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Previously... I take this place where we establish the rich village of Veracruz!

To obtain the Empire has a price. And the King needs his noblemen's help.

If I am emperor that will serve everyone's interests.

But Castile needs its King here.

We will not give Charles the money he needs so much without receiving anything in exchange.

What will you reclaim this time?

He should cede us a part of his power and swear to comply with our demands.

The money worries me.

Your mother maintains properties which are worthy of a queen and she will not use it anymore.

From the 7 electors, 3 electors are princes of the Church.

We have to secure the 4 vote of the laical electors.

And, among them, the vote of Frederick of Saxony is fundamental.

The bribes will not be enough. You will need something else.

It is not in my nature to suffer for a moment for something that will end in my favour.

- You will be the next emperor. - Where does this joke come from?

Frederick of Saxony will stand by you if the Pope supports you.

Even my own family turns the cold shoulder to me!

I have decided to present my candidature to the Empire.

The King has no possibility to obtain the Imperial Crown. Make him see it.

Do as I ask, and England will support your nephew Charles.

When he is emperor, his power will protect you.

Castile insists that you should marry the Infanta of Portugal. You know that.

On the other hand, there is no sovereign who is as rich as her father.

Collect the dowry and you will not have to kneel before the Cortes.

- Are you Christian? - Jer�nimo de Aguilar.

Christian and subject of Queen Do�a Joanna and his father Don Ferdinand.

Powerful Moctezuma

is offering you these presents and gives you what you wish for, as proof of his friendship.

- He asks you to take them and leave. - He doesn't ask, it is an order.

Your mother's madness is an obstacle to obtain the Imperial Throne.

It is fair if she compensates you.

Let us not kid ourselves: this is a robbery.

And if my aunt doesn't get th guaranty, it will have served for nothing.

The gold of Castile balanced our debt.

Mr. Fugger has loaned us the same sum kindly.

With new interests.

The Empire will recover its glory. And we will do it together.

Because you will be my right hand.

I am the only one who will be candidate to the Empire.

I didn't promise my vote to your family, but to Ferdinand.

If the King of Spain competes,

the reasons I gave you back then are worth the same now

Aguilar!

I have gone from hand to hand.

Like this, untill I am sacrificed for the gods.

That won't happen. Because I will protect you.

Now, we only have our hands and only one certainty:

to conquer this land or die trying!

A real treasury has arrived from the Indies!

That Cort�s put the Empire to your feet, Your Highness.

Charles may have got the gold,

but nosotros tenemos los votos comprados

but we have the votes bought and the Saxon on our side.

Me? To be emperor?

You will win. Because they will prefer you to the powerful Charles.

Do you think that I will give up 18% of such a sum?

I haven't reached so far in order to turn back now.

- What do you suggest? - Hundreds of mercenaries are surrounding us.

I withdraw my candidature. My vote is for Charles of Habsburg. I swear!

I will either be destroyed by the King of France or be the master of Europe.

A kingdom in flames

To this humble Augustinian friar, who subscribes, Martin Luther,

but not just to him,

it is terrible to see that the supreme lord of the Christendom

lives in such a luxurious way which does not overtake any king.

He is made to be called "holiest", and he is more worldly than the world itself.

It would not be strange if God made sulfur rain and infernal fire

and sank Rome in the abyss

like He did in past times with Sodom and Gomorrah.

Since his entire being, work and activity

go against what Christ established,

would he not be the Pope but the Antichrist?

I am sorry.

I trust that you would cure my melancholy.

Nobody could if you don't abandon your obsession.

The Empire was made in the measure of my greatness.

And that so vulgar Flemmish took it away from me, like blessed by God.

If you cannot assume his victory, embitter it.

Do something!

That Flemmish has reached the greatest victory which he could never imagine:

to take away your impetus.

Will you permit it?

Finally, the Empire.

I would like to go and, in time, I know I will miss what I leave.

It is as difficult to love this land unconditionally as disdain it in the end.

You will govern Spain during my absence.

But it is my wish to end the 3 years the Cortes gave me.

- Will you be capable of this? - Will the Spanish?

However they may have permitted you that absence, your departure offends them.

They resist everything and they curse everything but always end up coming to terms.

