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20070. Provence has become our vassal

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Provence exists
  • Event 20069 - A new King in Paris for Provence has already occurred
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France is a vassal of Provence

Will happen within 30 days of October 26, 1422
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1481)

Description

The rise of a new monarchy in Paris prompted many magnates to once again swear fealty to the French crown.

Actions

A. Great!

  • Gain Provence as vassals
  • Gain a royal marriage with Provence
  • +200 relations with Provence

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170277. Poitou Ravaged

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Own Poitou

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1433
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1438)

Description

In 1433, Rodrigo de Villandrando at the height of his power, had around 10,000 mercenaries, mostly Englishmen called Rodrigoys, under his command, he was the terror of the countryside of the Médoc, where his men habitually held the petty lords of the region for ransom and forced protection money from the populace, they were constantly pillaging and ransacking the bastides.

Actions

A. Damn!

  • -1 base tax value in Poitou
  • -1000 population in Poitou
  • Poitou revolts

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170278. Vendée Ravaged

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Own Vendée

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1433
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1438)

Description

In 1433, Rodrigo de Villandrando at the height of his power, had around 10,000 mercenaries, mostly Englishmen called Rodrigoys, under his command, he was the terror of the countryside of the Médoc, where his men habitually held the petty lords of the region for ransom and forced protection money from the populace, they were constantly pillaging and ransacking the bastides.

Actions

A. Damn!

  • -1 base tax value in Vendée
  • -1000 population in Vendée
  • Vendée revolts

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170032. Restoration of Anjou's estates

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 25 days of January 2, 1435
Checked again every 25 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1450)

Description

Having recovered the heartland of Anjou's estates, Charles VII rewarded his long time ally and friend Duke Rene I of Anjou with the restoration of his ancestral estates in France, including Anjou and Maine.

Actions

A. Grant Rene I his lands as agreed

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170212. Anjou is returned to Duke Rene I

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 170032 - Restoration of Anjou's estates for France

Description

Anjou and Maine are returned to Duke Rene I as agreed.

Actions

A. OK

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170033. Anjou is returned to Duke Rene I

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 25 days of January 2, 1435
Checked again every 25 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1450)

Description

Having recovered the heartland of Anjou's estates, Charles VII rewarded his long time ally and friend Duke Rene I of Anjou with a restored to him his estates in Anjou and Maine.

Actions

A. Grant Rene I his lands as agreed

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12018. Administrative Reforms of Charles VII

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Monarch Charles VII is active
  • Country has at least 10 non-colonial provinces

Will happen within 8000 days of January 1, 1437
Checked again every 8000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after July 23, 1461)

Description

Charles VII remodeled French finances, established heavy taxation, particularly through the taille, a direct land tax. Extracting the wealth of the land has always been a tough nut to crack for the centralizing French Kings. To tap the vast riches of the French lands new and improved taxation methods were needed time after time. Throughout history the methods used became more and more rationalized to optimimize gains for the treasury. The Birth of a Permanent Taxation Systems was a major step towards this aim.

Actions

A. Issue it

  • Centralization +1
  • Aristocracy +1
  • Serfdom -1
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • Global revolt risk +2 for 60 months
  • Stability -1

B. Let it be

  • Centralization -1
  • Serfdom +1
  • Stability +2

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3318. Jacques Coeur's Economic Reforms

France -- Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1438
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1443)

Description

On the death of Charles VI on Oct. 21, 1422, Charles VII assumed the title of King of France. His worst difficulties were of a financial nature: the taxes voted by the States General (representative assembly) were insufficient for his needs.

Actions

A. Financial Reform

  • Infrastructure tech investment: +800
  • Trade tech investment: +800
  • Stability +1

B. Tax Reform

  • +2 base tax value in a random province
  • +2 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • Stability +1

C. Tax and Financial Reform

  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • +1 base tax value in a random province
  • Infrastructure tech investment: +500
  • Trade tech investment: +500
  • -200 gold
  • Stability +1

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3317. The Trial of Gilles de Rais

France -- Not random

Will happen within 1 days of January 4, 1439
Checked again every 1 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 4, 1440)

Description

Gilles de Rais was a marshal of France and man of wealth whose distinguished career ended in a celebrated trial for satanism, abduction, and child murder. The trial revealed that de Rais was not alone in his perversity. In the beginning, he kept the number of conspirators at a minimum, but as time went on and the tally of victims rose, more people both men and women, were brought into the butchery. It is still not totally clear if de Rais was innocent or a psychotic murderer. However, France's enemies had lot to win by his demise as he had been one of Jean d'Arc's favorite generals.

Actions

A. Guilty

  • +100 relations with Burgundy
  • +50 gold
  • Stability +2

B. Not Guilty

  • Leader Gilles de Rais becomes active
  • -100 relations with Burgundy
  • -1 base tax value in Poitou
  • -50 gold
  • Stability -2

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12019. Military Reforms of Charles VII

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Monarch Charles VII is active
  • Country has at least 10 non-colonial provinces

Will happen within 1000 days of November 1, 1439
Checked again every 1000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after July 23, 1461)

Description

Charles VII, although dominated by his mistress, Agnès Sorel, proved an able administrator. He reorganized the army into a permanent force after forcing the British withdrawal from Guienne.

Actions

A. We need a Permanent Force!

  • Aristocracy +1
  • Serfdom -1
  • Quality +1
  • +5000 infantry in the capital province
  • +1000 cavalry in the capital province
  • Land tech investment: +500
  • Global revolt risk +2 for 60 months
  • Stability -1

B. We can safely rely on the Nobles!

  • Aristocracy +2
  • Serfdom -1
  • Offensive Doctrine +2
  • Quality -1
  • +5000 cavalry in the capital province
  • +1000 infantry in the capital province
  • Stability +1
  • Event 170276 - The Praguerie for France will never fire
  • Event 170279 - Guyenne Ravaged for France will never fire

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170276. The Praguerie

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 10 days of January 2, 1440
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 22, 1440)

Description

The Praguerie was a revolt of the French nobility against King Charles VII in 1440. It was caused by the reforms of Charles VII at the close of the Hundred Years' War, by which he sought to lessen the anarchy in France. The attempt to reduce the brigand-soldiery, and especially the ordinances passed by the estates of langue d'oïl at Orléans in 1439, which not only gave the King an aid of 100,000 francs (an act which was later used by the King as though it were a perpetual grant and so freed him from that parliamentary control of the purse so important in England), but demanded as well royal nominations to officerships in the army, marked a gain in the royal prerogative which the nobility resolved to challenge.The main instigator was Charles I, Duke of Bourbon, who three years before had attempted a similar rising, and had been forced to ask pardon of the King.

Actions

A. Damn!

  • Stability -2
  • (no effects)

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170279. Guyenne Ravaged

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1440
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1440)

Description

In 1440, Rodrigo de Villandrando fought with Charles of Bourbon against Charles VII in the revolt known as the Praguerie. In 1441 Changy and Pavie were pillaged by his men.

Actions

A. Damn!

  • -1 base tax value in Guyenne
  • -1000 population in Guyenne
  • Guyenne revolts

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20320. Philip of Burgundy made King of Lotharingia

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 28006 - King Philip for Burgundy

Description

The Emperor has made Philip the Good of Burgundy King of Lotharingia, reviving the ninth century Kingdom of Lothar. Not only is the emperor asserting priority over the King of France, but he has granted land that has been French for centuries.

Actions

A. OK

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 60 months
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Burgundy for 60 months
  • -100 relations with Burgundy

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170056. The Orléans claim to Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 60 days of August 16, 1447
Checked again every 60 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 8, 1454)

Description

In 1447 Duke Filippo Maria Visconti died without a male heir in his succession to the throne. As a result of this the city of Milan proclaimed the Republic giving the high military command to Francesco Sforza on the purpose to stop Venice from the eastern borders profiting from the Milanese crisis by expanding her dominions beyond Adda River. After 2 years and half of life, isolated and surrounded by the unfaithful Sforza, who in the meanwhile and with the support of Venice turned against the city of Milan aiming at the ducal throne, the Ambrosian Republic eventually ceased to exist. Brought to severe famine the citizenship of Milan was forced to surrender to the condottiero and accept him as their new Duke. As soon as Sforza proclaimed himself successor of Visconti to the throne of Milan and the Holy Roman Emperor didn't acknowledge him the ducal investiture, the war of succession inevitably began. All legitimated or self-proclaimed claimants of the Milanese throne, took arms against him. Charles of Orléans and Louis of Savoy because of their family ties with the House of Visconti, Alfons of Aragon because of an alleged secret agreement with the last Visconti Duke which would have entitled him to the duchy of Milan.

Actions

A. Let us press our rightful claims to Milan

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Milan for 24 months
  • -25 relations with Venice
  • -50 relations with Milan

B. The throne of Milan is not our business

  • +50 relations with Venice
  • +50 relations with Milan

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170268. Witch-hunting in France

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Dauphiné
      • Control Dauphiné
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Lyonnais
      • Control Lyonnais

Will happen within 5000 days of January 2, 1450
Checked again every 5000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1520)

Description

The medieval Inquisition tried a large number of witches, but collective witch-hunting was exclusively a modern phenomena. Individual maleficium (Latin for witchcraft) was not uncommon in many rural areas, but it wasn't until scholastic demonology related witches and Sabbaths (night meetings with strong conspiracy elements, including cannibalism, orgies and a sacred oath of loyalty to Satan himself) that societies started to get obsessed with the matter. This conspiracy paranoia can track its roots as far as to the first massacres of Jews and Lepers in the High Middle Ages, when thousands were slaughtered by defeated Crusaders and angry countrymen. But it's in the early 15th century when demonological theories will become fully accepted by the upper classes. The Councils of Constance and Basel are considered to be the first public space in which these concepts, maleficium and Sabbath were publicly related. The work of Johannes Nider (1380-1438), The Formicarius (The Anthill), was a masterpiece of scholastic demonology and marked a new era in witch-hunting. The work of Heinrich Kramer (1430-1505), Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Wicked) was the first work that reaches widespread attention, and works as a inquisitorial manual for witch-hunters. But it's not the Church that tries the most in Modern Ages. On the contrary, civil courts are responsible for 85-90 percent of executions.

France is home to the very first conspiracy theories as early as the beginning of the 14th century. A powerful and centralized government was the only thing that stopped French towns from burning thousands of witches.

Actions

A. Burn the heretics!

  • -125 population in Dauphiné
  • -100 population in Lyonnais
  • Stability +1
  • Global revolt risk -1 for 4 months

B. Be lenient with the misguided sheep

  • Stability -1
  • Global revolt risk +1 for 4 months

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20007. The glory of France is reborn

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Event 164180 - English Final Victory for England has already occurred
  • Own Ile de France
  • Control Ile de France
  • Country has at least 3 non-colonial provinces
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France is a vassal of England
    • England and France are at war

Will happen within 360 days of July 23, 1461
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

Though the French people once languished under English oppression, they have risen up, and France is again a power to be contended with. The eyes and loyalties of the French people are once again turned towards their King and their Country!

Actions

A. France Triumphant!

  • Stability +3
  • +50 victory points
  • Move capital to Ile de France
  • Clear flag "[Brussels]"
  • +10000 infantry in Ile de France
  • +10000 cavalry in Ile de France
  • Event 20008 - France Rises Again for England is triggered immediately

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12020. The Reforms of Louis XI

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Monarch Louis XI is active

Will happen within 360 days of July 23, 1461
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 30, 1483)

Description

Despite the efforts of Charles VII, the nobility of France were operating almost independently of royal control. Louis XI changed this by enacting sweeping reform designed to bring the nobility under royal domination and give the monarchy greater power. He made and broke laws as he pleased and levied taxes at will. However, he strengthened the government, encouraged art and learning, promoted industry and agriculture, built roads and canals, and made it easier for the poor to obtain justice.

Actions

A. We need the reforms

  • Centralization +1
  • Infrastructure tech investment: +500
  • Stability -2
  • Set flag [LouisXI_reforms] for events

B. We dont need the reforms

  • Aristocracy +1
  • Centralization -1
  • Stability +1

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12145. The cessation of Roussillon

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 7117 - Civil war for Aragon

Description

At the beginning of the Aragonese civil war, the King Joan II, not obtaining troops from Aragon and Valencia, ceded temporarily and under mortgage the Roussillon and the Cerdanya to France in exchange of military help (treaty of Bayonne). We can have control over the Roussillon... if we accept, but remember that it's a temporary cession.

Actions

A. Let's hope they will forget about Roussillon...

B. We are not interested in Roussillon

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170173. Meeting at Amboise

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Event 164073 - The Act of Accord for England has already occurred
  • England owns Northumberland
  • None of the following must occur:
    • England and France are allied

Will happen within 30 days of April 2, 1462
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1466)

Description

The Civil War and dynastic struggle waged accross the channel in England resulted in a Yorkist victory over Henry VI and the House of Lancaster. Henry's Queen, Margaret, daughter of Rene, Duke of Anjou, had fled England and had found sanctuary in Scotland. Margaret had desired to visit Louis XI, and her expectations of him were high, especially after she learned that he had been actively involved in Oxford's conspiracy against Edward IV, now King of England. The Queen and her son embarked for France. Landing in Brittany, the two were welcomed warmly by the Duke of Brittany. From there she met with her father, and after a brief stay caught Louis XI in Amboise. Margaret threw herself at Louis' feet and begged him for assistance against the Yorkist usurpers. After a subsequent meeting, Margaret agreed to surrender Calais to Louis in return for French soldiers and 20,000 francs to assist her against Yorkist controlled England.

Actions

A. Assist Rene's daughter

  • -25 gold
  • Lose 5000 troops in a random province
  • -50 relations with England
  • +50 relations with Provence
  • Event 164080 - Northumberland is attacked for England is triggered immediately

B. We cannot afford to embark on such a wild adventure!

  • -25 relations with Provence
  • +25 relations with England

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170134. The Purchase of the Somme Towns

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Burgundy owns Picardie
  • At least one of the following must occur:
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Burgundy are at war

Will happen within 30 days of October 2, 1463
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 30, 1467)

Description

Under the terms of the treaty signed so long ago between Charles VII and the Duke of Burgundy, the Crown reserved the right to purchase back the Somme territories for a sum that no one had believed the Crown could ever afford. As a result, it was to Duke Philip's great surprise when King Louis XI requested the territories back at the exorbitant sum of 400,000 ecus. Through forced loans, special taxes, and impositions on towns and monestaries, Louis would pay merely half of the sum from his own pocket.

Actions

A. Regain the Somme Towns

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170135. The War of the Public Weal

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Flag [LouisXI_reforms] is set
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Orléanais
      • Own Provence
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Orléanais
      • Own Auvergne
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Provence
      • Own Auvergne

Will happen within 30 days of March 2, 1465
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after May 30, 1467)

Description

During the early years of his reign, King Louis XI had done much to antagonize the great magnates of France in his attempts to centralize the monarchy. A steady stream of dissenters flowed to a group of nobles who would form a League against Louis. The principle members were the Duke of Alencon, the Count of Dunois, Charles 'the Bold' Count of Charolais, the Count of Saint-Pol, the Duke of Brittany, Charles II of Albret, John Duke of Lorraine and Calabria and Jacques d'Armagnac, Duke of Nemours, among others. The revolt was signaled when Louis' brother, Charles, Duke of Berry, fled to the court of the Duke of Brittany. Soon afterwards, the Duke of Bourbon marched against the King. Burgundy and Brittany followed suit within a short time.

Actions

A. Revolt!

  • Stability -2
  • Global revolt risk +5 for 3 months
  • A random province revolts
  • A random province revolts
  • Grant independence to Brittany
  • -50 relations with Brittany
  • -50 relations with Burgundy
  • -50 relations with Lorraine
  • -50 relations with Cleves
  • -50 relations with Palatinate
  • -50 relations with Bavaria
  • Event 134014 - The War of the Public Weal for Brittany is triggered immediately

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170136. The Treaty of Conflans

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of October 2, 1465
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1467)

Description

King Louis XI subdued Bourbon first. The Duke's subjugation was followed by a hasty truce which he was quick to violate. Meanwhile, Charles, Count of Charolais and son of Philippe, Duke of Burgundy, had marched to capture several of the Somme towns and several towns and territories ceded to Jean, Count of Etampes and Nevers by Philippe Duke of Burgundy, including Peronne, Roye, and Montdidier. Royal troops led by Louis met Charles's Burgundian army at Montlhery. The resulting battle left Burgundians masters of the field, but they suffered greater casualties. Thus, both sides claimed victory. However, Louis found himself besieged in Paris, and once the Burgundian and Breton troops presented a united front, Louis could do little but wait out the seige. In time, Louis was forced to agree to the rebels' demands. Thus, the King's brother, Charles Duke of Berry, exchanged his appanage in Berry for the rich Duchy of Normandy. Burgundy received the Somme towns and Charles Count of Charolais received the territories ceded to Jean Count of Etampes and Nevers. Louis XI would not be compensated for Somme towns, and by the terms of the Treaty was not entitled to repurchase the territory until after Charles' death. The Duke of Bourbon was made Lieutenant-General of all the provinces of central France. The Count of Saint-Pol was made Constable of France.

