Tsardoms Total War: Late Campaign - Help

**Wallachian** · March 03, 2022, 05:19 PM

Great thank you so much VINC! This is invaluable information.

Can you also please outline a bit the situation of the Angevins in Italy? I understand there was still some leftover Angevin holdouts and Jean of Anjou, Duke of Lorraine invaded Italy and had a few battles against the Aragonese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...e_Sarno_(1460)

Do we know the names of the dissatisfied Neapolitan nobles who joined with Jean of Anjou and which cities rebelled?

**VINC.XXIII** · March 03, 2022, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by Wallachian

Can you also please outline a bit the situation of the Angevins in Italy? I understand there was still some leftover Angevin holdouts and Jean of Anjou, Duke of Lorraine invaded Italy and had a few battles against the Aragonese.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle...e_Sarno_(1460)

Do we know the names of the dissatisfied Neapolitan nobles who joined with Jean of Anjou and which cities rebelled?

I'm not sure about his personal holdings in Italy, actually Giovanni II was backed by G.A Orsini Del Balzo and Antonio Caldora 1400-1477(viceroy in Abruzzo region, Duke of Bari, Count of Palena, Aversa)at least. I can't find anything on cities but its safe to assume Orsini holdings(Taranto)+Abruzzo can become rebels by script if you're planning a civil war("Conspiracy of the Barons").

https://condottieridiventura.it/antonio-caldora/
Minor commanders(900 cavalrymen, joined Giovanni II d'Angio in 1459):
-Cola di Monforte(1415-1478)
-Giacomo Montagno(death 1477)

Here Orsini holdings one year before battle of Sarno

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

erratum: one source gives Antonio Caldora as Duke of Bari and another states its Orsini Del Balzo land, I can't be sure atm but whatever Duchy of Bari went rebel as both potential holders were aforementionned G.A Orsini and A.Caldora.

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Another character for the House of Giustiniani

-Enrico Longo(1370-1437) administred Phokaia for 10 years
-in 1437 he was replaced by Francesco Drapperio
-in 1447-1448 Paride Longo(1410-1474) became administrator, after his victories against the Finali(its a genoese faction).

Genoese governors were bound to bring 52 men from Genoa when they travelled to Phokaia. Paride married his daughter Maria to Domenico Gattilusio(lord of Lesbos).

**Kirijakos** · January 12, 2023, 12:20 PM

I will do Serbia and Bosnia in next 72h.

**Antiokhos Euergetes** · January 21, 2023, 12:12 AM

Stjepan Berislavić -Despot of Serbia 1505 – 1535 Stjepan Berislavić was member of the Berislavići noble family,[6] from the Požega County (central region of modern Slavonia). He was the elder son of Ivaniš Berislavić (d. 1514), who served as titular Despot of Serbia (1504–1514), and Ban of Jajce (1511–1513).[7]

Stjepan's mother was Jelena Jakšić, a member of the Jakšić noble family, who had previously been married to Jovan Branković, the last Serbian Despot of the Branković dynasty (1496–1502). As Jelena and his first husband had no male issue, the title of Serbian Despot became vacant upon Jovan's death in 1502. When Jelena remarried to Ivaniš Berislavić in 1504, he received the title, from Croato-Hungarian king Vladislaus II (d. 1516), and held it until his death in 1514.[8][9]

Stjepan was c. nine years old when his father died, and thus the title of Serbian Despot was granted to him only in 1520, by the king Louis II (d. 1526).[10] After the Ottoman conquest of Belgrade in 1521, he tried to hold his fortress of Kupinik in Syrmia county, but the region was eventually lost to Ottoman invasion.[11]

After the defeat at the Battle of Mohács (1526), Kingdom of Hungary became divided between two rival fractions; one was led by King Ferdinand Habsburg, while the other was led by John Zápolya, the Duke of Transylvania, who was also proclaimed King. At first, Stjepan Berislavić supported Zapolja (1526), but soon opted for Ferdinand, at the beginning of 1527. Learning of that, Zapolja tried to suppress Stjepan's authority over Serbs by appointing Serbian nobleman Radič Božić as titular Despot of Serbia (1527–1528). In spite of that, Stjepan continued to act as Serbian Despot, and was recognized as such by King Ferdinand. In 1529, Stjepan fell out of Ferdinand's favor and was confined in Buda, but soon escaped.

