# 188 Metz - Principal cities: Metz, Thionville

owner = LOR
controller = LOR 
capital = "Metz"
is_city = yes
estate = estate_burghers
culture = burgundian
religion = catholic
hre = yes
base_tax = 6 
base_production = 6
trade_goods = iron
base_manpower = 5
add_core = LOR



discovered_by = eastern
discovered_by = western
discovered_by = muslim
discovered_by = ottoman


1467.6.15 = { add_core = BUR } # Charles the Bold ascends and lays claims on Lorraine
1475.11.30 = { owner = BUR controller = BUR capital = "Thionville" unrest = 5 } # Charles the Bold annexes Lorraine
1476.1.1 = { revolt = { type = nationalist_rebels size = 0 } controller = REB } # Lorraine revolts against Charles the Bold during the Burgundian-Swiss War
1477.1.5 = { revolt = {} owner = LOR controller = LOR capital = "Metz" remove_core = BUR unrest = 0 } # Charles the Bold dies and Lorraine is re-established
1551.4.10 = { controller = FRA } # Franco-Habsburg War (1551-1559): France takes Metz
1559.4.3 = { owner = FRA add_core = FRA } # Peace of Cateau-Cambrsis, France annexes Metz
1588.12.1 = { unrest = 5 } # Henri de Guise assassinated at Blois, Ultra-Catholics into a frenzy
1594.1.1 = { unrest = 0 } # 'Paris vaut bien une messe!', Henri converts to Catholicism
1636.7.10 = { controller = HAB } # Habsburg forces ravage North Eastern France
1636.10.24 = { controller = FRA } # Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar defeats the invaders and gradually pushes them back
1650.1.14 = { unrest = 7 } # Mazarin arrests the Princes Cond, Conti & Longueville, the beginning of the Second Fronde
1651.4.1 = { unrest = 4 } # An unstable peace is concluded
1651.12.1 = { unrest = 7 } # Mazarin returns from exile, Cond sides with Spain, situation heats up again
1652.10.21 = { unrest = 0 } # The King is allowed to enter Paris again, Mazarin leaves France for good. Second Fronde over.
1749.1.1 = { base_tax = 8 base_production = 8 } # Machault & the 5% tax
1806.7.12 = { hre = no } # The Holy Roman Empire is dissolved