I have to go.

Tell me about everything.

Dear God! What happened?

May the physicians see him!

They threw stones at him when he ordered to disperse them.

- Disperse them? - There are hundreds of Castilians

surrounding the palace. They are infuriated by your departure.

Go away, and your journey will end in the other world.

We have been patient,

but, again and again, Charles ignored our requests.

And now, when he got our incomes, he goes away.

Should we serve someone who wears the Crown of Castile

as a tool to gain the Empire and not as a privilege?

Since he arrived, he has only regarded his well-being, despising ours.

I refuse! I refuse to kneel before someone who bleed us to became greater,

before someone who misappropriates the riches of our kingdom!

Only we love Castile. Only we can save it.

Maldonado is right.

Every community, every Castilian, en armas contra Charles!

- In arms for Castile! - For Castile!

Tlatoani Moctezuma,

I tried to stop the bearded men in a thousand ways. Nothing was of use.

Not even the gold?

I even armed the city of Cholula to stop them. It was useless.

- Did they win easily? - They razed it.

- Where are they? - At the gates of Tenochtitl�n.

All the auguries announced their arrival.

We only achieved to spill our blood.

You did your duty.

And is it not to save my people's life?

They are not gods, tlatoani, but mortal men.

Let us attack and check it, because we will be many against a little.

Never before I order it.

Never, tlatoani.

Sir.

How are you?

Fortunately, they aimed at my heart.

And you cannot hurt what does not exist.

Your Highness.

Lamento I am sorry to append to what happened more terrible news.

The rebels of Toledo have taken the Alc�zar.

- What happened to the mayor? - They expelled him from the city.

They want to know nothing about those who represent the royal authority.

But who are those who rise against His Highness?

- Nobles? Farmers? - First of all, bourgeois,

but they have find sympathizers of all conditions.

An offense like this has to be repressed, or they will not hesitate to sprout more.

But how will I do an attack before I leave?

I cannot leave a kingdom in flames.

The lack of authority would feed the revolt.

I advise you to delay your departure.

Don't dare to look him in the eye.

The one who offends him that way receives death as punishment.

The honour and emotion are infinite

that I feel to get to know the great Emperor of Tenochtitl�n.

My name is Hern�n Cort�s.

And I'm coming from a kingdom beyond the ocean.

Hern�n Cort�s,

why are you coming to me?

On the order of my lord, the King of Castile,

I come to show you the true faith:

that Jesus Christ is the son of God,

and that those you believe in Him expect the eternal life

and those who despise Him expect the infernal flames,

jost like your people do, believing in idols.

Do you dare to insult our gods?

The devotion for my faith has drived me to offend you without wanting it.

I ask you to forgive me. Our relations have to be friendly

or none.

Akmo!

I am only a man who is honoured to see you and willing to get to know your Empire.

Melt down our steel if you wish.

Our souls are peaceful.

My dear friend...

Your Highness.

Thank you for your invitation.

I admit I feared that Charles's victory

would lessen the relations between France and England.

Neither I got the Empire nor you got the papacy. At the moment.

And, given that we failed mutually, we will know how to forgive us and strengthen us,

now that only one man accumulate so much power in Europe.

Do you suggest an alliance against Charles?

His aggrandizement threatens us. Our kingdoms cannot be isolated.

It would not be typical of you to accept his victory without anything more

and I imagine you would like to give him back the blow, but...

England has no will to enter in war.

Neither have I.

Because, as you will understand, no doubt, encouraging a conflict between Christians

would not get me closer to Rome.

Who has spoken about war?

I propose you a peaceful agreement.

Encourage Henry to meet me for this aim.

Encourage me to do so.

A reward of 12.000 ducats,

which would redouble in case of agreement.

Next time we meet

Henry will be by my side.

Your Highness.

There is no war without previous penitence.

I apologise.

I got to think that the amiability with the bearded man was honest.

Every person deserves to be listenned to.

At least once.

When will the attack take place?

Grant me the honour of cutting the throat

of the man who offended our gods with it.

I have to rest.

Leave.

Your Highness, Cardinal Wolsey had a meeting with King Francis.

They are planning an alliance.

Who sought out the other?

