Savoy — Not random

Will happen within 180 days of January 2, 1430
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1431)
unless prevented by
Action A, B of 193023 - A General Statute of Laws for Italy

Description

In 1430 Amadeus VIII promulgated a general statute of laws for the entire duchy of Savoy that enforced a uniform code over the stenuous opposition of the towns and nobles.

Actions

A. Establish the Code of Laws

• -60 relations with France
• Centralization +1
• Aristocracy -1
• Mercantilism +1
• Innovativeness +1
• Gain bailiff in the capital province
• +1 base tax value in the capital province
• -20
• Stability -3
• Infrastructure tech investment: +100

B. Rely on local Custom

• -30 relations with France
• Serfdom +1
• Mercantilism -1
• Centralization -1
• Stability +1
• Trade tech investment: +50

Savoy — Not random

Will happen on November 5, 1439
unless prevented by
Action A of 193024 - The Last Anti-Pope for Italy

Description

In 1438 Pope Eugenius IV broke with the Council of Basel over negotiations with the Orthodox Church. The Pope called a new Council in Florence, while the council of Basel elected Duke Amadeus VIII of Savoy Pope even though he had never been ordained. He was recognized by very few states and his reign represented the last councilar challenge to papal supremacy in the Catholic church.

Actions

A. A pleasant surprise

• Break vassalization with France
• -50 relations with France
• +25 relations with Aragon
• Monarch's diplomatic skill +1 for 120 months
• Monarch's administrative skill -2 for 120 months
• -100 relations with Papal States
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Papal States for 120 months
• -50
• Stability +2
• +3 diplomats
• +2 missionaries

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Milan exists
• Event 228003 - The Ambrosian Republic for Milan has already occurred

Will happen within 35 days of August 16, 1447
Checked again every 35 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 8, 1454)
unless prevented by
Action B of 228050 - A pact with Savoy for Milan

Description

In 1447 Duke Filippo Maria Visconti died without a male heir in his succession to the throne. As a result of this the city of Milan proclaimed the Republic giving the high military command to Francesco Sforza on the purpose to stop Venice from the eastern borders profiting from the Milanese crisis by expanding her dominions beyond Adda River. After 2 years and half of life, isolated and surrounded by the unfaithful Sforza, who in the meanwhile and with the support of Venice turned against the city of Milan aiming at the ducal throne, the Ambrosian Republic eventually ceased to exist. Brought to severe famine the citizenship of Milan was forced to surrender to the condottiero and accept him as their new Duke. As soon as Sforza proclaimed himself successor of Visconti to the throne of Milan and the Holy Roman Emperor didn't acknowledge him the ducal investiture, the war of succession inevitably began. All legitimated or self-proclaimed claimants of the Milanese throne, took arms against him. Charles of Orléans and Louis of Savoy because of their family ties with the House of Visconti, Alfons of Aragon because of an alleged secret agreement with the last Visconti Duke which would have entitled him to the duchy of Milan.

Actions

A. Let us press our rightful claims to Milan

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Milan for 24 months
• -50 relations with Milan
• +50 relations with Naples
• +50 relations with Venice

B. The throne of Milan is not our business

• Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 24 months
• +50 relations with Milan

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Savoie
• Control Savoie

Will happen within 5000 days of January 2, 1450
Checked again every 5000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1520)

Description

The medieval Inquisition tried a large number of witches, but collective witch-hunting was exclusively a modern phenomena. Individual maleficium (Latin for witchcraft) was not uncommon in many rural areas, but it wasn't until scholastic demonology related witches and Sabbaths (night meetings with strong conspiracy elements, including cannibalism, orgies and a sacred oath of loyalty to Satan himself) that societies started to get obsessed with the matter. This conspiracy paranoia can track its roots as far as to the first massacres of Jews and Lepers in the High Middle Ages, when thousands were slaughtered by defeated Crusaders and angry countrymen. But it's in the early 15th century when demonological theories will become fully accepted by the upper classes. The Councils of Constance and Basel are considered to be the first public space in which these concepts, maleficium and Sabbath were publicly related. The work of Johannes Nider (1380-1438), The Formicarius (The Anthill), was a masterpiece of scholastic demonology and marked a new era in witch-hunting. The work of Heinrich Kramer (1430-1505), Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Wicked) was the first work that reaches widespread attention, and works as a inquisitorial manual for witch-hunters. But it's not the Church that tries the most in Modern Ages. On the contrary, civil courts are responsible for 85-90 percent of executions.

Northern Savoyard valleys were highly affected by witch-hunting, as their proximity to Switzerland (and consequently to both Councils) made the region highly influenced by Inquisitorial practices.

Actions

A. Burn the heretics!

• -100 population in Savoie
• -75 population in a random province
• Stability +1
• Global revolt risk -1 for 4 months

B. Be lenient with the misguided sheep

• Stability -1
• Global revolt risk +1 for 4 months

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Country is not at war

Will happen within 30 days of March 23, 1453
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 7, 1464)
unless prevented by
Action A, B of 193054 - The Holy Shroud for Italy

Description

It is believed to be the Jesus' burial shroud. The known provenance of this cloth dates to 1357, when the widow of the French knight Geoffroy de Charny had it displayed in a church at Lirey, France. During the fourteenth century, the Shroud was often publicly exposed, though not continuously, and also denounced as a fraud but indulgences for pilgrimages to see the Shroud were however prescribed by the Antipope Clement VII. In 1418, in order to provide protection against criminal bands the Lirey canons handed the Shroud over to Humbert of Villersexel, Marguerite of Charny's husband, who moved it to his castle at Montfort and later to Saint-Hippolyte-sur-Doubs, in his estates. After Humbert's death, his widow kept the Shroud in spite of claims of ownership by the canons of Lirey and travelled with it to various expositions, notably in Liège and Geneva. In 1453 in Geneva, she sold the image to Louis I of Savoy in exchange for a castle in Varambon. Louis of Savoy, the new owner, stored the Shroud in Chambéry in the newly-built Sainte Chapelle, which Pope Paul II shortly thereafter raised to the dignity of a collegiate church. In 1464, by an accord drawn up in Paris Louis I agreed to pay an annual fee to the Lirey canons in exchange for their dropping claims of ownership of the cloth. The accord specifically noted that the Shroud had been given to the church of Lirey by Geoffrey de Charny, lord of Savoisy and Lirey, and that it had then been transferred to Louis of Savoy by Marguerite de Charny. That agreement finally legitimated the House of Savoy to own the sacred 'Sindon'.

