While Marin was training and trading together on Texel, another thing that Marin liked to see happened in Paris, France...
At the Louvre in Paris, Charles VIII, who was only 28 years old, was lying on a hospital bed with a haggard face, his face covered with ashes...
Originally, Charles VIII was in good health and was still making plans to invade Italy for the second time. After several years of recuperation, France's national strength finally recovered.
Unfortunately, on March 24 (four days later than the original history), Anne later gave birth to a baby boy...
Originally, Annie should give birth to a baby girl in the future, named Annie. However, it was probably the appearance of Marin that triggered the butterfly effect, and Annie gave birth to a boy...
Charles VIII would have laughed and named the child Henry. Unfortunately, Henry, who was born in the morning, died in the evening...
Charles VIII fainted instantly like a thunderbolt. After waking up, Charles VIII's spirit also collapsed a bit.
The child who died that day was already his seventh child. None of his seven children survived. The longest-lived child was his oldest child, Charlie Orlando, who lived to be two and a half years old...
After that, the children will not live long. After the death of Henry of France, Charles, who believed in God, felt that he had been abandoned by God.
From that day on, Charles VIII seemed to lose interest in handling government affairs, and he hid in front of the statue in the palace all day long to pray and atone for his sins.
Charles VIII is the only male in the direct line of the Valois dynasty. If he leaves no heirs, then the demise of the Valois dynasty is basically a foregone conclusion.
Therefore, Charles VIII is now full of fear about his childlessness. He thought it was his act of aggression against Italy that offended God. Because, he once bullied Pope Alexander VI...
Misfortune, coupled with wild thoughts, finally overwhelmed the shrewd king. Charles VIII finally fell ill...
But what made him worse was that his queen Anne didn't come to visit him when he fell ill, which made him feel even more lonely and fearful.
In fact, the relationship between Charles VIII and Queen Anne is very ordinary. Because, Anne was almost forcibly robbed back by Charles VIII. Before that, Anne had completed the wedding ceremony with Maximilian I through the "marriage by proxy". But Charles VIII intervened and forcibly took Anne away and married her. Therefore, Anne has never had a good impression of Charles VIII. Of course, it's not that Queen Anne never forgets the old man Maximilian I. Rather, Anne of Brittany felt that Charles VIII was a robber who forcibly robbed herself, which was a great disrespect to herself.
After Charles VIII married Anne, he didn't pay attention to coaxing little Anne, who was only 15 years old at the time, but directly raped her, which caused a great psychological shadow on Anne...
Afterwards, when Charles VIII's eldest son, Charles Orlando, died, Charles VIII did not comfort his wife, but forcibly asked for an exchange, asking to give birth to another heir...
It can be said that Charles VIII has never cared about what Queen Anne thought. He only thought that he wanted an heir...
As a result of Charles VIII ignoring Queen Anne's physical and mental problems, the next few children of Charles VIII died young.
Marin actually knew about this. In fact, it is because Queen Anne's body has not been well conditioned, coupled with mental trauma, it is no wonder that the child can be healthy. If Charles VIII had taken good care of Queen Anne's body and thoughts, he would not have allowed the queen to die after giving birth to a few children.
In fact, Queen Anne's body has been greatly damaged by several unscientific serial births. If Charles VIII suspends this barbaric and unscientific reproductive requirements and regulates Queen Anne, he will still have a chance to give birth to a healthy heir. It's a pity that Charles VIII only wanted heirs, regardless of Queen Anne's physical condition. Therefore, none of the seven children survived.
After the death of Charles VIII, Anne remarried to the new king, Louis XII, because there was a gap of several months for Queen Anne to recuperate her body. When Queen Anne remarried to Louis XII in 1499, she finally gave birth to a child who did not die—Claudia of France (Queen of François I). Of course, because Queen Anne was in poor health, Princess Claudia didn't live too long, and died before she was 25 years old.
Because of the death of his youngest son Henry, Charles VIII suffered a severe mental blow, which had already made him seriously doubt his life. At this time, because of her previous rudeness and arbitrariness, Queen Anne ignored her even though she was seriously ill.
In fact, Queen Anne herself is very sad, and she is not in the mood to pay attention to the unlucky child Charles VIII...
As a result, Charles VIII, who was only 28 years old, was getting worse and worse...
Although, Charles VIII did not die on April 7 as in the original history. However, Charles VIII did not last long because of a mental breakdown.
Finally, on June 20, 1498, Charles VIII died in the Louvre...
On Marin's side, there is no news yet. In fact, as early as March, Marin sent people to Paris secretly to inquire about Charles VIII.
In April, there was no news of Charles VIII's death in the news sent back from Paris. As for the serious illness of Charles VIII, the French ruling and opposition parties must have blocked the news of this kind of news.
Therefore, at first, Marin thought that because of his butterfly effect, Charles VIII did not die. Unexpectedly, the death date of Charles VIII was only postponed by more than two months...
When the news of the death of Charles VIII came from Paris in July, Marin finally laughed...
As for why he laughed, it was actually very simple. Because he offended Charles VIII, Marin had been worried that Charles VIII would secretly retaliate against him.
But now that Charles VIII is dead, does France still have the mind to take revenge on him
Louis XII, who succeeded him immediately, not only would not hate him, but he might even secretly thank him. Because, without Marin's blow, maybe Charles VIII would not die. Of course, Louis XII didn't know that without Marin, Charles VIII would have died, and he would have died more than two months earlier...
Once Charles VIII died, the French had no reason to have trouble with Marin. Although the French nobles who were defeated or captured alive by Marin may be hostile to Marin, they are the masters of France and cannot make France continue to hate Marin. And the next ruler of France is Louis XII. After he came to power, he will definitely clean out the powerful ministers of Charles VIII and arrange another confidant. At that time, it will be even more impossible for France to remember to send someone to kill itself...
Therefore, after learning the news of Charles VIII's death, Marin felt as if the three mountains on his heart had collapsed, and he felt extremely relaxed...