Matilda of Romagna

Matilda pondering her next divorce

Matilda of Romagna was the Duchess of Tuscany in Crusader Kings 3 before the invasion of The Doglian Republic. She was the mother of the third 100 Stat Man, King Mega Chad the Dane, and some believe her to be descended from the legendary Reanu Keeves, since that Immortal conquered CK3's sister realm of Crusader Kings 2 hundreds of years previously.

## Exploits and Accomplishments

Matilda's most notable Cheesy Exploit was the farming of infinite wealth and prestige by constantly divorcing and remarrying the same man, Waltard von Steutzlingen. She was planning to remarry different people, but Waltard kept the dog in the divorce proceedings and she was unwilling to part with it.

Matilda was not satisfied with her genius method of farming wealth and prestige, so she picked up a perk in the stewardship skill tree which allowed her to demand money for "hooks", or information that she could blackmail people with. Using this perk combined with a competent spymaster she was able to gain large quantities of wealth as well as become the rival of Duke Ernst of Austria. Soon afterward she gained the ability to make up a hook, which basically meant she could get money without actually having to find a real hook. Using this method, she was able to go to war with a neighboring duke over some land.

After two attempts on her life by Duke Ernst, Matilda decided to make his life as miserable as possible. She began by having him excommunicated, and tried to murder him on several occasions.

It was not long before Waltard was able to get some land of his own in northern Germany. Matilda was fine with this until she realized that while he was away he did not boost her stats. Angered, she divorced him for the last time and married Pietro, a normal landless person with whom she could never have children because (she discovered after the marriage) he was homosexual. Upset that she couldn't have children, she took a lover but they never had kids either. Mega Chad, firstborn of Waltard and Matilda, was the heir to his father's German land, so Matilda murdered her ex to let her son inherit that much faster.

After more wars for land, Matilda realized that she could steal the Kingdom of Romagna from its current holder, the pope, because she controlled more of its *de jure* land than he did. After she bought the kingdom with the pope's own money, the Emperor of the HRE, her liege, gave her all the vassals in Romagna that he could, making her a mighty queen.

Unfortunately after all these exploits Matilda died at the age of 53, leaving her kingdom in the capable hands of Mega Chad.

## Children

Matilda had numerous children with Waltard, the first and most notable of which was Mega Chad, the third 100 Stat Man. After him was her second son, Santa, and her daughter Sandy (which she thought a good, strong name). After Sandy was Pene, and his nickname was Pene Pasta. Her fifth child was completely not special, so she decided to name him after his grandfather, Bonifacio.

When Mega Chad came of age, Matilda married him to Henrike von Brunshorn because she had good inheritable traits that Matilda wanted for her grandchildren. She did similarly with Santa when he came of age. Sandy got married to the King of Croatia, solidifying the alliance between the two kingdoms. Pene Pasta was married to "some random Greek with good traits", and that marriage solidified yet another alliance. Matilda died before Bonifacio came of age unfortunately.