Actions

A. That's a deal!

• -50
• Innovativeness -1
• Aristocracy +1
• +100 relations with Papal States

B. Refuse the transaction!

• +25 relations with France
• -5 victory points
• Event 275012 - The Holy Shroud for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Venice exists
• Milan exists
• Tuscany exists
• Papal States exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 239022 - The Treaty of Lodi for Naples has already occurred
  • Event 111018 - The Treaty of Lodi for Aragon has already occurred
• Country is not at war

Will happen within 30 days of April 8, 1454
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after March 10, 1466)
unless prevented by
Action B of 111018 - The Treaty of Lodi for Aragon
Action B of 239022 - The Treaty of Lodi for Naples

Description

During the war of succession in Milan, all the belligerent nations were brought to exhaustion of money and troops. Francesco Sforza, ruler of Milan and Venice, the chief state of the league confederates, who was more and more threatened by the advancing Ottomans in her eastern Mediterranean territories, convened a cease-fire while a bilateral treaty was hastily signed in Lodi on 7 April 1454. With that treaty Sforza was legitimated Duke of Milan. Without even being called for, Florence and the Pope had no choice then to endorse the treaty. The King of Naples, being a rightful claimant on the ducal throne reluctantly joined the alliance under the condition to keep Genoa out of it. Intended 'infra terminos italicos', that treaty showed the objective impossibility for all the Italian major powers (specifically Milan, Tuscany, Venice, Naples and Papal States) to prevail upon each other in the struggle for the hegemony in Italy and that the better solution was to come to terms with each other. That would have also avoided the practice of very expensive and pointless wars in the next future. Although the treaty actually played a minor part in Italian balance of powers and so won't be able to avoid future wars of aggression from inside as well from outside Italy, the post-Lodi era historically represented a period of relative peace in which the figurative arts definitively flourished in the whole Italian peninsula, as well as economy and trade and, last but not the least, the skills and tricks of the art of diplomacy.

Actions

A. Yes, peace

• +50 relations with Venice
• +30 relations with Milan
• +75 relations with Tuscany
• +75 relations with Papal States
• +3 diplomats
• +2 merchants

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Burgundy exists
• France exists

Will happen within 150 days of June 2, 1472
Checked again every 150 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after June 2, 1473)
unless prevented by
Action A of 193025 - Civil War for Italy

Description

When Duke Amédée IX died in 1472 the successor to the throne, his son Philibert, was still a minor. Thus his wife Yolande de France, Charles VII's daughter, took the regency until Philibert's majority. Since Yolande dind't want to confirm the traditional alliance with the Swiss confederates, she decided to side with Charles le Téméraire, Duke of Burgundy. Her decision so displeased his brother Louis XI of France, Charles's archenemy, that, in order to overthrow her regency, he supported Amédée IX's brother, Philippe de Bresse. The war that followed between the Burgundians and the Swiss, the latter with the support of French and Milanese troops brought to the loss of Valais territories in favour of the Swiss confederation. The internal struggle between local nobles that broke out following the war was eventually ended by Philippe de Bresse who proclaimed himself protector of Duke Philibert 'the Hunter' until the Duke's death, which occurred in 1482.

Actions

A. Oh no!

• Break vassalization with France
• +25 relations with Burgundy
• -75 relations with France
• -25 relations with Switzerland
• -25 relations with Milan
• A random province revolts
• Global revolt risk +5 for 48 months
• Stability -1
• Aristocracy +1

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 220023 - Inheritance of Montferrat for Mantua has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Mantua exists
• Savoy owns Mantua

Will happen within 360 days of August 12, 1533
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

With the end of Mantua as an independent state we can seperate our administration of Montferrat from our administration of Mantua. Should we add Montferrat to Piemonte, or continue to control it through Mantua?

Actions

A. Add to Piemonte

• Stability +2
• +4 base tax value in Piemonte
• +2 base manpower in Piemonte
• -5 base tax value in Mantua
• -1 base manpower in Mantua
• Centralization +1

B. Administer through Mantua

• Centralization -2

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 17406 - Charles V's Mercenary Army Sacks Rome for Papal States has already occurred
• Event 338496 - Swiss expansion for Savoie has already occurred
• Own Savoie

Will happen within 600 days of January 2, 1534
Checked again every 600 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1540)

Description

With the turmoil in Italy Savoy was powerless to prevent Geneva from declaring its independence and making it effective.

Actions

A. Alas!

• -5000 population in Savoie
• -1 base manpower in Savoie
• -1 base tax value in Savoie
• Stability -2

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Savoie
• Control Savoie

Will happen within 20 days of August 13, 1559
Checked again every 20 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 11, 1560)

Description

The Senate of Savoy, successor of the Assembly of Counts founded in 1329, becomes a true constitutional and legislative assembly with expertise on all ducal domains on french side of the Alps. The Senate of Savoy is sovereign: the first president (chosen by the Prince from amongst the senators) governed the duchy in the absence of the Prince's representative.

Actions

A. Support the Senate

• Infrastructure tech investment: +200
• -50

B. I prefer a nobleman

• Infrastructure tech investment: -200
• +3000 cavalry in a random province

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • France and Savoy are at war
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 285112 - The Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis for Spain has already occurred
  • Event 170021 - The Independence of Savoy for France has already occurred
  • Event 285098 - The Independence of Savoy for Spain has already occurred

Will happen within 90 days of October 21, 1560
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after October 21, 1575)

Description

Emmanuel-Philibert of the House of Savoy, also known as Tête de Fer, served in Charles's army during the war against François Ier of France, distinguishing himself by capturing Hesdin in July 1553. A month later, he became duke of Savoy on the death of his father, but this was a nearly empty honor, as the vast majority of his hereditary lands had been occupied and administered by the French since 1536. Instead, he continued to serve the Habsburgs in hopes of recovering his lands, and served Philip II as lieutenant general in Flanders. In this capacity he personally led the Spanish invasion of northern France and won a brilliant victory at Saint-Quentin on 10 August 1557. With the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis between France and Spain, the duchy was restored to Emmanuel-Philibert, who then married Margaret of Valois, sister of Henry II of France.

