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Caterina Sforza
Topic Started: Aug 20 2010, 05:36 PM (426 Views)
Caterina Sforza
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Just to clear things up:
Caterina's the cousin of Maximillian Sforza, who's trying to regain the duchy of Milan, which was taken from her uncle by the French.
She was married to the cousin of the previous pope. IRL Caterina was married to the nephew of the pope a few popes before the previous pope, but that didn't fit into the timeline. Conveniently, though, her ex husband was also (irl) the cousin of the previous pope. So it totally works out perfectly. Even though her dead husband Girolamo (irl) hated his cousin and vice versa. But whatever. It works :P

For now, I'm just gonna post what has happened in each thread she's been in that has been completed. There's no collective plotline going on for her yet. I will post a more coherent Caterina-centric plot as it happens thread once a bigger plot gets going.

COURT NEWS:

  • An Unfortunate Meeting:
    + Caterina meets Cecil and they fight D:
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  • Shh, I'm Hunting Wabbits
    + Caterina meets Adrienne de Marque and they go hunting for deer.

  • Emulous, Not Envious
    + Caterina meets Francesca and they talk Italian politics and Caterina gets all happy about having another Italian at court *misty eyes*

  • Temur-cloud Collection
    + Caterina meets Arthur Chamerlyn and takes him to a brothel.. because she CAN.

  • Midnight Snack
    + Caterina follows Isabella Clyde to the kitchens for a midnight snack.
That's it for now :P
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Caterina Sforza
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Important people that might be mentioned in Caterina's posts:

  • Ottaviano Riario: her son and Count of Forli, Lord of Imola. 10 years old.
  • Other kids: Bianca (11), Cesare (8), Giovanni (4), Galleazzo (3), Francesco (1)
  • Marco de Lomore: her personal companion who she brought with her to court. A handsome man who is only 5 ft tall and of no important birth.
  • Girolamo Riario: her husband, who she disliked, who was killed by a conspiracy made up by some members of the Orsi family.
  • Benedetto Orsi: a painter, related to the men who killed Girolamo. Caterina put him as Governor in Forli while she's at court. She did ti for two reasons: he's a wussy painter, and she wants her son to come into his own, so she put someone in charge who would let her son govern for himself, so he could learn.. and because he was a member of the Orsi family who killed Girolamo. She wanted to show the people of Forli that she is not intimidated by their backstabbing and assassination crap.. oh and she also wanted to discreetly show the Orsi supporters that things have changed after Girolamo died.. oh and she trusts him.

Fictional characters = characters I made up for the purpose of Caterina's plot
Real people = real historical people
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Relatives:

  • Christina of Denmark: Cousin by marriage, through Francesco Maria Sforza, son of Ludovico il Moro, brother of Caterina's father Galeazzo Maria Sforza.
  • Margaret of Austria: Niece. Daughter of half-sister Bianca Maria Sforza, daughter to Galeazzo Maria Sforza and Bona of Savoy.
  • FAMILY TREE

*I felt the need to explain the relations between Caterina and the two characters on here who are related to her.. thought I might as well post the family tree, as it should explain some of my more ridiculous posts about Caterina's family.
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Caterina Sforza
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EXCITING NEWS!

I was having trouble finding reasons as to why Caterina would stay in England. But since I can't bear to lose her, I've decided that, of course her reason for being here in the first place is still somewhat valid, but not really so much anymore.. she will, as it were, be MARRYING HER CHILDREN OFF and is now searching court for marriageable children.

She'd be looking to marry her kids to the kids that all the pregnant women will have on here, given that they fit her criteria. There are so damned many pregnant ladies, she's gonna take advantage of getting in REALLY early betrothals :P

If you were there in the CBox and you suggested a match between Caterina's kids and your characters' and you still want to see this happen, please POST HERE! So then we can plot!

Ottaviano might already be planned to be married off to Christina's bastard, so he's off the table.
But all her other kids are up for grabs:
Bianca (11), Cesare (8), Giovanni (4), Galleazzo (3), Francesco (1)

Bianca's almost already at a marriageable age, so betrothing her to one of the children still in the womb might be a little awkward. Caterina might potentially be up for plotting to marry Bianca to someone else, then, when the child now in the womb comes of an age to marry, kill off Bianca's husband, if only the match proposed is more advantageous than the one Bianca will be married to already. It might be fun to plot out the death of Bianca's future husband! :P

ALSO!
Caterina will want to stomp off the war with the menfolk, when the time comes for war. Since she's searching for husbands for her children, and since I want to keep her on the site, she won't be returning to fight with Maximillian, rather she'll be fighting amongst the English men.. and if they won't let her she'll disguise herself as a man and go fight anyway. It might be interesting either way! If you wanna do some war plotting with Caterina you should post here, pm me, or start a new topic in the plotting area!

I'm pretty desperate for fun things to do with Caterina, as she's the only one of my characters for whom I don't really have a completely settled storyline yet, so POST HERE, DAMNIT!
I'd also really be interested to hear from people involved in the war plot whether they might let Caterina fight with them, or if she should actually dress up as a dude to go fight.
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Christina of Denmark
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Ottaviano totally belongs to Christina's bastard who she is naming Mary after her aunt.
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Stephen Gardiner
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Ottaviano might very well turn out (like IRL) to be a lazy bastard like his father, who doesn't know how to govern, so his mummy has to do everything for him. then again, this is AU. Maybe not ;)
Poor Mary :P
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William Parr
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If Caterina suggested something like baby betrothals to LC or Will, they'd laugh in her face. So Caterina should do it. LC is having a girl! ;)
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Alexander Willoughby
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You and I know what we've got plotted, Shae! <3
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