Jewish Alps- A Paradox Megacampaign AAR- Part1 - Crusader Kings 3
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Emperor Isaac I (1208-1259)
Early Days and Children: The vassals being loyal, Isaac started his reign peacefully, constructing holdings in Alpine counties, and promoting Israel's Jewish resettlement.
He married once to Wilhelmina, an Etichonen Swabian Rabbinic from Alpsee. As tradition, Jewish Emperors only married for love, their romantic relationship sired 8 children:
Nikarete
Isaac (heir)
Adalhard
Shimon (Duke of Cephalonia later on)
Pultzelina
Judith
Judith
Tirtzah
After 2 years of rule, the resettlement of Israel was completed, and the Jews in Tyrol started to refer to themselves as the T'irolhese: a start of a Jewish culture.
Fear and Conquest: After the rise of Francia (see International news), Isaac was afraid of that the ambitious Jourdain eyed his domain hungrily. He saw opportunity in the lands of the decaying Byzantines (see International news), Conquered Cyprus and in the next year, Crete. After the Bulgarian Independence War, where Bulgarians secured their independence, Isaac attacked again for Cephalonia. In 5 years, Isaac strengthened the border with the domain of Francia. Soon Isaac waged war on Byzantium again, conquering Dyrrachion. However, he soon received a disturbing message from his agents: the Franks have doubled their strength and now they have 10K more troops than Tyrol! He realized that the dwindling Muslims in Iberia are severely weak, soo in the span of 11 years, he conquered all but Xenxir, which was strong enough to resist him in white peace.
The Battle of Dijon: One day Isaac was disturbed in his sleep by a messenger: "My Lord, it's urgent!". He read it. His worst fears have come true. Pierre, son of Jourdain, declared war on Tyrol! Isaac mustered all his men in Innsbruck, and sent a messenger to the Grandmaster of the Zealots of Pazin. They soon joined forces, and marched upon the Franks gathering near Dijon. The battle was fierce and bloody, as only the zealots egalized the numbers. Half of Europe fought here, Jewish and Christian. In the end, the Grandmaster's superior skills over Pierre won the battle for Tyrol. A treaty was signed in Langres, with both empires promising not to attack each other.
Last Years: After that, Isaac returned to his previous, peaceful life. In his last years, he witnessed the fall of the Mongol empire, scrapped into the Ilkhanate, the Golden Horde, Chagatai and Mongolia. He died from natural causes in 1259.
International news and map:
The Rise of Francia: Count Jourdain of Berry one day decided that he will rebuild the Empire of Charlemagne, and did so. After the French king died, it was easy for him to take control of France. After Kaiser Leopold III died, the HRE had a succession crisis. Kaiser Rüdiger took the throne in Nürnberg, but his vassals were highly disloyal. Jourdain ordered his soldiers to the border of the HRE, and they marched to Nürnberg, so that Jourdain can present his demands towards Rüdiger. As a compensation Rüdiger received Bavaria, and remained loyal to Jourdain, who proclaimed himself the Emperor of the Francks in Aachen, and placed his capital here.
The Collapse of Byzantium: The weakened and war-torned empire could not withstand the rebellions provoked by the Visoki Uprising: Serbs, Bulgarians, Georgians and Armenians declared independence. Soon the dukes forced the hand of the child Emperor to abdicate, dissolving the Empire.
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Tyrol has survived, so that's something at least.
Francia rises as a prominent empire, even as Byzantium falls
Francia rises as a prominent empire, even as Byzantium falls
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Emperor Isaac II (1260-1286)
Early days: Isaac ascended to the throne as a 48 year old. Because he would always succeed to rule with justice in Currezia, he expected that it would be easy for the Empire to be governed by his attributes. He started to develop the alpine parts by building basic civic infrastructure. He also donated to to the clergy generously.
Conquering the Gulf: Isaac wanted to conquer the weak Greek duchies around the Gulf of Alexandretta. He assembled and army in Cyprus, and invaded Kilikia. He established the Republic of Kilikia a a vassal of the empire, to satisfy the Greek local rulers. He swiftly invaded Kybrrhaeotai, and divided it into Lykia and Pamphilia, both ruled by Jews, now integral part of Tyrol. He conquered the duchy of Lebanon from upstart Muslim Emirs, and assigned a relative to govern it under his command.