Actions

A. At last!

• Break vassalization with France
• Break vassalization with Spain
• Stability +3
• Gain a royal marriage with France
• -50 relations with France

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Country is not at war

Will happen within 360 days of January 2, 1562
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1580)
unless prevented by
Action A of 193028 - Reforms of Emmanuel-Philibert for Italy

Description

Emmanuel-Philibert succeeded to the ducal throne while all his territories were under French occupation. He served as a general in the Emperor's army with great success and his territories were returned to him at the peace closing the Italian wars. He consolidated his power and swept away many of the traditional governing structures of the state, he organized a national army based on conscripts and a new innovative tax system which permitted to take the census in the duchy. In 1562 he introduced Italian as the official language to be adopted in ducal administration and legislation and in the judicial system, so replacing Latin with a more comprehensible language to the population.

Actions

A. Reform the government

• Gain bailiff in a random province
• Centralization +3
• Aristocracy -1
• Innovativeness +1
• Mercantilism +1
• Land tech investment: +600
• Infrastructure tech investment: +250

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Piemonte
• Control Piemonte

Will happen within 180 days of August 9, 1562
Checked again every 180 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after August 9, 1580)

Description

In 1562 Duke Emmanuel-Philibert decided to move capital from Chambéry to Torino because he wanted to expand his Duchy in Italy and also gain more independence from France. Torino was fortified and became a larger and richer city.

Actions

A. Yes! Move to Torino

• Move capital to Piemonte
• +3000 population in Piemonte
• Fortress level in Piemonte +1
• +1 base tax value in Piemonte
• -1 base tax value in Savoie
• -50 relations with France

B. No. No need to move our court

• -5 victory points
• Infrastructure tech investment: -50

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Savoie
• Control Savoie

Will happen within 5000 days of January 2, 1570
Checked again every 5000 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1650)

Description

The medieval Inquisition tried a large number of witches, but collective witch-hunting was exclusively a modern phenomena. Individual maleficium (Latin for witchcraft) was not uncommon in many rural areas, but it wasn't until scholastic demonology related witches and Sabbaths (night meetings with strong conspiracy elements, including cannibalism, orgies and a sacred oath of loyalty to Satan himself) that societies started to get obsessed with the matter. This conspiracy paranoia can track its roots as far as to the first massacres of Jews and Lepers in the High Middle Ages, when thousands were slaughtered by defeated Crusaders and angry countrymen. But it's in the early 15th century when demonological theories will become fully accepted by the upper classes. The Councils of Constance and Basel are considered to be the first public space in which these concepts, maleficium and Sabbath were publicly related. The work of Johannes Nider (1380-1438), The Formicarius (The Anthill), was a masterpiece of scholastic demonology and marked a new era in witch-hunting. The work of Heinrich Kramer (1430-1505), Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of the Wicked) was the first work that reaches widespread attention, and works as a inquisitorial manual for witch-hunters. But it's not the Church that tries the most in Modern Ages. On the contrary, civil courts are responsible for 85-90 percent of executions.

Northern Savoyard valleys were highly affected by witch-hunting, as their proximity to Switzerland (and consequently to both Councils) made the region highly influenced by Inquisitorial practices.

Actions

A. Burn the heretics!

• -100 population in Savoie
• -75 population in a random province
• Stability +1
• Global revolt risk -1 for 4 months

B. Be lenient with the misguided sheep

• Stability -1
• Global revolt risk +1 for 4 months

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Ottoman Empire exists
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3549 - The Holy League for Papal States has already occurred
  • Event 236000 - The Holy League for The Pope has already occurred

Will happen within 30 days of May 8, 1571
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 14, 1573)

Description

When in 1570 the Turks sent an ultimatum to Venice asking for the ceding of Cyprus and then invaded the island after the Republic of San Marco failed to respond, a great uproar was created in the Catholic world by the facts and rumors of Ottoman atrocities in the last Christian bastion of the eastern Mediterranean. After a first failure in the summer of 1570, Pope Pius V managed to convince major Catholic nations (except France) to join a Holy League against the heathens Turks, and it was proclaimed in May 1571. The League would lead to the great naval victory of Don Juan on the Turks at Lepanto, but would not outlast this first and final triumph. Selim II is rumored to have said, after the news he had lost 200 galleys at Lepanto: At Lepanto, the Christians have shaved me. At Cyprus, I cut their arm. My beard will grow again.

Actions

A. Support the Holy League

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Ottoman Empire for 72 months
• -150 relations with Ottoman Empire
• +50 relations with Papal States
• +50 relations with France
• +50 relations with Genoa
• +50 relations with Italy
• +50 relations with Order of St. John
• +50 relations with Naples
• +50 relations with Sicily
• +50 relations with Spain
• +50 relations with Tuscany
• +50 relations with Venice

B. Let the matter fall

• +50 relations with Ottoman Empire
• -50 relations with Papal States
• -50 relations with France
• -50 relations with Genoa
• -50 relations with Italy
• -50 relations with Order of St. John
• -50 relations with Naples
• -50 relations with Sicily
• -50 relations with Spain
• -50 relations with Tuscany
• -50 relations with Venice

Savoy — Not random

Will happen on January 2, 1573
unless prevented by
Action A of 193032 - The Order of Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro for Italy

Description

In 1573 Savoy established the Order of the Knights of Santi Maurizio e Lazzaro, in emulation of the success of the Knights of St. John in Malta. The knights maintained a handful of galleys, in principle to protect the Savoyard coast from Turkish raiders. As the Savoyard coast was very small, in practice they rented their services to Spain and engaged in piracy against both Muslim merchants and the occasional Venetian merchants.

Actions

A. Alright

• +20 relations with Spain
• -20 relations with Ottoman Empire
• Naval tech investment: +50

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• The following must not occur:
  • Innovativeness is at 4 or higher

Will happen within 300 days of December 25, 1596
Checked again every 300 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1621)

Description

Francis Bonaventure was born on August 21st, 1567, at the castle of Sales in Savoy. His father was lord of Nouvelles and (by his marriage) of Boisy, as the eldest son of a prominent nobleman, he was destined, by a father proud of his nobility, for a career in the world and a seat in the senate of Savoy. From 1586 to 1591 he attended the University of Padua to study law and left after taking the Doctor's degree. But his vocation was now clear, though only to himself. He surmounted with quiet, firm dignity the inevitable clash with his father. He was ordained priest on May 13th, 1593, becoming a senior canon of the chapter of Geneva. Francis's great work was to show how ordinary life can be sanctified - every type of ordinary life, but especially that of busy, well-to-do people. Constantly journeying and preaching, without pomp or fuss he gradually drew the entire diocese into the intimate habitude of his own holiness.

