Chapter 7 - The End of the Hundred Years War
After
the First Anglo-Castilian War, King Henry VI of England went back to his capital, London, together with Lord Lancaster.
His Royal Highness had not had much time to himself. So while Lord Lancaster took care of the Isles and the Generals on the continent took care of the French and Castilian provinces, Henry enjoyed the life.
King Henry started a lot of new projects. He appointed new governors all the newly conquered lands. He had all the old governors sent to
the Tower.
In London he started building a lot. He wanted London to become the richest port in the world. He expanded the docks and threw out the Hansaetic League.
King Henry VI of England was succesful in warfare and administrating the kingdom. He had some of the most excellent advisors in his court, including his fathers friend Lord Lancaster. But this also gave him a lot of enemies.
The House of York had always been a menace for the Lancasters. And now the Duke of York declared himself as the heir to Henry VI. Henry called for a grand meeting to discuss this matter with his closest advisors. Lord Lancaster explained that this declaration was fully legimate. If the King could not produce a son then the crown would be inherited by his closest male relative which was the Duke of York.
Lord Hugh of Lancaster arranged a big feast to celebrate King Henry's 27th birthday, and in higher degree to find Henry a wife.
The next year he got married to Margaret of Anjou which would strengthen the English claim on Brittany aswell as strengthen the political situation in Northern France.
Hopefully this marriage would become the founder of a strong monarchy ruling the old Angevin Empire.
Anonymous Painter, the rumour will tell that he was drunken and now too shy.
On their honeymoon in the late 1450 they went to Naxos, one of the last christian strongholds in the East.
The Turks were not united yet which was a good thing for the Christians. If the Turks unite the Christians might not be able to defend Europe from the Muslims.
The Sultan of Candar had played his cards very well, King Henry thought. He even wanted to go visit the sultan so Henry could maybe learn some things of the sultan. However, the advisors of Henry VI did not want this. The King could be killed, assasinated or die from some eastern illness. And the bishops in England would for sure not be fund of such a visit to the heathens. And the advisors didn't want the Muslims to seem more clever than the catholic advisors.
The Sultan of Candar was good at everything, but ruling minorities far away.
Durazzo and Constantinople were both under rebel control. The rebels in Durazzo was royalists in favour of the Italians while in Constantinople the rebels wanted to be a part of of the strongest nation in the area, instead of trying to defend a lonely orthodox nation against the Turks.
In 1453 the Hundred Years War ended. King Henry VI of England signed a peace treaty with King Charles VII of France. King Henry would be the de facto king of England and France while Charles VII would be de jure king of France, however, with limits he would now be a vassal of the English King.
The Counts of Bourbonnais and Armagnac both broke their ties to the Charles VII. But soon they would be under joint English-French rule.
The same year Constantinople broke away from Candar and became a part and capital of the Ottoman Sultanate. Durazzo broke away from Candar aswell, but they crowned the Italians as dukes, only months later to be conquered by the Ottoman Sultanate.
