A Voyage never taken or a more glorious marriage

A Voyage never taken or a more glorious marriage

A Voyage never taken
In 1511, under the new governor Afonso de Albuquerque, Magallanes and Serrano participated in the conquest of Malacca. After the conquest their ways parted: Magellan was promoted, with a rich plunder and, in the company of a Malay he had indentured and baptized Enrique of Malacca, he returned to Portugal in 1512.
Albuquerque decided to himself join the fleet to Maluku and the Spice Islands to sure of things, Serrao, Albuquerque and Abreu would embark to the Maluku Islands together in 1512 and successfully docked in Banda and later Maluku, the Portuguese could establish a port in Ternate named Forte de Sao Joao Baptista de Ternate, Albuquerque commended Serrao and Abreu for their successful mission in Maluku and retained the two in his own service, Ferdinand Magellan is invited to return to Malacca which he would accept and return in his service in 1516.
On 1513, Nunez de Balboa would call the ocean west of the Panama as South Sea or Mar del Sur.

A more glorious marriage
On 1511, Archduchess Margaret would make her third and final marriage which would nullify her final vow regarding not marrying again after her previous husband the duke of Savoy died many years ago and on the end of 1511, the marriage between Frederick, duke of Palatinate and Archduchess Margaret was solemnized by a priest and given dispensation, both Margaret and the Duke Palatinate would have the custody of the children of her brother and rule Netherlands and Austria as the regents and the marriage would produce a daughter named Margaret b. January 10, 1513 and a son named Frederick b. October 10, 1515, this is her last marriage and in this time she would have surviving children, her first child which was with the Prince of Asturias was stillborn.
On 1517, the marriage would be rocky due to Frederick of Palatinate a love affair with Eleanor of Austria and Eleanor of Austria marrying Manuel I would mean that the marriage would be fine for years but Eleanor’s return in 1522 after the death of Manuel I would ruin the marriage and Margaret would focus as the regent of the Netherlands, but Eleanor would marry in 1529 to Francis I due to the peace of the two ladies and Frederick and Margaret would be told to unite afterwards by their nephew, Charles V, on 1544, he would be the Elector Palatine as Frederick II and he would die in 1556 and Margaret would remain as regent of the Netherlands in 1560 up to her 80’s and chose to be buried in the church in Bourg en Bresse wherein her second husband was buried and her heart in Frederick II’s grave.


The Pearl of the Orient
On the later part of of 15th century Bruneians expanded from Palawan and took the Sulu Sultanate as a vassal and vassalized the chiefdoms of Kumintang and annexed the towns of Kota Saludong and Tundun which made them in conflict with the nobles of Saludong which made the Bruneians make a marriage between Dayang Panginoon and one of the Saludongese nobles.
It is said that the marriage of Dayang Panginoon islam came to the north but the entrance of Islam is said is to come from the marriage since Islam only became significant after that marriage and Muslims in Saludong would start to be have a majority in Faru, Binalatongan and Makabebe in the mid-16th century which would lead in the later formation of the Sultanate of Saludong.
Earlier before the conquest of Tundun and Kota Saludong the land of Saludong whose part is called as Sanfotsi by the Chinese fell into Majapahit influence after the marriage of Sasaban to the legendary emperor Solodan of Majapahit and solidified it after her sons came back to Saludong according to the oral histories.
Magindanaw is beginning to accept Islam, the islamic population would start to predominate in Lusung and Tundun which is under the scions of Borneans, Sharif Kabungsuwan would establish his own sultanate of Maguindanao which would start the spread of Islam in Mindanao.
In the area between Magindanaw, Sulu and Saludong and the area which are under Bruneian and Muslims are the Animist Buddhist Visayans who are hostile to proselytization of the Muslims in the south which is sponsored by Brunei.

The Epic of Sasaban and Epic of Kumintang
The Epic of Princess Sasaban which is the Epic known in Saludong and it is said on the Epic that in the late 13th century, Princess Sasaban known as Maginganay and Kanoyan in many sources married Emperor Solodan who is identified as Emperor Raden Wijaya, she had two suitors which includes the later Emperor Solodan but chosen Solodan as her own husband in the end and she would give birth to three sons named Bagtas, Mandukit and Dikyaw and her husband would be crowned an Emperor after their marriage.
The Epic of Kumintang would be about Datu Dumangsil and the story about Kumintang and about the three sons of Empress Sasaban; namely Bagtas, Mandukit and Dikyaw who arrived to Saludong after they were summoned by their father to their mother’s land.