Actions

A. He is a holy man

• +5 victory points
• +1 missionaries
• +50 relations with Papal States

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 17414 - Genevan Independence for Savoy has already occurred

Will happen on December 12, 1602

Description

In 1602 Charles Emmanuel I attempted to recover the city of Genva for Savoy by guile. Secretly, overnight, in the depth of winter, he tried to infiltrate an army into the city. The Genvan citizens woke after the main gate had already been seized, but managed to fight off the attackers. The attack is re-enacted annually by the citizens of Geneva to this day. The attack on one of the centers of Calvinism aroused suspicions in the protestant world, but all evidence suggests that it was made for dynastic rather then ecumenical reasons.

Actions

A. Curses, Foiled Again!

• -50 relations with Switzerland
• -50 relations with Palatinate
• -50 relations with Scotland
• -50 relations with Netherlands
• -50 relations with Hesse
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -3 for 18 months
• Infrastructure tech investment: -200
• Savoie revolts

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Piemonte
• Event 338232 - The plague in Milan for Lombardia has already occurred

Will happen within 120 days of June 11, 1632
Checked again every 120 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after June 11, 1670)

Description

The Spanish hegemony in the Italian peninsula was exercised by means of heavy bureaucracy and harsh taxation directly in the Habsburg dominions of Milan and Naples and indirectly in the rest of the peninsula by forcing the other minor Italian states to respect Spanish economic and diplomatic directives. The vassalage to Spain, which granted to some extent an enduring peace in Italy afer the Italian Wars, which the historians would call 'the pax hispanica', together with the disuse of the Mediterranean sea as international trade route towards the East Indies brought the Italian economic system to eventually collapse. As a result of this agriculture will become the prevailing economic activity in Italy until the end of XIXth century. That meant the coming back to power of the landowning aristocracy.

Actions

A. We hope for better times!

• Stability -2
• Aristocracy +1
• Innovativeness -1
• Mercantilism +1
• Serfdom +1
• Land +1
• -2000 population in Piemonte
• -1 base tax value in Piemonte
• -1 base manpower in Piemonte
• Trade tech investment: -500
• Infrastructure tech investment: -500
• Naval tech investment: -500

Savoy — Not random

Will happen within 60 days of October 5, 1638
Checked again every 60 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after June 15, 1642)
unless prevented by
Action A of 193026 - Civil Wars for Italy

Description

The regency of Charles Emmanuel II was in the hands of his mother. Despite her French origins she resisted French attempts to determine policy for Savoy. However, her brothers-in-law sought the help of Spain to oust her from the regency and she was forced to accept French aid in the civil wars that followed.

Actions

A. What can we do?

• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +4 for 60 months
• Monarch's administrative skill -2 for 60 months
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 60 months
• Monarch's military skill -2 for 60 months
• +50 relations with France

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• None of the following must occur:
  • Country has at least 10 non-colonial provinces
  • Innovativeness is at 9 or higher
  • Serfdom is at 3 or higher
  • Aristocracy is at 1 or higher
  • Event 338232 - The plague in Milan for Lombardia has already occurred

Will happen within 60 days of January 21, 1675
Checked again every 60 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 1, 1715)

Description

In the late XVIIth century, the disuse of the Mediterranean sea as the main international trade junction between Europa and the East Indies brought the Italian economic system to collapse. Italy became more removed from the mainstream of European development and each local administration along the peninsula lagged behind that of any other European contemporary. The practice of agriculture as prevailing economic activity meant the coming back to power of the most conservative landowning aristocracy. That economic backwardness associated with the effects of Counterreform deeply affected Italian social life too, now less and less inclined to accept innovation and to develop some entrepreneurial attitude.

Actions

A. Alas!

• Stability -1
• -2 base tax value in the capital province
• -1 base manpower in the capital province
• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Innovativeness -1
• Mercantilism +1
• Serfdom +1
• Land +1
• Trade tech investment: -500
• Infrastructure tech investment: -500
• Naval tech investment: -500

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Sardinia
• The following must not occur:
  • Event 17423 - The Kingdom of Sicily for Savoy has already occurred

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1680
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

With the acquisition of the island of Sardinia the Dukes of Savoy achieved a longstanding goal: the right to be called 'King'. This dramatically enhanced the diplomatic standing of their state.

Actions

A. Excellent!

• Monarch's diplomatic skill +1 for 60 months
• +1000 population in the capital province
• +1 base manpower in the capital province
• +6 diplomats
• Sardinia will be considered a national province
• italian will become an accepted culture

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Sicily
• Own Sardinia
• The following must not occur:
  • Event 17422 - The Kingdom of Sardinia for Savoy has already occurred

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1680
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

With the acquisition of the island of Sicily the Dukes of Savoy achieved a longstanding goal: the right to be called 'King'. This dramatically enhanced the diplomatic standing of their state.

Actions

A. Excellent!

• Monarch's diplomatic skill +1 for 60 months
• +1000 population in the capital province
• +1 base manpower in the capital province
• +6 diplomats
• italian will become an accepted culture

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Piemonte
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 3509 - Protestants expelled from France for Netherlands has already occurred
  • Event 3521 - Protestants expelled from France for Brandenburg has already occurred
  • Event 20309 - Protestants expelled from France for Switzerland has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Savoy and France are at war
• The following must not occur:
  • Savoy and England are at war
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is catholic
  • State religion is counterreform

Will happen within 30 days of February 2, 1681
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after February 2, 1688)
unless prevented by
Action B of 3128 - Protestants expelled from France for France

Description

The Vaudois were an small religious group whose origins stretch back to the teachings of a Peter Waldo in the late 12th century. They were declared heretical in 1184. Most were killed or converted in the persecution that followed, but strong communities persisted in the valleys between the Dauphine and Piemonte. In 1532 their leaders met with representatives of Jean Calvin from Geneva and their faith was reconciled with Calvinism. In France they participated in the Huguenot 'state within a state', and contacts with their co-religionists in Piemonte were strong. When Louis XIV expelled the Protestants from France, many sought refuge with the Piedmontese Vaudois just across the French border. Louis demanded that Savoy expel the Vaudois, and Vittorio Amedeo II reluctantly complied. The Vaudois under Henri Arnaud went to Switzerland, but never forgot the valleys that they had inhabited for 500 years. Many of their children were distributed among Catholic households and institutions to be brought up as Catholics.