Radič Božić 1502 – September 1528 Despot of Serbia, from 1527 until his death in September 1528. He was one of the most notable military commanders among Serbian nobility in the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, and fought against the Ottoman Empire in several battles, most notably the Battle of Mohács.
Jovan Cerni (can only find scant details in English including his name) led a Serbian revolt against Janos Szapolyai - Voivoide of Transyvania

Pavle Bakić (Serbian: Павле Бакић, Hungarian: Bakics Pál; (ca. 1484 – 9 October 1537) was the last titular Despot of Serbia. He was one of the most notable military commanders among Serbian nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary, and fought against the Ottoman Empire in several battles, most notably at the Battle of Mohács (1526) and the Battle of Vienna (1529). He fell at the Battle of Gorjani (1537).

Berislavić family of Grabarje (Croatian: Berislavići Grabarski), also known as Berislavić family of Dobor (Croatian: Berislavići Doborski), was a Croatian noble family from the Požega County of Slavonia, allegedly originating from Ban Borić.
Franjo Berislavić (died in 1517), Ban of Jajce between 1494 and 1495, and from 1499 until 1503.
Ivaniš Berislavić (died in 1514), titular Despot of Serbia (1503-1514), and Ban of Jajce from 1511 until 1513.
Bartol Berislavić, Ban of Jajce in 1507.
Stjepan Berislavić (died in 1535), titular Despot of Serbia, from 1520 until his death in 1535.

The House of Jakšić (Serbian Cyrillic: Јакшић, pl. Јакшићи / Jakšići; Hungarian: Jaksics család) was a powerful and an influential Serbian noble family that fought against the Ottoman Empire. The eponymous founder, Jakša, was a Voivode (Duke) in the service of Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković, and after the fall of Serbia to the Ottomans his descendants joined the ranks of the Hungarian army, Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus titled them "pillars of Christianity".
Jakša was a voivode in the Serbian Despotate, under Despot Đurađ Branković. Jakša was mentioned in 1452 as Đurađ's envoy in the Republic of Ragusa. As an Ottoman vassal, Đurađ was forced to send an army to participate in the siege of Constantinople (1453). Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror did not tell Đurađ his intentions, but said that the cavalry would travel to Karaman. The sultan slaughtered civilians on his way to Constantinople, which he quickly besieged, Jakša hearing of this, wanted to return but was warned that if they would not continue, the sultan would destroy the Serbs. The cavalry reached the fallen Constantinople, which had been the cradle of Southeastern Christianity and culture, up until now serving as the capital of the Byzantine Empire. The event is recorded in the writings of Konstantin Mihailović, who was in the army of Jakša.

Stefan and Dmitar Jakšić, the sons of Jakša (hence Jakšići), left Jagodina with 1200 warriors for Hungary. They were hospitably received by Matthias Corvinus, who gave them Nădlac (Nagylak) and estates around Moriš, to rule as vassals in 1464. The operations of the Serbian nobility in Slovakia against Germany and Poland in the second half of the 15th century, were hugely successful and as such were lavishly celebrated. Dmitar held dozens of settlements of Pomorišje, and with his cavalry detachment hidden in the woods, and great skill and courage, he led victories against the Polish armies at Humenné and Michalovce in 1473. Dmitar was the general of King Matthias in a battle of Košice in 1474, of which he has been celebrated of in Serbian epic poetry. In 1476, Dmitar took part in the battle of Pančevo, alongside Despot Vuk Grgurević. In 1479, Dmitar participated in the Battle of Breadfield with some 900 Serbs, the outcome was a decisive Hungarian victory. Dmitar is remembered as one of the most distinguished generals of the Black Army of Hungary, which was primarily composed of Bohemians and Serbs. The brothers had risen in the ranks of barons through their military service, as did Vuk, Ladislaus Egervari, Paul Kinizsi and many more.

