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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?