Actions

A. Expel the Vaudois

• +30 relations with France
• -25 relations with Netherlands
• -10 relations with England
• -10 relations with Switzerland
• +20 relations with Papal States
• Innovativeness -1
• Stability +1
• Global revolt risk +3 for 6 months
• -1000 population in Piemonte
• -1 base manpower in Piemonte
• Event 17428 - Savoy allies with us for France is triggered immediately
• Event 17429 - Savoy defies us for France will never fire

B. Defy the French

• -25 relations with France
• +25 relations with Netherlands
• +10 relations with England

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Piemonte
• Event 17428 - Savoy allies with us for France has already occurred
• Event 3033 - Personal union with Holland for England has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Event 17429 - Savoy defies us for France has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Savoy and England are at war
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • State religion is catholic
  • State religion is counterreform

Will happen within 5 days of January 2, 1688
Checked again every 5 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1690)

Description

In the summer of 1689, taking advantage of the crisis in Britain and with the support of Dutch and English protestants Henri Arnaud led a group of Vaudois exiles from Switzerland into Savoy. They fought their way back to their valleys. Vittorio Amedeo II called for support from the French and mobilized his forces to expel the Vaudois, while the protestant powers prepared an expedition to support them, and raise the Huguenots in France. Faced with this threat to his state, and the French demand that he hand over several important fortresses, Vittorio Amedeo II abandoned his alliance with France and went to war as an ally of England and Holland. In return for their support Savoy agreed to give full toleration to the Vaudois, and and to allow them to accept protestant refugees. The Vaudois returned from Switzerland, and made up an important part of Savoy's armies in the wars that followed.

Actions

A. They can return

• -20 relations with Papal States
• -50 relations with France
• +100 relations with Netherlands
• +100 relations with Switzerland
• Innovativeness +1
• Stability -1
• +1000 population in Piemonte
• +2 base manpower in Piemonte
• +50
• +4 national manpower
• +6000 infantry in Piemonte
• Event 17433 - Savoy joins our alliance for England is triggered immediately
• Event 17430 - Savoy betrays our alliance for France is triggered immediately

B. We will fight them

• +25 relations with France
• -100 relations with Netherlands
• -100 relations with England
• Gain a temporary casus belli against England for 6 months
• Piemonte revolts
• Piemonte revolts
• Event 17431 - Savoy seeks our protection for France is triggered immediately

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Country is not at war
• Event 275011 - The Holy Shroud for Savoy has already occurred
• Own Piemonte

Will happen within 300 days of June 2, 1694
Checked again every 300 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)
unless prevented by
Action B of 275011 - The Holy Shroud for Savoy
Action A, B of 193054 - The Holy Shroud for Italy
Action A of 193055 - The Holy Shroud for Italy

Description

Louis I of Savoy acquired the cloth, believed to be the Jesus' burial shroud, from Geoffroy de Charny's grand-daughter Marguerite in 1453 in Geneva in exchange for a castle in Varambon, France. He then stored the Shroud in Chambery in the newly-built Sainte Chapelle which the Pope Paul II shortly thereafter raised to the dignity of a collegiate church. Beginning in 1471, the Shroud was moved between many cities of Savoy and Piedmont and also housed there briefly. In 1532 the Shroud suffered damage from a fire in the chapel where it was stored in Chambéry. A drop of molten silver from the reliquary produced a symmetrically-placed mark through the layers of the folded cloth. Chambéry's poor Clare Nuns attempted to repair this damage with patches. In 1578, after having been continuously transferred from one place to another for protection against war devastations, the Shroud arrived at last to its final destination, the Cathedral of Turin. Since then the Shroud was frequently carried out in religious processions and also brought in public exhibitions as well as in private showings only for the most notable people. Turin became an important centre of Christian pilgrimage.

Actions

A. Pilgrims are welcome!

• +250
• Infrastructure tech investment: +250
• +100 relations with Papal States

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • All of the following must occur:
    • Event 186050 - The Grand Alliance for Netherlands has already occurred
    • At least one of the following must occur:
      • Event 164015 - The Grand Alliance for England has already occurred
      • Event 164099 - The Grand Alliance for England has already occurred
  • All of the following must occur:
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Netherlands exists
      • Event 186050 - The Grand Alliance for Netherlands has already occurred
    • At least one of the following must occur:
      • Event 164015 - The Grand Alliance for England has already occurred
      • Event 164099 - The Grand Alliance for England has already occurred

Will happen on February 2, 1703

Description

When Carlos II of Spain died childless, he bequeathed the crown of Spain in favour of Philip of Anjou, grandson of Louis XIV of France. Emperor Leopold I of Austria contested this will, but found little support. However, two years later, Louis expansionism had convinced England and the Netherlands to enter an alliance against France and Spain. Savoy had initial agreements with France, but in 1703 the Grand Duke of Savoy decided to join the Grand Alliance, and have a go at the Spanish possessions in Italy in hopes of securing a slice of Milan.

Actions

A. Support Habsburg succession to the Spanish throne

• Sardinia will be considered a national province
• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 120 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 120 months
• -75 relations with Spain
• -75 relations with France
• +150 relations with Austria
• +75 relations with Netherlands
• +75 relations with England

B. We don't care who inherits Spain

• +25 relations with Spain
• +25 relations with France
• -75 relations with Austria
• -25 relations with Netherlands
• -25 relations with England

Savoy — Not random

Will happen within 30 days of January 2, 1717
Checked again every 30 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1718)
unless prevented by
Action A, B of 193030 - The Absolutist Reforms of Vittorio Amedeo II for Italy

Description

After the War of Spanish Succession Vittorio Amedeo II overhauled the administration of the Savoyard state along absolutist lines. He centralized power in Turin, reduced the independence of the judiciary, established a diplomatic network of embassies in major capitals, created a navy and a militia and placed the states finances on a more solid basis. These reforms laid the foundation from which the further expansion of Savoy in the eighteenth century.

Actions

A. Enact absolutist reforms

• Aristocracy -2
• Centralization +2
• Innovativeness +1
• Quality -1
• Stability -1
• Naval tech investment: +300
• +1 base manpower in the capital province
• +3 diplomats

B. Maintain the present system

• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Event 17419 - The Reforms of Carlo Emanuele III for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Will happen within 90 days of January 2, 1731
Checked again every 90 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after January 2, 1732)
unless prevented by
Action B of 193030 - The Absolutist Reforms of Vittorio Amedeo II for Italy
Action A, B of 193031 - The Reforms of Carlo Emanuele III for Italy
Action B of 17418 - The Absolutist Reforms of Vittorio Amedeo II for Savoy

Description

Upon his ascension Carlo Emanuele III oversaw the finalization of a land register enumerating all the property in the state. This survey was the first of its kind in Europe. It ended manorial and clerical privileges, and allowed Charles Emmanuel to build a very effective bureaucracy to administer his father's reforms. Savoy was the model of the 'well-administered state', and tax revenues soared. During his reign Savoy had the most effective army it would have until the mid-19th century, winning notable successes in the Polish War of Succession and the Austrian War of Succession.