Actions

A. A temporary setback...

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170174. Calais and Gascogne Restored to French Rule

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1471
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1473)

Description

The Generous Peace signed by King Henry V and King Charles VI of France effectively delayed the surrender of England's possessions in France for half a century. Calais and Gascogne were England's residual territories, and it was now time to surrender them peacefully to the French. King Henry VI, son of King Henry V, faced enormous pressure from both the merchant class, whom were vested in England's commercial interests in the lowlands and southwestern France, and the Yorkists, a faction of England's nobility whom had opposed Henry VI's government, to defy France. Nevertheless, Henry VI and his trusted ministers knew, like his father before him, that England could ill-afford a prolonged war with France, and so he wisely opted to abide by his treaty obligations. Thus, Clais and Gascogne were returned to France. It was a spectacular show of good faith between two powerful realms.

Actions

A. Great!

  • Stability +1
  • Calais will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gascogne will be considered a national (core) province
  • +100 relations with England

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170175. King Henry VI Claims Calais and Gascogne

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1471
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1473)

Description

The Generous Peace signed by King Henry V and King Charles VI of France effectively delayed the surrender of England's possessions in France for half a century. Calais and Gascogne were England's residual territories, and it was now time to surrender them peacefully to the French. King Henry VI, son of King Henry V, faced enormous pressure from both the merchant class, whom were vested in England's commercial interests in the lowlands and southwestern France, and the Yorkists, a faction of England's nobility whom had opposed Henry VI's government, to defy France. Nevertheless, Henry VI and his trusted ministers knew, like his father before him, that England could ill-afford a prolonged war with France. However, Henry was a weak King and feared the political and social consequences at home for relinquishing such profitiable territories. Thus, the English King foolishly opted to oppose France and in so doing rendered the Generous Treaty invalid. King Louis was well within rights to claim Calais and Gascogne for the Crown of France.

Actions

A. We must reunite our lawful possessions

  • Stability +1
  • Calais will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gascogne will be considered a national (core) province
  • -200 relations with England

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170057. The betrayal of Yolande

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Burgundy exists
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Savoy exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Piemonte
    • Own Savoie

Will happen on June 1, 1472

Description

When Duke Amédée IX died in 1472 the successor to the throne, his son Philibert, was still a minor. Thus his wife Yolande de France, Charles VII's daughter, took the regency until Philibert's majority. Since Yolande dind't want to confirm the traditional alliance with the Swiss confederates, she decided to side with Charles le Téméraire, Duke of Burgundy. Her decision so displeased his brother Louis XI of France, Charles's archenemy, that, in order to overthrow her regency, he supported Amédée IX's brother, Philippe de Bresse. The war that followed between the Burgundians and the Swiss, the latter with the support of French and Milanese troops brought to the loss of Valais territories in favour of the Swiss confederation. The internal struggle between local nobles that broke out following the war was eventually ended by Philippe de Bresse who proclaimed himself protector of Duke Philibert 'the Hunter' until the Duke's death, which occurred in 1482.

Actions

A. Savoy escaped from our control

  • Grant independence to Savoy
  • -25 relations with Burgundy

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170081. French Response - Burgundy Wars

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 184057 - The Burgundian Wars for Switzerland

Description

The French under Louis XI were constantly aggitated by Charles the Bold's ambition for Burgundy amongst the border provinces of Alsace and Lorraine. The Swiss Confederation has declared an intent to war against Charles of Burgundy, should we support the Swiss efforts to rid the world of our mortal enemy?

Actions

A. Without Hesitation

B. No, what are they thinking?

  • +20 relations with Burgundy
  • -25 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Switzerland

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170281. Former English possessions in France

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Caux is a national (core) province
    • Normandie is a national (core) province
    • Poitou is a national (core) province
    • Guyenne is a national (core) province
    • Gascogne is a national (core) province

Will happen within 300 days of January 2, 1475
Checked again every 300 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

Whatever happened before, former English possessions are rightfully part of the Kingdom of France.

Actions

A. OK

  • Caux will be considered a national (core) province
  • Normandie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Poitou will be considered a national (core) province
  • Guyenne will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gascogne will be considered a national (core) province

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170059. The French claim on Burgundian lands

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 137310 - Duke Charles of Burgundy Is Dead for Burgundy

Description

Charles 'the Bold' Duke of Burgundy died unexpectedly at the age of 43. Leaving no male successors, Charles's departure plunged his Duchy into a lengthy period of instability. His only heir, Mary, a daughter from his first marriage with Isabella of Bourbon, was merely nineteen years of age when she assumed the command of Duchy on the verge of breaking apart. King Louis XI of France seized the opportunity provided with his rival's defeat and death to take possession of the duchy of Burgundy and also of Franche-Comté, Picardie and Artois. He justified his military intervention with the fact that these lands had always been fiefs to the French crown and that with Charles' death, the last member of the French Valois dynasty they had 'de facto', and according to the salic law, to be reverted to France. But the choice of which prince should marry the duchess would be of particular importance for the future political and economical stability of Western Europe, so he urged Mary to accept his son, the Dauphin Charles, as husband, in order to secure the inheritance of the Low Countries for his descendants too, even by force of arms if necessary.

Actions

A. These lands belong to France

  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Picardie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bourgogne will be considered a national (core) province

B. Don't intervene immediately

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3319. The Valois inheritance of Burgundy

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of August 20, 1477
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 20, 1477)

Description

Mary of Valois was the only daughter of Charles le Téméraire (Charles the Bold) and so heiress of all the rich Burgundian domains from the Saone River up to the Low Countries. When her father died in 1477 at the age of 43, Mary was only nineteen and Louis XI of France seized the opportunity provided with his rival's death to take possession of the duchy of Burgundy and also of Franche-Comté, Picardie and Artois. He justified his military intervention with the fact that these lands had always been fiefs to the French crown and that with Charles' death, the last member of the French Valois dynasty they had 'de facto', according to the salic law, reverted to France. But the choice of which prince should marry the duchess would be of particular importance for the future political and economical stability of Western Europe, so he urged Mary to accept his son, the Dauphin Charles, as husband, in order to secure the inheritance of the Low Countries for his descendants too, even by force of arms if necessary. Mary had no other choice than to accept that offer of marriage, thus binding the destiny of the duchy of Burgundy to the senior branch of House of Valois.

Actions

A. Our Dauphin will be Archduke of Burgundy

  • Stability +2
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +3 for 60 months

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3320. The Question of Burgundy

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Country has at least 10 non-colonial provinces
  • Burgundy exists
  • Event 3597 - The Marriage of Mary of Burgundy for Burgundy has already occurred
  • None of the following must occur:
  • All of the following must occur:
    • At least one of the following must occur:
      • Burgundy owns Artois
      • Burgundy owns Flandern
    • At least one of the following must occur:
      • Burgundy owns Artois
      • Burgundy owns Picardie
    • At least one of the following must occur:
      • Burgundy owns Flandern
      • Burgundy owns Picardie

Will happen within 10 days of September 21, 1477
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1477)

Description

Mary of Valois was the only daughter of Charles le Téméraire (Charles the Bold) and so heiress of all the rich Burgundian domains from the Saone River up to the Low Countries. When her father died in 1477 at the age of 43, Mary was only nineteen and Louis XI of France seized the opportunity provided with his rival's death to take possession of the duchy of Burgundy and also of Franche-Comté, Picardie and Artois. He justified his military intervention with the fact that these lands had always been fiefs to the French crown and that with Charles' death, the last member of the French Valois dynasty they had 'de facto', according to the salic law, reverted to France. But the choice of which prince should marry the duchess would be of particular importance for the future political and economical stability of Western Europe, so he urged Mary to accept his son, the Dauphin Charles, as husband, in order to secure the inheritance of the Low Countries for his descendants too, even by force of arms if necessary. Mary, however, distrusted Louis and declined any French support and offer of marriage but, in order to be recognized as legitimate ruler over the Low Countries and to get financial and military help of Flemish cities against the French aggression, she made so great concessions as to reduce the Burgundian states effectively to a sort of federation of provinces. Satisfied that the country was sufficiently weakened and disorganized, Louis XI ordered his army into Artois and Hainault...

Actions

A. I crave blood!

  • -400 relations with Burgundy
  • -200 relations with Austria
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Burgundy for 48 months
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 48 months

B. Respect Archduchess Mary's will

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170018. The Duchy of Anjou

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 262015 - The Duchy of Anjou for Provence

Description

In compliance with our agreement with the late Duke René of Anjou the Duchy is returned to the Crown.

Actions

A. Excellent!

  • Maine will be considered a national (core) province
  • +50 relations with Provence

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170017. The Duchy of Anjou

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 262015 - The Duchy of Anjou for Provence

Description

The honourless heir in Provence broke the agreement of the late Duke René of Anjou to return the Duchy to the Crown!

Actions

A. Press the claim!

  • Maine will be considered a national (core) province
  • -1 diplomats
  • -50 relations with Provence
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Provence for 60 months

B. Drop the claim!

  • +100 relations with Provence
  • Stability -1

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3323. The Succession in Provence

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 262013 - The succession in Provence for Provence
Action A of 262014 - The succession in Provence for Provence

Description

The French crown has inherited the lands of René I of the Anjou family.

Actions

A. Provence will be part of France

  • Inherit the realms of Provence
  • Provence will be considered a national (core) province
  • Maine will be considered a national (core) province
  • -100 relations with Aragon
  • -100 relations with Spain

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170060. The reversion of Burgundy

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen on March 27, 1482

Description

On 27 March 1482 the Duchess Marie incidentally fell from her horse while at hunting with a falcon in the surroundings of Bruges and died from injuries sustained. With her death the junior line of the House of Valois, which had ruled for more than one century was definitively extinct and the territories of the Duchy of Burgundy, still a French fief, together with the Low Countries had to revert to the crown of France. The merge of France with 'Lothars Kingdom' meant that only the Imperial Crown lay between the Kings of France and the rebirth of the Empire of Charlemagne...

Actions

A. Burgundy belongs to France now

  • Stability -1
  • Global revolt risk +3 for 36 months
  • Luxembourg revolts
  • Brabant revolts
  • Zeeland revolts
  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Picardie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bourgogne will be considered a national (core) province
  • -30 relations with Austria
  • -30 relations with England
  • -30 relations with Denmark
  • Inherit the realms of Burgundy

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170216. Duchess Mary of Burgundy is Dead

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 5 days of March 28, 1482
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1482)

Description

The sole heir of Charles 'The Bold', Mary, died suddenly from a riding accident. Her husband, Charles, Dauphin of France, was a mere boy at the time of her death. Nontheless, he now ruled Burgundy. The real power of course lay in the Regency Council. As long as Charles's father, King Louis XI of France, was on the throne, the Burgundians and those in lowlands would keep quiet. Upon Louis XI's death, however, Charles stood to reunite the BUrgundian domains with those of the France...

Actions

A. A pity...yet we stand to gain Burgundy!

  • Centralization +1
  • Aristocracy -1
  • Gain Burgundy as vassals

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170061. Margarete's dowry

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 137012 - Settlement at Arras for Burgundy
Action A of 179062 - Louis's Proposal for Austria

Description

A peace treaty was stipulated in Arras between Louis XI of France and the local governments of Burgundian Low Countries since Mary, Duchess of Burgundy had died a few months before. The Treaty arose primarily as a means with which to secure the Low Countries from Louis's claims, and thus preserve the stability and status of Duke Philippe's lowland inheritance. The Treaty formally rendered to Louis provinces in his realm that he had claimed at the outset of the war, and also recognized and reaffirmed Flandern as fief of France. In order to solidify a lasting peace, the Treaty pledged Mary's daughter, Margaret, to Louis's son and heir, Charles. Thus, Louis's acquisitions were, in light of the treaty, dowry for Margaret's marriage. Maximilian, of course, would have to agree to the marriage.

Actions

A. Accept the Treaty

  • Cede Luxembourg to Burgundy
  • Cede Brabant to Burgundy
  • Cede Holland to Burgundy
  • Cede Zeeland to Burgundy
  • Cede Flandern to Burgundy
  • +75 relations with Burgundy
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • Gain a royal marriage with Burgundy

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170217. The Inheritance of Burgundy

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 5 days of August 30, 1483
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1483)

Description

Upon King Louis XI's death, his son Charles became King Charles VIII. Charles brought with him the domains of Burgundy. However, Charles was still very young, and so a Regency was formed headed by King Louis XI's sister, Anne.

Actions

A. United once again!

  • Inherit the realms of Burgundy

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170073. The claim to Provence

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 20 days of January 1, 1483
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 30, 1483)

Description

In 1474 King René drew up a will by which he divided his holdings. As his heirs he listed his grandson René II, duke of Lorraine and his nephew Charles III, count of Maine and Provence. King Louis XI of France, himself the son of one of King Rene's sisters, noticed that his expectations were not met and seized the duchies of Anjou and Bar. He reconciled with René two years later, and the Duchies were restored - probably on condition that Louis should have them on René's death. Moreover, in 1481 before dying, the childless René's nephew Charles III of Maine and Provence bequeathed to his cousin King Louis XI of France the rights over the County of Provence, at that time the last dominion of the house of Anjou. Despite our legitimate right of suzerainty over those lands the will of Charles hasn't still been formally acknowledged...

Actions

A. The County of Provence is a French fief

  • Provence will be considered a national (core) province
  • Maine will be considered a national (core) province
  • -50 relations with Lorraine
  • -50 relations with Provence

B. The County of Provence is an imperial fief

  • -5 victory points
  • Maine will be considered a national (core) province
  • Provence will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +50 relations with Lorraine
  • +50 relations with Provence

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170273. The Breton Lords

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 14, 1487
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1487)

Description

After the failure of the League of the Public Weal and his recent attempt to push the Parisians to revolt, Louis II Duke of Orléans was forced to flee in Brittany. Forgiven a first time by the Regent of France, Anne de Beaujeu, he continued to resist her regime. In January 1487, he was again forced to flee with several great lords of France, the count of Dunois, Albret, the Duke of Bourbon, and the Duke of Lorraine, taking refuge in Nantes in the court of his friend Duke François II. Louis and his French noble peers were admitted into François' Council, much to the chagrin of the principal Breton lords who were forced to make way. Louis and his peers proceeded to encourage François to prepare for war with France.

Actions

A. Alas!

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170200. The Treaty of Châteaubriant

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 20 days of January 13, 1487
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1487)

Description

Louis of Orleans, heir presumptive to the throne, along with several great French Lords including the Count of Dunois, Count of Albret, Duke of Bourbon, and the Duke of Lorraine, fled France for Brittany. Forgiven a first time by Charles VIII's Regent, Anne of Beaujeu, Louis continued to dispute the Regency's capacity. The French rebels took refuge in Nantes in the court of his friend, Duke François II, where he continued to intrigue against the French Regency and convince François to declare war on France. However, the great Barons of Brittany regarded Duke Louis II's arrival and subsequent entrenchment within François's council with contempt. As a consequence, some of Brittany's foremost nobles undertook a series of negotiations with the French. At Châteaubriant, the French proposed to join the Breton lords in ousting Louis II and his entourage from Brittany. The Treaty stipulated that the Breton barons would assist the royal troops to dislodge Louis of Orleans and his friends of the Duchy in exchange of the simple recognition of their rights.

Actions

A. Seize this opportunity...invade Brittany at once!

  • Start a war with Brittany
  • -200 relations with Brittany
  • Set flag [Breton_Lords] for events
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Brittany for 120 months

B. We are too busy for such an expedition

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170201. The Treaty of Le Verger

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Brittany exists
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France is a vassal of Brittany
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Flag [Breton_Lords] is set
    • France and Brittany are at war
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Control Armor
    • Control Bretagne
    • Control Morbihan
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Brittany controls Armor
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Brittany controls Bretagne
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Brittany controls Morbihan

Will happen within 20 days of February 9, 1488
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 7, 1498)

Description

Brittany's forces, depleted, and exhausted of fighting, could not resist the might of France. Louis II Duke of Orleans was captured and Duke Francois II could see little to gain with continued resistance. Thus, three weeks before his death, Francois made terms with King Charles VIII of France. The Treaty of Le Verger resulted in Francois's complete submission to King Charles, and a full recognition of Charles's rights as overlord of a French fiefdom of Brittany. A stipulation in the Treaty forced Francois to accept Charles's right to the wardship of the youthful Anne. Upon Francois's death, Charles pressed his right as Anne's ward.