Louis II of Hungary and Mohacs
Archduchess Mary of Austria travelled to Hungary in June 1521, two and a half years after Emperor Maximilian's death. She was anointed and crowned as queen of Hungary by Simon Erdody, Bishop of Zagreb and the royal marriage with Louis II of Hungary was blessed on the beginning of 1522 in Buda and the anointment and coronation of the Queen of Bohemia which took place in mid-1522, afterwards she is known as Mary of Hungary or Mary of Austria, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.
Mary and Louis fell in love when they were reunited in Buda and at first, Queen Mary had no influence in the politics of Hungary and her court was replete with Germans and Dutch.
During her term as queen she was interested in Martin Luther who dedicated four psalms to her in 1526, despite her brother, Ferdinand’s strong disapproval, she herself would be converted back to Catholicism later due to her brother and husband’s efforts.
Louis II of Hungary spent their free time riding and hunting in the open country near the palace and they tried to unsuccessfully mobilize the Hungarian nobility against an imminent Ottoman invasion. Louis had inherited a crown of a country whose noblemen were fighting among themselves and against the peasantry.
Louis II and Mary of Austria would be blessed with three children named;
Vladislaus b. October 2, 1523
Anne b. May 10, 1525
Louis b. November 15, 1530
Mary of Bohemia October 2, 1532
By the end of 1525, it became clear that the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I was planning to invade.
On the end of August 1526, Suleiman and his army broke through Hungary's southern defenses. Louis and his entire government marched with a small army of 20,000 men. The Battle of Mohacs was over in less than two hours, with the entire Hungarian army virtually Annihilated. Louis was able to successfully flee the site of the battle, however, large swathes of Hungary has been taken by the ottomans.
Mary of Austria would support Bona Sforza in her plans to attach Silesia to the Polish throne in exchange of Bari and Rossano, however this would result in Upper Silesia, which are Opole-Raciborz and Cieszyn passing to Polish suzerainty which gave the control of the Duchy of Opole-Raciborz to Poland due its reversion to Poland in 1530’s after the death of the last duke of Opole and Raciborz and gave the control of Poland to the roots of Vistula.
On 1532, the King Louis II of Hungary would die due to a disease leaving Hungary to a regency council headed by Mary of Austria for her son, Vladislaus III of Hungary.
The Divorce and the Daughters of Henry VIII
Since 1525, Henry VIII would be pressing for a divorce with his wife, Catherine of Aragon and since he himself is superstitious and believed that Catherine is the source of the bad luck and started to press a divorce with her.
On 1532, King Henry would divorce Catherine of Aragon however, Clement VII would not accept the divorce and despite that he would marry Anne Boleyn and declare supremacy, dissolve the monasteries and split from the Catholic Church and dissolve the monasteries in England the marriage with Anne Boleyn would result which would result in a daughter named Elizabeth of England in September 7, 1533 and in 1536, Anne was executed due to accusations of Adultery and married Jane Grey who gave birth to a son named Edward, Prince of Wales born in October 12, 1537 and he would not have another child afterwards and King Henry VIII would be content about the birth of a son, however the people brought in by Anne Boleyn would lead in Edward VI to be a protestant monarch, on 1540 in order to further the alliance between Spain and England and to avoid a French threat to the English, Princess Mary is betrothed to the widower Charles V, however, Charles V would give Mary to her son, Philip instead and Mary would embark to Brussels to marry her groom and the marriage would happen on 1542 after a long time of choosing a marriage for the Princess, since he would use it to strengthen his son’s claims and even had his son betrothed to Joanna of Spain since it is no longer possible for him to marry Christina of Denmark and even attempted to return his country to Catholicism by marrying Mary to the Prince of Asturias in 1542 which did happen and it would be his daughter who would restore Catholicism in England and allowed the monasteries to return and also a betrothal between Joanna of Spain and Edward VI.
After his death in 1549, his son Edward VI and his advisors and regents would briefly plunge England in the rule of the Protestants for a brief time and Catholics would be banned from key positions and also nullified his betrothal with Joanna of Spain and Henry VIII is also suspicious of the people that Anne put in in his court that he tried to remove them before his death in 1549 but he is not successful in that regard, the Protestants would reverse the last efforts of Henry VIII to restore the true faith to England bought by his marriage with Anne Boleyn.
Mary Tudor would have children with her husband, Philip, Prince of Asturias named Charles b. November 10, 1543, Philip b. June 10, 1545 and Isabella Clara Eugenia b. May 2, 1546, Catherine b, November 10, 1550 and another son named Ferdinand in May 10, 1553.

Proselytization
On 1540’s the Portuguese would start their plans in spreading Christianity to Japan due to Francis Xavier meeting Anjiro in 1549 and started the evangelization of Japan, after Francis Xavier left Japan in 1550's, Anjiro would be driven out into piracy and he would die in the sea, Christianity would be promoted by a handful of missionaries from Portugal who arrived in Japan via Macau, since the Christianity is a significant minority they would not influence the Japanese themselves and the Shoguns would not treat it as a threat even by 1570, and would not affect the policies of the emperor and the shogun, Christianity would be a substantial religion with only Nagasaki as the city with Christian majority by 1580’s.
On 1570, the Muslims have already completely converted the coastal and bay regions of Saludong except for the area of Sambals, this process has been going in decades since the first decades of the 16th century and the initial areas where islam became the only religion whose initial areas where in they are the majority are in the towns of Faru, Makabebe and Binalatongan in the early 16th century due to peace agreement with the Bruneians have made after the invasion of Tondo a couple of decades ago, in the 1580’s the Muslims would completely proselytize the regions of the lower banks of Matalag and Kayakayam which are the tributaries of River Kahayan or Bannag in the town of Piat and in upper reaches of Agno in Kaboloan to Islam and the Sultanate of Saludong is established with the center in Macabebe in the 1580’s and they would adopt the Jawi or Arabic Alphabet as their writing system.

