My first game with the new patch, and the first one I've genuinely enjoyed in some time. Made a custom Basque Viscount of Labourd (Count of Dax, seems strange it's named after the modern departement) in 1066, with the aim of restoring Gascogne to it's last Basque Duke and incorporating it into Navarre, which I would usurp through marriage. Proved a bit tougher than I expected since the AI now actually makes use of betrothals and matrilineal marriages, but I made it eventually.
My first King, Alfontso II, died of flu after reigning for 7 years, at the grand old age of 23, and so the throne went to his only child, a 4 year old daughter, Konstantzia. I'd been planning to have Konstantzia's eldest surviving uncle, Count Zentulo of Bordeaux - named in honour of his father's good friend, Count Centolh of Bearn - elected if the Queen died early. He died just as she came of age.
When she came of age, she married Zentulo's younger brother, her half-uncle Pelaio, who wasn't much older than her, but died shortly after the birth of their only son, Zentulo. Zentulo was a perfect prince, quick-witted, had pretty perfect traits by the time he came of age, and I managed to find him a beautiful and worthy bride: Antonia, daughter of the Byzantine Emperor, Basileios III. So of course, as quick and genius characters are doomed in CK2, his wife cuckolded him, and he died in battle in a crusade for Jerusalem at age 18. For Konstantzia, winning the crown was little consolation. She gave it instead to the elder Zentulo's son, Alfontso, in exchange for his County of Bordeaux.
The very name Zentulo seemed cursed, and poor Queen Konstantzia, now nearly 40, devastated by the loss of her only child and heir, seemed likely to have to relinquish her father's gains to the Jimena, who had been allowed to keep the County of Najera. But she remarried and, by some miracle, had another son. She named him Joanes Zentulo, after her new husband, Joanes d'Empuries, and her fallen son and uncle. Like his brother before him, Joanes Zentulo was raised into a model prince, and married to the daughter of the Duke of Gascogne, and he too participated in a crusade for Jerusalem, of which only one province was still held against the Fatimids by the ageing and increasingly senile King Alfontso. It was while Joanes Zentulo was fighting in this ultimately successful crusade that the Queen, known to history as Konstantzia the Just, died after a glorious 64 year reign.
Before she died, Joanes Zentulo had, at the Queen's urging, named his eldest son Zentulo. Only 2 years into the reign of the new King, it remains unclear if the Curse of Zentulo will blight the next generation of the House of Viana.
My first King, Alfontso II, died of flu after reigning for 7 years, at the grand old age of 23, and so the throne went to his only child, a 4 year old daughter, Konstantzia. I'd been planning to have Konstantzia's eldest surviving uncle, Count Zentulo of Bordeaux - named in honour of his father's good friend, Count Centolh of Bearn - elected if the Queen died early. He died just as she came of age.
When she came of age, she married Zentulo's younger brother, her half-uncle Pelaio, who wasn't much older than her, but died shortly after the birth of their only son, Zentulo. Zentulo was a perfect prince, quick-witted, had pretty perfect traits by the time he came of age, and I managed to find him a beautiful and worthy bride: Antonia, daughter of the Byzantine Emperor, Basileios III. So of course, as quick and genius characters are doomed in CK2, his wife cuckolded him, and he died in battle in a crusade for Jerusalem at age 18. For Konstantzia, winning the crown was little consolation. She gave it instead to the elder Zentulo's son, Alfontso, in exchange for his County of Bordeaux.
The very name Zentulo seemed cursed, and poor Queen Konstantzia, now nearly 40, devastated by the loss of her only child and heir, seemed likely to have to relinquish her father's gains to the Jimena, who had been allowed to keep the County of Najera. But she remarried and, by some miracle, had another son. She named him Joanes Zentulo, after her new husband, Joanes d'Empuries, and her fallen son and uncle. Like his brother before him, Joanes Zentulo was raised into a model prince, and married to the daughter of the Duke of Gascogne, and he too participated in a crusade for Jerusalem, of which only one province was still held against the Fatimids by the ageing and increasingly senile King Alfontso. It was while Joanes Zentulo was fighting in this ultimately successful crusade that the Queen, known to history as Konstantzia the Just, died after a glorious 64 year reign.
Before she died, Joanes Zentulo had, at the Queen's urging, named his eldest son Zentulo. Only 2 years into the reign of the new King, it remains unclear if the Curse of Zentulo will blight the next generation of the House of Viana.
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