Matsberg Union
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The Matsberg Union (Mescon: Matsbergs Forbund, Valduvian: Matīspils savienība) was the name given to the personal union between Scovern and Platavia under the House of Lauberg and later Lauberg-MacIconnich between 1586 and 1714. It gets its name from the capital of Platavia at the time, Matīspils, known as Matsberg in Scovern. The union began after Platavian nobles invited Olav II of Scovern to take the Platavian throne in 1586, during a succession crisis that coincided with the highly destructive Amendist Wars. It played a crucial role in the latter stages of the war in the eventual establishment of Amendists' right to practice within the Rudolphine Confederation. After the unification of Scovern in 1611, the Matsberg Union became a significant polity in northern Euclean geopolitics.
[mid-17th c]
With the ascenion of Rorie I and II to the throne in 1696, his election as High King of Caldia brought Caldia into the personal union, now historiographically known as the North Sea Union. Significant religious pressure in Scovern led to the Renovatio Religiosae proclamation in 1697, diminishing the power of the king in religion. Clashes between Catholics and Amendists in the early 18th-century led to sizable instability in Scovern, which was inherited by Rorie's successor, his son Carl Frederik. Carl Frederik ruled for only three months in Scovern before he abdicated in favour of his Catholic brother Stephen, formally ending the union. Despite this, he continued to rule as King of Platavia until his own death in 1732.