Castille (Chaos)

== Start as IOTL ==
1230, Castile was united with Leon by the Holy. He also conquered Córdoba, Murcia, Jaén and Seville; thus, the Muslims were now reduced to . In 1257, was elected Roman king together with .
In 1276, fought Castile for reasons of succession, without success. 1291, Tarifa was conquered by Castile; and 1340, Castile and defeated the Moorish army together; this was the last time an Arab army landed on Iberian soil.
== Divergence since ~1350 ==
Soon after, in 1352, after sultan had missed to pay one tribute in time, Castile attacked and conquered the country. The last hold of the Muslims in Iberia had fallen, the Reconquista was over, now the began.
In 1360, unpopular king was deposed by his brother with English help. This was the start of English-Castilian friendship.
Castile continued to expand; 1363, they took over the Canaries, started to settle them in the following decades. In 1384, for not to be outdone by Portugal, which had recently conquered , Castile attacked , conquered Melilla and Tétouan.
1397/98, Iberia (except ) was struck by . The Jews had to suffer under pogroms ITTL too. Many had to flee from their places.
In 1414, under new king made an alliance with Castile and the , attacked France again - the had begun. But in 1421, France made a separate peace with the Netherlands, and now, the tides turned again: Storming the conquered cities with cannons and relying on their greater manpower, the French slowly drove the allied English and Castilians back.
== In Portugal and Morocco ==
In 1424, the , the Castilian estates, protested the high costs and low results of the war. King was sorry about it, but had to leave the war too. He had better things to do - interfering in the , where the sons of unpopular king fought against each other after his death. At the end, Pedro became new king of Portugal, and the two sons became princes of North and South Portugal respectively. By using this division, Castilian kings could keep Portugal under control, although they had to respect Portuguese rights. And to get rid of the mighty nobles in Castile, king Pedro III told them 1430 to go on a crusade to Morocco, which was subjugated during the next 20 years. This made some Moroccans start to flee South, to Mauretania or even .
1449, in Portugal a revolt against the rule of Castilian king started. But since the princes of North and South Portugal couldn't agree who should reign, Castile could impose its rule again in 1453 - although the king again had to swear to accept Portuguese rights.
== Fighting the ==
1466, the infamous happened. Castile-Portugal sent troops to Italy to fight for the pope. After lots of fighting, the Seljuks kept Latium, calling themselves from 1472 on "rulers of both Romes". Despite the fact that the sultan was disappointed how insignificant has become. The eastern parts of the Papal states became the Duchy/Protectorate of the , theoretically still under the pope, de facto under the Castilian duke of Alba.
1477, the king gave the who had lost their home in to the Seljuks, a new home in Granada.
== Discovering and ==
In 1481 the Portuguese discoverers went further south, came to . The income of the Portuguese crown doubled within short time; the money was divided in three between the two Portuguese princes and the Castilian king, however.
1492 (SCNR), a Castilian expedition (well, it was funded by the king, and some of his people were on the ship, but since the Portuguese insisted, the captain and all the sailors were Portuguese - Castilians weren't allowed to build caravels) crossed the Atlantic, made landfall in (which was named the same way ITTL), claimed it for Castile-Portugal. 1500, they also discovered on their third expedition to Atlantis and started to settle it. 1507, Castilians founded Veracruz at the site of OTL New Orleans, started exploring the Mississippi valley. In 1517, became a Castilian colony. 1518/19, the Castilians subjugated the first Maya cities, and 1520 a small Castilian expedition (a few dozen men) even met the Tenochca. They were defeated, However, no one returning. In 1523, they wanted to send an expedition to , but the ship from Cuba was destroyed in a hurricane, and until replacements were found, necessary time had passed, and the begun.
== The Quadruple and the ==
1497, king Pedro IV died without heir; Castile-Portugal was united with England- under , forming the . Under him, Castilian troops fought in the , without success however. Now and in the following centuries, many English (mostly merchants) immigrated to Castile, also to replace the Jews who had been evicted by him. English and Castilian nobles formed ties by marriages.
Now the king, influenced by his advisor , decided to break away from the pope in . He founded the "Occidental Christian church". From 1511-17, the Iberian peninsula went through almost Civil War-like conditions for this. Supporters and hesitating opponents of the king were rewarded with the property of his defeated enemies (including some church property), which helped him to succeed. King Edward was accepted as supreme spiritual authority. The had begun.
As a result, the Great Occidental War broke out, which also brought a lot of destruction to Castile. Although the war on land went well for the Quadruple monarchy, where the new Castilian tercios repeatedly defeated the French, their fleet was defeated in the big sea 1527. The fights in also weren't as promising as hoped. Uprisings in Morocco (1538-42) further distracted. And after it was secured in 1543, the insulted Quadruple king wanted to get rid of his opponent in Britain, , so he moved his troops not to Aquitaine, but Scotland. The Castilian (and Portuguese) troops weren't accustomed to the land and the climate, which weakened them (which could have been a reason for the final defeat in the war). In the 1547, Castile lost to Aragon.
== The ==
King Edward V, who was now reduced to the Triple Monarchy, had to resign in favor of his son Edward VI in 1549. Now, wounds could be healed and the countries rebuilt. Edward V's caesaropapism was scrapped in the reform , although the property of the church wasn't returned. In 1560, new king reordered his kingdoms - which also meant that he reunited the halves of Portugal under him as king, which would be important for Portugal that had been considered a part of Castile until then. Under him, the art of (o) reached its peak. In the , Castile could take revenge for the loss of , and got the and .
In Atlantis, Castile acquired the new colonies of and as a replacement for the Mississippi Valley lost to France. More important (for the money to be made with sugar), they also acquired a few small Caribbean islands. Although the colonial empire was smaller than that of OTL Spain, it was a more solid base and didn't destroy Castile's economy by gold-driven hyperinflation and the loss of many good men to the colonies.
, his successor, was even more successful and managed to acquire the southern half of Aragon for Castile, after dividing it in agreement with . During the , Castile also acquired and in the , now ruling a good part of North Africa.
Under king however, things went suddenly awry. In 1628, the Castilian nobles started rebelling against him, and he proved unable to either calm or defeat them. (One of the moments was that his marriage with a Castilian duchess went awry, she told her relatives, they told their friends ...). But since he still had some followers, and the nobles weren't in unison about who should reign now, the country was thrown into the (1628-34). France supported uprisings in Valencia and Portugal. The latter declared its independence under , former duke of , successfully and even managed to acquire Olivenca from Castile.
== Return as ==
Despite of all the chaos and the many factions, the new king (former duke of ) managed to defeat all enemies including the English army landed at Santander 1630, keep himself on the throne and also subdue the Aragonese rebels in Valencia. Morocco, however, stayed independent, under the former duke of .
== Back as Republic ==
Category:Spain (Chaos)