The invitation came from the French,

though they assure that it is simply about a peace treaty.

Let me doubt the intentions

of a man from whom I took away what he desired the most.

I will write to England. My aunt Catherine have to help us impede the treaty.

Let us not forget about Rome.

Getting the Pope's favour would encumber their plans.

I am offering to convince him.

Let us trust the pontiff.

The bond between Rome and the emperor has always been strong.

Maybe do you see the scepter in my hand?

Before Henry, Francis or the Pope, I am still Charles of Ghent,

King of Spain and Emperor of nothing!

Once the revolts cease, you will leave without delay.

The revolts will cease once I am crowned.

When those Castilians fear the strength of the Empire.

Enough! Every minute I spend here

is encouragement for those who mean me harm,

in Castile and in Europe. We are leaving!

May God not permit that his desire to get the Empire

lead him to lose these kingdoms.

Your Highness!

I am sorry to entrust you with the regency in such a difficult moment.

I assume the challange

but you will have to reconsider the powers you entrust me with.

How will I control the situation with so little command?

You will comply abundantly.

Either you have very much confidence in me... Or you have very little.

If you fear that I would abuse the power you will grant me, don't worry.

Worrying is what I avoid, Your Reverence.

Are you in agreement with France again?

They want us, but I have not decided yet if they deseve us.

I am glad that it is that way. Our nephew Charles asks us

that you join him before the French.

May God bless my renounce from the Empire. I still have my fortune

and my favor is solicited by everyone.

Don't compare the Emperor with a humiliated monarch without fortune.

Your nephew has not been crowned yet.

And, in order to achieve that, he is loaded with such a debt

that he will join God without having it balanced.

Consider that, too, what profit could be provided to you by that each of them in the future.

Since God has not wanted to give you a son,

a worthy engagement to your daughter Mary would be very valuable.

It has been a long time that Francis promised to unite our descendants.

But he has never sealed it with his signature.

You will not find better opportunity for him to agree.

Francis needs you.

Should I arrange the meeting?

You know that the French will drag you into his ambitions.

You, you have no interest in a conflict!

Charles possess so much that he doesn't aspire to more.

Every man aspires to more, always, Catherine.

Strange creature!

Use him during hunting. Only one animal will bring you 100.

They say you were walking without rest during several days.

With what purpose?

I wouldn't have arrived here if I weren't a curious man.

Your land is full of prodigies.

Does it differ very much from Castile?

Yours must be a great empire.

Humble, in front of yours.

But a king governs us who possesses thousand domains from north to south

in an immense land we call Europe.

There the colours are pale compared to these.

Without knowing it, we had a word for your empire:

paradise.

- Do you know this? - Yes.

I have seen your men inhale it.

I don't understand what inconvenience you see

in a peace treaty between two Christian kingdoms.

Francis did not offer his hand to Charles.

And if he did not, it is because he has something against him.

Suppositions. Besides, Rome doesn't support

that in Europe only one man exceeds.

My lord is the Emperor of the Holy ROman Empire!

- It is impossible to have more loyalty to the Church. - He is going to have occasion to demonstrate that.

I have signed a bull of excommunication against one of his subjects.

Do you refer to Luther?

With abundant generosity, I have given 60 days to that heretic to withdraw his words.

If he does not, he will have to be arrested immediately.

The Emperor will order this way. Why would he do otherwise?

And you, Your Holiness?

Will you compensate the zeal you demand from us in the protection of the faith

by rejecting an alliance between English and French?

I will.

When Luther rots in the dirtiest gaol.

I have yearned for you so much...

- How are you? - At home.

Your Highness.

- Did you have a good journey? - I did, thank you.

You will miss the sun of Spain.

The warmth is not given by the celestial bodies but the company.

I wish I could have stayed here in the 3 years the Cortes have given me.

How? Why should you have urged the return?

I didn't leave Spain in calm. There are disobediences, rebellions...

- What do they demand? - Everything... and nothing.

I begin to think that the complaint is for the complaint in character of the Spanish.

- A childlike disloyalty... - Absurd!

They have demonstrated their fidelity in several occasions.

They did it with our grandparents. They recompensed their good government this way.

If your intention was to offend me, I forgive you.

