Part IV: Unifications
August 1412 the ruler of Saxony dies out. We had hoped to get a PU with them, or even inherit, but this is the result:
Succession war with Hesse. Münster is beaten and reduced a OPM, and Hesse slowly loses two of three provinces. Peace is accepted September 1413:
We vassalize Hesse instead of forming a union with Saxony. The reason is that we would have -190 relations with Saxony, and our money really doesn't afford that much.
In April 1416 we get a new king and a new heir. Unfortunately we lost the HRE title to Bohemia.
Even Johan wants to live in Holland!
Thanks to a core-giving event, we get a core on Antwerpen. This calls for a war.
The war lasts for many years, until in December 1420 peace is made:
We now have a CoT in Antwerpen. We decide to leave the Hanseatic League. We need no help!
1421 Cologne wants to reclaim Osnabrück.
And we diploannex Gelre:
We peace out with Bremen in early 1422, annex Oldenburg and finally in March 1423 we make peace with Cologne:
But we are not allowed to keep it, due to my house rules. So we sell it to Hesse for 0 ducats.
40 years before we can form Dutch nation... and then the real fun starts.