event = {
id = 228003
random = no
country = MLO
name = "The Ambrosian Republic"
desc = "On the night of August 13, 1447, as the Duke of Milan, Filippo
Maria Visconti, lay dying, the absence of a Visconti heir rendered the
question of a successor enormously uncertain. ... The all-night meeting
of Milanese notables issued the next day... a republic named after the
city's patron saint, the Republic of St. Ambrose. It lasted for
two-and-one-half years, to be overwhelmed finally, in February 1450, by
starvation and the troops of the condottiere Francesco Sforza. -Lauro
Martines, Power and Imagination: City-States in Renaissance Italy"
style = 1
date = { day = 13 month = august year = 1447 }
action_a = { #Cry Republic!#
name = "Cry Republic!"
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = ARISTOCRACY value = -2 }
command = { type = domestic which = SERFDOM value = -2 }
command = { type = domestic which = OFFENSIVE value = -1 }
command = { type = domestic which = QUALITY value = -2 }
command = { type = revoltrisk which = 30 value = 5 }#reduced by IB
command = { type = stability value = -3 }
command = { type = merchants value = 2 } #added IB
command = { type = sleepevent which = 228006 } #Milan Acquiesces
}
action_b = { #Choose Sforza as Duke
name = "Support Sforza against the Republic"
command = { type = sleepmonarch which = 06561 }#Repubblica
command = { type = sleepmonarch which = 06562 }#Sforza
command = { type = wakemonarch which = 06569 }#Sforza II
command = { type = ADM which = -3 value = 30 }#well it's a crisis he doesn't have much legitimacy
command = { type = DIP which = -3 value = 30 }#ditto
command = { type = province_revoltrisk which = 389 value = 8 }#Milan-citizens unhappy
command = { type = revolt which = 389 }#He'll have to fight to take the city!
command = { type = revolt which = 389 }
command = { type = revolt which = 389 }
command = { type = stability value = -2 }
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = 1 }
command = { type = sleepevent which = 228004 } #Sforza takes Milan
}
}
#Frederick III claimed as lapsed fief, Alfonso of Aragon/Naples was
#named heir and had troops in the Citadel, Charles of Orleans nephew of
#Filipo Maria, Sforza son in law
#The Sforza by ejs5#
event = {
id = 228004
trigger = {
event = 228003 #Ambrosian Republic
}
random = no
country = MLO
name = "Francesco Sforza Takes Milan"
desc = "On March 25, 1450 Francesco Sforza marched through the gates of
Milan and established himself as Duke. Though he had spent his life as a
condottiere Sforza achieved an armed peace during his reign. Sforza's
strongest allies were Cosimo de Medici, who preferred a revived Milan to
Venetian domination of Lombardy, and the King of France."
style = 1
date = { day = 25 month = march year = 1450 }
action_a ={ #Sforza!#
name = "A Strongman can end the Chaos"
command = { type = domestic which = CENTRALIZATION value = 2 }
command = { type = domestic which = ARISTOCRACY value = 3 }
command = { type = domestic which = OFFENSIVE value = 1 }
command = { type = domestic which = QUALITY value = 2 }
command = { type = relation which = FRA value = 50 }
command = { type = relation which = TOS value = 50 }
command = { type = stability value = 3 }
}
}