The criticism is a typical habit of those who don't have commandment.

And especially of those who aspire to it without getting it.

I apologise.

It is not you who ruffled my feathers.

Ferdinand didn't propose to be candidate.

If you have any grudge because of this, it should be towards me.

The affection I have for you impedes it,

but I still feel the wound.

You were disloyal to me.

I saw it with anguish how your triumph became impossible.

I had to do something so that the Empire could not fall into foreign hands.

- What does he know about these houses? - What did you know about Castile?

Ferdinand has learnt very much. His advices are great help for me.

Did you want to convert a counselor into emperor?

Charles...

If you had lost the election, would it not have pleased you more

to see Ferdinand on the imperial throne than to see Francis on it?

For God's sake! You are brothers.

Do you find his taunts to be fraternal?

No, no... I know you.

If his word have hurt you it is because you have doubts in the happenings in Castile.

Appreciate the wise critics, Charles, or you will end up surrounded by adulators.

They will not hurt your pride, no.

But they will make you the worst tyrant.

You have verified that I didn't lie when I said that you would miss nothing here.

I have everything that a man with worldly ambitions desires.

I hoped you would.

What are you missing?

Power.

I was taught to politics, not to fall asleep in a golden cage.

I wish nothing more than sitting up in the study room.

Entrust me with a position where I can be useful for you.

The importance of your work as our aunt's counselor is not little.

You possess more titles and domains than any other man. Isn't it enough?

Or do you feel it a threat that I exercise power

if I do it in your service?

I mistrust you only in the measure as I mistrust everyone else.

I will not remain in the Court without any purpose.

What are you insinuating?

- Your Highness... - Are you bringing good news from Rome?

Not those that I wanted.

His Holiness emitted a bull of excommunication against Luther.

If he doesn't obey, you will have to arrest him.

Rome will intervene only in this case

to impede the alliance between the English and the French.

If the case comes I will order his arrest. But he will retract.

Is there a worse punishment to a believer than the excommunication?

Have you read his writings?

Luther denies that Rome mediate between God and men.

What kind fo value will he give to a threat which comes from someone

whose authority he doesn't respect?

Maybe he doesn't fear for his soul.

But the excommunication initiate a way which leads to a bonfire.

The germans considers him a hero.

And he has the favour of great men like Frederick...

Great men who has lived too much time

without the imperial authority.

My coronation will remind them what is their place and will finish with their audacity.

Salamanca, Segovia... The uprisings don't cease.

And with more boldness, since the King left.

If you thought that this flame would burn out alone, be sober.

If I don't act it is because the ruin of the Crown

impedes me to collect the army I need.

- Try to negotiate, then. - With what kind of power?

I should consult every detail with Charles.

While the couriers cross Europe the comuneros would acquire everything.

I need the help of the lords of Castile.

Only if they put their troops into the service of the Crown,

I will be able to appease the kingdom.

I will ask them. And urgently.

But the revolts have propagated because those who could have subdued them

didn't do it.

We should see if they agree now.

I followed him in secret.

After his meeting with Adrian, the duke visited several lords.

What happened?

The Crown looks for the favour of the nobility.

I doubt that they will win it for their cause.

The lords' dislike towards Charles emulates with ours.

The regent will do his all so that our uprising

appear to be a riot without any other purpose but to perturb the peace.

We want a correct government for Castile, not to recess it into chaos.

And that is how we proclaimed it.

They can contradict our words easily.

We need someone's help

whose legitimacy no good Castilian questions.

Queen Joanna.

- Did you want to see me, Your Highness? - Where are the lacking jewels?

And the money? Guarding this place doesn't give you any right over my goods.

I know about this theft, but I didn't dare to reaveal it.

Stigmatizing the King as a thief would have brought me problems.

How dare you accuse my son with such baseness?

I will order your arrest!

Respect the Queen, miserable!

- No! - Release Her Highness!

We found it in Moctezuma's treasury.

Sir, you were right!

It is much greater than we could ever imagine.

God has blessed our boldness with seas of gold!

If anybody puts his hand on it, I myself will cut it down.

Nothing but the promise of riches have made us follow you.

A promise which will be fulfilled. But not before governing this place.

