I'm sure he'll return to the true faith as soon as the Emperor has kicked the bucket and introduce Protestantism in Vienna.
This is totally what I would say to FW as a persuasive technique! But actual Fritz...so on the one hand, he's got a pragmatic side, where he's willing to attend church during wartime, or have the court wear mourning for Isabella and stuff--the trappings, for public support. But his actual decisions fly in the face of whatever emperor has nominal authority over him.
So...Emperor Fritz remains nominally Catholic but gets excommunicated, thus continuing a long and respectable tradition of Pope/Emperor conflict?
Does a Fritz already in possession of Silesia (tu felix Frederice nube) continue the tradition of leading his army over the Alps and biting off more than (or in his case, possibly exactly as much as, as with Silesia) he can chew?
Does he get into a multi-front war with various Italian states to the south and Austria-Hungary to the north(-east), as MT rallies the Catholics to side with the Pope against her husband? Does MT pull off the Diplomatic Revolution with the French as fellow defenders of the faith?
I can see AW deciding his allegiance is to Big Bro emperor, and Heinrich winning some victories in Central Europe. Maybe more without Big Bro around?
Also, it would be totally hilarious if AW inherits in May 1740 and Fritz in October 1740, and Fritz decides not to recognize the Prussian Jülich-Berg claims. :P
*seriously rethinks whether maybe I should ask for MT for Yuletide in addition to or instead of Heinrich*
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Re: AW readthrough
Date: 2020-08-31 04:46 am (UTC)This is totally what I would say to FW as a persuasive technique! But actual Fritz...so on the one hand, he's got a pragmatic side, where he's willing to attend church during wartime, or have the court wear mourning for Isabella and stuff--the trappings, for public support. But his actual decisions fly in the face of whatever emperor has nominal authority over him.
So...Emperor Fritz remains nominally Catholic but gets excommunicated, thus continuing a long and respectable tradition of Pope/Emperor conflict?
Does a Fritz already in possession of Silesia (tu felix Frederice nube) continue the tradition of leading his army over the Alps and biting off more than (or in his case, possibly exactly as much as, as with Silesia) he can chew?
Does he get into a multi-front war with various Italian states to the south and Austria-Hungary to the north(-east), as MT rallies the Catholics to side with the Pope against her husband? Does MT pull off the Diplomatic Revolution with the French as fellow defenders of the faith?
I can see AW deciding his allegiance is to Big Bro emperor, and Heinrich winning some victories in Central Europe. Maybe more without Big Bro around?
Also, it would be totally hilarious if AW inherits in May 1740 and Fritz in October 1740, and Fritz decides not to recognize the Prussian Jülich-Berg claims. :P
*seriously rethinks whether maybe I should ask for MT for Yuletide in addition to or instead of Heinrich*