Burgundy, like France, is Protestant, so far the Emperors were either from Austria or Bohemia. With the Protestant Palatinate taking over, Jesuits were banned from Low Lands. Actually, some time earlier Bohemian Emperors tried converting some Low Lands provs (Jesuit missions and sending missionaries (chances around 1%); which I didn't like as the HRE tolerated all faiths; but now the Protestants quickly reclaim this area for their creed.one question though, I assume at the start it was Burgundian emperors inviting the Jesuits to the Netherlands? In any case do you now plan to try and build them up as a counterweight to Bohemia?
Poland has this odd shape after being seriously crippled by Russia (recently suspiciously dormant), but it's on the rise now (beat Bohemia, claimed the Baltic, PU with Denmark, incorporated Lithuania).Poland is shaped rather weirdly.
How powerful is France?
Well, Ottos almost = Bulgaria, so .
I forgot how small are your Italian holdings.
Pope Papal Curia Odescalchi
Oh, couldn't it? :ninja:Baberinis' unbridled influence couldn't last forever...
Malignant, you say... :angry:I'm glad that the Berberini's often malignant influence over the Papacy seems to now be waning.
gabor said:aldriq and morningSIDEr, you two might soon get short-listed for a meeting with...
...they quickly agreed on Cardinal Marcello Sacchetti, papal treasurer and staunch supporter of the Barberinis, as their papabile. Within just ten days he was chosen and took the name Leo XII [...] he was a pupil of Jesuits and this was a formative upbringing, which shaped his spirituality and determined his lifelong political sympathies.
... I needed Jesuits to explain the lightning swift conversion cycle initiated in Cairo...
This long-awaited revival of Catholic spirituality was much needed in the face of the Protestant realms, like Burgundy, consolidating their power...
My thoughts exactly. But I fear the more land I take, the beigger the threat of schism. So I have to go cautiously about Trebizond.Looking at the extent of Catholicism in the East after Martinus VI, it seems that Trebizond deserves to be reprimanded! Not only are they attacking fellow Christians instead of the remaining Sunnis, but they have failed to zealously promote the faith within their own borders. I think it's high time you take those lands into papal custody, connect your Eastern possessions, and convert the locals. Cairo saw the light after a few years of your rule; the Emperors in Trebizond haven't been able to do it in, what, 100 years?
Well, it seems you two would be the only inhabitants of the place. Wouldn't it feel a bit like being imprisoned anyway?Besides, morningSIDEr has already setup the perfect hideaway off the Scottish coast, should they come after us...
Somehow I'm not surprised. The word which somehow I assossiate with Jesuits is 'slimy', and I don't know why. It must be some prejudice or sth.While I like your explanation of the rapid conversion, my inner Protestant is always vaguely suspicious of the Societas Iesu
South of Cairo, and East of Alexandia, there's the mighty Ethiopian Empire, all its (visible to me) provinces converted to Eastern Orthodox. It makes you think how a player's actions break the balence in the mod/game. Me, doing away with the Mameluks, rid Ethiopia of its arch-enemy and the country could actually expand and thrive.What about Islam in general? Does it still survive south of Cairo?
So far the Bear has been dormant. I do fear it might wake up and shake things in the East. Especially as now, as a Papal States player, I do see Pol-Denmark as a kind of bulwark of True Faith.Nice to see Poland-Lithuania forming—though it irks me to see Russia routinely carve that indent into the middle of it. I wish P-L was strong enough to fend off the Russians (at least until much later in the game).
I guess I should count my blessings for the past calamities that had hit France. Indeed, it's still fairly weak and hasn't resolved its grudges with England yet, so it will hopefully mind its own business for many years to come. But Burgundy would surely not be strong enough to stop it, not on its own at least.France was fairly weak (and highly fragmented) a couple decades ago, was it not? It may not be strong enough to keep a lid on a resurgent Burgundy, especially if England keeps trying to lay a beating on it.
Quite an exciting pontifficcate, although the Papal State was not involved in any wars. May I ask what was the purpouse of selling the province to Ferrara if it means 50% less tax in the long run?
Modena is an imperial territory, so he may have been trying to avoid the negative consequences of "Laws of the Empire", where the Emperor decides whether you need a beat-down (or not).
In March 1650 Władysław IV of Poland and Denmark (and in fact also of Norway and Lithuania, and many other titles) choked to death on a duck bone, leaving both thrones empty...
However, the vision of the Catholic Union of the North, as the project was known in Rome, was wishful thinking at most. The merging was a work in progress, barely started, and, despite Papal legates’ efforts, both parties, the Polish and Danish elites, were distrustful of one another. As it often happens in history, what finally brought the two together was a common enemy. The Protestant Kingdom of Sweden felt encircled by its Catholic rival and decided on an pre-emptive attack.
On the Cardinals’ inspiration Tomasso the younger, the new Count of Ferrara, on behalf of his mother, Amalia d’Este, pressed hard for Modena as her rightful heritage. The Emperor seeing it as an opportunity to snub the Pope supported this claim, officially acting as the champion of the Reformed creeds in North Italy. After much deliberation Clemens X relented, believing it was safer to have one’s rivals close and content.
I suppose it's nice for you to have a BIG, burly Catholic state to glower at mostly-Protestant central Europe... but heaven forbid Poland-Denmark comes out of the Great Northern War in possession of Sweden, too! Can you imagine how much a united Scandianavia + Poland would mash the hell out of the HRE? In real life, such an agglomeration of power would attract some serious counter-balancing and prompt both Protestant and non-Protestant neighbours to come together in mutual defence. Hopefully the AI settles for relatively minor concessions instead of a major territory grab.
Kroisistan:
My thoughts exactly. But I fear the more land I take, the beigger the threat of schism. So I have to go cautiously about Trebizond.