Actions

A. Sign the Treaty

  • Stability +1
  • Armor will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bretagne will be considered a national (core) province
  • Morbihan will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain Brittany as vassals
  • Cede Armor to Brittany
  • Cede Bretagne to Brittany
  • Cede Morbihan to Brittany
  • +75 relations with Brittany

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170206. Duchess Anne of Brittany Surrenders

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Brittany exists
  • Event 170201 - The Treaty of Le Verger for France has already occurred
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Brittany owns Morbihan
    • None of the following must occur:
      • All of the following must occur:
        • Brittany controls Armor
        • Brittany controls Bretagne
        • Brittany controls Morbihan
    • None of the following must occur:
      • All of the following must occur:
        • Brittany owns Armor
        • Brittany owns Bretagne
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • France controls Armor
    • France controls Bretagne
    • France controls Morbihan

Will happen within 5 days of February 9, 1488
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 7, 1498)

Description

The French occupation of Brittany was now complete. The French troops had devastated Brittany and seized several fortress. Duchess Anne was taken prisoner and escorted to King Charles VIII with all the honors due to her standing. Charles VIII was now determined to have the Duchy for himself. Anne's 'bootless calf' marriage to Maximilian was annulled. In part to preserve as much of Brittany as was currently possible, Anne agreed to marry Charles. Thus, on December 6, 1491 Charles VIII married Anne of Brittany at Langeais.

Actions

A. Long life to the King! Long life to the Queen!

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170189. The subjugation of Brittany

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 170206 - Duchess Anne of Brittany Surrenders for France

Description

Although Brittany was to be restored to Anne and she was to retain her rights as Duchess of Brittany, the Duchy itself was now firmly subjected to the Crown of France.

Actions

A. OK

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170158. Duchess Anne of Brittany Surrenders

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Brittany exists
  • Event 170201 - The Treaty of Le Verger for France has already occurred
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Armor
    • Own Bretagne
    • Own Morbihan

Will happen within 5 days of February 9, 1488
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 7, 1498)

Description

Anne, legitimate Duchess of Brittany, was taken prisoner and escorted to King Charles VIII with all the honors due to her standing. Charles VIII was now determined to annex the Duchy to the Crown of France and to legitimize the absorbtion of Brittany to France through marriage, which Charles would obviously seek in order to produce heirs to both the Kingdom and the Duchy. Anne's 'bootless calf' marriage to Maximilian was annulled. In part to preserve as much of Brittany as was currently possible, Anne agreed to marry Charles. Thus, on December 6, 1491 Charles VIII married Anne of Brittany at Langeais. Although Brittany was to be restored to Anne and she was to retain her rights as Duchess of Brittany, the Duchy itself was now firmly subjected to the Crown of France.

Actions

A. Long life to the King! Long life to the Queen!

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170207. Pope Alexander VI and Louis XII

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of December 2, 1498
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 2, 1499)

Description

The accidental death of Charles VIII in April 1498 settled the Crown of France on the heir presumptive, Louis II Duke of Orleans, now King Louis XII, whom had long since reconciled with his old rival, Anne de Beaujeu, mother of Charles VIII. The days of the League of the Public Weal were now distant memories, and as the King of France, Louis XII quickly adopted the role and policies of his predecessors. Charles VIII had promised his wife Anne, Duchess of Brittany, that should he die without male issue, Brittany would be freed of its obligations to the Crown of France. Charles and Anne had had four children together, yet all had perished in their youth. Faced with no other option, Louis XII would have to marry his predecessor's widow in order to keep the Duchy of Brittany close to the Crown of France. However, Louis was currently married to the pious and disabled Jeanne de France, daughter of King Louis XI, whom had designed the marriage decades ago in an attempt to extinguish the House of Orleans. Pope Alexander VI was willing to annul Louis' marriage in exchange for the elevation of his son, Cesare Borgia, Count of Valentinois, to the rank of Duke, and military aid for the Pope's efforts in Italy. Louis XII accepted the terms. The county of Valentinois became a Duchy, and Cesare Borgia became the first Duke of Valentinois.

Actions

A. Brittany is well worth this small county

  • Aristocracy +1
  • -25 gold
  • Lose 5000 troops in the capital province
  • -2 base manpower in Dauphiné
  • -2 base tax value in Dauphiné
  • Grant independence to Brittany
  • Cede Armor to Brittany
  • Cede Bretagne to Brittany
  • Cede Morbihan to Brittany

B. Perhaps this would be too costly...

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170209. The Duchess Returns

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of August 2, 1498
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 2, 1499)

Description

The accidental death of Charles VIII in April 1498 settled the Crown of France on the heir presumptive, Louis II Duke of Orleans, now King Louis XII, whom had long since reconciled with his rival, Anne de Beaujeu, Charles VIII's mother. The days of the League of the Public Weal were now distant memories, and as King of France, Louis XII quickly adopted the role and policies of his predecessors. Charles VIII had promised his wife Anne, Duchess of Brittany, that should he die without issue, Brittany would be freed of her obligations to the Crown of France, provided Anne marry his successor. Charles and Anne had had four children together, yet all had perished in their youth. Louis XII would have to choose between abiding by the treaty, or retain the Breton lands for the Crown. With little legal support for the latter option, the Bretons would surely rise against France. The former option would cost Louis XII support at home.

Actions

A. Abide by the Treaty

  • Stability -1
  • Grant independence to Brittany

B. Brittany remains annexed to the Crown

  • Armor revolts
  • Bretagne revolts
  • Morbihan revolts
  • +1 badboy
  • -50 relations with England
  • -50 relations with Burgundy
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • Event 134011 - Louis XII's Proposal for Brittany will never fire

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170210. The Marriage of Anne and Louis XII

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 60 days of August 2, 1498
Checked again every 60 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 2, 1500)

Description

In order to intimidate the Bretons and to coerce Anne of Brittany to marry him, Louis XII moved his troops near the frontiers of the duchy of Brittany. Anne of Brittany, having taken back full control of the Duchy, agreed to marry Louis provided she could keep her title and Brittany would remained free. Louis readily agreed and so for a second time, Anne would marry a King of France, while Brittany would remain a free Duchy once more.

Actions

A. Long live King Louis XII and Queen Anne of France!

  • Gain a royal marriage with Brittany
  • +50 relations with Brittany
  • Gain Brittany as vassals

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170208. The recovery of Valentinois

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 10 days of August 19, 1503
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 2, 1514)

Description

After the death of his father, César Borgia lost most of his domains in Italy. Louis XII took advantage of the situation to recover Valentinois...

Actions

A. Well!

  • +2 base manpower in Dauphiné
  • +2 base tax value in Dauphiné

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170211. Anne's Refusal

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen on May 8, 1514

Description

Anne, Duchess of Brittany, declined Louis XII's offer for marriage. Louis made preparations for war...

Actions

A. The troops are ready...

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Brittany for 12 months

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170213. The death of Claude of France

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen on June 20, 1524

Description

On June 20, 1524, Claude of France and daughter of Anne of Brittany, weakened by her seven pregnancies, died. Her husband, the King of France François Ier inherited the Breton lands.

Actions

A. Good!

  • Armor will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bretagne will be considered a national (core) province
  • Morbihan will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain Brittany as vassals
  • +400 relations with Brittany
  • Event 134016 - The death of Claude of France for Brittany is triggered immediately

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170214. France and Brittany are united

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen on August 4, 1532

Description

Since the death of Claude in 1524, the Ducal title was carried by the Dauphin, François. The King of France, François Ier, wished to put an end to the independence of a Breton dynasty who's very existence threatened conflict. Thus, François Ier moved to obtain from the estates of Brittany, gathered at Vannes on August 4, 1532, the authorization to definitively unify the Duchy with the Kingdom. The result of which was a union whereby certain facets of Brittany's privaledges within the realm of France were to be preserved, such as her Parliamentary rights. Nevertheless, Brittany was now closer to France than it had ever been.

Actions

A. Brittany is now a French province!

  • Stability +1
  • Inherit the realms of Brittany

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170215. Brittany provinces are ours

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 1000 days of August 5, 1532
Checked again every 1000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 5, 1535)

Description

Whatever happened before, Duchy of Brittany is rightfully part of the Kingdom of France.

Actions

A. OK

  • Armor will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bretagne will be considered a national (core) province
  • Morbihan will be considered a national (core) province

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170014. Karel of Egmont, dethroned Duke of Guelders

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 150 days of January 2, 1492
Checked again every 150 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1492)

Description

After a long war of succession, Duke Arnold sold Guelders to Charles the Bold of Burgundy who had forced his rebellious son Adolf to release Arnold in 1472. After Arnold's death in 1473, Charles took his acquisition by force and added it to his other territories. Despite resistance from Adolf and his sister Catherine, Charles' son in law and successor Maximilian of Habsburg managed to secure Guelders. However, Adolf's son Karel did not surrender his claims and turned to Maximilian's archenemy, the King of France, for aid. With an army funded by Charles VIII Karel succeeded in reconquering his hereditary lands and was a constant annoyance for the Habsburgs until his death in 1538.

Actions

A. Fund Karel of Guelders

B. Save our money

  • +50 relations with Austria

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12146. The Treaty of Barcelona

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 7136 - The Treaty of Barcelona for Aragon

Description

During the aragonese Civil War, the King Joan II had ceded the Roussillon and Cerdanya to the King of France, in exchange of military help. The treaty established a mortgage of 300.000 ducats for these territories. In 1493, the King Ferran II decided to recover them and to pay the price. We will receive 300 ducats and return the Roussillon to its former owner.

Actions

A. We accept Aragonese offer to re-buy the lands they had given us

  • +300 gold
  • Stability +1
  • +50 relations with Aragon
  • Cede Roussillon to Aragon

B. We refuse. Roussillon is french now!

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12147. The Treaty of Barcelona

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 7137 - The Treaty of Barcelona for Spain

Description

During the aragonese Civil War, the King Joan II had ceded the Roussillon and Cerdanya to the King of France, in exchange of military help. The treaty established a mortgage of 300.000 ducats for these territories. In 1493, the King Ferran II decided to recover them and to pay the price. We will receive 300 ducats and return the Roussillon to its former owner.

Actions

A. We accept Aragonese offer to re-buy the lands they had given us

  • +300 gold
  • Stability +1
  • +50 relations with Spain
  • Cede Roussillon to Spain

B. We refuse. Roussillon is french now!

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170000. The Treaty of Senlis

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of May 24, 1493
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 9, 1498)

Description

In order to be able to marry Anne of Brittany and win Brittany for the French crown, Charles VIII dissolved his betrothal to Margarete of Austria, thus violating the terms of the Peace of Arras in 1482 that had assigned Artois and Franche-Comté to France as dowry of Margarete. Maximilian had managed to consolidate Habsburg rule and soon gained ground against France when the war recommenced. Since Charles was preparing a campaign in Italy, he admitted that he had lost his right to the dowry and ceded the provinces back to Burgundy in the Treaty of Senlis in 1493. Thus ended the great duel of war and intrigue between Louis XI and Charles the Bold. The struggle had taxed the strength of France, which had hardly yet recovered from the Hundred Years War. But the result was all or nearly all that could be wished.

Actions

A. Renounce our claims on Burgundian lands

  • Stability +1
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Cede Franche-Comté to Burgundy
  • Cede Artois to Burgundy
  • Cede Flandern to Burgundy
  • Event 137014 - Artois and Franche-Comté released from France for Burgundy is triggered immediately

B. Keep Margarete's dowry

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170039. The Emperor entitled Sforza Duke of Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Own Orléanais

Triggered by

Action A of 228045 - Il Moro duke of Milan for Milan
Action A of 228044 - Il Moro duke of Milan for Milan

Description

On 20 October 1494, soon after Gian Galeazzo died in his 'golden prison' in Pavia in mysterious circumstances (allegedly poisoned!), Ludovico il Moro, as the new proclaimed Duke of Milan by acclamation, revealed to have already obtained the imperial investiture of the duchy, a title which was never conceded to the Sforza family since his father Francesco seized power in Milan in 1450. But the main reasons for the concession were to be found in Maximilian's desperate need of money in order to keep the imperial lands under his control.

Actions

A. The House of Orléans has claims

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • -25 relations with Milan
  • -50 relations with Austria

B. We shall wait and see

  • -25 relations with Milan
  • -30 relations with Austria
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months

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12021. The Angevin inheritance of Naples

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of September 3, 1494
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 3, 1498)

Description

Charles VIII, King of France, was a throwback as he still lived lost in a world of chivalry. He clearly had a grand design, probably inspired by the Spanish Reconquista and the rise of the Ottoman Turks, of a crusade versus the infidels and the recapture of Jerusalem, the capital city of Christendom. He based his plan on a nebulous claim through the testament in which Charles IV Duke of Anjou bequeathed Louis XI, his cousin and Charles' father, the inheritance of Naples and the subsequent title of King of Sicily. His ambitions were well known to the Duke of Milan who, convinced to solve his problems with the King of Naples, sent his ambassadors, the Count of Belgioioso and the Count of Caiazzo, to speak to the great lords of the Royal Council of France about the legality of Charles VIII's claim to the Kingdom of Naples, about the weakness of the Neapolitan armies, and about the glory the conquest of Naples would bring to France. In the meanwhile some Neapolitan exiles in France, amongst them Antonello Sanseverino, who escaped the baronal persecutions in Naples in 1487, assured that the Neapolitan people would have agreed on a French intervention. Most of the great lords of the Royal Council were against an attack on Naples, seeing it as very expensive and very dangerous and argued that Charles VIII was too inexperienced to fight a war and that his advisors were weak and foolish to trust il Moro, known all over Italy for his treachery. But the young Charles VIII, who was carried away by a thirst for glory and a desire to conquer the Kingdom of Naples, paid very little attention to their arguments and heard instead the advice of his own advisors, many of them already corrupted by the money and promises of il Moro's emissaries with the lure of getting land and estates in the Kingdom of Naples and ecclesiastical positions from the Pope. Finally, after several days' debate, Charles VIII signed a secret agreement with il Moro's ambassadors, by which it was agreed that Charles VIII would send an army to invade the Kingdom of Naples and Milan would provide men, money and free passage. To have his hands free in Italy, Charles made ruinous pacts with all his neighbours, so they would not interfere. A large sum of money was given to Henry VII of England while the Roussillon was given to Ferdinand King of Aragon and the counties of Artois and Franche-Comté were ceded to Maximilian I King of the Romans and regent of Burgundy, thus sacrificing essential territories to the strategic defence of France for his chivalric dream.

Actions

A. Let us claim what is rightfully ours!

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Naples for 60 months
  • -200 relations with Naples
  • -25 relations with Venice
  • -25 relations with Tuscany
  • -25 relations with Papal States
  • +25 relations with Siena
  • +50 relations with England
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Burgundy
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Aragon
  • -75 gold
  • Event 17409 - Civil chaos in Savoy for Savoy is triggered immediately
  • Event 12022 - Charles VIII presses claims on Naples for Naples is triggered immediately

B. Let us drop our claims for good!

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170121. Florence submits to Charles VIII

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Event 297018 - Florentine fear for Tuscany has already occurred
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France is a vassal of Tuscany
    • Tuscany and France are at war

Will happen within 30 days of September 3, 1494
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 3, 1498)

Description

On the approach of the French in 1494, Piero de' Medici, son and successor of Lorenzo, had suffered a loss of nerve and had left the city to negotiate with Charles VIII. He extracted a promise from the French King to respect the freedom of the city, but only in return for handing over some of the most important fortresses protecting Florentine territory. When the news of this arrangement reached the city, it aroused a great wave of anger and resentment. Piero, forgetting the lessons of his ancestors, had already made himself unpopular by his arrogance and his flaunting of his position. The consequence was an uprising that drove out Piero and his rule and restored a more popular government. The new government admitted the French to the city, and some tense negotiations took place, in which the Florentines feared that Charles would try to restore Piero and become their master. The determination of the citizens to resist these demands, by arms if need be, so impressed Charles that he did not press them, but departed leaving the city its freedom. He held on to the fortresses, including Pisa, which had thrown off Florentine rule at the approach of the French. To regain Pisa was a passion with Florence, and the hope of doing so with French help was one reason why Florence made an alliance with France and stuck to it faithfully during the next few years.

Actions

A. Accept Florence's submission

  • Gain Tuscany as vassals
  • +100 gold
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 24 months
  • Monarch's military skill +2 for 24 months

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170040. The French King in Naples

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Aragon exists
    • Spain exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Austria exists
    • Venice exists
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Naples exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • France owns Napoli
    • France owns Apulia

Will happen within 30 days of January 23, 1495
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after March 16, 1498)

Description

The presence of Charles VIII of France in the Kingdom of Naples scared the Italian princes, who had in a certain way permitted the French King to achieve his goal of settling there almost undisturbed. Venice and Florence were worried about a French hegemony in the peninsula. French military presence wasn't limited to Southern Italy but also to villages of Tuscany and the Papal States, which previously surrendered to Charles VIII in his march towards Naples, strategically located to grant the French military supply line. The Pope, who previously granted the French King military access through the Papal territories and consented his stay in Rome, felt in jeopardy as much as to refuse Charles VIII being proclaimed King of Naples. Also King Ferdinand of Aragon couldn't accept the French presence in a Kingdom where he instead, in spite of Alfons V's testament which assigned Naples to the other Trastamara branch, could be the one to have claims there. The position of Naples was also important for the Aragonese trading in the Mediterranean. The Duke of Milan, who decisively affected Charles VIII's decision to settle in Naples, was now alarmed by the presence of French reserve troops deployed in the county of Asti, very close to Milan and at the order of the Duke of Orléans, who had dynastical claims to the Milanese throne. So Venice, Milan, the Pope, Spain and even the Holy Roman Empire (so firmly opposed to the French expansionism in Italy as to join any Anti-French alliance available) consequently formed the Anti-French league in Venice on 31 March 1495. Florence preferred to stay out because of her internal problems caused by Charles VIII's passage and decided to support France instead. Having heard about those arrangements and fearing that the confederates would isolate his army in Italy, Charles VIII decided to return to France for reinforcements leaving his regent in Naples. He had to move his army quickly through the Apennines as to reach the Alps and then safety, but the presence of heavy artilleries and carriages transporting the big loot he accumulated across Italy, slowed his march down. Only at Fornovo on the Taro River, in the Po Valley, Charles VIII finally faced the army of the confederates. Despite having lost all the carriages, he managed to reach the Alps gaining from his expedition to Italy nothing but his army decimated by epidemies.

