In 1219 the counter attack came. The Danish warlord Knud Guddrodson attacked Metz but Prince John won the day. Worryingly, the Danish army was
made up mostly of Norse War Clerics - mighty warrior priests the match of any knight we could field.
In 1222 the crown purchased Paris from Hungary for 20000 Florins. Godwine Lewes became Count of Paris.
Prince John was tested again in 1223 when another Danish force attacked Metz. Our Retinue Longbowmen made mincemeat of their warriors before
they could even make it through the first gate.
Prince John was tested a third time when Neils Thodberg attacked Metz in 1226, again with an army almost entirely consisting of the dreaded Norse Clerics.
Though almost half of our men were killed, Metz held fast and we were victorious.
In 1228 Richard succumbed to a long illness and Prince John became King John. He immediately raised taxes throughout the land to fund the war effort.
In 1231 the Danes attacked Metz yet again. Their spies were able to infiltrate the Citadel and open our gates, allowing the Norse Clerics to maraud through
our streets slaughtering our fleeing warriors. King John rallied his troops at the keep and, with our longbowmen shooting from the walls, we were able to rout the foe.
During this time our forces had been steadily eating away at Danish possessions to the south. Morris led the first wave, taking Poitiers, Limoges and finally Bordeaux
in one swooping move and restoring the settlements to French control. However, he died at the gates of Bordeaux and his depleted army were called back to Caen to retrain.
Once retrained they were led south again by Christopher Fitzneale who took the fortress of Toulouse and gave it to the local French nobility.
He then moved on Barcelona, taking the city in 1232, and then Zaragosa, which fell in 1233. After giving the cities to the Spanish he boarded a fleet bound for Caen.
Thus the Danish power in southern France and Iberia was broken.
Now the war would rest on our newly conquered territory in the north. In 1232 Denmark, led by their fierce King Haakon, took the city of Rheims.
King John, isolated and besieged in Metz for nearly fifteen years, had become withdrawn and wary. Yet in these troubled times who could say he was not right
to be on guard against the wild Danes and even treachery from within the city? None would forget the massacre of 1231. King John would not anyhow, though
many called him "Mad".
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