Meeting with Hektorios: However, the people in Pamphylia felt oppressed and wanted freedom. A rebellion broke out, led by Hektorios Epanokomites, a just and ambitious peasant. Isaac considered it unjust to crush them, since they asked fro basic ethnical rights. Isaac travelled to Pamphylia, with a retinue of shomers, and met with Hektorios. Isaac accepted his demands after negotiation, and invited him to Innsbruck. They soon become friends, and Isaac decided to give him some land. He set out on a campaign to conquer the weak county of Isauria, and soon gave it to Hektorios. He even granted religious freedom to him, in exchange for governing Isauria loyally.
Late years and marital life: Isaac 7 years later conquered Sinai from the Fatimids, and granted it to Israel. He also conquered Rugen from the remnants of Pomerania (crushed by the Franks and the Danes). One day, he received a message from the Emperor of Francia. It was a DECLARATION OF WAR!! Isaac quickly rallied his men and the Zealots of Pazin. However, the Franks decided on a new tactic. They divided their armies, to scorch the countryside, and thus supply them efficiently. Isaac chose wisely: He encountered directly a half of the Frankish army (Battle of Bresse), and another half later (battle of Meran). This reasoned that the Frankish had to sign a white peace. Isaac prepared for 2 years to attack and defeat the Franks at Langres, and then siege all the way up to Aachen. He managed to capture the Emperor, thus ending the war. In the Treaty of Nürnberg, Isaac dissolved Francia, and stated that if anyone makes an attempt to restore it, his/her neighbors shall take it down. He reclaimed Ravensburg and some Veletian counties from the war, and granted it to Jews. His state would soon drop, however, as he started to experience lunacy, and after a week, became one. His madness urged him to seduce women, including his own nieces. He was soon exposed to be a consanguineous man. Even though he was a lunatic, he was the most learned man of his time, (with 71 learning). He conquered Pomerelia 1 year before his death, but while trying to catch up to his troops, he got injured. They brought him back to Innsbruck. He was ill for his last year, and in 1286, he died of his wounds. His wife was Tirtzah, a Jewish noblewoman, but she died when Isaac was 64, just by the time he got lunacy. She sired Isaac all her living children. After that, Isaac was in love with Maria, the last Pomeranian ruler, before she lost her last lands to the Danes. She sired him 6 children, 1 dead early.
Mothered by Tirtzah:
-Tziporah (heir)
-Yehudis (died due to infected wound)
-Yehudai (drowned)
-Daniel (stressed out and became inappetetic, died 16 year old)
-Esther (inherited Naxos from her father)
-Beila
Mothered by Maria:
-Maria
-Jaromil (died being sickly)
-Puah
-Guta
-Adah
-Yael
-Shluida
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A great ruler who campaigns in the Near East is always nice.
How's Byzantium doing?
How's Byzantium doing?
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Byzantium is dead long ago, but there is a Kingdom of Hellas, uniting core Greek territories and the coast of Asia Minor. Also there are several duchies in Anatolia. The Serbs and Bulgarians are doing fine, but Bulgaria converted to Catholicism. Armenia since spread it's faith into the Daylamite region. There lords recently gained independence. Georgia conquered Shirvan and Alania, and they still strongly hold into them.
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Also, Tziporah will be the first female ruler, so she will have to state clearly that she is worthy.
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Empress Tziporah (1286-1307)
The War of Constitution: By the time Tziporah's reign started, there was no constitution for the Empire. Literally nothing. Only the loyal servitude of the vassals was that kept the Empire together. After the death of Emperor Isaac II, many vassals of the Empire felt the weakness of the newly initiated Empress, and lot of them also had feelings about their servitude's unregulatedness. Not good ones, to say at least. The most staunch supporter of the creation of the Imperial Constitution was King Nissim of Valencia. He gathered a mass of nobles: one-third of the Iberian landholders, many Duchies and Counties residing in Greek areas, even including her father's friend, Hektorios Epanokomites, now Count of Isauria. This betrayal infuriated the Empress, but her mind outright went crazy when she heard that the Duke of Carinthia is supporting the cause. She ordered that the court should move from Innsbruck to Chur, so that she is not that exposed to the rebels. There were several other reasons as well. Chur had the mightiest in all of Europe. There were rumors circulating in Swabia that this fort can't be taken from the Jews. 2 weeks after the coronation of Tziporah, King Nissim presented the demand for the constitution in front of the Empress. She promptly refused. The vassals in sight, supporting Nissim were so infuriated, that they outright charged at her. Her guards were stronger, however, and all of them, including Nissim, were sent to jail. They escaped the next night. 4 weeks later, when Nissim reached Valencia on barefoot, he entered his castle, and promptly issued a declaration of war against the Empress.She was angry, to say at least. The fact that the Empress could slowly mobilize her troops, and that the vassals coordinated perfectly, issuing a naval invasion of the loyal Kingdom of West Alps, resulted in that she had no other choice to give in to some of their demands. The Imperial Council was established.