Actions

A. Put a regent in Naples and return to France

  • +150 gold
  • -25 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Aragon
  • -25 relations with Spain
  • -25 relations with Milan
  • -25 relations with Papal States
  • -25 relations with Venice
  • Revolt risk value in Napoli +25
  • Revolt risk value in Apulia +25
  • Lose 20000 troops in Napoli
  • Lose 20000 troops in Apulia

B. Abandon the claim to Naples

  • Grant independence to Naples
  • Centralization +1
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Aragon
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Milan
  • +25 relations with Papal States
  • +25 relations with Venice
  • Event 239033 - Ferrandino recovers his Kingdom for Naples is triggered immediately

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12023. The triumphal entrance in Naples

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 12022 - Charles VIII presses claims on Naples for Naples

Description

The French claim on the throne of Naples was unpopular with many of the Italian states, nevertheless, they were all cowed at first by the fierce conduct of war of the French army and by the powerful artillery Charles VIII had at disposal. However King Ferdinando I of Naples sought the diplomatic way, asking Charles VIII for the renewal of the treaties he had previously stipulated with Louis XI and to eventually submit the controversy to the Pope's high decision. As a clear answer to that his ambassadors were just ordered to leave France immediately. Then Ferdinando II managed to reconcile with Pope Alexander VI and that made Ludovico Sforza so suspicious as to request an immediate French intervention in the Kingdom of Naples. On 25 January 1494 Ferdinando II died and his son Alfonso succeeded to the throne. Alfonso's first successful diplomatic move was the alliance with Florence and Papal States. Fearing the French himself, Pope Alexander VI preferred to have Alfonso II as new King in Naples. But as soon as the French King, Charles VIII, moved towards Naples, part of the Kingdom defected from Naples and swore allegiance to the new liege. Also Alfonso II didn't want to face the aggression and abdicated in favour of his son Ferdinando (II) who arranged for resistance instead. While the French army did show its fierceness in Italy by slaughtering and pillaging the villages that didn't want to pay homage, no army seemed intentioned to face the invaders: instead of opposing the French, deals were made with them to avoid battle. Facing with a disbanding army and with a turmoil that broke out in the city of Naples, Ferdinando II was forced to leave his Kingdom and flee to Sicily under the protection of his cousin King Ferdinand of Aragon. On 22 february 1495 Charles VIII King of France entered the city of Naples distributing money to the populace. As a French diplomat, Philippe de Commynes, wrote in his Memoires, the French King took 4 months and 19 days only to reach Naples from Asti, an ambassador would take just a little less. Charles VIII didn't face any enemy army, so it was said he conquered Italy with 'wooden spurs' and 'chalk' used to assign lodgings to his troops. But the Italian diplomacy was already at work, looking for military support against the French aggression.

Actions

A. Bien

  • Inherit the realms of Naples
  • -25 relations with Papal States
  • Monarch's administrative skill -2 for 12 months
  • Centralization -2

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3106. The State takes control of the Guilds

France -- Not random

Will happen within 60 days of January 2, 1496
Checked again every 60 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1499)

Description

The word gilde, or ghilde, is but one of many terms used formerly in France and in the Low Countries to denote what the more modern word corporation stands. In France and the Low Countries a guild was originally a sort of fraternity for common support, protection, and amusement. The members paid each a certain contribution to the common fund. After the end of the fifteenth century, under the despotic rule of the French Kings, the guilds ceased to be a means of protection for a majority of their members. Their privileges became a means of filling the royal coffers at the expense of the employers

Actions

A. Take Control of the Guilds

  • Centralization +1
  • +100 gold
  • Stability -1

B. Do not mess with the Guilds

  • Aristocracy +1
  • +200 gold

C. Give more control to the Guilds

  • Aristocracy +1
  • Serfdom +1
  • +300 gold
  • Stability +1

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12024. The Orléanais inheritance of Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of April 11, 1499
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 11, 1504)

Description

On 7 April 1498, upon Charles VIII's death at Amboise (he knocked his head while passing through a doorway in his going to see a game of real tennis), the throne passed to his cousin Louis of Orléans, who reigned as Louis XII of France. On his accession, he took the titles of Duke of Milan and King of Sicily, sending a shrounding chill through Italy, especially to Ludovico Sforza, who had seized Milan from his nephew Gian Galeazzo, and that upon his death, had seen his claim legitimized by Maximilian King of the Romans. Louis XII came to throne in France with the clear idea of avenging his previous defeat by Ludovico and make good his claim to Milan from his Visconti grandmother. Milan and her dependency, Genoa, were seen as the key to Italy. So Louis XII, preparing to make good his claim on Milan, wanted to enlist the help of the main Italian powers, to avoid the mistakes of his cousin Charles VIII. In the meanwhile the anti-Venetian sentiment had been running high, attempts were made by Italian ambassadors to poison the relationships between Venice and the Ottoman Empire and try to induce the latter to declare war to the former. It was clear that Venice could very well side with the French and that occurred with the stipulation of the treaty of Blois, where Venice would recognize French claims to Milan and in exchange for military support and money would receive the Milanese territories east of the Adda river. Louis then stipulated a peace treaty with Ferdinand of Spain and enforced the truce with Maximilian of Habsburg. He made also a pact with Pope Alexander VI: in exchange for a papal bull to annul his marriage to the crippled sister of late Charles VIII and marry Charles' widow, Anne of Brittany, the Pope's son, Cesare Borgia, received the duchy of Valentinois with the hand of Charlotte d'Albret, sister to the King of Navarre and a promise of French military support to form his own duchy in Romagna. After having secured his friendship with Philibert II of Savoy Louis XII crossed the Alps and assembled his powerful army in Asti, a small county in Piedmont that belonged to the House of Orléans as marriage dowry of Valentina Visconti, his grandmother. In the summer of 1499, the French army led by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, a Milanese noble, invaded the duchy of Milan from West, in the meanwhile, a Venetian army attacked from East. Town after town surrendered and the Milanese armies disappeared. As soon as a revolt broke out in Milan, Ludovico left the city together with his family and his treasure. By September 1499 the French troops made their entrance in Milan warmly welcome by the population.

Actions

A. Let us claim that which is rightfully ours

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Milan for 120 months
  • -200 relations with Milan
  • +25 relations with Burgundy
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Aragon
  • Gain an alliance with Savoy
  • Event 17386 - The Rise of il Valentino for Papal States is triggered immediately
  • Event 326036 - The treaty of Blois for Venice is triggered immediately
  • Event 228027 - Louis XII presses claims on Milan for Milan is triggered immediately

B. We are busy elsewhere

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170154. The Orléanais inheritance of Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Lombardia
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Venice owns Lombardia
      • None of the following must occur:
        • France and Venice are at war

Will happen within 30 days of April 11, 1499
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 11, 1504)

Description

On 7 April 1498, upon Charles VIII's death at Amboise (he knocked his head while passing through a doorway in his going to see a game of real tennis), the throne of France passed to his cousin Louis of Orléans, who reigned as Louis XII. On his accession, he took the titles of Duke of Milan and King of Sicily, sending a shrounding chill through Italy, Louis XII came to throne in France with the clear idea of making good his claim to Milan from his Visconti grandmother, Bianca sister to Filippo Maria Visconti, considered as the last legitimate Duke to rule over Milan until 1447. But Milan and her dependency, Genoa, were also seen as the key to Italy but the Frence presence in Northern Italy would mean a constant menace to the balance of powers, expecially to the Emperor and its Italian fiefs.

Actions

A. We own Milan legitimatedly

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • -150 gold
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Burgundy
  • -25 relations with Spain
  • -25 relations with Aragon
  • Gain a royal marriage with Genoa
  • Event 326019 - The treaty of Blois for Venice is triggered immediately

B. We are not interested in expanding in Italy

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170041. The French King in Milan

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 228027 - Louis XII presses claims on Milan for Milan

Description

In the summer of 1499, the French army led by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, a Milanese noble, invaded the duchy of Milan from West, in the meanwhile, a Venetian army attacked from East. Town after town surrendered and the Milanese armies disappeared. As soon as a revolt broke out in Milan, Ludovico left the city together with his family and his treasure. By September 1499 the French troops made their entrance in Milan warmly welcome by the population.

Actions

A. Bien

  • Inherit the realms of Milan
  • +25 relations with Modena
  • +25 relations with Tuscany
  • -25 relations with Naples

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170042. The destiny of Ludovico Sforza

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Milan and France are at war

Will happen within 30 days of February 6, 1500
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 6, 1507)

Description

When in 1499 the French troops invaded Milan, Ludovico il Moro escaped to Innsbruck in Austria at the court of Maximilian I to ask his protection. Louis XII remained in Milan only a couple of months, then he made return to France and left Trivulzio there as his viceroy. But Trivulzio's way to administrate provoked deep Milanese resentments as much as to long for a Sforza's return and in January 1500, hearing that Sforza was assemblying troops to conquer Milan, an Anti-French revolt broke out in the city, the french troops were forced to abandon Milan except the garrison in Castello Sforzesco. In facts, with the gold he brought with, il Moro could hire mercenary troops and by February 1500 he made his entrance in Milan. After Milan, Sforza retook all the cities in the duchy and beyond Ticino River, where in Novara he had to face a French counterattack led by La Trémouille, also hiring Swiss mercenaries. The Swiss troops hired by il Moro, probably lured by the French gold and incited by their fellow-countrymen in the opposite camp refused to fight. 'The Duke's forces were composed of different races: German 'landsknechte', Burgundians who were commanded by the same Claude de Vauldray who had fought with the Good Knight in his first tournament, and Swiss mercenaries. There were bands of Swiss fighting on the side of the French, and those within the city declared that they would not fight against their fellow-countrymen in the other camp. They laid down their arms, and neither threat nor promise availed. Soon it was discovered that one of the gates of Novara had been opened by treachery, and that the French were entering the city. Then, as a last hope, Ludovico and his companions put on the dress of common soldiers and mixed with them in the ranks. But the unfortunate Duke was betrayed by one of the Swiss captains, who was put to death later by his own countrymen as a traitor.'(Bayard: The Good Knight Without Fear And Without Reproach, e-book by Christopher Hare) Ludovico Sforza was recognised and captured, then sent as prisoner to France where he miserably died, some years later, in the Castle of Loches, in Turenne. On 15 April 1500 The French troops made their second entrance in Milan.

Actions

A. Bribe the Sforza's mercenaries

B. Face the Sforza's mercenaries

  • Monarch's military skill -2 for 12 months
  • -25 relations with Switzerland

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170046. Genoa supports Louis XII

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Genoa and France are at war

Triggered by

Action B of 174030 - The French King in Milan for Genoa
Action B of 174053 - The French King in Milan for Genoa

Description

In 1499 Louis XII invaded the Duchy of Milan asserting to be the legitimate heir and successor to Visconti according to his descent from Valentina Visconti, the daughter of Gian Galeazzo, first Duke of Milan and wife to his grand-father Louis I d'Orléans. As soon as a combined attack in order to surround the duchy was driven by French and Venetian troops contemporarily, town after town surrendered while the Milanese troops preferred to compromise with the enemy instead of fighting. The Milanese population, already adversed to Sforza because of his harsh taxation policy, rebelled forcing il Moro to escape with his family and treasure to Innsbruck at the court of his liege Maximilian, King of the Romans and Archduke of Austria. The French troops led by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, entered the city of Milan without any resistance receiving a unexpected welcome by the population which Sforza had harshly taxed. Even the castle's garrison surrendered without any fight to the French invaders. Following the example of Milan and of other Lombard cities, also the Republic of Genoa, which Sforza had being ruling since 1488, swore allegiance to the new masters. Following the example of Milan and of other Lombard cities, also the Republic of Genoa, which had being waiting for the favourable moment and an ally strong enough to oppose Milanese interference in her domestic affairs, swore allegiance to the French King.

Actions

A. Great!

  • Gain an alliance with Genoa
  • +5 victory points

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170047. Genoa submits to Louis XII

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 26, 1500
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1512)

Description

In 1499 Louis XII invaded the Duchy of Milan asserting to be the legitimate heir and successor to Visconti according to his descent from Valentina Visconti, the daughter of Gian Galeazzo, first Duke of Milan and wife to his grand-father Louis I d'Orléans. As soon as a combined attack in order to surround the duchy was driven by French and Venetian troops contemporarily, town after town surrendered while the Milanese troops preferred to compromise with the enemy instead of fighting. The Milanese population, already adversed to Sforza because of his harsh taxation policy, rebelled forcing il Moro to escape with his family and treasure to Innsbruck at the court of his liege Maximilian, King of the Romans and Archduke of Austria. The French troops led by Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, entered the city of Milan without any resistance receiving a unexpected welcome by the population which Sforza had harshly taxed. Even the castle's garrison surrendered without any fight to the French invaders. Following the example of Milan and of other Lombard cities, also the Republic of Genoa, which Sforza had being ruling since 1488, swore allegiance to the new masters. Following the example of Milan and of other Lombard cities, also the Republic of Genoa, which had being waiting for the favourable moment and an ally strong enough to oppose Milanese interference in her domestic affairs, swore allegiance to the French King.

Actions

A. Then they will be our vassals

  • Gain Genoa as vassals
  • +10 victory points
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 24 months

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170043. The Treaty of Granada

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Country has at least 10 non-colonial provinces
  • Naples exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Aragon and France are at war
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Spain and France are at war

Will happen within 30 days of November 12, 1500
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after November 12, 1505)

Description

Louis XII of Orléans and King of France, as well as his predecessor Charles VIII did, descended Italy in order to press claims both to the Visconti inheritance of Milan and to the Angevin inheritance of Naples. This time before starting a new military campaign in Italy he provided allies as to avoid being isolated once there.

Actions

A. Find a compromise with the Spaniards

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Naples for 60 months
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Aragon
  • -200 relations with Naples

B. Naples must be French only

C. Renounce our claims to Naples

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170164. A new military expedition to Naples

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 285103 - The Treaty of Granada for Spain
Action A of 111016 - The Treaty of Granada for Aragon

Description

On 11 November 1500, in Granada, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon stipulated a treaty by which they agreed on an equal partition of the Neapolitan territories: the northern part of the Kingdom including Terra del Lavoro and Abruzzi was to be given to France whilst the southern part of the Kingdom including Calabria and Apulia was to be given to Aragon/Spain.

Actions

A. Naples belongs to the crown of France

  • -50 gold
  • Start a war with Naples

B. Don't intervene in Naples immediately

  • -25 relations with Spain
  • -25 relations with Aragon
  • -50 relations with Naples

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170044. The conquest of Naples

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 239018 - Naples encircled for Naples
Action A of 239019 - Naples encircled for Naples

Description

King Federico III of Naples was unable to oppose much resistance, and the French entered Naples in August 1501. Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba met more resistance in the siege of Taranto, defended by Federico's son Ferdinando. Ferdinando surrendered Taranto to Spain on March 1502, and Fernando of Aragon did not keep Cordoba's promise of personal freedom to him, asking Cordoba to send him to Spain. His father King Federico III had already ceded the Kingdom to Louis XII King of France, who in exchange for it, appointed him Duke of Anjou. Federico III will die in 1504 in France. In 1550 with the death of his son Ferdinando, who was taken captive in Spain, the line of the House of Trastamara Naples will be definitely extinct. But the Kings had neglected to properly divide the regions of the Kingdom, leaving the Principati, the Basilicata and the Capitanata between both parts unassigned. The French denied that Capitanata (a land on which both Apulia and Abruzzi depended for food and flock wintering) was part of Apulia arguing recent administrative usage, and refused to allow the commissaries of Spain to collect the tolls on migrating flocks as the treaty stipulated. Soon incidents were taking place and open war broke out in July 1502. But the lack of decision by the French to attack when they had the advantage, the skill of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba and the delays of Louis in bringing reinforcements will see the French expelled from Naples in one year. Completely defeated in Naples by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, Louis XII of France agreed at Blois in October of 1505 to cede his rights over Naples to his relative Germaine de Foix on her marriage to Fernando of Aragon. After the battle of Cerignola on 28 April 1503 Gonzalo Fernández will be remembered as el Gran Capitán. He introduced many of the reforms that would change the way battles were fought for centuries, and lead to the creation of the Spanish Tercios, and also trained most of the next generation of Spanish commanders.