Sir, there are millions of them! We will never be able to subject them!

It is a miracle every morning if we wake up. We live in fear of their attack.

Let's take the gold and flee to never return!

There's no greater conquest than that here.

If you have anything to be afraid of that is disobeying me.

Captain!

Captain!

Sir, bad news. Four of our men are dead.

- Who is responsible? - Moctezuma's emissaries.

Vile savage!

We'll be the next ones if we stay.

Find your swords and follow me.

Aachen

I arrest you in the name of the Crown de Castile.

While you offered us concord, your men assassinated ours.

I know nothing about that crime.

If what you say is right, I apologise.

4 lives cannot be payed with one apology.

While I make sure that they didn't follow your orders,

you will remain under my custody.

Nobody robs the Emperor's liberty!

After finishing your life off, I will avenge my men.

For every dead Spanish man, 100 Mexican will fall.

Place yourself under my custody:

you will have the best treatment and your people will have nothing to pay for.

- Take care! - Akmo.

Akmo.

What you have to say must be grave

to make me abandon my coronation party.

- How grave? - The rebels have taken Tordesillas.

They put themselves in our mother's service.

They would like her to rule. Without you.

Damned Adrian! How could he permit it?

Don't expect authority from someone who doesn't have it.

Adrian is a wise and loyal man.

And you govern too many domains to do it in person.

Your mistrust can cause you the losing of Spain.

Alright, alright! I will give him more power.

Don't lose hope, my lord. A little betrayals come from someone's own mother.

I have to write to Adrian. Alone.

I have kept her isolated because of fear of losing the throne.

I barely visited her, and if I did,

it was to take away her goods from her.

- Charles, have faith... - How could I have faith?

If she caves in, it will not be treason but a deserved punishment.

Everybody detests an old man's head on young shoulders.

That is what Erasmus taught me. But my head is young,

and I bring so much weight on my shoulders that they already bow like an old man's shoulders do.

Forgive my mistake, Your Reverence.

Fruit of the verdancy rather than of distrust.

Do what you believe to be opportune

in order to avoid that the rebels make us hostile with the Queen

or make her betray us.

- My beloved Henry. - Dear Francis.

The chroniclers will narrate this meeting throughout the centuries.

Two kingdoms, once enemies in a war of 100 years,

are celebrating their harmony now.

Fear, envy, greediness, hate and pride.

Let us eliminate them and we will have permanent peace.

Ah! Petrarca! But remember:

The most disadvantageous peace is always better than the most rightful war.

Erasmus. Accompany me.

Doesn't he make do even with the sky to remain above me?

A few years ago, we met to sign a peace,

supported by His Reverence.

Our mutual respect has not changed in any ways. But Europe has.

Let us seal this agreement today and be in safety against the new rivals.

May everyone know the the dauphin and my daughter will be man and wife one day.

Is there greater guarantee of constant friendship

than making official the engagement between our children?

We will be family. I thought this moment would never come.

You have pleased me with my most beloved sport.

I didn't know about that. To be honest, I have made them come to my pleasure.

I also love the fight.

- Do you practice it? - As many times as I can.

And you?

Why not?

- I remind you that he hates to lose. - Given the size,

I would bet on Francis, but a drunkan Englishman is unbeatable.

Blessed diplomacy, which will make it end in a tie.

We are leaving!

Your Highness, it was only a game. Let us return to the banquet.

- Win in magnanimity, at least. - He is dead for me!

You should feel your King's humiliation as yours.

If you can discern it at all which one you serve.

Spare me from it, mother. Besides, I have not risked anything. The agreement is signed.

But now, Henry would like break it.

I've come to check if you want for nothing.

Only the honour.

And I want to recover it.

The crime hasn't been clarified yet.

As if my fate depended on that!

How much gold do you want for my freedom?

Unfortunately, it is more difficult to satisfy me than my men.

I want you to declare yourself to be vassal of Castile

and govern this empire with you.

My offer won't change. Your authority over the Mexicans

will be less with each day you are spending under my custody.

Untill you can't even negotiate.

Prevent it...

and you will have good profit.

You put up his men and now his gods, too.

Be quiet. You should not humiliate them so that our men won't be annihilated.

