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    Default Re: Injecting French "colour" into KotF

    Quote Originally Posted by YLC View Post
    ...I throw my 2 cents in for Aquitaine instead of Gascony, simply because Aquitaine retained significantly higher political relevance throughout the medieval era compared to Gascony which was subsumed by the Duchy of Aquitaine.
    Scratch what I just said, I agree with Aquitaine now. I dare not say it because Tristan is around but silently I was worried about Aquitaine because I thought it was English for most of the period. However, I have just read this:

    The Valois Kings of France, claiming supremacy over Aquitaine, granted the title of Duke to their heirs, the Dauphins.

    from

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Aquitaine

    This dovetails perfectly with my suggestion in the first post that the Prince be made Duke of Toulouse - it's the only castle in France at the start, so it seems fitting it should go to the Prince.

    EDIT: One interesting feature is how the proposed names imply natural geographic ambitions:

    The Aquitanians will want to take English held Aquitaine back.

    The Burgundians will want to take rebel Burgundy province back.

    The Lorrains will want to take German Alsace-Lorraine back.

    The Bretons will want ... to be left alone? to take Great Britain? ... you decide ...
    Last edited by econ21; 07-05-2009 at 20:57.

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