Actions

A. The Italian campaign was successful

  • Inherit the realms of Naples
  • -25 relations with Spain
  • -25 relations with Aragon

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170114. Josquin Desprez

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Stability is at -1 or higher

Will happen within 90 days of March 2, 1505
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 28, 1521)

Description

Perhaps a native of the Vermandois region of Picardy, Josquin Desprez was a singer at Milan Cathedral in 1459, remaining there until December 1472. By July 1474 he was one of the 'cantori di capella' in the chapel of Galeazzo Maria Sforza. Between 1476 and 1504 he passed into the service of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, whom he probably accompanied in Rome in 1484. He then went to France and probably served Louis XII's court. Josquin's works gradually became known throughout western Europe and were regarded as models by many composers and theorists. Josquin was the greatest composer of the high Renaissance, the most varied in invention and the most profound in expression.

Actions

A. A great composer!

  • +5 victory points
  • Infrastructure tech investment: +25

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3107. The League of Cambrai

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen on December 10, 1508

Description

Since 1495, Venice had been holding the main ports of Apulia despite Aragonese claims to have them back. With the French invasion of Milan, Venice had acquired Milanese territories east of the Adda River, and upon the fall of Cesare Borgia had also acquired Rimini, Faenza and Ravenna, against the will of Pope Julius II. The Venetians also held Veneto and Friuli, on which Maximilian of Habsburg had imperial claims. In late 1507 Maximilian announced his intention to travel to Italy to receive the imperial investiture from the Pope himself, and in early 1508 he assembled a big army to escort him down to Rome. He requested free passage through Venetian territories, but was told that he would be allowed passage only without his army. Enraged at the answer, Maximilian attacked Venice, but this decision proved unwise: Venice not only routed the imperial army but also seized the imperial cities of Trieste, Gorz and Fiume. A second assault by a Tyrolean force several weeks later was an even greater failure, forcing Maximilian to conclude a humiliating three-year truce. With Pope Julius II's assent, Maximilian took the title of 'Emperor-elect', thus breaking the century-old custom that the Holy Roman Emperor had to be crowned by the Pope. Shortly afterward, Venice provided a pretext for war by appointing her own candidate to the vacant bishopric of Vicenza. The Emperor, the King of France and Ferdinand of Aragon gathered in Cambrai in December 1508 to sign a treaty which seemed to be a defensive alliance against the Turk. In reality they meant to form a league to attack Venice and deprive the Serenissima of most of her mainland territories. Pope Julius II, after a renewed Venetian refusal to give the Romagna lands back to the Papacy, ratified the treaty and at the same time proceeded to excommunicate all Venetian citizens. Ferrara and Mantua, each with separate claims to territories held by Venice, joined the league as well. In April 1509 military operations started, and a month later French troops decimated one of the two Venetian armies at the battle of Agnadello. Even though in August 1509 Venice managed to eliminate Mantua from the war, she still faced the collapse of her strategic position and had by February 24, 1510 to accept the papal demands on the cities she had occupied in Romagna. However, Pope Julius II was still not satisfied and demanded that the war be prosecuted until Venice conceded control over their church to the Pope and compensated him for his expenses. The Council of Ten had privately resolved that the terms had been accepted under duress and were therefore invalid, and that Venice should violate them at the earliest opportunity. This opportunity presented itself shortly afterward.

Actions

A. Express Support

B. Ignore

C. Express Hostility

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17023. The League of Cambrai

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 5 days of December 11, 1508
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 2, 1509)

Description

Since 1495, Venice had been holding the main ports of Apulia despite Aragonese claims to have them back. With the French invasion of Milan, Venice had acquired Milanese territories east of the Adda River, and upon the fall of Cesare Borgia had also acquired Rimini, Faenza and Ravenna, against the will of Pope Julius II. The Venetians also held Veneto and Friuli, on which Maximilian of Habsburg had imperial claims. In late 1507 Maximilian announced his intention to travel to Italy to receive the imperial investiture from the Pope himself, and in early 1508 he assembled a big army to escort him down to Rome. He requested free passage through Venetian territories, but was told that he would be allowed passage only without his army. Enraged at the answer, Maximilian attacked Venice, but this decision proved unwise: Venice not only routed the imperial army but also seized the imperial cities of Trieste, Gorz and Fiume. A second assault by a Tyrolean force several weeks later was an even greater failure, forcing Maximilian to conclude a humiliating three-year truce. With Pope Julius II's assent, Maximilian took the title of 'Emperor-elect', thus breaking the century-old custom that the Holy Roman Emperor had to be crowned by the Pope. Shortly afterward, Venice provided a pretext for war by appointing her own candidate to the vacant bishopric of Vicenza. The Emperor, the King of France and Ferdinand of Aragon gathered in Cambrai in December 1508 to sign a treaty which seemed to be a defensive alliance against the Turk. In reality they meant to form a league to attack Venice and deprive the Serenissima of most of her mainland territories. Pope Julius II, after a renewed Venetian refusal to give the Romagna lands back to the Papacy, ratified the treaty and at the same time proceeded to excommunicate all Venetian citizens. Ferrara and Mantua, each with separate claims to territories held by Venice, joined the league as well. In April 1509 military operations started, and a month later French troops decimated one of the two Venetian armies at the battle of Agnadello. Even though in August 1509 Venice managed to eliminate Mantua from the war, she still faced the collapse of her strategic position and had by February 24, 1510 to accept the papal demands on the cities she had occupied in Romagna. However, Pope Julius II was still not satisfied and demanded that the war be prosecuted until Venice conceded control over their church to the Pope and compensated him for his expenses. The Council of Ten had privately resolved that the terms had been accepted under duress and were therefore invalid, and that Venice should violate them at the earliest opportunity. This opportunity presented itself shortly afterward.

Actions

A. Express Support

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Venice for 60 months
  • -150 relations with Venice
  • +150 relations with Papal States
  • +150 relations with Aragon
  • +150 relations with Spain
  • +200 relations with Burgundy
  • Event 174007 - The League of Cambrai for Genoa is triggered immediately

B. Ignore

C. Express Hostility

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17380. Rage of Louis

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 17378 - Council of Pisa for Tuscany

Description

King Louis XII of France has sponsored a schismatic council to oppose the Papacy in the Tuscan city of Pisa, since this has brought upon the Florentines the rage of the warrior Pope Julius II, they responding by sending Niccolo Machiavelli to Pisa to dissolve our council and thwart our plans. How shall we react?

Actions

A. Punish Florence

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Tuscany for 12 months

B. Absolve Florence

  • +50 relations with Tuscany
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Papal States for 12 months
  • -75 relations with Papal States

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170012. The war of Navarre

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 241029 - The End of Navarre for Navarre

Description

After the death of Gaston of Foix, Duke of Nemours, at the battle of Ravenna, his claim to the crown of Navarre was ironically inherited by Fernando the Catholic, whose troops killed him, as Fernando was married to his sister Germaine de Foix. The Kings of Navarre felt justly threatened as the little Kingdom was a source of disputes between France and Spain for its strategic position. In the context of the wars of Italy, Spain and England were preparing the invasion of France across the Pyrenees, and Fernando requested guarantees of neutrality from Navarre. Catherine and Jean d'Albret, Kings of Navarre, entered an alliance with Louis XII at Blois in 1512. Fernando found out about the secret alliance, and quickly invaded Navarre, conquering all the Kingdom South of the Pyrenees before the summer was over. The Kings of Navarre placed themselves in the hands of France too late to gain her from Spain.

Actions

A. Navarre is under attack

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170157. The war of Navarre

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 285042 - The conquest of Navarre for Spain

Description

The alliance of Jean d'Albret and Louis XII of France in the context of the wars of Italy, precipitated the Spanish invasion of Navarre. The Beaumonts supported the invasion, and surrendered Pamplona to the Old Duke of Alba. The Gramonts were quickly overrun. The French armies under command of the Dauphin made numerous mistakes, ignoring the requests of Jean d'Albret, using the Navarrans and Gascoigners to lead the assaults and abusing the local population. The siege of Pamplona was a complete failure, and with the arrival of the winter they suffered grave loses, retreating back to France in a difficult march across the Pyrenees. By the spring of 1513, the Spaniards had resisted the French attack in the Basque region and were the masters of Navarre. That year, Fernando was crowned King of Navarre, and in 1515, he surprisingly decided to incorporate Navarre to the Kingdom of Castile.

Actions

A. But we still want Navarre

  • -50 relations with Spain
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 60 months

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12025. French troops abandon Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of April 7, 1512
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1515)

Description

In spite of their victories in Northern Italy, the French troops were forced to abandon the battlefield both because of financial reasons and because after the successful battle of Ravenna the Emperor was withdrawing troops and would have joined the holy league formed by Papal States, Spain, England and Venice with the help of Swiss troops hired by Pope Julius II himself and led into war by the Bishop of Sion, Mathias Schiner. Thence the decision to withdraw from Milan. Julius II recovered Ravenna, Bologna and the rest of the Romagna, while his commander, the Duke of Urbino, easily occupied Reggio and Modena, though Alfonso d'Este refused any settlement that would deprive him of Ferrara. After having chased out the French from Italy, the congress of allies which met at Mantua in August made over to the Pope Parma and Piacenza, to which he had at best a shadowy claim. The Emperor and Fernando would have been glad to give Milan to their grandson Charles but the Swiss were in possession and, supported by the Pope, made their will good. The duchy was given to Ercole Massimiliano Sforza, the elder son of Ludovico. The Venetian claims were left unsettled with Brescia still held out and the Swiss claiming Cremona and the Ghiara d'Adda for the duchy. And more, the Emperor demanded Vicenza and Verona. Florence, who in 1509 had ended her long war by the recovery of Pisa, was punished for her support of France by the restoration of the Medici. Entering Milan, Ercole Massimiliano Sforza received the keys to the city from the Swiss soldiers, who promised to protect the duchy of Milan and to help the Duke in sending to him all the troops he would need. The Duke granted them the acquisition of the ducal territories Ticino and Valtellina, the most important accesses to the Alpine passes. Genoa drew back its allegiance to the French King, who in 1506 harshly repressed a local rebellion that broke out owing to the decision taken by the French governor to grant privileges to the nobilty. But Julius II made also a treaty with his late ally, Maximilian, against Venice. The emperor was to support the Lateran council to oppose that one proclaimed by Louis XII in Pisa and to hand over Modena to the Pope, while Julius II was to join in compelling Venice to give up the fiefs which the Emperor claimed since Cambrai and to use on behalf of his new ally also the always convincing 'spiritual weapons'. When this treaty was made public, it had only the effect to drive Venice to side with France.

Actions

A. Commence tactical retreat

B. Never Surrender

  • Revolt risk value in Lombardia +20
  • Revolt risk value in Emilia +20
  • Revolt risk value in Napoli +20
  • Revolt risk value in Apulia +20
  • -300 gold
  • Lose 10000 troops in Lombardia
  • Lose 10000 troops in Emilia
  • -75 relations with Genoa
  • -50 relations with Savoy
  • -50 relations with Switzerland
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • -50 relations with Venice
  • +4 badboy
  • Event 326037 - Another treaty at Blois for Venice will never fire

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170159. The neutrality of Franche-Comté

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 137037 - The claim to Franche-Comté for Burgundy

Description

In 1506 Philippe le Beau, Archduke of Burgundy and King of Castile as Felipe I, died leaving his children still in minor age. His father Maximilian of Habsburg, Archduke of Autria and King of the Romans, assigned the administration of the Burgundian territories to his daughter Margarete during the minority of Charles, the designated Archduke of Burgundy. In the administration of the County of Burgundy (Franche-Comté) Margarete of Austria could rely upon the support of the Savoyard Mercurino da Gattinara, soon to be personal advisor of Charles V. In 1512 when the French troops were routed from Italy by the Swiss mercenaries in their retaking of Milan, Mercurino managed to stipulate an agreement with Louis XII, King of France, with which the county of Burgundy was to be considered as Burgundian imperial fief and 'neutralized territory' during war times. The treaty, whose terms were guaranteed by the Swiss, was reconfirmed by the new French King François Ier in 1522, thus avoiding Franche-Comté from being ravaged during the Italian Wars.

Actions

A. Accept their neutrality

  • Franche-Comté will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Cede Franche-Comté to Burgundy
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 12 months
  • +50 gold
  • +50 relations with Burgundy
  • +50 relations with Switzerland
  • -25 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Spain

B. Refuse their proposal

  • Stability -1
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months
  • Monarch's military skill -2 for 24 months
  • -50 relations with Burgundy
  • -25 relations with Switzerland
  • -25 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Spain

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170045. François Ier in Italy

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Own Lombardia
  • Milan exists

Will happen within 30 days of January 16, 1515
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 16, 1520)

Description

The French military campaign in Italy was at its low in 1513, Louis XII's attempt to recover Milan from the Swiss occupation turned to be a complete defeat with the routing French troops pursued by the Swiss into French territory. In order to recover international prestige, Louis XII had to recognize the Pope as the only chief of the Church and to abandon the schismatic council he established at Pisa and managed to make peace with England, with which he was at war, just before his death occurred early in 1515. His successor and nephew, François Ier of Valois Angoulême, self proclaiming 'duke of Milan' once on the throne of France, made clear to be intentioned to pursue what his uncle Louis XII had miserably failed, the conquest of Milan. Eager to seek revenge on the Swiss troops who routed the French army at Novara and profaned the Gaston de Foix's burial place in the Milanese Duomo, he assembled a big army and quickly moved to Italy through the unknown Col de l'Argentière so to avoid the practical Alpine passes already held by Swiss troops. The unexpected arrival of the French troops on an alternative road surprised the Swiss troops who preferred to fall back to Milan and wait for reinforcements. The way to Milan was clear but in order to avoid the necessity of besieging Milan itself, François Ier offered the Swiss a large sum to retire into their own country. Not having received their subsidies from the Pope and the King of Spain, the Swiss were about to accept his offer when a fresh corps of mercenaries descended into Italy. The French took position at Marignano (today's Melegnano) to face the attacking Swiss and there, in the evening of 13 and in the morning of 14 September 1515, a fierce battle, also known as the Battle of the Giants, was fought. In that battle, paused only at late night of the first day (during which the two armies stand facing each other awaiting the coming day and even François Ier and his gendarmes, forming the advanced line of the French army, remained all night mounted with lance in hand and helmet on head) and then resumed at sunrise of the day after, the French army supported also by Venetian troops managed to defeat the most celebrated Swiss pikemen, who until then were always victorious on the battlefield. When all was over, François Ier, who had fought throughout with gallant spirit and valour, requested the honour of knighthood from the noble Bayard. The city of Milan, abandoned by its Swiss protectors, easily fell under the French troops.

Actions

A. Lead the army to the conquest of Milan

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Monarch's military skill +2 for 12 months
  • Gain an alliance with Venice
  • Gain an alliance with Genoa
  • -100 relations with Milan
  • -50 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Aragon
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • -50 relations with Switzerland

B. Let's forget Milan

  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +25 relations with Milan
  • +25 relations with Papal States
  • +25 relations with Switzerland
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Aragon
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 60 months
  • Event 184067 - Battle of Marignano for Switzerland will never fire
  • Event 170163 - Swiss asking for perpetual peace for France will never fire

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12031. Concordat of Bologna

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Monarch François Ier is active
  • Own Lombardia
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Milan exists
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Papal States are at war

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1516
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1520)

Description

Pope Leo X signed the Concordat of Bologna with King François Ier in 1516. This gave the French King the right to appoint bishops and abbots in France. It was a major step away from the Vatican and a leap forward for the French monarchy.

Actions

A. Sign It

  • Innovativeness +1
  • Aristocracy +1
  • Stability +1

B. Allow the church to continue to make appointments

  • Innovativeness -1
  • Stability -1
  • +200 relations with Papal States

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170122. Leonardo da Vinci

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • France owns Lombardia
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Milan exists
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province

Will happen within 30 days of October 2, 1516
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after May 2, 1519)

Description

Leonardo de Vinci was an Italian painter draftsman sculptor architect and engineer whose genius perhaps more than that of any figure epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His 'Last Supper' and 'Mona Lisa' are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of their time. In October 1516, personally invited by the French King, Leonardo definitively left Italy for France, settling himself in Amboise under the protection of François Ier who also appointed him 'First King's painter, architect and engineer' and gave him the castle of Clos-Lucé, close and linked to the royal castle by means of a underground passage, and a yearly pension. Getting older and sick, Leonardo eventually died in his bed on 2 May 1519 at the supposed presence of a deeply grieved young French King.