Stephen Tomašević or Stephen II (Serbo-Croatian: Stjepan/Stefan Tomašević, Стјепан/Стефан Томашевић; died 25 May 1463) was the last sovereign from the Bosnian Kotromanić dynasty, reigning as Despot of Serbia briefly in 1459 and as King of Bosnia from 1461 until 1463. Stephen's father, King Thomas, had great ambitions for him. An attempt to expand into Croatia by marrying Stephen to a wealthy noblewoman failed, and negotiations for a marital alliance with the Sforzas of Milan were abandoned when a more prestigious opportunity presented itself: marriage to the heiress Maria of Serbia.

Italy. Condottieri

Sigismondo Malatesta (1417–1468),
the Lord of Rimini, was renowned in the Renaissance as a brilliant condottiere, who used ingenious siege tactics and won pivotal victories for Pope Eugene IV (1431–1447) and the republic of Florence in 1448 and 1453. He was also a great patron of the arts and made Rimini into a vibrant center of Renaissance culture. The painter Piero della Francesca, the sculptor Agostino di Duccio, the medal-caster Matteo de’ Pasti, and the architect Leon Battista Alberti, among other artists, all embellished the Malatesta family church, San Francesco, which later became known as the Tempio Malatestiano. Sigismondo was extolled as an avid student of classical literature, especially Homer’s epics. He supported several humanists in his court, including Basinio of Parma, Tobia del Borgo, Roberto Orsi, Pandone de’ Pandoni (Porcellio), Pietro Parleo, and Roberto Valturio. He hosted debates on learned subjects in his castle, which was praised as a “wonder of the age” for its innovative defensive design. In 1458 Sigismondo became embroiled in a long quarrel over tithes and territory with Pope Pius II (1458–1464), who, after excommunication failed, performed a reverse canonization and enrolled Sigismondo among the devils in hell. Pius wrote and circulated a lengthy invective in which he condemned Sigismondo for unbridled lust and rape, blasphemy, atheism (epicureanism), paganism, and deification of his longtime consort and third wife Isotta degli Atti. Pius also accused Sigismondo of murdering his first two wives, Ginevra d’Este (1418–1440) by poison and Polissena Sforza (1428–1449) by strangulation. The negative character that the pope conjured in the invectives appealed to later writers, who presented Sigismondo as a violent, tormented lover rebelling against papal rule, including the Edwardian aesthete Edward Hutton and the modern poet Ezra Pound. On the battlefield Sigismondo was outnumbered and eventually lost to the papal allies. He had to give up most of his territory and was required to lead a crusade in the Morea, southern Greece, against the Turks (1464–1465). After some initial success, Sigismondo was forced to abandon the crusade and returned to Rimini, carrying the body of the infamous neopagan philosopher Plethon, which he entombed amid great scandal in the church of San Francesco. Pius’ successor, Pope Paul II (1464–1471), was wary of Sigismondo and kept him as a virtual prisoner in Rome until his death in 1468. During this time Sigismondo reportedly made plans to murder the pope with a hidden dagger and may have been involved in the so-called humanist conspiracy against the pope in February 1468.

Ludovico III Gonzaga, il Turco
Also Known As: "Ludovico II o III", "Luigi III", "il Turco", "Ludovico II"
Birthdate: June 05, 1412
Birthplace: Mantova, Mantova, Italia (Italy)
Death: April 11, 1478 (65)
Goito, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy
Immediate Family:
Son of Gianfrancesco I Gonzaga, margrave of Mantua and Paola Agnese Malatesta
Husband of Barbara Gonzaga, marquise of Mantua
Ex-partner of (No Name)
Father of Gabriella Correggio-Fogliano; Caterina Secco; Federico I Gonzaga, marquess of Mantua; cardinal Francesco Gonzaga; Gianfrancesco Gonzaga, conte di Sabbioneta
Brother of Carlo Gonzaga; Margarita d'Este; Gianlucido Gonzaga, señor de Rodigo and Alessandro Gonzaga, marchese di Castel Goffredo, Castiglione e Solferino
He grew up to fight as a condottiero - a military leader for hire - and in 1433 he married Barbara of Brandenburg, the niece of the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund.

After Ludovico entered the service of the Visconti family in Milan, he and his wife were exiled from Mantua by his father, Gianfrancesco I.

But father and son were later reconciled and Ludovico became Marquis of Mantua in 1444, inheriting territory that had been reduced in size and was impoverished after years of war.

