Alas for Alfonso. To complete the tale, I decided it was time to remove this noble but misunderstood king. Apart from anything else, no-one wanted to marry his princes, so I needed a new king who was ready to marry a nice SPanish noblewoman.

So I pitched him into as many uneven battles as I could. But somehow he survived, and despite his poor reputation his personal valour seemed to go through the roof, meaning that he was capable of defeating armies almost single handed. The more I tried to get him killed (leaving him dismounted with his knights in the midst of enemy hordes), the more of a "Jedi General" he became, he must have killed at least 100 Boyars himself over a few battles.

In spite of "doubtful courage" he ended his reign as a "Magnificent Steward" and "Skilled Attacker," dying of natural causes while waiting to board ship in Lithuania (perhaps of a surfeit of pickled herring?) to pursue his personal campaign against a wicked and unjust Papacy. His heirs have much to live up to!