Actions

A. Welcome to the genius!

  • Land tech investment: +250
  • Infrastructure tech investment: +250
  • Monarch's administrative skill +2 for 12 months

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170178. The candidate to the imperial crown

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A, B of 179088 - The candidate to the imperial crown for Austria

Description

In the same way as his father did for him, at the end of his life Emperor Maximilian made attempts to keep the imperial title amongst the members of the House of Habsburg. But his son Philip died unexpectedly early in 1506, leaving two male heirs, Charles and Ferdinand which were respectively born in 1500 and 1503. Maximilian decided to support Charles, who in 1516 was already Archduke of Burgundy, King of Spain, Sicily and Naples, in his investiture as King of the Romans and future Holy Roman Emperor. But this diplomatic move would have been very expensive. Most of the German princes were already supporting the French candidate, King François Ier. Maximilian seemed to successfully convoy the favour of the imperial electors towards the Habsburg cause, by means of granting investitures and making promises of large sums of money with the help of bankers such as the Fuggers and the Welsers. The Pope, who couldn't accept the presence of an Emperor with territorial claims in Italy as it was under the rule of Emperor Frederick II, would have supported a German prince like Friedrich III of Saxony, with no particular interest laying beyond the Alps. Looking for international credit, also Henry VIII King of England took part in the imperial election offering his candidature but withdrew soon after the first consultations.

Actions

A. We have some chances to get the title

  • -200 gold
  • -25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Bavaria
  • +25 relations with Bohemia
  • +25 relations with Brandenburg
  • +25 relations with Bremen
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Hanover
  • +25 relations with Hesse
  • +25 relations with Cleves
  • +25 relations with Cologne
  • +25 relations with Lorraine
  • +25 relations with Mainz
  • +25 relations with Mecklenburg
  • +25 relations with Berg
  • +25 relations with Oldenburg
  • +25 relations with Palatinate
  • +25 relations with Pomerania
  • +25 relations with Styria
  • +25 relations with Prussia
  • +25 relations with Romanist Bohemia
  • +25 relations with Saxony
  • +25 relations with Holstein
  • +25 relations with Strasburg
  • +25 relations with Stettin
  • +25 relations with Tyrol
  • +25 relations with Meissen
  • +25 relations with Wirtemberg

B. We have no chances to persuade the electors

  • Stability +1
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 6 months
  • +50 relations with Spain

C. We may have enough chances

  • Stability -1
  • -400 gold
  • -50 relations with Spain
  • +50 relations with Bavaria
  • +50 relations with Bohemia
  • +50 relations with Brandenburg
  • +50 relations with Bremen
  • +50 relations with Austria
  • +50 relations with Hanover
  • +50 relations with Hesse
  • +50 relations with Cleves
  • +50 relations with Cologne
  • +50 relations with Lorraine
  • +50 relations with Mainz
  • +50 relations with Mecklenburg
  • +50 relations with Berg
  • +50 relations with Oldenburg
  • +50 relations with Palatinate
  • +50 relations with Pomerania
  • +50 relations with Styria
  • +50 relations with Prussia
  • +50 relations with Romanist Bohemia
  • +50 relations with Saxony
  • +50 relations with Holstein
  • +50 relations with Strasburg
  • +50 relations with Stettin
  • +50 relations with Tyrol
  • +50 relations with Meissen
  • +50 relations with Wirtemberg

D. We may have good chances offering bribes

  • Stability -2
  • -600 gold
  • -75 relations with Spain
  • +75 relations with Bavaria
  • +75 relations with Bohemia
  • +75 relations with Brandenburg
  • +75 relations with Bremen
  • +75 relations with Austria
  • +75 relations with Hanover
  • +75 relations with Hesse
  • +75 relations with Cleves
  • +75 relations with Cologne
  • +75 relations with Lorraine
  • +75 relations with Mainz
  • +75 relations with Mecklenburg
  • +75 relations with Berg
  • +75 relations with Oldenburg
  • +75 relations with Palatinate
  • +75 relations with Pomerania
  • +75 relations with Styria
  • +75 relations with Prussia
  • +75 relations with Romanist Bohemia
  • +75 relations with Saxony
  • +75 relations with Holstein
  • +75 relations with Strasburg
  • +75 relations with Stettin
  • +75 relations with Tyrol
  • +75 relations with Meissen
  • +75 relations with Wirtemberg

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170163. Swiss asking for perpetual peace

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Country is not at war
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Switzerland exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Bern
    • Own Schwyz
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Event 170045 - François Ier in Italy for France has already occurred
    • All of the following must occur:
      • Own Lombardia
      • None of the following must occur:
        • Milan exists

Will happen within 360 days of January 17, 1520
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 1, 1648)

Description

The fightings between the French and the Swiss troops during the Italian Wars meant the end of the Swiss military tecnique based on the use of pikemen only, the most efficent up until those times, and the beginning of a new way of fighting with the coordination of infantry, cavalry and artillery forces. Until the battle of Marignano in 1515, Switzerland had always provided mercenaries to the best hirer: her soldiers were the most requested troops of those times because of their reputation of courage and loyalty. However Switzerland decided to negotiate a perpetual peace with the French Kings, a peace that would endure until the French Revolution, and promised she wouldn't any longer provide mercenary troops in military campaigns against France. Switzerland's day was over, its neutral status would begin.

Actions

A. Let's sign an enduring peace

B. We don't trust in their neutrality

  • Stability -1
  • Monarch's administrative skill -2 for 24 months
  • Monarch's military skill -2 for 24 months
  • Bern revolts
  • Bern revolts
  • Schwyz revolts
  • Schwyz revolts

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12032. Lutheran writings becoming a threat

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Event 100 - Reformation for all countries has already occurred
  • Monarch François Ier is active

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1521
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1521)

Description

Initially, the Reformation was a German problem. But it soon flooded into France. In 1521, King Francois I ordered Luther's writings confiscated and burned. Yet despite these efforts, Protestantism was still spreading and causing trouble for the French monarchy.

Actions

A. Burn these heretical documents

  • Innovativeness -1
  • Stability +1

B. Allow limited religious freedom

  • Innovativeness +1
  • Stability -3

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170048. French Encirclement by the Habsburgs

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Italy exists
  • Spain exists
  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Zeeland
    • Spain owns Luxembourg
    • Spain owns Brabant
    • Spain owns Artois
    • Spain owns Flandern
    • Spain owns Picardie
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Spain are allied

Will happen within 30 days of March 22, 1521
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 27, 1522)

Description

On 28 June 1519 after the death of his grand-father, the Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg, Charles, King of Spain and Duke of Burgundy, became Holy Roman Emperor thanks to the money of his bankers (Fuggers and Welsers mainly) in a very expensive struggle with François Ier King of France. Having proclaimed himself as the only legitimate heir of Charlemagne, the first Emperor of Frankish dynasty, François Ier had announced his candidature to the imperial election. As a matter of facts all the electors were heavily bribed in order to obtain the much desired vote, and that was standard practice at those times. Charles 'bought' the Imperial title paying the Great Electors and their emissaries the huge sum of 850,000 golden florins (equal to a value of Kg 2,100 of gold). That money came mainly from the Castilian rents as the New World still didn't provide with much income. Charles's election was also eased by the Army of the Svevian league, which impressed the doubtful electors when chasing the Duke of Wirtemberg, chief of the pro-French party, out of his duchy. That denied the last remote chance for François to win the election. Being elected Holy Roman Emperor as Charles V, Charles (Karl in the German world or Carlos in Spain) of the House of Habsburg obtained the rights of suzerainty over all the fiefs in the Holy Roman Empire. Amongst them the Duchy of Milan together with its sovereignty of the Republic of Genoa represented an important junction in the Habsburg's dominions, the socalled 'Spanish road'. As a result of this election, France found herself dangerously surrounded by the Habsburg might from the South with Spain, from the East with Northern Italy and Franche-Comté from the North with the Low Countries.

Actions

A. Milan is our gate to Italy

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Revolt risk value in Lombardia +20
  • Revolt risk value in Emilia +20
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 96 months
  • -150 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Milan
  • -50 relations with Papal States

B. Abandon the claims to Milan

  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Grant independence to Milan
  • Cede Emilia to Papal States
  • Revolt risk value in Emilia +20
  • Revolt risk value in Napoli +20
  • Revolt risk value in Apulia +20
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 60 months
  • +25 relations with Milan
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Papal States
  • Event 12027 - François Ier against the Empire for France will never fire
  • Event 17406 - Charles V's Mercenary Army Sacks Rome for Papal States will never fire
  • Event 12028 - The Peace of Cambrai for France will never fire

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24008. Giovanni da Verrazzano

France -- Not random

Will happen within 50 days of February 2, 1523
Checked again every 50 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 2, 1524)

Description

Giovanni da Verrazzano has joined the French navy in mid-1510s as a corsair. Following the defeat of his Italian policy at the hands of Carlos I, and a growing wealth of Spain through her New World possessions, François Ier has agreed reluctantly to finance the expedition of da Verrazzano. He set sail from France in 1523 and explored the East coast of North America from North Carolina almost all the way up to Maine. Sinking Spanish galleons with gold was a second objective of his journey. The details of his death are obscure, he either was killed by the natives in Antilles, or executed by Spanish for his piracy off the south coast of Spain.

Actions

A. Hire him

  • Leader G. da Verrazzano becomes active
  • Land -1
  • Gain 2 warships in Normandie
  • -25 gold

B. It's a waste of time

  • Land tech investment: +100

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12027. François Ier against the Empire

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Event 170048 - French Encirclement by the Habsburgs for France has already occurred
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Milan owns Lombardia
    • Spain owns Lombardia
    • Austria owns Lombardia
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Papal States are at war
    • France and Spain are allied
    • France and Austria are allied

Will happen within 18 days of February 1, 1525
Checked again every 18 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after May 1, 1527)

Description

On the 24 of February 1525, in the battle of Pavia, the imperial armies led by Ferdinando Francesco d'Avalos, Marquis of Pescara (also winner at Bicocca in 1522), decimated the French troops led by King François Ier. Many French leaders died on the battlefield, such as De la Tremoille, La Palice and Bonnivet. King François Ier, instead, fell from his horse shot out under him, and taken captive. Since 24 February was Charles V's 25th birthday, the Valois was the biggest gift he could ever receive. François was carted off to Madrid, where he was held six months in prison for ransom, and pressed to renounce his claims in Italy and Flanders, to give Bourgogne back to the Empire and to concede the county of Provence to Charles, Connétable de Bourbon, and now leader of the imperial troops. The Emperor believed that the peace with France had finally been achieved after François Ier, agreeing to renounce his claims in Italy, was freed and retaken to France, leaving his sons there as hostages and guarantees for the respect of the treaty. But within two months of his release and in spite of his sons taken as hostages in Spain, François Ier got the Parliament of Paris to void all the terms of the Treaty of Madrid because accepted under duress and in 1526 at Cognac he stipulated a holy league bringing into it Pope Clement VII together with Florence, Venice, Henry VIII of England and also the Duke of Milan, who even if previously restored to the throne by Charles V himself, voluntarily joined the alliance made to stop the Spanish hegemony over Italy.

Actions

A. Let us form a League at Cognac

  • Stability -1
  • -200 gold
  • Monarch's military skill +2 for 12 months
  • -100 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • +200 relations with Papal States
  • +50 relations with England
  • +25 relations with Tuscany
  • +25 relations with Venice
  • +25 relations with Milan
  • Gain an alliance with Papal States
  • Event 251047 - The League of Cognac for Papal States is triggered immediately
  • Event 228043 - The League of Cognac for Milan is triggered immediately
  • Event 285018 - The holy league against Spain for Spain is triggered immediately

B. We shall respect the treaty of Madrid

  • Stability -2
  • -50 gold
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 12 months
  • +50 relations with Spain
  • +50 relations with Austria
  • -5 badboy
  • -2 base tax value in Provence
  • -5000 population in Provence
  • -1 base manpower in Provence
  • Grant independence to Genoa
  • Grant independence to Savoy
  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Bourgogne will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Cede Piemonte to Savoy
  • Cede Savoie to Savoy
  • Cede Lombardia to Spain
  • Cede Mantua to Spain
  • Cede Emilia to Spain
  • Cede Romagna to Spain
  • Cede Firenze to Spain
  • Cede Siena to Spain
  • Cede Roma to Spain
  • Cede Marche to Spain
  • Cede Napoli to Spain
  • Cede Apulia to Spain
  • Cede Corsica to Spain
  • Cede Artois to Spain
  • Cede Flandern to Spain
  • Cede Franche-Comté to Spain
  • Cede Bourgogne to Spain
  • Event 17406 - Charles V's Mercenary Army Sacks Rome for Papal States will never fire
  • Event 12028 - The Peace of Cambrai for France will never fire
  • Event 12029 - Peace in Milan for France will never fire
  • Event 285014 - The treaty of Madrid for Spain is triggered immediately

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3109. The League of Schmalkalden

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Austria exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • State religion is protestant
    • State religion is reformed

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1527
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1529)

Description

After Emperor Charles V had rejected the Protestants' confessional positions at the Imperial Parliament of Augsburg (1529-1530), the North German Protestant Imperial estates formed the League of Schmalkalden, with a joint army and treasury and seeking ties abroad (France). The League enjoyed early successes in the years 1532-1540 as the Emperor was threaten by Turkish danger and forced to conclude Religious peace settlements in Nuremberg (1532) and Kaaden (1534).

Actions

A. Give it our support

  • +50 relations with Brandenburg
  • +50 relations with Hanover
  • +50 relations with Hesse
  • +50 relations with Palatinate
  • +50 relations with Saxony
  • +50 relations with Bayreuth
  • +50 relations with Cleves
  • -100 relations with Spain
  • -150 relations with Austria
  • +50 relations with Strasburg

B. Ignore it

  • -50 relations with Brandenburg
  • -50 relations with Hanover
  • -50 relations with Hesse
  • -50 relations with Palatinate
  • -50 relations with Saxony
  • -50 relations with Bayreuth
  • +50 relations with Papal States
  • +50 relations with Austria
  • +50 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Strasburg

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170145. The Bourbon succession

France -- Not random

Will happen within 5 days of May 7, 1527
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1527)

Description

Duke Charles III died heirless, and his wife Suzanne having passed away years before. Charles's vast estates were resumed to the Crown of France.

Actions

A. Crown lands!

  • Stability +1
  • (no effects)

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12028. The Peace of Cambrai

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Spain exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Artois
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Flandern
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Franche-Comté
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Lombardia
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Napoli
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Apulia
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Emilia
  • Event 170048 - French Encirclement by the Habsburgs for France has already occurred
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Spain are at war
    • France and Austria are at war
    • France and Spain are allied
    • France and Austria are allied
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Zeeland
    • Spain owns Luxembourg
    • Spain owns Brabant
    • Spain owns Artois
    • Spain owns Flandern
    • Spain owns Picardie
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Savoie
    • Spain owns Piemonte
    • Spain owns Provence
    • Spain owns Lombardia
    • Spain owns Firenze
    • Spain owns Emilia
    • Spain owns Siena
    • Spain owns Liguria
    • Spain owns Mantua
    • Spain owns Romagna
    • Spain owns Marche
    • Spain owns Roma
    • Spain owns Napoli
    • Spain owns Apulia
    • All of the following must occur:

Will happen within 10 days of August 1, 1529
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after October 1, 1535)

Description

The league of Cognac didn't prove to be a solid alliance against Charles V' Spanish and imperial troops. The Pope, taken captive by the lansquenets sacking Rome, abandoned the league. Genoa, important for military supply to the French troops fighting in Southern Italy, had turned to Spain thanks to the decisions of Andrea Doria who, dissatisfied by François Ier's misbehaviour to the Republic, preferred to offer his services to the Emperor. Since the military campaign in Italy was becoming too expensive for both sides and the political instability in the Empire due to religious conflicts was worsening, Louise of Savoy, François Ier's mother and regent of France, together with Margarete of Habsburg, Charles V's aunt and his representative in the administration of the Burgundian dominions, stipulated a peace treaty at Cambrai on 5 august 1529. The so called Ladies' Peace was successful, the signatories were the only ones who could have influence in the political decisions of the two monarchs and managed to induce them to make peace for the wealth of their respective countries. Signing that treaty, France had to renounce her claims to Milan, Asti, Flanders and Artois, while Spain gave up her inheritance rights to the Duchy of Bourgogne, a French fief. François Ier had also to withdraw all his troops from Italy and marry Eleanor, Charles's sister, in return for the liberation of his two sons, hostages at the Spanish court because of François Ier's disrespect for the treaty of Madrid. At Cambrai France abandoned her plans of expansionism in Italy while all her Italian allies joining the league of Cognac would be now at the Emperor's mercy. The Republic of Florence would experience Charles V's rule.

Actions

A. No one seem to acknowledge our claims

  • Stability +1
  • +200 relations with Spain
  • +200 relations with Austria
  • Grant independence to Genoa
  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Cede Piemonte to Spain
  • Cede Savoie to Spain
  • Cede Lombardia to Spain
  • Cede Mantua to Spain
  • Cede Romagna to Spain
  • Cede Firenze to Spain
  • Cede Siena to Spain
  • Cede Roma to Spain
  • Cede Napoli to Spain
  • Cede Apulia to Spain
  • Cede Emilia to Spain
  • Cede Marche to Spain
  • Cede Corsica to Spain
  • Cede Flandern to Spain
  • Cede Artois to Spain
  • Cede Franche-Comté to Spain
  • Event 285106 - The Peace of Cambrai for Spain is triggered immediately

B. We will never drop our claims on what is ours

  • Stability -2
  • -600 gold
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 24 months
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 24 months
  • -50 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • -50 relations with Genoa
  • +300 relations with Ottoman Empire
  • +5 badboy

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12030. College de France

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Monarch François Ier is active

Will happen within 180 days of January 2, 1530
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1530)

Description

François Ier established the College de France in 1530, which soon had chairs in Greek, Hebrew, and classical Latin. Northern universities became the centers of humanistic study, gradually taking over the role royal and noble households had played in the diffusion of education.

