Warlock Royal Family

160th election for the sixth throne

After another night in Vienna, the Marchioness Facchetti returned to Italy.

Although the trip was short, leaving her no time to appreciate the beauty of Vienna, it was indeed rewarding for her and her family.

This was the first time that Ladislaus acted as someone else's political protector, giving political benefits as a sovereign and demanding something in return.

Although some Viennese nobles may feel that the new owner may be a little too generous to his lover after learning about the Colonna family's receipt.

But the rich province of Friuli, acquired from the wealthy Republic of Venice, gave him a lot of prestige when he first took office.

And the price paid by the Medici cardinal will soon give Ladislaus even more prestige he so desperately needs.

After seeing off the Marquise Facchetti, Ladislaus also left Vienna for Frankfurt that day.

On May 1523, 5, Ladislaus arrived in the imperial municipality of Nuremberg and was warmly welcomed by the mayor of Nuremberg.

Don't get me wrong that a municipality doesn't mean that the emperor has the right to rule over the city, it means that any duke has no right over the city, the city is ruled by its own parliament, it's a mini city-state like Frankfurt.

In order for the new acting cardinal to choose this path and reconfirm Nuremberg's du li status, Nuremberg offered Ladislaus of Austria a gift of [-] thalers and paid a large amount of travel expenses.

The municipality of the Nuremberg Empire and several similar city-states around it have always been threatened by the two strong branches of the Wittelsbach family, Bavaria and Rhine-Palatine. inhibition.

Therefore, several municipalities directly under the Central German Empire, including Augsburg and Ulm, have relatively assumed part of their obligations to the central government. Although they are unwilling to recognize feudal power and resist the institutionalization of taxation, they still It is still a little tribute to the Habsburg family every year. This income is an important source of private treasury for the ruler of Vienna.

Therefore, regardless of the fatigue of the journey, Ladislaus insisted on dancing a few dances with several noble ladies and ladies of Nuremberg at the dinner.

He also generously praised the outstanding contributions made by the Nuremberg sages to the unity and stability of the empire.

But he refused the mayor's niece to show him the way to his bedroom.

Because when the banquet in the city hall was about to end, Ladislaus ran into the ambassador of the Rhine-Palatine Electorate of Austria who had just arrived, and got an unexpected news.

Although Heidelberg was very close to Frankfurt, the Elector Louis V of the Rhine-Palatine set out from his capital Heidelberg to the east of his domain to meet him and go with him to Frankfurt.

So Ladislaus decided that he needed to recharge his mind at night to deal with the old fox tomorrow.

At present, besides a few Austrian ladies, the maid who follows him is Mrs. Reinhardt. Although she has a German name, she is still learning German, and her birth is not enough, so even if she has the rank of priest Ladislaus's goal of installing a matron for her also looked elusive.

The original matron came from Hungary with Anna Agloni Habsburg, and this time she also went to Spain, so this position was vacant.

But it is still unacceptable for other women who are eyeing to see a knight-level woman to be the matron.

Mrs. Reinhardt has also been immersed in dizzy happiness recently, although the German maids look down on this "illiterate" from the Italian countryside.

But since the new cardinal in power only let this "illiterate" sleep in his bed except for the "middle-aged woman" of Siena, the maids still surrounded her and complimented her beauty and wisdom in Italian, using their best efforts Do everything possible to please her.

All court maids are either very beautiful or very scheming, so they are sent by their parents to serve the monarch in the court.

Mrs. Reinhardt, who was born in a lower-ranking nobleman and could not even speak Latin, did have a bit of normal stage fright compared to them, and after experiencing the coldness of the world, she could somewhat feel the malice behind the flattering smiles of these women.

However, having experienced hardships is exactly what Ladislaus sees as her advantage. Compared with those noble girls who rely solely on their birth and appearance to climb up, she will know how to be grateful, and understand that it is love rather than pure desire that makes her She has achieved a status unimaginable in the past.

Ladislas believes the relationship will be more reliable.

So this time I deliberately brought Mrs. Reinhardt to show my attitude.

In order to take care of her land travel oath, she insisted on taking the land route and gave up all the places where the waterway could be used.

But today Ladislaus fell asleep after letting Mrs. Reinhardt massage his legs for a while. As I said before, he needs to take a good rest.

On May 5, Ladislaus received a grand reception from the Elector at the border of the Rhine-Palatine Electorate.

The Elector of the Rhine-Palatine came to meet Ladislaus with his entire court, including the Elector's entire family and nearly 500 servants.

Although Ladislaus is not a contender for the throne, it may be difficult to turn Austria into his hereditary territory, but it is clear that if nothing happens, he will master the most important position in the entire Holy Roman Empire in the next few decades. One of the princely states.

Even so, in theory, Ladislaus' status is not as good as that of the dignified elector, especially when the imperial election is about to take place.

For such a low profile of the elector, Ladislaus was really not at ease.

Is this guy still fighting the doctrine of the municipality of the Nuremberg Empire?

This is not easy, after all, they have just received money from others, and if the Habsburgs are the only super-first-class family in the empire, then the Wittelsbach is the top-notch one, and it is absolutely impossible to let them expand their power.

However, after the meeting, the Elector of the Rhine-Palatine did not make any demands. Instead, he offered a congratulatory gold of [-] talers, and distributed a large number of precious gifts to the accompanying nobles and maids.

Although he received 12 thalers for the ticket, the money was spent by the Spanish treasury and Ferdinand's private treasury, so Ladislaus is still in a good state of mind.

Next, the Elector didn't talk about business at all, but only strengthened his feelings through various means.

Then they did not go to Franken, an important town in the east of the Rhine-Palatine electorate, but went all the way west.

The huge team crossed the territory of the Archbishop of Würzburg along the Main River, a tributary of the Rhine. The Archbishop was also a religious prince but had no right to vote, and headed for Frankfurt.

The territory of the Rhine-Palatine electorate is very trivial along the Rhine River. It is intertwined with the territories of several municipalities and religious princes, and is divided into two unconnected blocks as a whole. It is called the upper and lower Palatinates. The upper and lower are based on The upper and lower reaches of the Rhine are named, the upper refers to the one in the east, and the lower refers to the one in the west.

This strange state border was the result of compromises after various marriages and succession wars, and was very common among the German princes.

On June 6th, Ladislaus met with the Elector of Mainz outside Frankfurt. Prime Minister Sazastan and Frundsberg, who arrived in Frankfurt earlier, also went out of the city to greet him. They will rest at the manor outside the city Overnight, tomorrow Frankfurt's parliament will hold a grand entry ceremony for Austria's acting cardinal, Cardinal Ladislas. (To be continued.