As @Kellan Sullivan told you name of kids are weird (daughters would have Maria as first name and as second/third: Elisabeth/Isabella, Theresa, Christine, Anna, Amalia, Caroline, Antonia, Josepha, Johanna, Victoria, possibly Margaret, Eleanor and Magdalena) and Mariana would not have any of her kids marrying in France if she can prevent it (and truly she had very good reason for that) AND France will not shop in Austria for brides now (matches for Louis XVI can be princesses of Spain, Portugal, Saxony or Bavaria). Austria will look to Bavaria, Saxony, Spain, Portugal, Naples, Lorraine, Tuscany, Modena, Savoy or Parma (but can take in consideration also German Protestant princesses for the boys) for matches (Naples is really likely if OTL Charles III of Spain is King of Naples after marrying Leopold’s sister Maria Theresia).Alrighty, just sketching out Habsburg TL here:
*Son of Louis XV
- Leopold II (1716-1783) m. Mariana Victoria of Spain (1718-1781)
- Friedrich IV (1738-1808) m. Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1739-1804)
- (I couldn't resist) Karl Franz I (1757-1826)
- Elisabeth Christine (1762-1832)
- Maria Claudia Johanna (1738-1800) m. Louis XVI* (1729-1789)
- Here be Bourbons (too lazy to write them in)
- Gabriela Augusta (1743-1745)
- Heinrich Maximilian (1746-1819)
- Ferdinand Wilhelm (1754-1821) m. Maria Amalia of Saxony (1757-1831)
- Antonia Carolina (1774-1838)
- Anna Isabella (1775-1836) m. John VI (1767-1826)
The main POD here is Charles VI's eldest child, Leopold Johann, surviving his infancy and becoming Holy Roman Emperor. Another one I threw in was OTL Louis XVI's father surviving his brush with smallpox. This is still a major work in progress, so feel free to critique as you wish.
Claudia, Gabriela, Augusta, Friedrich, Wilhelm, Henrich are simply not Habsburg names (and ATL neither Francis is).
Habsburg boys will be called Charles, Leopold, Ferdinand, Maximilian, Johann (Anton, Stephen, Rudolf, Matthias, Albert, Philip, Francis, Wenzel, Sigismund, Peter, Alexander can be used as second/third names or for younger boys as first two/three will have more traditional names)
(Edit: I know who existed an Archduchess names Claudia, who was the second wife of Leopold I but her name came from the Medici’s side of the family so do not count as Habsburg name)
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