The System of the Council: Each vassal of the empire would send their chancellor as a delegate then there is a meeting. Meetings have to be called in issues like War, Economy, and State Management. Note, that aside from the normal Kingdoms, Duchies and counties, there were special ones too:
Tributary Vassals: they are to tribute to the Crown once a year, otherwise they are let to act free diplomatically:
- Duchy of Burgundy
-Sephardi County of Salamanca
-County of Isauria
-Kingdom of Albania (only for a small time, before placed into Jewish control again)
The City-state of Algiers served the Empire like those above, only differentiating with the fact that the Empire funded their piracy against enemies.
Theocratic Submitees: They are the High Priesthood, and other Theocracies, "protected by" the Empire. If there is a vote about religion, their choice counts double vote. (Religion belongs to "State Management")
Though, there were concessions from the vassals too. These kind of laws would only be implemented in 1300.
The Hafizid Jihad: The first ever issue presented before the Imperial Council was the issue of War. Apparently there was a dispute between Is'maili rulers, who should be the Imam. Apparently the Imam's brother, al-Hafiz seized Arabia from the Fatimids for himself, and also establishing himself as the Hafizi Imam, creating the new Hafizi branch of Islam. He apparently declared a Jihad for Arabia, mostly against the Turkic Sunni remnants of the long gone Seljuks ruling alongside the Persian Gulf. But he also declared a war against Tyrol, he wanting to seize some lands from Israel. (not core parts, only some counties, reaching to the Dead Sea) The Imperial Council voted yes, for most rulers were either zealous, or they assumed that the war in the Levantine region would steer trade to them. In the end, the Empire successfully defended Israel, and defeated the soldiers of the Hafizi at the Battle of At-Tafila, leaving them decimated enough for the other Muslims to finish them off, breaking the Hafizi cause and leaving Arabia disunited.
The Issue of Hellas:
The Kingdom of Hellas just after Empress Tziporah died
By the time the Jihad has ended, there were only two major Greek powers left: Hellas and Pontus. The former one was really close to restore Byzantium. Through succession, they managed to inherit the Kingdom of Nikaea. Tziporah thought that killing their ruler would be enough to splinter them apart, like in the time of Duke Isaac. But she did not account that the Greeks would enact primogeniture by now. The murder succeeded, but Tziporah was exposed as the agitator of the peasants who killed their despotic liege. Son of the late Despot, Despot Hippolytos started to ignite border skirmishes, to the point that the Council decided to vote about the issue. At the end they decided that the Empire shall declare war on Hippolytos to strip him of his Anatolian lands. In two consecutive battles, the Empire decimated the troops of Hellas.
The battle of Constantinople
In the second battle, Tyrol captured the Dux of Boucellarion, and Tziporah forced him through intimidation to surrender his lands to Tyrol:
Apparently, Empress Tziporah would die in 1307, leaving the war unfinished.
The Family: Empress Tziporah had 2 husbands. The first one was her cousin, also a von Eberstein, Gandolfo. Their relationship was bad and toxic, unexpected for Jewish Emperors. Some suspect that Tziporah even had a lover at some point, now lost in the annals of history. After the death of Gandolfo, Tziporah remarried to the Catholic Franconian Karlmann, which built close relations with the Empire of Carpathia. (he was an Árpád) Even though their relationship was not romantic, but they tolerated each together so well, that Karlmann and his Franconian brethren were even built a Chapel, to bow to the Father of Jesus.
The Children of Tziporah:
-Esther (unprecedented heir)
-Pultzelina (she supported King Nissim ,so that she would gain more influence)
-Tziporah (a real master woman of torture, she intimidated the Dux of Boucellarion to never rule his lands again, but instead, give it up to her.
-Guthela
-Shoinlin (died in childbirth)
- Gandolfo (he was the designed heir. One year before the death of the Empress, he was caught having an affair. As Tziporah did not remember her adventures by then, she disinherited him, and banished him from Tyrol.)