- By some ten men? - By the Empire that stands behind them.

If we attacked, they would cross the ocean to avenge.

Your people would die happily by their swords.

Now they walk with their heads down.

They know that you are subjected by the invader and it burns them inside.

The end of what we know is written, Cuauht�moc.

I only try for that it won't be with blood.

My Emperor let himself to be treated like an animal?

They keep me down for night. They fear that I escape.

You lack the necessary pride to do so!

What do you want to do?

Stop!

It is a great honour that you accompany us. Preside our session, my lady.

Because you govern us.

With these words we make it known that we subject ourselves to you only.

And that you agree with it.

It pleases me that you seek the welfare of the kingdom against those abuse it.

And that you seek help in me.

But, before, I would like to hear you.

We wished for too much that the one who governs us listens to us.

Thank you for it.

She will sign. But, in the meanwhile,

I will let Regent Adrian know that we are with you.

It will be of great help, my lady.

No news from Castile?

It has been days since sleeping visited me.

I fear that I go to bed as king and wake up overthrown.

The couriers must have got lost in France by force.

They know about our problems and they will enlarge them this way.

Don't give up, Your Majesty. The one who is waiting for you should notice weakness.

Your Majesty. What an honour that the first audience

of the Emperor was given to me!

Compensate the privilege, serving me in what I have to ask.

You must know that Luther has not retracted his heresy yet.

The time has not run out yet. We have several days still.

Do you not deduce from his silence that he refuses to obey the order of Rome?

He is your prot�g�. Make him come to his senses.

The university is mine where he teaches, but not his soul.

Do you settle for less?

Luther will answer before your authority if it is decisive.

Do you not see that he endangers the peace in Germany?

Nothing troubles me more than the destiny of the Empire.

Then...

will you act thereby?

Don't have doubts.

Don't even think about deflecting.

Do you want me to risk my life for some ideas you don't even share?

I am as interested in relieving Germany of the abuses of Rome as you are.

We both share the same aim: that these lands will be sovereign.

My crusade at the service of your political longings...

And those at the service of your crusade!

The conjunction of these two will make the movement unstoppable.

But only one of us will be condemned to bonfire.

All that I aim to do depends on that what you started will not have an end.

Go ahead. And I will live to protect you.

I give you my word.

- News? - From Due�as.

The serves of the Marquis of Buend�a have rebelled against him.

And they have done it in our name. The example has spread over lordships.

- God is on our side... - You are wrong.

Those men put us in the emergency of recignizing their fight as ours

or we don't. In both cases, we will make a mistake.

We have to use them in order to gain other places!

Mar�a, if the enemy changes, our cause will go on the bust.

In order to overthrow a king, we need many men's anger!

And, in the heart of each one, a motive against their lord nestles.

In Due�as, the ire has caused a wind which blows in our favour.

Don't question the causes.

If we support them we make ourselves enemies with the nobles.

- And their benevolence has done us good. - It is not their benevolence what we need!

But pressure, to gain terrains. And we will obtain it from the people.

From their rage because of suffering from abuses and hunger.

I am fed up with session and waiting for the signature of that alienated queen!

What happened in Due�as, it was not in vain.

The hour of the attack has come.

The marquis of Astorga, the Count of B�jar,

the marquis of Villena...

Finally, at your service.

Protecting themselves under the skirt of the Crown,

now that the revolt threatens their goods.

They will have to serve me very well so that I forgive them.

The rebels have attacked Villalpando. What are your orders?

That the nobles should leave their castles

and give calm to the kingdom once!

I deny Rome!

The Pope promises the sinner the salvation of the soul

in exchange for money.

The indulgences are nets to fish

the men's riches!

Jan Hus

burnt on the bonfire.

And my words may provide me the same fate.

But listen to me, Antichrist of Rome!

Yours will be consumed before my flesh will!

That mad friar!

And that traitor of Saxony who protects him!

What do you think?

The Duke feeds the hate against Rome because he wants it for himself

what he has to share with the Pope until now.

The money of the taxes. And the properties of the Church.

Cutting himself adrift from Rome would put everything in his hands, but, before the people,

he is the defender of their sovereignty.