Actions

A. More reforms

• Aristocracy -1
• Centralization +1
• Innovativeness +1
• Quality -1
• Offensive Doctrine -2
• Land +2
• +1 base tax value in the capital province
• +1 base tax value in a random province
• Monarch's administrative skill +1 for 120 months
• Infrastructure tech investment: +500
• Land tech investment: +500

B. Maintain the present system

• Fortress level in a random province +1
• Aristocracy +1
• Centralization -1
• Stability +2

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 3136 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for France has already occurred

Will happen within 10 days of September 14, 1733
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 30, 1733)
unless prevented by
Action B of 3626 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony
Action B of 3628 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony
Action B of 273017 - The Polish Succession of 1733 for Saxony

Description

In 1733, the death of August II prompted a new election for the Polish monarch. Due to the permanent practice of Liberum Veto and the ensuing constant bribery, the Polish Sejm was unable to agree between the French Candidate, Stanislaw Leszczynski and his opponent, August III of Saxony, supported by Austria and Russia. The Sejm finally agreed on Stanislas, but this was rejected by Austria and Russia starting the war of Polish Succession. The war ended with August III on the Polish throne. Following her traditional policy of expansionism in the Po Valley, Savoy tried to benefit from the disputes between France and Austria.

Actions

A. Support the candidate of the Bourbons

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 24 months
• +75 relations with Poland
• -100 relations with Russia
• -100 relations with Austria
• -100 relations with Saxony
• +75 relations with Prussia
• +75 relations with Sweden
• +50 relations with France
• +50 relations with Spain

B. Support the candidate of the Habsburgs

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 24 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 24 months
• +50 relations with Poland
• +75 relations with Russia
• +75 relations with Saxony
• +75 relations with Austria
• -150 relations with France
• -150 relations with Prussia
• -150 relations with Sweden
• -150 relations with Spain

C. Stay out of it

• +25 relations with Poland
• +25 relations with Russia
• +25 relations with Saxony
• +25 relations with Austria
• +25 relations with France
• +25 relations with Prussia
• +25 relations with Sweden
• +25 relations with Spain

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Austria exists
• Event 3138 - The Effects of the Pragmatic Sanction for France has already occurred

Will happen within 10 days of September 2, 1742
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 2, 1746)
unless prevented by
Action B, C of 3138 - The Effects of the Pragmatic Sanction for France

Description

The Pragmatic Sanction, solemnly rendered by Emperor Charles VI on 19th April 1713, established the indivisibility of the Habsburg patrimony, and ruled the order of succession by order of first born child, even to a woman. This made Maria-Theresa, born in 1717, the heir of the Empire. The Pragmatic Sanction was recognized by Spain in 1725 (confirmed in 1731), Russia in 1726, Prussia in 1728, the United Provinces in 1731, Hanover in 1732, the Holy Roman Empire (except Bavaria) in 1732 and France in 1738 only. Bavarian refusal would lead to the War of the Austrian Succession. Following her traditional policy of expansionism in the Po Valley, Savoy tried to benefit from the disputes between France and Austria.

Actions

A. Pro-Habsburg

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Spain for 36 months
• -150 relations with Bavaria
• -150 relations with Saxony
• -150 relations with Prussia
• -150 relations with France
• -150 relations with Spain
• +50 relations with Netherlands
• +50 relations with England
• +50 relations with Hesse
• +50 relations with Hanover
• +75 relations with Austria
• Stability -1

B. Neutral

• +20 relations with Bavaria
• +20 relations with Saxony
• +20 relations with Prussia
• +20 relations with France
• +20 relations with Spain
• +20 relations with England
• +20 relations with Netherlands
• +20 relations with Russia
• +20 relations with Hesse
• +20 relations with Hanover
• +20 relations with Austria
• +20 relations with Sweden
• Stability +1
• Event 275031 - Sardinian intervention in Corsica for Savoy will never fire

C. Anti-Habsburg

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Austria for 12 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against England for 12 months
• +75 relations with Bavaria
• +75 relations with Saxony
• +75 relations with Prussia
• +50 relations with France
• +50 relations with Spain
• -100 relations with Netherlands
• -100 relations with England
• -100 relations with Hesse
• -100 relations with Hanover
• -150 relations with Austria
• Stability -1
• Event 275031 - Sardinian intervention in Corsica for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 275026 - The Effects of the Pragmatic Sanction for Savoy has already occurred
• Own Sardinia
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • At least one of the following must occur:
    • Event 174076 - Ghjacintu Paoli for Genoa has already occurred
    • Event 174077 - Theodor von Neuhoff, King of Corsica for Genoa has already occurred
  • All of the following must occur:
    • Event 174070 - The revolt spreads like a wildfire for Genoa has already occurred
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Event 174074 - The Concessioni Graziose for Genoa has already occurred
      • Event 174075 - Granting concessions in Corsica for Genoa has already occurred
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Corsica and Genoa are at war
  • Genoa owns Corsica
• None of the following must occur:
  • Savoy and Genoa are allied
  • Genoa is a vassal of Savoy
  • Savoy is a vassal of Genoa
  • Corsica and Savoy are at war

Will happen within 10 days of October 2, 1745
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after April 11, 1748)
unless prevented by
Action B, C of 275026 - The Effects of the Pragmatic Sanction for Savoy

Description

On 2th october 1745, King Carlo-Emmanuel III of Sardinia made a proclamation promising assistance and protection to the Corsican people against Genoese oppression. One month later, Dumenicu Rivarola, a Corsican officer serving in the Sardinian army landed with a few hundred men in early november and Bastia was taken on the 22th with the joined forces of the Corsican local leaders: Ghjuvan Petru Gaffori and Aleriu Francescu Matra. Dissenssions soon arose between the three men and despite the reinforcements landing in the Spring of 1748, the conquest of the island could not be achieved. Once more the Corsicans were the victims of international treaties signed above their heads at Aix-la-Chapelle, and the Sardinian forces had to leave the island before the end of the year.