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Hello, everyone. I am finally back. I was very busy for the last two months. I have revised this AAR of mine, and decided upon that I made terrible mistakes during the writing of it. I created history and lore for many other nations in this universe, not only Tyrol. I will write about their foundation and their present stance once we reach 1400. Once again, I am sorry for my inactivity and my terrible mistake regarding this AAR.
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It seems as if the vassals managed to get concessions.
Even despite that, Tyrol seems to be doing well...
Even despite that, Tyrol seems to be doing well...
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It's because the interests of the vassals did not collide with the interests of the Empire yet.
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Yeah I was quite busy for some time, but now I am back in full of my glory!
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Empress Esther (1308-1324)
Early Rule: Her early rule was mostly about finding an heir for her position. She was not supposed to take over the Empire, and thus was married off to the Duke of Cibyrrhaeot. She had 3 offsprings from the relationship with Duke Uri, which was a toxic one. Uri relied on Esther in everything, as he himself lived off from weed most of the time. Shoinlin, their first child died early, their second child, Saris suffered from an ill mental state, and she also died 1 and a half month after Esther was coronated. Their last child, named Esther had shown greediness, and the Empress worried that she would make the Empire collapse with her desire to gain the gold for herself. Thereby she could not inherit the Empire, but only her father's holdings, which occurred 2 months after the Empress was coronated. She thus conducted a search for a young von Eberstein who could take the mantle after her funeral. After months of search, she chose Mordechai, who she shared a common relative in the person of Emperor Isaac I. This Mordechai came from the line of Prince Adalhard, brother of Emperor Isaac II. Four meetings were held in the Imperial Council, but in the end, Esther managed to persuade a majority of her vassals that Mordechai is a suitable heir to continue the legacy of Tyrol. For five years, she was married to Diego, the mayor of Talavera, to help her administrating efforts. In 1312, he died.
Diego
The War of Opsikion: However, some vassals did not accept Mordechai as the heir of Esther, so Duke Isaac of Opsikion has gathered his supporters and others who would claim the throne for themselves, to wage a war against the Empress. The troops of the Empire first pushed against Vidojko of Pugghia, Count of Alpsee and Ravensburg. His lands were quickly conquered, the Count himself captured. He would provide intel on the troops of the rebellion, which help was very helpful. The Imperial Army conquered Carinthia, so that the Imperial Forces would met the rebel army in the battle of Villach. It was a close and bloody battle, but in the end, the Imperial troops led by Esther herself managed to outmaneuver the right flank of the rebels, led by Dimi Mose, King of Cyprus. This ended the war, and also resulting in that some of the rebelling vassals would be deposed, and some land were seized into the direct control of the Empress.
Duke Isaac II of Opsikion
Claimants: This is the list of some claimants to the throne of Esther:
-King Dimi of Cyprus: Being the head of the Mose dynasty, he believed that he is the direct and legitimate heir to the throne of the Empire, since the death and/or disinheritance of his children.
-Princess Pultzelina: With the death of Empress Tziporah, he conquered Albania, so that she can hold a basis to claim the Empire from.
-Duchess Tziporah: After all, she did not seize Boucellaria for no reason...
-Duke Isaac II of Opsikion: As some powerful vassals supported him, he believed that his claim to the Empire is valid, and started a war to claim Tyrol. Too bad he lost.
Controversy and Female Lips: Esther was a lesbian from the start, and she deepened her homosexual thoughts while under the command of Uri. In 1318 she heard that there is a lesbian woman in a mountain near Innsbruck, as she was kicked out of her village because of the affairs she had with another woman. Esther searched this woman, and found her. The woman was also called Esther, but the Empress was informed that she will only marry her if she defeats her in a duel. The duel itself was a tight match, but in the end, the Empress won against Esther, and they kissed right on the spot. Their marriage was so blasphemous, in the eyes of the priesthood that the Empress had a chance of a civil war brewing again, so while she renounced the formal vows with Esther, their relationship continued to be the same. As the Empress was refueled by lust since she met Esther, some chronicles say that they had khm, you know what 3 days a week (!).
Esther Ben David
Empress Esther died in 1324. She was succeeded by Emperor Mordechai, as she wanted.
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Well, she was one scandalous empress. I'm shocked that she was so brazen.
Does Esther II (her daughter) not also have a claim?
Does Esther II (her daughter) not also have a claim?
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Yeah, she has, but she accepted the inheritance of Mordechai, and remained loyal to the Empire till this pont.
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