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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The House of Stewart (Protestant/Anglophile) vs. the House of Stuart (Catholic/Francophile). [[spoiler: For example, the two daughters of James V, who find themselves more or less on opposite sides of the debate: Mary Stewart vs. Antoinette Stuart. Oddly, this is presented as Mary changing her name to snub the French, whereas OTL it was her counterpart who first started using the 'u' spelling.]]

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* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The House of Stewart (Protestant/Anglophile) vs. the House of Stuart (Catholic/Francophile). [[spoiler: For example, the two daughters of James V, who find themselves more or less on opposite sides of the debate: Mary Stewart vs. Antoinette Stuart. Oddly, this is presented as Mary changing her name to snub the French, whereas OTL it was her counterpart who first started using the 'u' spelling.spelling while growing up in France as her guardians couldn't figure out the 'W'.]]
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* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Francoise de Cleves, purported daughter of Jacques de Cleves, is born ten months after his death and has Tudor red hair.
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* TheCreon: James and Robert Stewart both refuse efforts to install them as king in place of their half-sister Mary, largely because they don't think the risk is worth the reward.
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** Regarding Mary Tudor's son John Christian:

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** Regarding Mary Tudor's son John Christian:Christian's courtship of Anna of Saxony:
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* TheWomanWearingTheQueenlyMask: Anne has a touch of this.
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rich idiot with no day job was disambiguated by TRS.


* IdleRich: Ercole d'Este, brother of the Duke of Ferrara and nephew to UsefulNotes/ThePope, is an honest-to-goodness RichIdiotWithNoDayJob. [[spoiler:He is however [[TookALevelInBadass getting better]].]]

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* IdleRich: Ercole d'Este, brother of the Duke of Ferrara and nephew to UsefulNotes/ThePope, is an honest-to-goodness RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.UpperClassTwit. [[spoiler:He is however [[TookALevelInBadass getting better]].]]
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* NamesTheSame: A few historical figures have "siblings" in this timeline with the same names, but who are different people. This includes Elizabeth Tudor (here said to be a brunette who strongly resembles her mother); Charles, first son of Philip II; [[UsefulNotes/MaryOfScotland Mary, Queen of Scots]]; and most of Henri II's children. [[invoked]]

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Ambiguous Disorder is not a trope anymore, but a redirect to a YMMV entry.


* AlternateHistory
* AmbiguousDisorder: Arguably, Charles, son of Philip II. At least, academically speaking, if his tutors can be believed.
** It's been speculated that he has ADHD and/or Asperger's in discussion.

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* AlternateHistory
* AmbiguousDisorder: Arguably, Charles, son of Philip II. At least, academically speaking, if his tutors can be believed.
** It's been speculated that he has ADHD and/or Asperger's in discussion.
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* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: As the timeline has continued, the changes have involved an ever-widening group of people.
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* Reginald Pole: Chosen by Charles V as a [[PuppetKing figurehead Catholic claimant to the throne of England]]. Though there's no love lost between Pole and [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII the present monarch]], he has no interest in the job. [[ButThouMust Charles V won't hear of it, and places him under house arrest to prevent him from doing otherwise]].

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* Reginald Pole: Chosen by Charles V as a [[PuppetKing figurehead Catholic claimant to the throne of England]]. Though there's no love lost between Pole and [[UsefulNotes/HenryVIII the present monarch]], he has no interest in the job. [[ButThouMust Charles V won't hear of it, and places him under house arrest to prevent him from doing otherwise]].
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Badass Mustache and Badass Beard were merged into Manly Facial Hair. Examples that don't fit or are zero-context are removed. Having facial hair is not enough to qualify. To qualify for Manly Facial Hair, the facial hair must be associated with manliness in some way. Please read the trope description before re-adding to make sure the example qualifies.


* BadassBeard: Henry Howard, Duke of Norfolk, possesses "incredible facial hair" which is emulated by the young Henry IX.
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* RagsToRoyalty: Erik Vasa's wife and queen, Karin Mannsdotter is a former peasant. [[RealityEnsues Many of his subjects consider Erik's marriage to her to be a sign of mental instability.]]

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* RagsToRoyalty: Erik Vasa's wife and queen, Karin Mannsdotter is a former peasant. [[RealityEnsues Many of his subjects consider Erik's marriage to her to be a sign of mental instability.]]

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* PowerTrio: Two of Henry VIII's sons: Henry and Edward, along with his grandson, Arthur Fitzroy.
** TheKirk: Henry, Prince of Wales. [[spoiler: Later King Henry IX.]]
** TheSpock: Edward, Duke of York.
** TheMcCoy: Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.


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* ThreeSuccessfulGenerations: Two of Henry VIII's sons: Henry and Edward, along with his grandson, Arthur Fitzroy.
** TheKirk: Henry, Prince of Wales. [[spoiler: Later King Henry IX.]]
** TheSpock: Edward, Duke of York.
** TheMcCoy: Arthur Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond and Somerset.
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* TakeThat: Includes a few authorial rebukes, i.e. to the idea that Ivan IV was ProperlyParanoid about the nobility plotting against him, or that Bayezid would have been a better ruler than Selim.
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* ConspiracyTheorist: Ivan IV tends to spout off half-a-dozen of crazy theories of who wants to kill him whenever things don't go his way. As he's Tsar of Russia, [[DeadlyDecadentCourt this makes his court quite dangerous]].

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* ConspiracyTheorist: Ivan IV tends to spout off half-a-dozen of crazy theories of who wants to kill him whenever things don't go his way. As he's Tsar of Russia, [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt this makes his court quite dangerous]].



* TheFool: Janos Sigismund Zapolya, Prince of Transylvania, [[WideEyedIdealist trusts in God and doing the right thing]] to get him through [[DeadlyDecadentCourt the world of Renaissance politics.]] He's doing surprisingly well.

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* TheFool: Janos Sigismund Zapolya, Prince of Transylvania, [[WideEyedIdealist trusts in God and doing the right thing]] to get him through [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt the world of Renaissance politics.]] He's doing surprisingly well.



* StandardRoyalCourt: Pretty much all the kingdoms have these. Some, like France, are a [[DeadlyDecadentCourt bit nastier than others...]]

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* StandardRoyalCourt: Pretty much all the kingdoms have these. Some, like France, are a [[DeadlyDecadentCourt [[DecadentCourt bit nastier than others...]]
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---> For context, his OTL counterpart died of illness after breaking into a plague house and having a pillow fight.
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* NeverLiveItDown: Philip of Hesse's bigamous marriage regularly undermines his position in the Schmalkaldic League. [[invoked]]


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* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Philip of Hesse's bigamous marriage regularly undermines his position in the Schmalkaldic League.

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