#the Full Intro to Teodosio I
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( this is how i walk into my house . ) what’s up fuckers !? - i try to be funny & reference vines as much as possible to seem Cool & Hip . okay , moving on , i’m loey & i’m just a small town girl livin’ in a lonely world . sadly , i didn’t take the midnight train goin’ anywhere . i’ll stop with the references but i honestly can’t help myself -- it’s 1am while i’m writing this & there’s no stopping me once i start typing . so before this little intro before the intro gets too long ( it already has , loey , you dumbo . ) i’d like to tell you that everything will be under the cut ! trigger warning : murder . & i would like to apologize those who are mobile because this will probably be long because i have a lot to say about my new found love of the portuguese renaissance & the braganza house .
☆ ━ ━ OUT OF THE WAY ! can’t you see TEODÓSIO I OF BRAGANZA , the duke of portugal coming this way ? i hear he is EDUCATED , but also SHORT - TEMPERED . he seems to remind everyone of crumbling architecture , the harsh change from black to white , & the faint smell of foreign spices . hopefully one day he will succeed in his ambition to travel across the seas to go see brazil & other foreign countries , but then again , the court is a dangerous place . one can only hope HE will keep HIS head . . .
okay imma be upfront & personal with y’all for like two seconds so bare with me . i fucking love history . i love everything about history , well , not EVERYTHING but close enough to the point where i literally told my friend to send me the link to this roleplay when she said it was history based royalty . i’ll have you know that the habsburg family owns my heart while the de medici family owns my ass . & please , keep in mind that this is 1am me writing this , i am not sound of mind . okay , on with the show & my little precious baby named teodósio .
ABOUT TEODOSIO I SPECIFICALLY
first thing out of the gate : this little shit is known to be the PERSONIFICATION OF THE PORTUGUESE RENAISSANCE ! did you know that ? because i sure didn’t .
i’m being so serious right now ! like that was his legacy & i’m so proud of him .
he’s also known as a PRINCE of the renaissance
his full name including the titles is : dom. teodósio i of braganza , twelfth count of barcelos , ninth count of orurém , sixth count of arraiolos & neiva , fifth duke of braganza , & fourth marquis of vila viçosa .
( please don’t ask me why they had to add the numbers idk )
he was supposed to also be duke of guimarães but he ceded that title to give to his brother - in - law infante duarte i aviz of portugal ( who was the sixth son of king manuel i of portugal & maria of aragon )
it was for his sister’s dowry
is in laws with the holy roman emperor charles v which is nice to know
he’s a very educated , scholarly man who much prefers sophisticated talk to rumors & gossip
( that doesn’t mean he won’t say NO to not knowing )
a patron of the arts
has a huge love for painting & sculpture
his favorite artists are jorge afonso , gregorio lopes , & vasco fernandes
he doesn’t particularly have a favorite sculptor so he’ll talk about a lot of them , but mainly : alonso berruguete & donatello
he does have a short temper though . he doesn’t care for illogical decisions or those made based on emotions
which is kind of a hypothetical way to thinking because he’s all for new , higher ways of thinking & likes to expand on it
comes from money & he knows it
also may or may not have pledged his allegiance to the king manuel i of portugal to keep said wealth because that’s his uncle & teo’s dad ( jaime ) may or may not have been banished for a short period of time because jaime’s dad was executed for high treason against king john ii of portugal then the throne was passed to king manuel i & demanded loyalty from jaime in order to restore the house of braganza
these things happen , it’s fine
his mom ( leonor pérez de guzmán , daughter of juan alfonso pérez de guzmán ) was murdered on the suspicion of adultery when he was nine years old so that’s nice
* P E R S O N A L I T Y : he is a very smart man , he knows the ins & outs of court & uses it to his advantage . he is very educated in a lot of ways & excels in finding out how to use someone’s weakness against them . he’s very good at not getting caught & does cover up his tracks . he also has a love for the extravagant & richer side of life : takes pride in being surrounded in the most exquisite things . he’s rather cheerful & talkative , enjoys being with others as much as possible . teodósio is hard to cross but when you do , he’s a grudge holder & will be cold towards you . he never forgets a face even though he will forget the name belonging to it .
JUST A LITTLE INFORMATION ON THE HOUSE OF BRAGANZA
the most serene house of braganza -- coat of arms
parent house : portuguese house of burgundy by way of the house of aviz
founder : afonso i , duke of braganza
afonso i was the illegitimate son of king john i of portugal
his father valued him a lot & let him have the title
because of this it granted a high seat in the portuguese court
the braganzas were one of the wealthiest & most powerful noble houses of the iberian peninsula
the house had produced 15 portuguese monarchs & 4 brazilian monarchs , numerous consorts to various european kingdoms , & numerous other notable figures
everyone who belonged in the house grew up with a very privileged life along with a great marriage to another high ranking noble
in 1640 , portugal was not in the greatest of times which caused a wide spread distrust towards the current king , philip iii
the eighth duke of braganza , joão ii , made a claim on the throne , which was granted by the nobility through his grandmother infanta catarina of portugal , & became king
after the accession the duchy became the traditional title of the heir to the throne
in 1808 , the braganzas transferred their royal court to the state of brazil because of the impending napoleonic invasion
and that’s pretty much it for the history of the braganzas . the rest just gets too far away from the time this roleplay is set so it doesn’t really matter .
this is the end of teo’s intro ! this took forever but man i loved doing the research ! hit that heart button if you’d like to plot . subscribe if you want to be apart of the shitty writing & grandiose imagery club . comment down below if you , too , have had a mother who was suspected of adultery .
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