1429-1459 : Richard VI, le Prince tres Catholique

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In 1429 Richard VI succeeded his mother Marie Iere de Normandite and united Normandite and Nouvanjou.

Vinlanders have never shown themselves to be particularly proselytizers. They never tried to impose Catholicism on the natives.

The first to have done so was Jean I of Texcoco, to better supervise the populations and protect them from the settlers. The English continued his work then Marie Ière from the 1390s.

But it is still very incomplete in 1429 (barely 10% in Chimu) and Richard VI intends to generalize it. Monasteries are created everywhere to train many religious in Indian beliefs. As Normanditey lacks religious, it will recruit them in France, in Italy.

In 10 years more than 10,000 monks and priests are recruited and sent to the regions already controlled or to convert isolated tribes with more or less success.

It is in the region populated by Guaranis that the monastic colonies will have the most success.
Very remote, it attracts few settlers and its natives are receptive to missionaries. This region is on the border with the Castilian colony of Pernambuco which must be contained.

Richard VI will then finance the creation of about thirty monastic colonies which in 1460 bring together 150,000 Indians supervised by 300 monks and 2,000 settlers.

The Indians are then protected from the colonists, especially slave traders, finance the colony and meet the objectives of expansion of the Holy Faith.