OTL Sigismund, King of Poland tried to marry Mary Tudor. If this marriage came to be, would England come into a personal union with Poland?
OTL Sigismund, King of Poland tried to marry Mary Tudor. If this marriage came to be, would England come into a personal union with Poland?
One of their hypothetical sons or grandsons might end up King of England though, down the line.No personal union.
Once Edward joins the choir invisible it'd be either Queen Regnant Jane or Bess.
Mary is half a world away ...
If the couple have sons that'd change things in Poland and Lithuania - most probably no PLC.
I think a son of Mary and Sigismund might marry Mary Queen of Scots as a ticket to the throne of England.One of their hypothetical sons or grandsons might end up King of England though, down the line.
I think a son of Mary and Sigismund might marry Mary Queen of Scots as a ticket to the throne of England.
Or imagine a male Mary, queen of Scots wedding the oldest daughter of Mary and Sigismund...
Sigismund Augustus as husband of Mary Tudor is entertaining (although unlikely idea) considering the fact, that IOTL Sigismund married his sister-in-law named Catherine, who happened to be close relative of the Emperor and whom he later tried to divorce, having no son with her, but failed to achieve annulment, despite threatening Pope with breaking with Rome. Sounds familiar?
Sigismund Augustus as husband of Mary Tudor is entertaining (although unlikely idea) considering the fact, that IOTL Sigismund married his sister-in-law named Catherine, who happened to be close relative of the Emperor and whom he later tried to divorce, having no son with her, but failed to achieve annulment, despite threatening Pope with breaking with Rome. Sounds familiar?
As an aside, the Polish aristocracy IOTL pressured Maria Louisa to change her name to Ludwika Maria, in keeping with a custom reserving the name Mary for the mother of Christ alone. This POD is before the Commonwealth formally formed, though, so could they pressure Mary Tudor to do the same?
[shrug] Maybe Mary Tudor has daddy issues ITTL?
Anyway, how would such a union physically work? How much time would Sigismund spend in England, if any? How much time would Mary* spend in Poland? Sigismund had better hope for multiple sons, to split up the domains a la Charles V.
At the risk of sounding corny, I like the idea
if only because it would, I’d like to think, have given poor Mary a happier life than the one she was saddled with.
ISTR reading that there WERE those in Poland-Lithuania who hoped Sigmund would follow Henry's example in regards to religion. And surprisingly, not all of them were Protestant
Could this mean that Spain can now use English, Lithuanian and Polish soldiers to aid the Habsburgs against the Ottoman Empire to reclaim all of Hungary if not all of the Balkans?