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A Chronicle of Crowns

A Chronicle of Crowns

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FIND ME ON SUBSTACK TIKTOK BUYMEACOFFEE====>>>>>>> KOBI ONEEvery single man in her life had brought her closer to ruin and had plotted to take from her everything, sanity included. It was all she had left to think about now. Endlessly wandering these corridors of the Royal Palace of Santa Clara in Tordesillas, Spain, time had left this once so fine a mind as to be almost void, nothing but some grief and a lot of cold hatred.Whenever she sat in her chaise-longue, here in this prison of a room, she was confronted with the ghost of one of these men. Just outside her window, but ten metres removed from her windowpanes, lies her dead husband, Philip the Handsome. May he rot in anguish.For her, there is no escape, no solace, no refuge. She has lost all but her life and she will hold on to it for as long as she can, even if it is just to spite the men that still live.IntermezzoThe woman you have just met, imprisoned in a Royal Palace, is none other than Juana la Loca. She will sit in this palace for 46 years with almost no visitors, no contact with the outside world and absolutely no freedom. This is her epic and extremely tragic story. Buckle in.Act One — Maximilian and the Wedding MachineHe didn’t get this far without having to suffer for it at the hands of the people of Bruges first, during the initial rebellion against Habsburg take-over. But now that he had ironed out every fold in this finely woven tapestry of Flemish cloth, it was Habsburg business as usual. The wedding machine kicks back into fifth gear and Europe shakes in its boots, while shaking those very same boots to a political game of musical chairs.Maestro, cue the wedding music.The Habsburg motto of the era: Bella gerant alii, tu felix Austria nube. Let others wage war. You, happy Austria, marry. Max would stay true to this established Habsburg tradition. His firstborn is a man some of you will already know as he who accidentally gave way to ‘Flamenco’, the name we gave to that fiery dance and music of the Andalusian Roma gypsy’s. This is mentioned in my first installment of Strange Origins. His name is Philip the Handsome. A nickname easily earned when one stems from the Habsburg dynasty, a family known for many things. Beauty not being one of them. In the spirit of full disclosure and honesty, the chroniclers, such as Venetian ambassador Querini, indeed describe him as to be genuinely beautiful. Readers of my latest Sunday article will know the worst king to have ever lived, which was roundabout his actual nickname, Louis XI, who tried to steal the regions of the fallen Burgundian duke. Now in direct opposition of Maximilian, who married this duke’s daughter and reclaimed all the territories for himself. To undermine the authority of Maximilian and his now firstborn son, he spread rumours that Philip was in fact a girl. Medieval gossip, surviving the tooth of time. Oddly enough, later on in his life, during his actual reign, Philip the Handsome would foster relationships with France, in stark opposition to his very anti-French father, Max.Max’s daughter was named Margaret, later known as the Lady of Mourning, which bodes well for her love life, does it not? The nickname was given to her by her own court poet, which is a job I am willing to take if you are employing. She earned the nickname by jumping out of a window after her second husband, Philibert of Savoy, dies. She was saved and had her husband’s heart embalmed to keep it with her forever. She vowed then and there never to marry again and became a very successful and respected woman in politics. All this leads me personally to believe she was much more clever and cunning than most historians give her credit. I believe the window-jumping and coincidental surviving was all staged as a political move towards independence, claiming her right to not be married off again in her father’s political aspirations and if so, Margaret, I applaud thee.Her first marriage explains her father’s resentment for the French and her own resentment towards her father and fight for independence. To calm both sides of the Burgundian borders, the French king on one side and soon to become Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian of Austria, on the other, Max married off his daughter to Louis XI’s Dauphin, which indeed means both dolphin as does it mean the firstborn of the French king. She was sent off to the French court to be raised there, at the age of three. So she just tragically lost her mother and is now sent to a different country to be raised by a family that was hitherto a mortal enemy of hers, at the age of three. Dang these middle ages… Worst of all, nine years later, Max makes a political move that Louis XI didn’t like all that much so Louis calls off the wedding and sends Margaret packing, back “home” after nine years. She is now twelve years old.Fernando and Isabella — The Other Side of the DealBack in Spain, the country is being united under one crown for the first time...
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