He continued to serve as a condottiero, switching his allegiance between Milan, Florence, Venice and Naples, to gain territory and secure peace for Mantua.

The high point of his reign came when Pope Pius II held a Council in Mantua between 1459 and 1460 to plan a crusade against the Ottoman Turks. Although the Pope was unimpressed with Mantua and criticised the food and wine afterwards, the event earned prestige for Ludovico, whose son, Francesco, was made a Cardinal.

Braccio Fortebracci da Montone
Perugia, 1368 – L’Aquila, 1424

**Antiokhos Euergetes** · January 21, 2023, 11:37 PM

Alfonso the Magnanimous KG (also Alphonso; Catalan: Alfons; 1396 – 27 June 1458) was the King of Aragon (as Alfonso V), Valencia (as Alfonso III), Majorca, Sardinia and Corsica (as Alfonso II), and Sicily and Count of Barcelona (as Alfonso IV) from 1416 and King of Naples (as Alfonso I) from 1442 until his death. He was one of the most prominent figures of the early Renaissance and a knight of the Order of the Dragon.

Louis II d'Anjou, re di Napoli
Italian: Luigi II, re di Napoli
Also Known As: "Ludivico", "Luigi", "d'Angiò"
Birthdate: October 05, 1377
Birthplace: Château d'Angers, Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Death: April 29, 1417 (39)
Château d'Angers, Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Place of Burial: Angers, Pays de la Loire, France
Immediate Family:
Son of Louis I de France, duc d'Anjou and Marie de Blois-Châtillon
Husband of Iolanda di Aragona, regina consorte titolare di Napoli
Fiancé of Maria Marzano, duchessa di Sessa and Lucia Visconti
Father of Louis III d'Anjou, titular King of Naples; Marie d'Anjou, reine de France; René I d'Anjou, titular King of Naples; Yolande of Brittany and Charles IV d'Anjou, comte du Maine
Brother of Marie d'Anjou, Princess Of Naples and Charles d'Anjou, duc de Tarent

Occupation: Roi de Naples de Sicile et de Jâerusalem, King of Naples, Duke of Anjou, roi de SICILE (1384 - 1417), duc d´Anjou (1384 - 1417) comte du Maine et de Provence (1384 -1417) etc. Gouverneur de la Ville de Paris (1413)

René of Anjou
Born in 1409, at various times René of Anjou was Duke of Bar and Lorraine, Duke of Anjou, Count of Provence, King of Sicily, and claimant to Aragon, although this accumulation of titles was not matched by a comparable amount of power. René’s disparate lands defied any notion of a coherent empire. Moreover, he lost Naples to the King of Aragon in 1442, and by the time of his death in 1480 Anjou was controlled by the French King, Louis XI; Provence passed to the French Crown soon after René’s death. For thirty-eight years he was an exile from Naples, but never ceased to call himself roi de Cecile, ‘King of Sicily.’

Andrea Doria, Prince of Melfi (1466–1560)
who re-established the Genoese Republic. He was perpetual censor of Genoa in 1528 and admiral to the emperor Charles V. He was created Prince of Melfi (1531) and marquis of Tursi (in the kingdom of Naples) in 1555.[2] These titles were inherited by Giovanni Andrea Doria, son of Giannettino Doria who was a second cousin and adopted son of Andrea Doria. When Giannettino Doria was killed in 1547 during the Fieschi conspiracy against the power of Andrea Doria over Genoa, his descendants inherited the titles granted to the great admiral.

Giovanni Andrea's son Giovanni Doria was a cardinal of the Catholic Church. Other notable Dorias of the period include admiral Carlo Doria and art collector Giovanni Carlo Doria.

**Wallachian** · January 22, 2023, 12:02 AM

Thanks for this information this great. we dont need info about faction leaders, Kings etc we already have all this. Same with condottieri.

What we need info for is Nobles from the Balkans and the Romans.

**Antiokhos Euergetes** · January 22, 2023, 12:05 AM

Oh sorry, was any of it useful?