This way, if I arrested Luther, the Germans would see me as a tyrant

under the Pope's orders.

If you have the princes against you, the consequences will be fatal.

And if they answer by threatening the borders of Flanders?

If I lose the Pope's favour,

the threat of England and France will extend to all of my borders.

My lady,

the grands took an army to Villalpando.

Our men could do nothing against it.

Declare that the throne belongs only to you,

or the enemies of our cause will not stop until they annihilate us.

Sign it immediately, Your Highness! Or they will swoop down on us!

You will see yourself subjected again.

We raise a kingdom, we place it under your command.

We set you free, and you still have doubts?

You seem to be an undead like so many say.

- Leave! - We will defend

with our lives what would only have cost you a signature.

- Why, mother? - Do you want me to overthrow Charles?

He doesn't deserve your loyalty in anything.

Do you deny yourself the power that everybody has usurped from you.

Your husband, your father, and my brother!

And now the rebels!

I will not be a key to the ambition of others anymore.

Because of your absurd loyalty, we are going to be preys, henceforward.

Is that the punishment do you want for both of us? For me?

I cannot betray my own son.

Take me with you!

Take me! I beg you!

I will assume the expulsion of my relatives. Even the death, if that has to come.

It will be better than returning to the life I had.

The battlefield is my place.

Yours is to wait for the help of our victory.

When it comes true,

you will enjoy the dignity which was denied from you.

Do you promise? Even if the Queen never helps you?

I give you my word.

Go and win.

Your Highness.

Dear nephew and Caesar,

I regret to inform you that my husband,

the King of England, sealed grave agreements with France.

But I let you know that those were overshadowed by the behaviour of Francis,

whose infinite swagger hurt Henry very much.

Your visit is a pleasant surprise, Your Majesty.

It honors us to welcome the brand new emperor.

I am sorry then that I don't give you such satisfaction.

Because the one who shows himself before you is merely Charles, your nephew.

My dear aunt.

We barely had time to prepare anything to celebrate your arrival.

You are relieving me. The imperial glory is an annoying disguise,

and making a parade of it is a tiring imposture.

Get some rest.

We will meet you when you recover from the journey.

Thank you.

What Francis should envy from Charles is not his empire, but his behaviour.

You are right, Your Highness. However...

It is striking that who despises the glory

has ruined himself to get it.

Given that you don't like the Emperor, you don't have to put up with him.

I will dispense you from our meeting.

If I stopped talking to those who I don't like I would be a bad chancellor.

You are, when you suggest me agreements moved only by your ambition.

Use the pause to count the gold that arrives for you from France.

It saddens me that it is Francis and not Charles who has descendants.

I would have prefered to wed our little one with his son.

Your see a misfortune where there is place for profit.

They don't come back.

Do we still have jewels, mother?

What do you have on the brain?

If the rebels don't win,

there is a way to be free, without you falling into treason.

Let us escape!

- Where? - What does it matter?

With money, we will far away soon.

I am the Queen, I cannot escape.

We will return. But only when Charles has assured us a worthy life.

Forgive me.

I will not praise your beer, existing the English one,

but may God damn the French wine!

This is what I want:

that what I offer you would make what he suggested undesirable.

Tell me. I can eat and negotiate simultaneously.

Refuse the alliance he proposes.

I would, willingly,

but I would lose my daughter's engagement and I would regret that.

No, if it is not in exchange for another.

You know it well that I don't have a son.

But... there is you.

Do you want me to be engaged to Princess Mary?

She is barely 4 years old. I would have to wait a lifetime to marry her.

Francis plans to attack you.

He lives obsessed with your victoria.

His vindictiveness is irrational.

He is not King of France now, he is king against you.

I trust that you don't want to terrify me to gain my will.

Believe me.

Agree to our conditions.

And let us isolate the French with our agreement.

I accept happily to be your son. But, if Francis attacked me,

your troops would join mine to defend me.

Family is the bond,

politics the price.

So be it.

Your Majesty!

Where you see a lunch, a council takes place. You will have to wait.

I thought you would be glad to know that Tordesillas has been recovered.

He took away an empire from me and now he takes an ally.

What harm have I done to God to deserve Charles?

Did he obligate you to humililate Henry?

