Scenario: Elizabeth Tudor (b.1492) survives her childhood illness and marries Louis XII in 1514. Hijinks ensue.
Family Tree of Elizabeth Tudor to about 1600
Elizabeth Tudor,
Princess of England (b.1492: d.1549) m. Louis XII,
King of France (b.1462: d.1515) (a), Antoine,
Duke of Lorraine (b.1489: d.1544) (b)
1b) Marguerite de Lorraine (b.1517: d.1575) m. Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence (b.1510: d.1537) (a)
1b) Piero de Medici, Duke of Florence (b.1535: d.1560) m. Eleanora d'Este (b.1537: d.1581) (a)
1a) Ercole de Medici, Duke of Florence (b.1554: d.1579) m. Eleanora d'Este (b.1561: d.1637) (a)
2a) Stillborn Son (c.1556)
2b) Guila de Medici (b.1537: d.1603) m. Frederick of Brunswick-Luneburg (b.1532: d.1553) (a), Christopher, Count of Oldenburg (b.1504: d.1566) (b)
1a) Elizabeth of Brunswick-Luneburg (b.1552: d.1581) m. John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (b.1545: d.1622) (a)
1a) Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (b.1570: d.1575)
2a) Stillborn Son (c.1573)
3a) Julia Marie of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (b.1574: d.1649) m. Henri IV, King of France (b.1553: d.1610) (a)
1a) Louis XIII, King of France (b.1600: d.1621)
2a) Charles X, King of France (b.1601)
3a) Stillborn Daughter (c.1603)
4a) Nicholas, Duke of Anjou (b.1604)
5a) Stillborn Daughter (c.1606)
6a) Elisabeth, Princess of France (b.1609)
4a) Miscarriage (c.1576)
5a) Margaret Eleanore of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (b.1578: d.1606) m. Francois de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (b.1558: d.1614) (a)
1a) Stillborn Son (c.1604)
2b) Stillborn Daughter (c.1518)
3b) Henri II, Duke of Lorraine (b.1520: d.1562) m. Margaret of Austria (b.1522: d.1586) (a)
1b) Francois I Augustus, Duke of Lorraine (b.1541: d.1575) m. Sophia of Brunswick-Luneburg (b.1541: d.1631) (a)
1a) Henri III, Duke of Lorraine (b.1560: d.1589)
2a) Antoine II, Duke of Lorraine (b.1563: d.1609) m. Antoinette d'Orleans (b.1572: d.1618) (a)
1a) Stillborn Son (c.1589)
2a) Stillborn Son (c.1590)
3a) Antoine III, Duke of Orleans (b.1594: d.1611)
4a) Stillborn Son (c.1596)
5a) Henri IV, Duke of Lorraine (b.1598)
3a) Stillborn Son (c.1565)
4a) Marie of Lorraine (b.1567: d.1601) m. Charles, Count of Soissons (b.1566: d.1612) (a)
1a) Louis, Count of Soissons (b.1590)
2a) Guy de Bourbon (b.1594)
5a) Robert, Count of Lambesc (b.1569: d.1670) m. Catherine de l'Isle de Marivaux (c.1570: d.1608) (a), Guilia Marie della Roverre (b.1590: d.1651) (b)
1b) Benjamin de Lorraine de Lambesc (b.1610)
2b) Marie de Lorraine de Lambesc (b.1615)
3b) Stillborn Son (c.1616)
4b) Claude de Lorraine de Lambesc (b.1620)
5b) Stillborn Daughter (c.1622)
6a) Eleanore of Lorraine (b.1571: d.1571)
7a) Renee of Lorraine (b.1573: d.1597)
8a) Stillborn Son (c.1574)
9a) Sophia of Lorraine (b.1575: d.1628) m. Charles I, King of Scotland (b.1567: d.1599) (a)
- had surviving issue
2b) Stillborn Daughter (c.1543)
3b) Charles of Lorraine (b.1546: d.1546)
4b) Joanna of Lorraine (b.1548: d.1633) m. Francois de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (b.1543: d.1626) (a)
1a) Robert de Bonne, Duke of Lesdiguieres (b.1566)
2a) Jacques de Bonne (b.1569)
3a) Miscarriage (c.1570)
4a) Marie de Bonne (b.1573)
5a) Henri de Bonne (b.1575)
6a) Julianne de Bonne (b.1576)
7a) Marguerite de Bonne (b.1577)
8a) Stillborn Son (c.1578)
9a) Francois de Bonne (b.1580)
5b) Stillborn Son (c.1550)
4b) Charles, Count of Vaudemont (b.1522: d.1546) m. Juana de Toledo (c.1520: d.1582) (a)
1a) Stillborn Son (c.1539)
2a) Martin, Count of Vaudemont (b.1541: d.1592) m. Mary I, Queen of Scotland (b.1542: d.1591) (a)
1a) James, Duke of Rothesay (b.1563: d.1572)