Actions

A. Establish the College de France

  • Innovativeness +1
  • -100 gold

B. Do not establish the College de France

  • Set flag [NoCollege] for events
  • -20 victory points

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12033. Affair of the Placards

France -- Not random

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1534
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1534)

Description

In 1534, reformers affixed placards against the Mass in Paris and on the King's bedroom door at his chateaux on the Loire River in Amboise. This event conviced the King to combat reform in earnest.

Actions

A. Treat reformers harshly

  • Innovativeness -1
  • Stability +2

B. Treat reformers lightly

  • Stability -1

C. Do nothing to stop them

  • Innovativeness +1
  • Stability -3

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12034. The Followers of Erasmus

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Innovativeness is at 4 or higher

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1534
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1534)

Description

The humanist thinker Erasmus was being studied by a number of people in France. In 1534, the Catholic hierarchy and the King himself moved to crush this movement.

Actions

A. Crush this movement

  • -5000 population in the capital province
  • -1 base tax value in the capital province
  • Stability +1

B. Let them be

  • Innovativeness +1
  • Stability -3

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170137. Discovery of Canada

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Isle Royale has been discovered by Europeans
    • Wabana has been discovered by Europeans

Will happen within 30 days of July 25, 1534
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 2, 1543)

Description

After the great discoveries of the Spanish and Portuguese sailors - seeking for a new Spice Trade road - in America and Africa, the King of France François Ier also decided himself to seek the famous passage of the West as well as precious goods (gold, diamonds...). Historically, Jacques Cartier - of St. Malo - was selected for this expedition but, unlike his Iberian counterparts, he chose to try to find a passage in the north. Thus he led to the neighbourhoods of Newfoundland (whose existence was already known) and then reached the river of the St. Lawrence.

Actions

A. Why would other European sailors be the only ones?

  • Isle Royale will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gander will be considered a national (core) province
  • Placentia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Wabana will be considered a national (core) province

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170138. First colonization attempts

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Gaspésie
    • Own Acadie
    • Own Nova Scotia

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1599
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after July 4, 1608)

Description

The first French attempt at colonization in Canada took place around 1540, after the discoveries of Cartier and under the direction of Roberval. Badly organized, this attempt was a total failure and, in the middle of the Wars of Religion, France did not launch any more expedition before the end of the XVI century. Historically, the paternity of the first serious establishments goes to Pierre Dugua de Monts and Pierre Chauvin de Tonnetuit who founded respectively Port-Royal (1605) and the trading post of Tadoussac (1599).

Actions

A. A foothold on the continent!

  • Micmac will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gaspésie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Acadie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Nova Scotia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Isle Royale will be considered a national (core) province

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170146. The first French real colony

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Stadacone
    • Own Shawinigan
    • Own Hochelaga

Will happen within 30 days of July 4, 1608
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 26, 1635)

Description

After the establishments on the Eastern coasts of Canada, the explorers were still seeking a better located and better suited site in order to create a viable dwelling. Thus their attention was held by the site of Stadacona located at a point of contraction of the St. Lawrence, thus making it possible to control the use of the river. Historically and under the protection of Pierre Dugua de Monts, Samuel de Champlain founded this 'dwelling' in 1608. Once this base was solidified, Champlain began to discover the neighbourhoods and went to the Great Lakes.

Actions

A. We will seriously settle here...

  • Oshawa will be considered a national (core) province
  • Huron will be considered a national (core) province
  • Ticonderoga will be considered a national (core) province
  • Adirondak will be considered a national (core) province
  • Megantic will be considered a national (core) province
  • Hochelaga will be considered a national (core) province
  • Ottawa will be considered a national (core) province
  • Laurentia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Shawinigan will be considered a national (core) province
  • Stadacone will be considered a national (core) province
  • Bas St-Laurent will be considered a national (core) province
  • Micmac will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gaspésie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Acadie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Nova Scotia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Isle Royale will be considered a national (core) province
  • Saguenay will be considered a national (core) province
  • Manicouagan will be considered a national (core) province
  • Sebago will be considered a national (core) province
  • Anticosti will be considered a national (core) province

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170203. Great Lakes calling

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1618
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after October 28, 1642)

Description

After the success of the establishment in Quebec, the colonists wanted to push towards the Great Lakes in order to control the trade of the furs, to weave bonds with the Indian tribes and, perhaps, to find a passage towards the West. Historically, nominated for this mission by Samuel de Champlain, Jean Nicollet left Quebec and landed at Green Bay from where he explored nowadays Wisconsin and Michigan.

Actions

A. Furs everywhere!

  • Erie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Hindua will be considered a national (core) province
  • Wisconsin will be considered a national (core) province
  • Oskosh will be considered a national (core) province
  • Michilimakinak will be considered a national (core) province
  • Detroit will be considered a national (core) province
  • Irondekoit will be considered a national (core) province
  • Niagara will be considered a national (core) province
  • Sault will be considered a national (core) province
  • Oswego will be considered a national (core) province

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170204. Le Pays d'en Haut

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1659
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1684)

Description

One of the only resources of New France (Nouvelle France) was fur, exchanged with the Indian tribes. This trade, rather lucrative, attracted many adventurers ready to enter deeply in the lands in order to withdraw the invaluable resource from it. Historically, Pierre Esprit Radisson and Médart des Groseillers went in the north of Michigan and Superior Lakes to the Hudson Bay. By doing this they made it possible for the authorities of the colony to better know these areas.

Actions

A. Hudson Bay is reachable

  • Superior will be considered a national (core) province
  • Nipigon will be considered a national (core) province
  • Nipissing will be considered a national (core) province
  • Winisk will be considered a national (core) province
  • Athabaska will be considered a national (core) province
  • Chimo will be considered a national (core) province
  • Eskimalt will be considered a national (core) province
  • Nueltin will be considered a national (core) province

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170205. Discovery of Louisiana

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Bayou
    • Own Biloxi
    • Own Arkansas
    • Own Yazoo
    • Own Tuscaloosa
    • Own Mississippi

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1669
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after March 20, 1687)

Description

In the south of the Great Lakes, the traditional way of exploration was constituted of the Mississippi and its various affluents. As for all rivers its source and its mouths were places surrounded by mystery. Historically, Cavelier de la Salle managed to rejoin the Gulf of Mexico after having followed the river. Arrived at its mouth, he took possession of the immense territory which he had crossed in the name of the King of France, Louis XIV.

Actions

A. This land will be called Louisiana!

  • Bayou will be considered a national (core) province
  • Biloxi will be considered a national (core) province
  • Mobile will be considered a national (core) province
  • Arkansas will be considered a national (core) province
  • Yazoo will be considered a national (core) province
  • Tuscaloosa will be considered a national (core) province
  • Mississippi will be considered a national (core) province
  • Onondaga will be considered a national (core) province

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170218. The Mississippi

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Own Illinois
    • Own Miamis
    • Own Fox
    • Own Milwaukee
  • Event 170203 - Great Lakes calling for France has already occurred

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1672
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1694)

Description

After having settled on the coasts of the Great Lakes, the French explorers advanced in the interior of the lands. Historically, Louis Jolliet and the Marquette father were the first to reach the Mississippi by this way.

Actions

A. Let's go deeper...

  • Illinois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Miamis will be considered a national (core) province
  • Fox will be considered a national (core) province
  • Milwaukee will be considered a national (core) province

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170219. Duluth and Lake Superior

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of September 2, 1678
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1700)

Description

With the progression of the colonists in the Great Lakes area, exploration related to nothing anymore but the Far West. Historically, Daniel Duluth 'surrounded' the lakes by the discovery of the limits of Lake Superior.

Actions

A. Go West!

  • Duluth will be considered a national (core) province

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170227. Exploration of the Mississippi affluents

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of March 2, 1714
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1734)

Description

After the installation of stations along the Mississippi river, the explorers were interested in its larger affluents. Historically, Etienne Veniard de Bourgmont managed to go up Missouri on nearly 1,000 kilometers.

Actions

A. Let's go up Missouri!

  • Missouri will be considered a national (core) province

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170228. Discovery of the Rocky Mountains

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of June 9, 1731
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 6, 1749)

Description

The West was from now on the final frontier of the colony. Historically and starting from Lake Winnipeg, Gaultier de la Vérendrye was the first European to reach the Rocky Mountains.

Actions

A. Go further West!

  • Mesabi will be considered a national (core) province

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170049. The Habsburgs in Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • At least one of the following must occur:

Triggered by

Action A of 228046 - The Fate of the Duchy for Milan
Action A of 228031 - The Fate of the Duchy for Milan

Description

In 1530 during the congress of Bologna Pope Clement VII consecrated Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and convinced him to forgive the misbehaviour of Francesco II Sforza who joined the League of Cognac, as the Pope himself did. The Pope managed to have the Emperor grant Sforza the ducal title on the throne of Milan again, but under the firm condition that, on Sforza's death, the Duchy would have returned definitely to the Empire. A marriage was also agreed between Sforza and Charles V's niece Christine of Denmark. On 2 November 1535 Duke Francesco II died childless and, according to previous agreements made during the Congress of Bologna in 1530, the Duchy of Milan reverted to the Empire. As suzerain of those fiefs, Charles V had it administrated by means of life-governors whom he himself appointed. The Emperor's decision strongly displeased François Ier of France, whose younger son Charles, in possession of the title of Duke of Orléans and thus with dynastical claims to the Milanese throne, had his candidature rejected, in spite of his assurances of allegiance to the Empire. The King of France would have planned a new military campaign in Italy against Charles V, this time with the help of the Turk. At first the French King attacked Savoy, whose Duke Charles III refused him the military access through his possessions, and annexed the duchy with the assertion he had a dynastical claim to it: his mother was Luise de Savoie, daughter of Philippe II Duke de Savoie and step-sister of Charles III.

Actions

A. Milan must be a French domain

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Piemonte will be considered a national (core) province
  • Savoie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 60 months
  • -200 relations with Spain
  • -200 relations with Savoy
  • -50 relations with Genoa
  • +25 relations with Papal States

B. Accept the Habsburgs there

  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +50 relations with Spain
  • +50 relations with Milan
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months
  • Event 170051 - The alliance with the Turk for France will never fire

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170155. The Habsburgs in Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Spain exists
  • Spain owns Lombardia
  • None of the following must occur:
    • Milan exists
  • None of the following must occur:
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province of Spain
  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • At least one of the following must occur:

Will happen within 40 days of November 3, 1535
Checked again every 40 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 18, 1542)

Description

In 1530 during the congress of Bologna Pope Clement VII consecrated Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and convinced him to forgive the misbehaviour of Francesco II Sforza who joined the League of Cognac, as the Pope himself did. The Pope managed to have the Emperor grant Sforza the ducal title on the throne of Milan again, but under the firm condition that, on Sforza's death, the Duchy would have returned definitely to the Empire. A marriage was also agreed between Sforza and Charles V's niece Christine of Denmark. On 2 November 1535 Duke Francesco II died childless and, according to previous agreements made during the Congress of Bologna in 1530, the Duchy of Milan reverted to the Empire. As suzerain of those fiefs, Charles V had it administrated by means of life-governors whom he himself appointed. The Emperor's decision strongly displeased François Ier of France, whose younger son Charles, in possession of the title of Duke of Orléans and thus with dynastical claims to the Milanese throne, had his candidature rejected, in spite of his assurances of allegiance to the Empire. The King of France would have planned a new military campaign in Italy against Charles V, this time with the help of the Turk. At first the French King attacked Savoy, whose Duke Charles III refused him the military access through his possessions, and annexed the duchy with the assertion he had a dynastical claim to it: his mother was Luise de Savoie, daughter of Philippe II Duke de Savoie and step-sister of Charles III.

Actions

A. Milan must be a French domain

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Piemonte will be considered a national (core) province
  • Savoie will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 60 months
  • -200 relations with Spain
  • -200 relations with Savoy
  • -50 relations with Genoa
  • +25 relations with Papal States

B. Accept the Habsburgs there

  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +50 relations with Spain
  • +50 relations with Milan
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months
  • Event 170051 - The alliance with the Turk for France will never fire

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170050. A French dynasty in Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of November 3, 1535
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 18, 1544)

Description

In 1530 during the congress of Bologna Pope Clement VII consecrated Charles V Holy Roman Emperor and convinced him to forgive the misbehaviour of Francesco II Sforza who joined the League of Cognac, as the Pope himself did. The Pope managed to have the Emperor grant Sforza the ducal title on the throne of Milan again, but under the firm condition that, on Sforza's death, the Duchy would have returned definitely to the Empire. A marriage was also agreed between Sforza and Charles V's niece Christine of Denmark. On 2 November 1535 Duke Francesco II died childless but, in spite of the previous agreements of Bologna, the people of Milan refused Charles V's decision to have the duchy reverted to the Empire and offered the throne to François Ier of France instead, who, he and his successors as legitimate Dukes of Orléans, would establish the French line of Visconti-Orléans as the ruling dynasty in Milan, thus removing the imperial eagles from the coat of arms and binding the destiny of the Orléans yellow lilies to that of the Milanese Visconti snake for the times to come.

Actions

A. Milan will be our stronghold in Italy

  • Gain Milan as vassals
  • +25 relations with Papal States
  • -100 relations with Spain
  • -100 relations with Austria

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170165. A French dynasty in Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of November 3, 1535
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 18, 1544)

Description

On 2 November 1535 duke Francesco II died childless. At those times, the only dynasty having valid claims to legitimately rule over the duchy of Milan was the French House of Orléans, which last member, Louis XII, also King of France, had previously bequeathed his Orléanais inheritance to the husband of his daughter Claude, François of the House of Valois-Angouleme, also known as François Ier King of France. The claims to the duchy of Milan dated back to Bianca Visconti, King Louis XII's grandmother and sister of Filippo Maria Visconti, the last duke of Milan of his dynasty. Because of this inheritance, François Ier and his sons could consider themselves as the only legitimate candidates to rule over the imperial duchy. Also Pope Paulus III of the Farnese family was aiming at the imperial administration over Milan and Parma to be assigned by the emperor to his illegitimate son Pier Luigi.

Actions

A. Our claims to Milan have been acknowledged

  • Gain Milan as vassals
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 24 months
  • -30 relations with Papal States

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12029. Peace in Milan

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 360 days of November 3, 1535
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after November 3, 1545)

Description

Resistance in Milan, as well as the use of the city as a focus for dissidents from abroad has finally come to an end. This has much to do with the extinction of the Sforza family (the sons of Ludovico il Moro, Massimiliano and Francesco Maria, both died without a direct male heir). Although the Spanish, Habsburg, and Italian states are unhappy with our presence in Italy, we are firmly entrenched there.

Actions

A. Bien

  • Revolt risk value in Lombardia -70
  • Revolt risk value in Emilia -70
  • Revolt risk value in Napoli -70
  • Revolt risk value in Apulia -70
  • -50 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Papal States
  • +25 relations with Venice

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12148. The silk of Lyon

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Own Lyonnais

Will happen within 120 days of March 2, 1536
Checked again every 120 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 30, 1540)

Description

In 1536 the Piedmontese Étienne Turquet proposed to the French King settling some silk-workers from Genoa in Lyon and establish a manufactury. Worried about the loss of silver coins due to the purchase of foreign silk clothes, François Ier accepted and maintained the policy of Louis XI who had already abolished taxes on the silk works.

Actions

A. Accept the proposition of the Piedmontese

  • -1 base tax value in Lyonnais
  • +500 population in Lyonnais
  • Gain Goods Manufactory in Lyonnais
  • Trade tech investment: -150

B. No need to worry about that

  • Mercantilism -1
  • Trade tech investment: -50

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170051. The alliance with the Turk

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 30 days of February 3, 1536
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after September 18, 1544)

Description

Since Genoa and Milan returned within the Spanish-Habsburgs influence while Firenze, Venice and Papal States were too weak to withstand the Habsburgs military power, in order to open a second front against Charles V, François Ier, 'the most Christian King', decided to seek the help of 'the Turk', Sultan Süleyman I, who was ruling a power on the rise, a menace to both the Empire and Spain, the Ottoman Empire. The main purposes of this alliance, stipulated in disguise of a trade agreement, was the planned combined attack to the Empire from two opposite fronts and the use of the Turkish galleys led by Kair-ed-din Barbarossa to engage the enemy's fleet and to raid the coastal villages of Italy and Spain. The alliance that had been under discussion since 1525 was preliminarily agreed in February 1535 and formalized in February 1536 between French ambassador Laforest and Grand Vizier Ibrahim. The treaty also granted the French commercial concessions in the Ottoman Empire replacing Venice, as well as conceded the so called capitulations which also allowed French consuls legal jurisdiction over French subjects in Ottoman domains and recognized the French King as protector of the Christian holy places in Palestine, concessions that would have long-term effects on Ottoman relations with other foreign powers as well as internal development. The pact was kept secret, though, because to the Christians, the impious alliance between the Most Christian King and the worst enemy of Christendom was a heinous act.

