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HOUSE VELARYON OF DRIFTMARK THE OLD, THE TRUE, THE BRAVE Name: House Velaryon of Driftmark Head: Lord Corlys "the Sea Snake" Velaryon Heir: Laenor Velaryon Seat: High Tide, Driftmark Origin: Valyrian Religion: Faith of the Seven Ancestral Blade: N/A Cadet Branches: N/A Family Tree The...

1747 Pact of Nymphenburg In the year of Our Lord 1747, Their Imperial Majesties, Don Carlos VI and Herr Heinrich VII, Forever August, did hereby pledge, before God Most High and mankind, in person and by way of their respective envoys plenipotentiary, by the intermediation and graces of the...

1749 The Almanach: The Crowned Heads of Europe Possible Cardinals Carlo Gonzaga of Mantua, born 1692, aged 57, a prelate in Rome, canon of St. Peter, governor of the Papal States in Todi (1729), Sabina (1730), Fabriano (1731), Camerino (1737), Ancona (1743), Citavecchia (1744), etc. etc...

1747 Treaty of Sacramento In the year of Our Lord 1747, His Imperial, Most Catholic and Apostolic Majesty Don Carlos III, Holy Roman Emperor, Forever August, King of the Spains, Hungary, Italy, the Two Sicilies, etc. Archduke of Austria, etc., and His Most Faithful Majesty Dom João V, King of...

1747 La Farnese & La Farnesina A Daughter's Love Elisabetta Farnese, Duchess of Parma & Piacenza In another life, Elisabetta Maria Farnese - or Isabel de Farnesio - would have made a spectacular Queen of Spain and an even better Empress. The first prospect was certainly at the forefront of...

The Holy Roman Emperor takes issue only with the recognition, or refusal thereto, of the title "King of Libya", granted by Imperial prerogative and independent entirely of extent, intensity or quality of occupation of the granted territory. As for the matter of Ventimiglia, Oneglia et al., the...

This temporary measure is predicated on the instability brought on by Genoese and, regretfully, Tuscan refusal to accept the Imperial grant of the Kingdom of Libya to the House of Savoy, currently headed by King Charles Emmanuel III. The Imperial Council and Imperial Financial Counsel are of one...

The Doge and/or diplomatic agents of La Superba are requested to forward unto the Holy Roman Emperor, Don Carlos, such documents as grant legality to these and other claims made by the Republic across Liguria. The Bank of St George is informed that Spain is compelled to begin withdrawing...

The King of the Piemontese and Libya is informed in no uncertain terms that the House of Savoy was well and truly granted, by Imperial writ and latters patent, royal rule over the Piemontese and Libya. To put in question such a grant is to put in question the Emperor's own authority as the...

1747-1749 State: The Spanish Empire (Spain, Spanish Colonial Empire, Spanish Italy, Spanish Morocco) Faith: Roman Catholic Capitals: Madrid, Naples, Milan. Monarch: Most Catholic, Imperial and Apostolic Majesty Don Carlos III & VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Forever August, Defender of the Church...

Postscript to Event: The Lombardic Conflict (1747) King Charles Emmanuel III From darkness, light; from death, life. The childless death of Prince Charles Emmanuel (nephew) in the prime of life fast-tracked the demise of his father, Victor Amadeus, whose frail constitution could little resist...

Charles Emmanuel III x Maria Walburga of Belgium 1747: 96 - 1748: 93 - 1749: 40 - 1750 - 69 - Spanish Kids 1. Pedro (9) 2. Chinchon (7) 3. Imaculada (2): She was already weak, but survived; now she has complications, but survives. She lives. Terrible scarring, arthritis, weakness and...

THE COURT CIRCULAR [DYNASTIC BULLETINS 1747-1749 - Part II] Everywhere Kings, Princes and Dukes bemoan their spinster daughters and sisters, trousseaus unused and the good silver all packed away. Is there noone to rid these parents of these troublesome virgins and those fat, fat, fat...

THE COURT CIRCULAR [DYNASTIC BULLETINS 1747-1749] The first half of the 18th century was once called the Time of Union, and not for nothing. The - thankfully averted - threat of a War of the Spanish Succession had set in motion a series of changes which saw almost every corner of Europe...

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