Only that put him in his favour.

My pride is not something that could separate me from my will.

It will be your doom, then.

No.

It will be the key to my victory.

Because only the one who refuses to lose

would dare to throw his troops against a whole empire.

I am introducing you the new Archduke of Austria,

my brother Ferdinand.

The title makes you greater but also entails duties on you.

The problems on these lands are grave ones.

Consequently, I need help to guard them while I am away.

And I entrust you with this.

Make yourself familiar.

I swear to obey and fulfill mandates of King Charles of Spain.

With the man who represents him here, Hern�n Cort�s, I will govern these domains.

I will stay true to my word if you do the same.

I've sworn to protect you from those who rebel against you. And I will.

And you will enjoy the greatest dignities.

Your subjects will not see humiliation in you.

I want their satisfaction because only that will maintain the peace.

Begin to satisfy them celebrating the festivity of the rains.

I will.

Do the women in your land also use flowers?

Yes,

but they shine thousand times less beatifully.

The flowers that are born there are bad weeds in front of those that ramp here.

When you talk about Castile, I imagine a scorched and sad country.

I may remember it with toughness.

But this is where love leads:

it disfigures what you knew before.

This land has enchanted me.

And you it.

Or you wouldn't have come to govern it.

In no other land I would do it with more pride.

I was right when I crossed the ocean and a thousand troubles to find my place.

The festivity of the rains.

Sir!

They have revolted. They seems to be obsessed with fraud! And our men even more do.

They believe the Mexicans are preparing it as a disguise to attack us.

What are you saying? Calm down their rage!

Too late. They are going to the palace now.

They want to acquire the treasury before they swoop down on us.

Make our men stop.

Is this the peace you would bring?

Sacking my treasury and opening my people's entrails?

It was a festivity!

I will punish the responsible ones with death.

But let us stop the chaos first that rules out there.

The whole city is a battlefield.

Should I deny them the right to revenge this massacre?

I subjected myself to you in order to impede this. I owe you nothing!

Will you permit that some ten of dead men would become thousands of them?

Or are the lives we can still save worth less than the lost ones?

Let us govern this empire! We cannot avoid our commandment!

Now less than ever!

The responsibles of this massacre will be offered to the gods.

And the rest of the Spanish will live apart. So that something like this could never occur again.

Now you know that there will be justice.

May the violence cease, then!

I am still your emperor. And, as such, you have to obey me.

I have seen their eyes.

- And they belong to traitors. - I was subjected to save you.

But what is it what you don't understand?

To save you!

Stop!

I promise you I will give the peace back to this place.

Your men will be mine.

- I give you my word. - Captain! The only possibility is to escape.

- They are swooping down on us. - We won't leave this place.

Either we escape or this will be our last escape.

Sir!

We had a word for your empire:

paradise.

Next time: I have decided to attack the Emperor on several borders.

Several threats are preying already upon our borders, Lord of Chi�vres.

They consider you the last obstacle which stands between them and the treasury.

Half of Spain has revolted against him.

And the German nobility is not going to prove themselves to be easy.

In Burgos, there are still many people who are loyal to our cause,

and we can recover it.

I thought I could soon tell His Majesty

that Castile was in peace again.

Padilla has reorganized his forces and it has encouraged the rebels.

The Pope wants to know why I have not done anything against Luther yet.

Promise me that we will see each other again.

- Tell me, father. - Promise me that you will not marry

until you have wedded your sister with the Emperor.

The war which sets us against each other can only end in one way:

with the victory of the Crown.

She is my wife, Maldonado!

The future of France is at stake.

You are asking me to criticize the King himself in a matter of war.

No one, except for God, should judge you.

I would like to return to Castile.

They want me to pay the wage of their armies!

Do you retract those writings?

Those who raise their sword against me or against any of my men, will die!

France is attacking us.

Here the agreement is.

Did you keep Lautrec's money?

A trap...

I have fallen into a trap!

Your Highness, we have the opportunity to win the war with only one battle.

I will intercede for you and I will do my best

to give you a worthy husband for the Queen of Portugal.

Who is the candidate with the most possibilities to succeed him?

You said yourself: either Caesar or nothing.

You! Do you dare to demand respect?