feb 5, 420 - Death of Matis V (420)

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The death of Matis V at 22 years of age threw the Empire of Cantegeszo into utter turmoil. No less than 4 claimants - his brother, his uncle, his legitimate eldest son, and his bastard son - all gathered legions to their cause and took up arms to seize the imperial throne by force.

The destructive warfare that followed was only worsened by the ongoing Plague of Matis, which helped increase the death toll of the Second Imperial Succession Crisis until manpower shortages caused an economic recession, and later on several famines.

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