I found one Genose admin of Black sea in Banco San Giorgio

"Book of guarantees presented in favor of newly hired concept staff.
(Genoa, 1485–1491)

Before being hired, the so-called "ministers" of San Giorgio (a name used for employees at any level of the central administration and of the individual taxes, from the mayor of the shops to the servants of the palace, from the scribes of the taxes to the weighers of the goods, from the custodians to the patrons of the coastguard) are subjected to checks on the previous services and must obtain approval (exequatur ) of the Protectors and other major officials, not to be registered in the "black" book of those condemned or fined by the Compere (in short, to have a clean criminal faith) and to provide adequate bail for the office they aspire to, so that St. George can retaliate on the new hires and their guarantors for any error or shortfall. At this point they are given the instructions to follow and the admittatur is issued with which they officially take office. The register contains the minutes of admission of the new ministers from 1485 to 1491 and is part of a series that goes from 1471 to 1736; the pages are open on the bonds provided by Luchesius Iustinianus, elected consul of 1492.
Paper register with parchment cover.
Archivio di Stato di Genova, Archivio di San Giorgio, pand 18 E (now also n. 185,.....) and n. FD 1485-91 (now also n. 185,...), cc. 37v and 38r.

Document No. 17

Book of Miscellaneous Scriptures of the Office of Protectors .
(Genoa, 1465)

Loans to the State involved considerable sums of money and, because of its chronic needs and implicit risks, were granted by the Protectors with the explicit authorization of the Grand Council of Purchases, as is the case of the loan requested by the Duke of Milan in 1465. Here is the beginning of the minutes of the meeting of 26 September 1465 in which the Grand Council examines the request for a loan of 25,000–30,000 ducats made by Governor Antonius Guidobonus on behalf of the Duke.
Register with parchment cover.
State Archives of Genoa, Archive of San Giorgio, pand. 18, n. 607.2250 (now also n. 18,607002250), cc. 93.

Document No. 56

The master of the entrances and exits of the farm of Caffa. (This is just interesting in itself)

(Genoa, 1456)

Among the territorial possessions, those in the Levant were among the most ruinous for the House of St. George. Arrived in his hands in November 1453, after the fall of Constantinople, they had an increasingly miserable life. The masters of the colony of Caffa demonstrate together the goodness of its administration and the dangers to which it was exposed. In that of 1456, for example, it is enough to examine the expense account to understand how difficult it was to live with neighboring potentates. In September 1456 the Tartar sultan arrived in Caffa and during his stay the regents of the colony probably had to host him, flatter him and give him rich gifts: the disbursements are recorded here punctually, starting with dinner with bread, mutton, wine, etc ..
Register with parchment cover, recently restored.
State Archives of Genoa, Archive of San Giorgio, pand. 18, No. 590.1238 (now also No. 18.590001238), c. 41.

This should help with the Romans, but alas my German is not much good, I can read the Greek...but that doesn't tell me what they did.
Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit
https://archive.org/details/ErichTra...p?view=theater

**Antiokhos Euergetes** · January 22, 2023, 09:29 PM

https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BYZ...20NOBILITY.htm
Another source for the Romans

Edit; If none of this is useful I would appreciate you saying, I would not want to fill the thread with interesting, yet, useless information.
Just got hold of an old colleague with some hopefully great information for Romans. I haven't had time to digest it all as yet, there is a great deal. So I'm hopeful

**Wallachian** · May 07, 2023, 06:11 PM

For anyone looking to help out with with the 1448 campaign we are looking for people that can help us with writing info events. These events just tell the story of various events that have happened in history, they can even be outside of the map. Events that would be known by the people in these lands.

Here is an example of the events which will appear ahead of the Burgundian Wars. We don't necessary need the event pictures as we can just recycle them. So if you are writing several related events you can use the same picture.

We currently have someone that has offered to write the build-up events for the Italian Wars. However there are other areas which could be interesting to showcase. For example:

- The series of Polish-Teutonic wars including the Thirteen Years War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish...93Teutonic_War
- Wars of the Roses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses
- The conclusion of the Hundred Years War
- Navarrese Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarr...%E2%80%931455)
- Catalan Civil War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_Civil_War
- Flemish Revolts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flemis...ian_of_Austria
- War of the Castilian Succession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of...ian_Succession
- events about the expansion of Muscovy etc.
- events about conquests in America etc.

You write the events and we will include in the mod!

Example events - Burgundian Wars

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