Actions

A. Send Dumenicu Rivarola

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Genoa for 36 months
• Lose 3000 troops in a random province
• -50
• Event 174084 - Sardinian intervention in Corsica for Genoa is triggered immediately
• Event 150013 - Sardinian intervention for Corsica is triggered immediately

B. We cannot afford that

• +25 relations with Genoa
• Event 170241 - French intervention in Corsica for France will never fire
• Event 275032 - Taking hold of Corsica for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Event 275031 - Sardinian intervention in Corsica for Savoy has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Genoa and Savoy are at war
• At least one of the following must occur:
  • All of the following must occur:
    • Corsica exists
    • None of the following must occur:
      • Corsica and Genoa are at war
      • Corsica and Savoy are at war
  • All of the following must occur:
    • Own Corsica
    • Control Corsica

Will happen within 10 days of November 22, 1745
Checked again every 10 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after November 17, 1748)
unless prevented by
Action B of 275031 - Sardinian intervention in Corsica for Savoy

Description

Our troops in the island have managed to expel the Genoese and Corsica is all ours. Shall we hold our promise to the rebel leaders and let them organize their own institutions under our protection, or should we take direct control?

Actions

A. Grant them some autonomy

• Grant independence to Corsica
• Gain Corsica as vassals
• Centralization -1
• -100 relations with Genoa
• -50 relations with France

B. Seize the opportunity

• Inherit the realms of Corsica
• -200
• Land -1
• Corsica will be considered a national province
• +1 base tax value in Corsica
• Gain bailiff in Corsica
• -200 relations with Genoa
• -100 relations with France
• +5 badboy

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Savoie

Will happen within 100 days of August 9, 1786
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

In 1786, two Savoyards, Jacques Balmat and Michel Paccard, were the first to reach Mont Blanc's top.

Actions

A. Mont Blanc is overcome!

• Infrastructure tech investment: +10

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Sardinia
• Control Sardinia
• None of the following must occur:
  • Control Savoie
  • Control Piemonte
• The following must not occur:
  • Event 17423 - The Kingdom of Sicily for Savoy has already occurred

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1790
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

Our capital has fallen to our enemies. Should we move the government to Sardinia?

Actions

A. Flee to Sardinia!

• Move capital to Sardinia
• Sardinia will be considered a national province
• Fortress level in Sardinia +1
• +2000 population in Sardinia
• Stability -2
• Centralization -1
• Mercantilism -2

B. Stay on the mainland

• Stability +1
• Centralization +1
• Event 17426 - Return to Italy for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• Own Sicily
• Control Sicily
• None of the following must occur:
  • Control Savoie
  • Control Piemonte
• Event 17423 - The Kingdom of Sicily for Savoy has already occurred
• The following must not occur:
  • Event 17422 - The Kingdom of Sardinia for Savoy has already occurred

Will happen within 100 days of January 2, 1790
Checked again every 100 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)

Description

Our capital has fallen to our enemies. Should we move the government to Sicily?

Actions

A. Flee to Sicily!

• Move capital to Sicily
• Sicily will be considered a national province
• Fortress level in Sicily +1
• +2000 population in Sicily
• Stability -2
• Centralization -1
• Mercantilism -2

B. Stay on the mainland

• Stability +1
• Centralization +1
• Event 17426 - Return to Italy for Savoy will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Conditions

• At least one of the following must occur:
  • Event 17424 - Move Court to Sardinia for Savoy has already occurred
  • Event 17425 - Move Court to Sicily for Savoy has already occurred
• Own Piemonte
• Control Piemonte
• Country is not at war

Will happen within 360 days of January 3, 1790
Checked again every 360 days until trigger is met (cannot happen after December 31, 1819)
unless prevented by
Action B of 17424 - Move Court to Sardinia for Savoy
Action B of 17425 - Move Court to Sicily for Savoy

Description

The mainland has been freed from foreign domination and belongs to us once again. Shall we move the government to Torino?

Actions

A. Return to Torino

• Move capital to Piemonte
• Stability +2
• Centralization +1

B. Stay where it is permanently

• Stability -2
• Centralization -2
• Piemonte revolts

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 12021 - The Angevin inheritance of Naples for France

Description

After the death of Duke Charles Ier who had made in his whole life all possible efforts to free Savoy of the strong French political interference, the duchy was thrown again into chaos since the successor to the throne of Chambéry, Duke Charles II, was still a minor (he became Duke when he was only 8 months old!) and a planned Charles VIII's military campaign in Italy was rumoured. The Duke's mother, Bianca of Montferrat, had temporarily assumed the regency of the duchy due to her son's under age, but the presence of different factions that sought and received some support from the French King, contributed to the political instability of Savoy as to establish de facto a sort of French protectorate. Being Savoy still an imperial fief, Maximilian I King of the Romans and future Holy Roman Emperor tried to get the Savoyard allegiance in order to drive the French out of Italy. The strategic position of Savoy would put the ducal independence at risk, leaving the country in anarchy until the end of the Italian wars in which Savoy, historically drifted into the French orbit, gained complete independence only in 1559 when the treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis was signed between France and Spain.

Actions

A. What can we do?

• Stability -3
• Global revolt risk +6 for 24 months
• -50 relations with France
• Centralization -2

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 17324 - First Mantuan Succession Crisis for Mantua

Description

Duke Francesco has died leaving only an infant daughter, Maria. This girl is the Duke of Savoy's grandaughter. Mantuan law does not allow female succession, so Francesco's brother Fernando has succeeded to the Mantuan throne. However, female succession is allowed by the laws of Montferrat, so Maria is the legal heir to that territory. Her rights have been ignored by Mantua.

Actions

A. We must press our claims!

• -200 relations with Mantua
• -20 relations with Spain
• +40 relations with France
• Stability +2
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Mantua for 5400 months
• +3 diplomats

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 170229 - Mandrin for France

Description

Mandrin was a French bandit who fought the tax inspector by smuggling with Savoy and Geneva. After one year of activity, he was pursued by royal troops which arrested him in Savoy's territory causing a diplomatic unrest.

Actions

A. We want him

• -20 relations with France

B. If we were them we would make similar

• +40 relations with France

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 220023 - Inheritance of Montferrat for Mantua

Description

The Marquis of Montferrat, a nation on the very borders of our homeland has died. Despite our legitimate claims, Mantua has inherited that nation?

