at the age of 63, Tomasina gains the possessed trait –
making her prone to “frequent violent episodes, speaking
in tongues, spitting and assaulting those nearby”. Despite
this, and the accompanying reversal of faith that results,
she still never presses her mother’s claim on Rome. This
family really loves their popes.
It’s a tragic end for Sardinia and Corsica’s second
queen. Tomasina’s rule is
long, but much of it is
spent defending the
kingdom’s territory. When
she isn’t fighting her own
wars, she joins the King of
France to help fight his. In
her final years, Tomasina
grows crueller, her Cornish
lover dies, and the Fatimid
Sultanate once again
reclaims Jerusalem. In
response she launches a war for control of the Hijaz
region – a huge area southeast of Arabia. She never sees it
finished. Tomasina dies of depression in 1154, age 74.
For the first time in its history, the Kingdom of
Sardinia and Corsica is to be ruled by a king – Tomasina’s
FOR THE STABILITY
OF THE KINGDOM,
I THROW RAINERO
IN JAIL
son, King Rainero ‘the Ill-Ruler’. He’s a dunce – wrathful,
slothful and a drunkard (and stressed, of course). Despite
my help, it takes him nine years to finish his mother’s war
at which point the entire kingdom decides that it’s had
enough of his incompetence and rises up to depose him.
Say what you will about the cruel, possibly possessed
Tomasina, but she got shit done. At least, she did when
she wasn’t off organising
secret trysts with her
distant Cornish mistress.
For the stability of the
kingdom, I throw Rainero
in jail. The revolutionaries
win their war, and Rainero
is deposed. His daughter,
Antonia, takes the throne
in his place. She’s young
and full of promise –
charitable, gregarious and
erudite. Less than a year into her rule, she’s called into a
Crusade on Aquitaine, currently owned by the Almovarid
Sultanate. Sardinia and Corsica once again leads the
charge, and once again is gifted a big new chunk of land.
Long live the new queen, same as the old ones.Sure, let’s conquer
Africa. Whatever.That is not where
Sardinia should be.EXTRA LIFE
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Tomasina’s soldiers
rarely get a break.