Dorothea of Denmark’s claim to Denmark
Margaret of Austria and Frederick II of Palatinate’s son Frederick would marry Dorothea of Denmark in 1530 and get claims to Denmark while in the same time, Margaret of Palatinate, the daughter of Archduchess Margaret would be the second wife for the former constable bourbon due to Charles V not allowing a marriage between Eleanor of Austria and Constable Charles, who would die in 1547.
Dorothea and her son, Henry, as well as her sister, Christina, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine would continually claim Denmark and planned a betrothal of their children to the rulers of the Nordic countries, which would mainly fail.
The marriage of Margaret of Palatinate and the Exiled Constable Charles de Bourbon would produce these children;
Marie de Bourbon b. May 2, 1532 Vladislav III of Bohemia
Louis b. February 10, 1534 m. Jeanne d’Albret
Anne de Bourbon b. June 2, 1542 m. Alfonso II d’ Este
The marriage of Henry of Palatinate and Dorothea of Denmark would produce two children
Henry of Palatinate b. October 2, 1541 m. Lucrezia Maria d’Este
Helena of Palatinate b. 1550 m. Wladyslaw III of Poland

Jeanne III of Navarre
On 1541, Jeanne of Navarre would be forced in the altar with William, duke of Cleves to be married, however on 1545, the Duke of Cleves would divorce Princess Jeanne of Navarre who is against the marriage due to William, duke of Cleves and Charles V nullifying William’s alliance with France and returned to her father and the marriage was finally annulled in 1550 and the two would be free to marry, each to their own, the Duke of Cleves would remarry to Anna of Austria while Jeanne of Navarre would marry the young Louis de Bourbon, a son of Margaret of Palatinate and the Exiled Charles, Constable of Bourbon, the two would have two children named Henry b. December 13, 1553 and Catherine b. February 7, 1559, the marriage between Jeanne III of Navarre and Louis de Bourbon is said to be the plan of Charles V, the Holy Roman Emperor.
Jeanne of Navarre would inherit vast lands from her father, Henry II of Navarre in 1555 she would be the Queen of Navarre, Duchess of Albret, Countess of Limoges, Countess of Foix, Countess of Armagnac , Countess of Bigorre, Countess of Périgord , Co-Prince of Andorra.


Mary Longshanks
On 1553, Edward VI, the son of Henry VIII would die, and Henry would create a provision in the succession barring Mary from the succession and her catholic descendants from the English throne, favoring his second daughter Elizabeth, the problem was Elizabeth herself is considered a bastard by the other powers and it is Mary, Princess of Asturias who is the one that is recognized by the external powers who is the successor of Edward VI council would take over to decide who is his successor and they chose Mary over the choice of Edward VI of Jane Grey and the English Catholics would prefer Mary over Jane Grey since they loved the late Catherine of Aragon and the fact that Mary is the heir of Edward VI and Henry VIII not Jane Grey, when Mary landed in 1555 from Spain and assumed the rule of England and crowned as queen she would tie and burn her protestant enemies including Lady Jane Grey to the stake including the advisors and regents of her brother, Edward VI on his reign which would be a step to reverse the break of England from the Church of Rome, her successors are more successful since they would reap the fruits of her own labor.
On 1555, Charles V would abdicate leaving the Imperial crown, Netherlands, Burgundy and Austria to his brother, Ferdinand of Austria and Spain to his own son, Philip, he would leave and turn into religion now as a monk to rest for him moving in to Toledo as a monk, the death of Charles V’s mother Joanna would happen on 1552, the abdication of Charles V on 1555 would make the Prince of Asturias, Philip crowned as Philip II of Spain, Charles V would himself die on 1560.
Mary I would marry Elizabeth to someone of her choice which is Edward, duke of Guimaraes in Portugal since she would want Elizabeth to marry someone who is not harmful to her and banned protestants in high positions, however Elizabeth would die in childbirth with her only child in 1560 who died with her and the marriage would not result in any children and married her daughter Isabella Clara Eugenia to Archduke Ferdinand II and her daughter Catherine to be promised and later married to Karl-Frederick of Cleves-Julich-Berg to popularize her regime, her son Philip is chosen to succeed her after her death, the abdication of Charles V and Philip leaving would make Mary I in charge more of her Kingdom and on her death on 1559, Philip would be the regent for her son, Philip the Younger, initially during her term she would be known as the Bloody Mary by her detractors and later Mary Longshanks due to her pragmatic reputation and compared to Edward I of England who was a strong monarch as well.