Actions

A. Ask the Turk's favour

  • +250 relations with Ottoman Empire
  • -50 relations with England
  • -100 relations with Austria
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • -100 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Venice
  • -50 relations with Genoa
  • -50 relations with Naples
  • Trade tech investment: +200
  • +2 merchants
  • +2 badboy
  • Event 301019 - The alliance with the Infidels for Ottoman Empire is triggered immediately

B. No relations with the Turk

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75014. Cleves inherited Guelders

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 75013 - Wilhelm was elected Duke of Guelders for Cleves

Description

In 1538 Duke Charles of Guelders died without an heir. Once again the estates of Guelders had to choose a successor. They elected the protestant Duke Wilhelm of Kleve who had just unified Kleve and Berg. However, the King of France who had inherited the claim from Burgundy interfered, and after defeating Kleve annexed Guelders.

Actions

A. We must defend our claim

  • Geldre will be considered a national (core) province
  • -200 relations with Cleves
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Cleves for 36 months

B. Accept Guelders's decision

  • +100 relations with Cleves
  • Geldre will no longer be considered a national (core) province

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75015. France inherits Guelders

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 75018 - Death of Charles of Egmont for Guelders
Action B of 75013 - Wilhelm was elected Duke of Guelders for Cleves
Action B of 75012 - Death of Charles of Egmont for Guelders

Description

In 1538 Duke Charles of Guelders died without an heir. Once again the estates of Guelders had to choose a successor. They elected the King of France who had inherited a claim on the country from Charles the Bold and who was always looking to increase his dutch possessions.

Actions

A. Annex Guelders

  • Inherit the realms of Guelders
  • Geldre will be considered a national (core) province

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75016. French claim on Guelders ignored

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 75018 - Death of Charles of Egmont for Guelders
Action C of 75012 - Death of Charles of Egmont for Guelders

Description

In 1538 Duke Charles of Guelders died without an heir. Once again the estates of Guelders had to choose a successor. They elected a local noble, ignoring the claim that France has inherited from Charles the Bold.

Actions

A. We must defend our claim

  • Geldre will be considered a national (core) province
  • -200 relations with Guelders
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Guelders for 36 months

B. Accept Guelders's decision

  • +100 relations with Guelders
  • Geldre will no longer be considered a national (core) province

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170013. The Treaty of Crépy

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 285110 - The Treaty of Crépy for Spain

Description

At Francesco II Sforza's death, the Duchy of Milan reverted to the Empire and as Charles V newly rejected the French Orléans candidature to the Milanese throne, François Ier, King of France, planned a new military campaign in Italy against Charles V, this time with the help of the Turk. At first the French King attacked Savoy, because Duke Charles III refused French military access through his possessions, and annexed it with the assertion he had a dynastical claim to it. Deeply annoyed by this behaviour, Charles V sent an expeditionary force to conquer Provence, once imperial land. The expedition unfortunately failed while the scary Ottoman menace over Italy led Pope Paulus III to warmly invite the two contenders to make peace and form a Christian league in order to face the Turks. In 1538 in Nice a decennial truce was concluded with Papal support. But that cease-fire couldn't last too long. In 1542 Milan had to face a new French attack which resulted in an imperial heavy defeat at Ceresole in Piemonte, but although northern Italy totally fell under French control, at the same time English and Spanish-Imperial troops attacked France from both sides: even Paris was under menace. Lack of supplies and low troops reinforcements brought Charles V to eventually sign a peace treaty with François Ier at Crépy in late 1544. With that treaty France was recognized possession of Piemonte, still under French control and in spite of Savoyard legal claims to those lands, instead the Emperor was confirmed suzerainty over the duchy of Milan. That treaty also stated that François Ier had to renounce his claims to Naples, Flanders and Artois, while Charles V had to abandon any claim to the duchy of Bourgogne, ancestral Burgundian feud. It was also agreed that a diplomatic marriage had to be arranged between the youngest of François's sons, Charles Duke of Orléans and, either the Emperor's daughter (bringing Flanders and Franche-Comté as dowry) or the Emperor's niece and Ferdinand's daughter (bringing Milan as dowry). That would be by Emperor's choice. After two month's thoughts, Charles V decided to concede his daughter as spouse to Charles of Orléans, together with the dowry of Milan. However, in late 1545 the sudden death of Charles of Orléans liberated Charles V from the treaty's obligations and on 5 July 1546 he could invest his son Don Felipe with the Duchy of Milan. With this act, the imperial fief of Milan became definitively direct dominion of the Spanish line of the House of Habsburg.

Actions

A. Sign the Treaty

  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +100 relations with Austria
  • +100 relations with England
  • +50 relations with Papal States
  • -50 relations with Ottoman Empire

B. Refuse to sign it

  • -150 relations with Austria
  • -150 relations with Spain
  • -100 relations with England
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • +50 relations with Ottoman Empire

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12036. The Burning Chamber

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Innovativeness is at 5 or higher

Will happen within 1000 days of January 2, 1547
Checked again every 1000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1551)

Description

As the Reformation began to pick up speed, the government bureaucracies were overwhelmed. To combat the problem , the Parlement of Paris created a special chamber to hear heresy cases. This chamber tried approximately 500 people sentencing most of them to burn at the stake.

Actions

A. Create the Burning Chamber

  • Innovativeness -1
  • -500 population in the capital province

B. Expand the secular courts instead

  • Infrastructure tech investment: +500
  • Innovativeness +1
  • Stability -2

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170156. The Habsburg-Valois struggle for supremacy

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Italy exists
  • Spain exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province of Spain
  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Spain are allied
    • France and Austria are allied
    • France and Ottoman Empire are at war
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Zeeland
    • Spain owns Luxembourg
    • Spain owns Brabant
    • Spain owns Artois
    • Spain owns Flandern
    • Spain owns Picardie

Will happen within 27 days of September 1, 1547
Checked again every 27 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after July 28, 1552)

Description

When Henri II succeeded his father François Ier to the throne of France he soon reopened the hostilities with the House of Habsburg. He proceeded to renew the old alliance France had with 'the Turk', Sultan Süleyman I, whose fleet was so important to gain control of the accesses to the Italian peninsula in case of invasion from the sea. With the imperial Lutheran Princes he then stipulated the treaty of Chambord, under whose terms in exchange of financial and military help against the Habsburgs he was given a free hand in occupying the three neighbouring bishoprics of Metz, Toul and Verdun. In 1552-1557 King Henri II would also arrange further military expeditions to Italy, mainly to help the Republic of Siena lift the siege laid by the imperial troops in order to punish Siena's pro-French attitude, and to support Pope Paulus IV, with strong anti-Spanish attitude, in a league aiming at liberating Italy from the Spanish yoke in a last resolute attempt. In case of success the Pope would acknowledge French possession of Milan and Naples.

Actions

A. France is still under menace

  • Lombardia will be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will be considered a national (core) province
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 48 months
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Naples for 48 months
  • -100 relations with Spain
  • -100 relations with Naples
  • +100 relations with Ottoman Empire
  • +50 relations with Papal States
  • +50 relations with Brandenburg
  • +50 relations with Hanover
  • +50 relations with Hesse
  • +50 relations with Palatinate
  • +50 relations with Saxony
  • +50 relations with Cleves
  • -100 gold
  • Event 301053 - A new alliance with France for Ottoman Empire is triggered immediately

B. We are not interested in continuing wars

  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Piemonte will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Savoie will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • +300 relations with Spain
  • -50 relations with Papal States
  • -50 relations with Brandenburg
  • -50 relations with Hanover
  • -50 relations with Hesse
  • -50 relations with Palatinate
  • -50 relations with Saxony
  • Grant independence to Savoy
  • Cede Piemonte to Savoy
  • Cede Savoie to Savoy
  • Event 170130 - Plan invasion of Corsica for France will never fire
  • Event 170144 - The Satellite Kingdom of Naples for France will never fire
  • Event 170233 - The Angevin legacy for France will never fire

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170020. The Marriage of Mary and the Dauphin

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • France is a vassal of Scotland

Triggered by

Action A of 276028 - The Marriage of Mary and the Dauphin for Scotland

Description

Somerset's invasion of Scotland forced the Scots to look for protection from their auld ally, France. The result was the marriage of Mary and the Dauphin, and the intervention of a French army in Scotland.

Actions

A. Ratify the Alliance

B. Accept the Marriage Without the Military Alliance

  • +25 relations with Scotland
  • Gain a royal marriage with Scotland

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170235. Renewal of the Auld Alliance

France -- Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 170020 - The Marriage of Mary and the Dauphin for France

Description

With the ratification of the marriage France would side with Scotland against English aggression.

Actions

A. Good!

  • Gain an alliance with Scotland
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against England for 24 months
  • Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 12 months

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170220. Defensive weakness in Roussillon

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • Own Roussillon
  • Control Roussillon
  • Country is not at war

Will happen within 100 days of January 1, 1550
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1666)

Description

The acquisition of Roussillon by France sent the border with Spain back to the Pyrenean range. The fortifications built centuries ago to protect from enemies coming from the north were useless from southern enemies. Moreover, the evolution of siege artillery made the Middle Age castles obsolete. One would have to wait for Sebastien Vauban to see in Roussillon a modern fortification belt on the Pyrenees mountains.

Actions

A. Roussillon is badly defended

  • Fortress level in Roussillon -1
  • Event 5004 - Vauban for France will never fire

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170153. The recovery of Siena

France -- Not random

Conditions

Will happen within 7 days of July 29, 1552
Checked again every 7 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1552)

Description

In 1549 after increasing turmoil in Siena, the Spanish representative of the city, Don Diego di Mendoza, decided to build a fortress to ensure Spanish control of the territory. This decision was received with horror by the Sienese who begged with Charles V not to proceed. He refused, and several Sienese citizens in Rome received aid from French agents and collected an army. In 1552, as they marched on Siena the people revolted and threw out the Spanish troops, and an independent Siena took up a pro-French policy. Henri II, King of France, tried to exploit the situation by sending there an army led by Paul de Termes, who was successively substituted by Strozzi when an invasion of Corsica was attempted with the help of the Turkish fleet. On Emperor Charles V's decision to inflict an exemplary punishment upon the rebeling city, Cosimo I Duke of Tuscany responded to his call by invading and pillaging the villages surrounding Siena with the help of Spanish/imperial troops. After a year long siege laid by Medeghino and his Florentine troops, the city of Siena was eventually taken.

Actions

A. Respond to their cry for help

  • Gain Siena as vassals
  • Gain an alliance with Siena
  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Tuscany for 12 months
  • -25 relations with Austria
  • -25 relations with Spain
  • -25 relations with Tuscany
  • -50 gold

B. We can't meet their requests

  • Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months
  • -50 relations with Siena
  • +25 relations with Austria
  • +25 relations with Spain
  • +25 relations with Tuscany

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170130. Plan invasion of Corsica

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Italy exists
  • Genoa owns Corsica
  • Own Provence
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Spain are allied
    • France and Austria are allied
    • France and Genoa are allied
    • Genoa is a vassal of France

Will happen within 30 days of July 1, 1553
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 3, 1559)

Description

In the long-time struggle between French Kings and Habsburg emperors, Corsica was a key island between France and Italy which had become an important theatre of operations. Holding this island would weaken the Republic of Genoa and of course Spanish control over the peninsula. It would also allow us access to strategical ports which might prove themselves very useful. We already have some partisans there, especially among the followers of Sampiero Corso, a Corsican condotierre now a colonel in our armies. Sampiero da Bastelica, born a commoner, has been fighting in Italy and France for the last thirty years, gaining enough prestige and wealth to marry the heiress of one of the last powerful feudal dynasties in Corsica, Ghjuvanina d'Ornanu. If he was to lead an attack on the island there is a hope that a large part of the population would submit peacefully.

Actions

A. We could need this island

  • Gain a temporary casus belli against Genoa for 60 months
  • -100 relations with Genoa
  • +5000 infantry in Provence
  • Leader Sampiero Corso becomes active
  • -100 gold

B. This is too perilous

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5007. Miguel Servet

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Innovativeness is at 8 or higher

Will happen within 120 days of March 2, 1553
Checked again every 120 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1554)

Description

Miguel Servet (or Servetus) was an Aragonese physician who was trained in Lyon and Paris and whose theological ideas became very polemic. He believed that God is unitary and that the Trinity is not founded in scripture. He anonymously published 'Restitution of Christianity', a book outlining his theological views, but was forced to change his name to avoid persecution from the church when his authorship was discovered. His old friend John Calvin was especially angered by these ideas. Servet also proposed that the blood traveled from the heart through the pulmonary artery and back through the pulmonary vein, without actually passing through the septum. Servetus' views on circulation, argued on theological grounds, were ignored until Harvey extended the theory.

Actions

A. We must persecute his heresies

  • Stability +1

B. Let's allow Servet to remain in our country

  • Innovativeness +1
  • Global revolt risk +7 for 12 months
  • Event 5008 - Miguel Servet for Switzerland will never fire

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170282. French claim on Calais

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Calais is a national (core) province

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1558
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

By 1453, at the end of the Hundred Years War, it was the only part of France to remain in English hands. Despite some squabbles over the next hundred years, it was considered a part of England (at least, by the English). The area was finally ceded to France in 1558 by Mary of England after French troops, led by Francis, Duke of Guise, took the town of Calais.

Actions

A. OK

  • Calais will be considered a national (core) province

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12037. The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis

France -- Not random

Conditions

  • None of the following must occur:
    • Italy exists
  • Spain exists
  • At least one of the following must occur:
  • None of the following must occur:
    • France and Spain are at war
    • France and Savoy are at war
    • Spain and Savoy are at war
  • Lombardia is a national (core) province of Spain
  • Franche-Comté is a national (core) province of Spain
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Artois
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Flandern
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Franche-Comté
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Lombardia
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Emilia
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Napoli
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Liguria
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Own Navarra
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Zeeland
    • Spain owns Luxembourg
    • Spain owns Brabant
    • Spain owns Artois
    • Spain owns Flandern
    • Spain owns Picardie
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Spain owns Savoie
    • Spain owns Piemonte
    • Spain owns Provence
    • Spain owns Lombardia
    • Spain owns Firenze
    • Spain owns Emilia
    • Spain owns Siena
    • Spain owns Liguria
    • Spain owns Mantua
    • Spain owns Romagna
    • Spain owns Marche
    • Spain owns Roma
    • Spain owns Napoli
    • Spain owns Apulia

Will happen within 10 days of April 3, 1559
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after October 21, 1575)

Description

The spread of Calvinism led the King of France to sign the Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis in 1559, ending the long struggle between France and Spain. After decades of reckless invasions, Henri II agreed to respect Habsburg primacy in Italy and control over Flanders and Franche-Comté. King Felipe II of Spain, in return, promised that Spain would desist in its attempts to weaken the Valois Kings. After signing the treaty, Henri II and Felipe II could now turn their attention to combating Protestantism. In execution of the peace treaty the House of Savoy was granted its ancestral territories in order to form a buffer state between France and Spanish controlled Italy.

Actions

A. Sign the Treaty

  • Stability +1
  • Lombardia will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Artois will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Flandern will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Franche-Comté will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Piemonte will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Savoie will no longer be considered a national (core) province
  • Cede Franche-Comté to Spain
  • Cede Friesen to Spain
  • Cede Geldre to Spain
  • Cede Holland to Spain
  • Cede Zeeland to Spain
  • Cede Luxembourg to Spain
  • Cede Brabant to Spain
  • Cede Artois to Spain
  • Cede Flandern to Spain
  • Cede Lombardia to Spain
  • Cede Mantua to Spain
  • Cede Liguria to Spain
  • Cede Emilia to Spain
  • Cede Romagna to Spain
  • Cede Firenze to Spain
  • Cede Siena to Spain
  • Cede Roma to Spain
  • Cede Marche to Spain
  • Cede Napoli to Spain
  • Cede Apulia to Spain
  • Cede Messina to Spain
  • Cede Sicily to Spain
  • Cede Sardinia to Spain
  • Cede Roussillon to Spain
  • Cede Navarra to Spain
  • Cede Gerona to Spain
  • Cede Catalonia to Spain
  • Cede Aragon to Spain
  • Cede Cantabria to Spain
  • Cede Asturias to Spain
  • Cede Galicia to Spain
  • Cede Leon to Spain
  • Cede Castilla to Spain
  • Cede Valencia to Spain
  • Cede Murcia to Spain
  • Cede Toledo to Spain
  • Cede Estramadura to Spain
  • Cede Andalusia to Spain
  • Cede Granada to Spain
  • Cede Gibraltar to Spain
  • Cede The Canary Islands to Spain
  • Cede The Baleares to Spain
  • Cede Piemonte to Savoy
  • Cede Savoie to Savoy
  • Global revolt risk -5 for 60 months