1424
February
The war drags on, and the taxation is slowly killing all the country. Angry mutterings are everywhere in evidence. My summer estate in the southern provinces has been looted twice and taxed once this year, and the taxmen were more ruthless than the thieves.
The Queen insists that all these tithes are necessary to propagate the war against the Aragonese, but I find that doubtful. The city today was told, amidst a flurry of trumpets and banners, that the armies of Naples have set forth to lay siege to the very heartland of Aragon.
Giovanna does not believe it, and I am inclined to agree with her.
April
...moment which will stick in my memory for all time. Ioannes and Victor were not terribly impressed, but then, Lorenzo is not their flesh and blood.
Were this tremendous feat alone not enough cause for celebration, but the Queen has announced that the war with the House of Aragon has ended in splendid victory. All of Sicily is once again under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom, and the mutterings have been replaced by outbursts of joy and generosity, of which Giovanna and I shall most certainly partake.
July
...Giovanna said her goodbyes, and I said mine, though I hardly knew the girl. She is, of course, rather frightened, but I have reassured her the best I could. Burgundy is so far away and the lords of that realm an unknown quantity; I can see where her fear is warranted. But it cannot be all bad, for her dowry is quite large, and all of her family wishes her well; the Queen herself has offered her personal congratulations and well-wishes. Such an honor surely outweighs the nonexistant peril of the occasion.
October
...of course I could not stare, or Giovanna would be most displeased, and her wrath is swift and terrible. But the lady is stunning; Queen Joanna's nephew is almost certainly blessed by God. The Emperor of Rome(I find the title odd, given that he rules not over Rome, but Constantinople), by all accounts, rather pleased with the arrangement.
On, perhaps, a similar note, I was taking Lorezno to the bazaar when I noticed a small church dedicated to the heretical eastern Orthodox faith; the very faith of the Emperor himself. I also noticed, perhaps subconciously, that a few Musselmen merchants with whom I am acquinted have disappeared from the public markets.
OOC: 1424 was a fairly momentous year. It saw Navarra lay the smackdown on Castille, Aquitane, and France, the cession of Sicily to me, the annexation of Aydin by the Roman Empire, and, most bizarrely, a capital-less Prussia.
Interestingly enough, it took me fifteen minutes to realize what 'increased tol for O, decreased M' meant. I must be more clear in my future notes.
February
The war drags on, and the taxation is slowly killing all the country. Angry mutterings are everywhere in evidence. My summer estate in the southern provinces has been looted twice and taxed once this year, and the taxmen were more ruthless than the thieves.
The Queen insists that all these tithes are necessary to propagate the war against the Aragonese, but I find that doubtful. The city today was told, amidst a flurry of trumpets and banners, that the armies of Naples have set forth to lay siege to the very heartland of Aragon.
Giovanna does not believe it, and I am inclined to agree with her.
April
...moment which will stick in my memory for all time. Ioannes and Victor were not terribly impressed, but then, Lorenzo is not their flesh and blood.
Were this tremendous feat alone not enough cause for celebration, but the Queen has announced that the war with the House of Aragon has ended in splendid victory. All of Sicily is once again under the jurisdiction of the Kingdom, and the mutterings have been replaced by outbursts of joy and generosity, of which Giovanna and I shall most certainly partake.
July
...Giovanna said her goodbyes, and I said mine, though I hardly knew the girl. She is, of course, rather frightened, but I have reassured her the best I could. Burgundy is so far away and the lords of that realm an unknown quantity; I can see where her fear is warranted. But it cannot be all bad, for her dowry is quite large, and all of her family wishes her well; the Queen herself has offered her personal congratulations and well-wishes. Such an honor surely outweighs the nonexistant peril of the occasion.
October
...of course I could not stare, or Giovanna would be most displeased, and her wrath is swift and terrible. But the lady is stunning; Queen Joanna's nephew is almost certainly blessed by God. The Emperor of Rome(I find the title odd, given that he rules not over Rome, but Constantinople), by all accounts, rather pleased with the arrangement.
On, perhaps, a similar note, I was taking Lorezno to the bazaar when I noticed a small church dedicated to the heretical eastern Orthodox faith; the very faith of the Emperor himself. I also noticed, perhaps subconciously, that a few Musselmen merchants with whom I am acquinted have disappeared from the public markets.
OOC: 1424 was a fairly momentous year. It saw Navarra lay the smackdown on Castille, Aquitane, and France, the cession of Sicily to me, the annexation of Aydin by the Roman Empire, and, most bizarrely, a capital-less Prussia.
Interestingly enough, it took me fifteen minutes to realize what 'increased tol for O, decreased M' meant. I must be more clear in my future notes.
