We are 39 years old and our wife is 38 year old Emma Salian, Princess of the Byzantine Empire. We have four children including our eldest son and heir Prince Oengus who is a 19 year old Genius with many amazing traits and a new wife and daughter.
And so we begin...
1281-1283 End of a Reign
Our son's first son is born in May 1282, and he is a genius like his father, looks like we will have at least two generations of geniuses on the throne!
We get our second son the Dilligent trait, he is turning out to be a great backup heir (and he is 1 year away from manhood). We gain the nickname 'the Confessor' probably due to all the holy wars/religious rebellions we've fought in.
The last province we took from Lithuania is converted to Catholosism! Once the truce is down we should do another Holy War, they are quite lucrative.
We find a way to make it happen, by declaring war against another Romuvan state nearby, it draws the first guy into another war with us but they're already tired and our levies are fresh!
During the fighting the Duke of Lithuania dies and passes his titles to his young (4 year old) son who likes me, so that's good.
We grow ill in March 1283 just as a castle finished construction in Gwynedd, this is meant for our second son but I realize I have him betrothed to a Duchess in the Holy Roman Empire, if he were to pass that baronry to the heir of the Duchess then the Baronry would fall under that Duchy and hence out of our Kingdom - so I give it to another vassal and it's fine because we won't have the unlanded Son penalty because he's going to be a Duke in the Holy Roman Empire.
Unfortunately shortly after we die of illness and pass our titles to our eldest son Oengus. Oengus and his wife have very high stewardship so we have a size 11 Demesne! Time to fill it up!
1283-1286 A new King of Ireland
Scotland is once again the Kingdom of Alba, even though a Dunkeld is on the throne he is Welsh so this is probably the reason. Also the Petty Kingdom of Galloway has their independence, maybe we can try to gobble them up after our Holy War near Lithuania. England is also having some rebellions, hopefully they can damage them!
The Duke of Ulster died in my dungeon in 1284 and his heir likes me a bunch more! In fact we only have 4 vassals (out of 36) hat don't like us and they are all ambitious. Shortly after there is a new Duke of The Isles as well.
We inherit an Earlship and Baronry in the County of Latgale in Lithuania that we are able to keep for the time being.
Unfortunately we fall ill in January 1285 just before declaring a De Jure war in Lithuania against a single independent Catholic county. We gain another Earlship and Baronry thanks to this war, and are able to create a Duchy - the Duchy of Prussia. After passing these titles out we decide it is time to celebrate!
The Grand Tournament is held and makes my vassals love me even more!
There are Catholic uprisings in the neighboring Zemaiteje in Lithuania as Catholosism spreads through the remains of their lands. Plus we spread catholosism to the county we took in the last Holy War.
Technological advances allow us to build 6 more Retinue armies (3000 more men) so now we will have about 8500 in our Retinue along with about 16,000 we can raise in our personal levies and 8000 more in vassal levies! That's about 32,000 men! Just about the same size as England/Jerusalem.
1286-1288 Crusade!
Crusade! The Pope has called a Crusade for Portugal and we join immediately. The levies are raised and set sail for the Portugeuse shores, I want to try to make sure the Holy Roman Empire doesn't expand their presence in Iberia.
I loose the ill trait in December 1286 on the boat towards Portugal. My wife is pregnant in siege camp midway through the next year, and we gain the nickname 'the Wise'. My second son Enri is born in early 1288, we name him after my father.
I take over as guardian of my eldest son Mael-Sechlainn and gain him the 'Patient' trait.
Unfortunately, even though we won more sieges than them they give the crusade to the Holy Roman Empire, then we learn that a relative of ours in the Duchy of Austrias is hiring men to invade us, we'll likely be able to put it down fairly easily but we prepare none-the-less.
1289-1294 Rebellions and ridiculous claims
England is once again known as England and Scotland is attacking the Petty Kingdom of Galloway.
Mael-Patraic declares his host claim war on us in 1291. I catch a glimps of his army marching through Normandy - it has nearly 30,000 men! They are on their way to Lithuania. I find out there is a part of Ireland in Northern France (a small Baronry) when Mael-Patric leaves a 5000 man force there in siege. I think I will attack it first.
We inherit the Baronry of Blarney from our Brother and pass it to another kinsman.
The attack in Northern France goes well, we crush one small army and then the rest of his forces circle back to attack us and we are able to crush portions. It grinds our 15000 man force down to less than 5000 by the time it is done but we had another 15,000 man force in reserve in Lithuania and his 30,000 man army is dead.
In 1294 the rebels in the County Gwent (the last Welsh county in Wales) rebel with a force of about 5000 men. I raise the local levies in Ireland to put them down hard.
1294 Status
The sun sets on another Chapter in the tale of the land of Ireland. King Oengus 'the Wise' is now 31, has crusaded and won several holy wars and rebellions. We now stand at the precipice of Irish power, hopefully we can get some claims on Scotland soon and expand closer to home.
England is back to being England but they still hold the Kingdom of Jerusalem, the Muslims really have no power to take it back thanks to the awesome might of the Holy Roman Empire which just continues to grow.
We also have an opportunity to expand Lithuania and perhaps take all of its De Jure holdings, but this interests me less than Scotland (I still hold the hope that we can form the Empire of Britania!)
Until next time...
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