Actions

A. OK

• Gain a temporary casus belli against Mantua for 3100 months
• -100 relations with Mantua

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action B of 17324 - First Mantuan Succession Crisis for Mantua

Description

Duke Francesco has died leaving only an infant daughter, Maria. This girl is the Duke of Savoy's grandaughter. Mantuan law does not allow female succession, so Francesco's brother Fernando has succeeded to the Mantuan throne. However, female succession is allowed by the laws of Montferrat, so Maria is the legal heir to that territory. Mantua has agreed that the son of the Savoyard heir will wed Maria and inherit Montferrat. We can incorporate this territory into our state!

Actions

A. Add it to Piemonte!

• +200 relations with Mantua
• +40 relations with Spain
• -80 relations with France
• Stability +1
• +3 diplomats
• Centralization +1
• +4 base tax value in Piemonte
• +2 base manpower in Piemonte
• Fortress level in Piemonte +1

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 220031 - Succession of Vincenzo II for Mantua

Description

Following the demise of Duca Vincenzo II, Mantova was contested between rival Gonzaga branches Nevers and Guastalla. Carlo Emanuele I di Savoja claimed Montferrato through his daughter Dowager Duchess Margherita and granddaughter Maria. Austrian Imperatore Ferdinando II ratified the claim - ordering Milanese Viceroy Don Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba to help Carlo Emanuele partition Montferrato and besiege Nevers at Casale. But Duca Savoja's ambition combined with the rescue of Nevers by France forced him to sign the Peace of Susa (1630) and join France against his former allies. Carlo Emanuele died soon after and his son Vittorio Amadeo I continued the struggle - ultimately winning Trino and Albi in Montferrato by the Treaty of Cherasco (1631).

Actions

A. Defend our Rights

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Mantua for 36 months
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Papal States for 36 months
• -150 relations with Mantua
• -150 relations with France
• -100 relations with Venice
• -100 relations with Papal States
• +100 relations with Spain
• +100 relations with Austria
• Gain an alliance with Austria
• Gain an alliance with Spain
• Stability +1

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 12114 - The French Revolutionary Wars for France

Description

With the creation of a Legislative Assembly to limit the monarchic power, several reasons pushed France towards war in 1792. Internally, the republican party of the Girondins were calling for a war to rid Europe of monarchy and despotism but also to rid France of any internal reactions. Externally, the nobility, the socalled emigrés, fleeing to Austria and Prussia requested that those powers intervene to restore the French monarchy. Louis XVI, King of the French, saw in a war failure the possibility to restore absolutism. But the dissolution of the Ancien Régime in France alarmed all the European royal courts fearing that the French Jacobinism would have spread in the whole continent and provoked deep destabilization inside their own absolutist government systems.

Actions

A. Rattle Our Sabres

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 80 months
• -200 relations with France
• +150 relations with Sweden
• +150 relations with England
• +150 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with Prussia
• +150 relations with Russia

B. Temporize

• Stability -1

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 326054 - The League against Milan for Venice
Action A of 326062 - The League against Milan for Venice

Description

Because of having established control over Lombardy and submitted Genoa, Filippo Maria Visconti clearly showed his intention to continue with the ambitious plan which his father Giangaleazzo once pursued: the unification of the whole Northern Italy under the Visconti's blazon. Romagna should have been Visconti's next step in his threatening hegemonic plan. But Invading Romagna, the duke of Milan would break the 1420 peace treaty stipulated with the Florentine Republic as to guarantee 10 years of non-belligerence. That treaty notably forbade Visconti from intervening in the lands beyond Panaro-Magra Rivers and so in Romagna and Tuscany, territories in which Florence directly exercised her influence. Florentine army alone was not enough powerful to face the Milanese well paid Mercenari. A League against Visconti urged immediately.

Actions

A. Join the league

• -50 relations with Milan
• +25 relations with Venice
• +25 relations with Tuscany
• Gain a temporary casus belli against Milan for 36 months

B. Grant neutrality and avoid expensive wars

• -25 relations with Venice
• -25 relations with Tuscany
• Monarch's diplomatic skill -2 for 24 months
• Event 228050 - A pact with Savoy for Milan will never fire

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 12125 - The Napoleonic Wars for France

Description

Napoléon argued that he wanted to build a federation of free peoples in a Europe united under a liberal government. But if this was indeed his goal, he intended to achieve it by taking power into his own hands. He supposedly intended to grant constitutions, introduce laws, abolished feudalism, create efficient governments and foster education, science, literature and the arts. The other powers of Europe looked on with alarm at an expansionist France, bringing its revolutionary ideals and fervour abroad in the wake of Napoléon's military might.

Actions

A. War!

• Gain a temporary casus belli against France for 192 months
• +150 relations with Russia
• +150 relations with England
• +150 relations with Austria
• +150 relations with Prussia
• +150 relations with Spain
• +150 relations with Naples
• +150 relations with Portugal
• -200 relations with France

B. Peace!

• Stability -1

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 228050 - A pact with Savoy for Milan

Description

During the fights between Milan and the League, Visconti managed to sign a separate peace treaty with Savoy. With that treaty the Savoyard neutrality was granted in exchange for the cession of Vercelli. A marriage was also celebrated between the duke of Milan, Filippo Maria Visconti and Marie of Savoy, duke Amédée VIII's daughter.

Actions

A. Grant neutrality in exchange for Vercelli

• +25 relations with Milan
• +2000 population in Piemonte
• +1 base tax value in Piemonte
• Infrastructure tech investment: +75
• Monarch's diplomatic skill +2 for 12 months

Savoy — Not random

Triggered by

Action A of 170226 - Treaty of Cherasco (1631) for France

Description

After Habsburg troops sacked Mantua (1629) and Savoyard troops occupied Montferrato, French intervention neutralized Savoy at Susa (Apr 1630). Unfavourable terms for France in the Peace of Regensburg (Oct 1630) prolonged the war, but developments in Germany helped restore peace at Cherasco (6 April 1631). Gonzagas's testimony was revised whereby Mayenne's father, Herzog von Nevers received Mantua. Guastalla gained lands Luzzara and Reggiolo whilst Savoy got parts of Montferrat. France renounced all Italian conquests for territories in the Piedmont. The Habsburgs retained their Italian hegemony but at a reduced military presence.

Actions

A. OK

• -1 base tax value in Savoie
• +1 base tax value in Piemonte
• +2000 population in Piemonte
• Break vassalization with France
• +25 relations with France
• -25 relations with Venice
• -25 relations with Papal States
• +25 relations with Spain
• +25 relations with Austria
• -25 relations with Mantua
• Stability +2