The Kingdom of Italy

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Kingdom of Italy:

Coat of arms of King Cesare I of Italy

Capital: Parma

Econ: 90%

Unique unit: Condottieri - elite heavy cavalry mercenaries who have the battlefield as their homeland and their hauberk as their home

Royal family - House of Borgia:

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Cesare I of Italy
Status: Reigning monarch
Age: 24 (born 13 Sept. 1475)


Beatrice I of Italy (Beatrice d'Este)
Status: Queen consort
Relation to monarch: Wife
Age: 24 (born 29 Jun. 1475)


Amadeo Borgia, Prince of Italy & Duca di Modena
Status: Heir-apparent
Relation to monarch: Son
Age: 4 (born 22 Mar. 1496)


Gioffre Borgia, Granduca di Toscana
Status: Heir-presumptive
Relation to monarch: Brother
Age: 18 (born 16 Apr. 1482)


Lucrezia Borgia
Status: Princess
Relation to monarch: Sister
Age: 20 (born 18 Apr. 1480)

Army:

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Cesare Borgia puts down a Florentine rebellion, 1497

1a Armata:
Location: Novara, Lombardy
Commander: Cesare I of Italy
8,000 regular infantry
6,000 regular arquebusiers
2,000 regular light cavalry
1,000 elite heavy cavalry
1,000 Condottieri
20 light cannon
10 heavy cannon

2a Armata:
Location: Milan, Lombardy
Commander: Ludovico Sforza, Duca di Milano
6,000 regular infantry
4,000 regular arquebusiers
2,000 regular light cavalry
500 elite heavy cavalry
20 light cannon
5 heavy cannon

3a Armata:
Location: Siena, Province of Siena
Commander: Gioffre Borgia, Granduca di Toscana
4,000 regular infantry
2,000 regular arquebusiers
2,000 regular light cavalry
1,000 Condottieri
500 elite heavy cavalry
20 light cannon
5 heavy cannon

Crusaders:
Location: Milan, Lombardy
Commander: Cardinal Alessandro Farnese
4,000 militia infantry
4,000 regular arquebusiers
2,000 regular light cavalry
2,000 elite heavy cavalry

NOTE: The Crusaders are free for the duration of the Great Schismatic War.

Navy:

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An Italian carrack, 1499

1st Fleet:
Location: Castiglione della Pescaia, Tuscany
Commander: Cosimo Albizzi
15 heavy ships
20 light ships

2nd Fleet:
Location: Pisa, Tuscany
Commander: Tommaso Albizzi
15 heavy ships
20 light ships

[Marshy]

Prince Christian of the Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Scotland has asked for Princess Lucrezia's hand in marriage.

[Pakov]

The Mamluk Sultanate proposes a trade deal

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The Mamluk emissary is sent away with a document detailing the new trade agreement, and a bottle of the finest Tuscan wine for the Sultan himself.

One of King Cesare's retainers meets with the Scandinavian diplomat. "The interest your Prince Christian has expressed in our princess is flattering. However, she is a woman of free-spirit and untamed beauty, and the king is not quick to relinquish her to a foreign court. However, the king has received word from Bartholomew Columbus of new lands in the West - and an established post there would be a most gracious gift. Cesare will permit your prince to marry Lucrezia, if the Scandinavians offer us the territory of Labrador as a gift."

[Marshy]

"The assistance the Kalmar Union is giving to the Papacy should be enough."

[MuttonChops]

A Russian emissary arrives
"We would like to enter into a trade agreement with your nation"