to lose their vision. Terrail called for his forces to retreat for the day, but the obscuring weather had worked in Ferdinand’s favour right then. Terrail had been unable to see or hear the Castilians who now came crashing into his rearguard. The forces of Gaston of Foix had moved quickly from Narbonne to Castelnaudary to aid the duke of Cadiz on the orders of Juan III, who feared for his sole brother’s life. Gaston himself, a young man of merely twenty years, charged directly at Terrail with the recklessness of someone daring God himself to strike him down. While Terrail had been focused on the duke of Cádiz, the sudden appearance of a roaring and fully armoured young warrior emerging suddenly from a storm did startle him long enough for Ferdinand to mount a counterattack straight at him. Pierre found himself suddenly unhorsed and his troops scrambled as everything turned into a bloody disarray. A full volley from the Spanish firearms hit at that precise moment, turning men and horses into a bloody mess as the snow kept the ground wet and slippery. Pierre had just managed to reorient himself, while a new horse had been found for him to get back in the saddle, when a sudden shout went up from the right of him. Terrail managed to turn around, but not swiftly enough. From the corner of his eye, he would have seen Ferdinand bearing down on him from the left side, in his dark and bloodstained armour from atop a black warhorse, wielding a halberd raised above his head. A heartbeat later the weapon came down on the Marshal of France and ended the battle once and for all.
After the battle, several Castilians, riding high on the victory against the French forces decided to make Toulouse theirs. Approaching the city gates wearing French banners and armours taken from the battlefields, they successfully fooled the city officials into believing they were letting in allies instead of enemies. The citizens, who had no way of knowing how the fighting had ended, as the heavy sleet obscured much, did not realise their fatal mistake until far to late. For the next couple of days Toulouse endured much grief and ruin. Spanish soldiers looted churches, monasteries and merchants’ homes to the bare bones. Gold, silver, jewellery, silks and furs was ripped from coffers and rooms. The basilica of Saint-Sernin did fortunately not endured ravages. Ferdinand forbade any of his men to enter the cathedral upon the penalty of death. Jean d'Orléans-Longueville, archbishop of Toulouse had been brave enough to put himself before the cathedral gates when a group of soldiers sought to enter the sanctuary and managed to hold them at bay. Ferdinand himself rode up to the bishop and after a few minutes of talking directed his men to the rest of the city and swore to the brave archbishop that the sanctuary for those inside the basilica would be respected. In return the riches of Saint-Sernin would be given as spoils. The rest of the city was not so fortunate. Toulouse had been rich in many trades, as woad dye, bordeux wines and textiles in 1509. After the Spanish savages the place, precious few riches remained. Even the university saw cruelty, when their works of art and books were looted. Scholars ended up as prisoners too and were taken back to Castile. Ferdinand, despite his brutality, was a very keen scholar and a patron of the arts. It was perhaps fitting that the city of Toulouse, the scenery of the infamous Albigensian Crusade, a religious movement against the catholic church, would most likely be the start of Ferdinand’s interests in the reformists tendencies that seeped in even more strongly in the 16th century. It would be a great irony that the son of Isabel and Ferdinand, the catholic monarchs who reintroduced the Inquisition and expelled the Jews from Spain would himself be suspected of heresy in his lifetime.
Gaston of Foix, who had charged ever so bravely against the French returned to Castile with the duke of Cádiz in the beginning of 1510. Upon their return, the king praised the valiant young man before the whole of the court and bestowed upon him the epitaph that would follow him for the rest of his life: The Thunderbolt of Spain.
The Orléans feud, as it has been called in history came to an end in December of 1509, when both sides sued for peace. With all of the 500,000 livres in ransom paid at last, Charles IX of France was released from his captivity in Ghent in January of 1510 and returned to find his throne and kingdom shattered and bleed open for the whole Christendom to witness.
Author's Note: Hello naughty children, its time for death.
Infante Ferdinand the Elder is made of sheer awesomeness. And Gaston deserved his shining knight to the rescue moment.
Gaston is awesome, unlike Infante Ferdinand the Younger...
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Now, how will France rise from this quagmire, that is the question?
I just hope that the spanish, lorraine and england can consolidate gains and barricade for the french vengaence later.
Maybe they will, maybe not.
Did you notice that Spain captured Francois of Angloumene, the otl Francois I of France? It seems like even if there are no Pavia, he still ends up prisoner in Spain. Lol.
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