2a) Marie de Lorraine, Princess of Scotland (b.1565: d.1610) m. Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria (b.1570: d.1602) (a)
1a) Stillborn Son (c.1590)
2a) Albert VI, Elector of Bavaria (b.1596)
3a) Charles I, King of Scotland (b.1567: d.1599) m. Christine of Hesse-Darmstadt (b.1578: d.1596) (a), Sophia of Lorraine (b.1575: d.1628) (b)
1b) Alexander I & IV, King of England, Ireland and Scotland (b.1598)
2b) Antoine of Lorraine, Duke of Albany and York (b.1599)
4a) Stillborn Son (c.1568)
5a) Stillborn Daughter (c.1569)
3a) Stillborn Daughter (c.1542)
4a) Isabel of Lorraine (b.1543: d.1543)
5a) Francois of Lorraine (b.1545: d.1545)
5b) Stillborn Daughter (c.1523)
6b) Philippa of Lorraine (b.1524: d.1525)
7b) Stillborn Son (c.1525)
8b) Elisabeth of Lorraine (b.1527: d.1552) m. Francois de Montmorency, Duke of Montmorency (b.1530: d.1579) (a)
1a) Anne de Montmorency, Duke of Montmorency (b.1550: d.1584)
2a) Marie de Montmorency (b.1552: d.1555)
9b) Francois, Count of Lambesc (b.1530: d.1561)
10b) Stillborn Son (c.1531)
11b) Marie of Lorraine (b.1534: d.1534)
Points about the family:
- The match between Marguerite of Lorraine (b.1517) and Alessandro de Medici obviously results in a slightly longer line that branch of de Medicis, ending in the male line in 1579 with the murder of Ercole de Medici at the hands of his bride's lover.
- Guila de Medici would go down in history as one of the most ambitious women in Europe's history. Convinced that, had her cousin Edward VI of England lived she would have married him (an idea based off one meeting with an ambassador in 1552 where the match was discussed casually in order to obtain a loan from Florence to England, despite Edward's betrothal to Elisabeth de Valois at the time), she found herself unhappily married to a younger son of a German Prince, partially mostly to remove her the matchmaking game after she attempted to seduce who she thought was her brother-in-law, the Duke of Ferrara, but was in actuality a member of his entourage, and partially because the Duke of Lorraine's son had become betrothed to the youngest daughter of the family and Piero de Medici, a man interested in maintaining that family bond, thought it smart to have his sister within that mix. Thus, she married the second son of a German Duke, was left a young widow with an infant daughter within a year of the wedding at 16 years old, and promptly married the Count of Oldenburg without her father's consent. It's likely her first pregnancy had left her infertile, as she produced no children by her second husband nor any lovers. Through her second husband, she managed to have her daughter meet and marry the youngest son of the King of Denmark, and after her death in 1581 of pneumonia, was allowed custody of her two granddaughters, bringing them to France into the household of Lorraine, where she positioned them well, successfully pitching her eldest granddaughter to the King of France in 1599, and her younger to the Prince of Conti.
- While she had been against it, Elizabeth Tudor grew to have affection for her son's wife, the bastard daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor. However, she had wanted him to marry the younger Princess of France, Marguerite. However, she would have been very happy to see her great-granddaughter become Queen of Scotland, and even happier to see her great-great-grandson ascend to three thrones as King of England, Ireland and Scotland. The Queen of Scot's elder sister, Renee of Lorraine, had been considered for Henri IV of France as his second wife until late 1597, when he spurned her due to her apparent physical frailty, which made the likelihood of children low. Just as well, as the poor girl died during the winter of that year, and an autopsy found she had a cancer of the lungs.
- The marriage of the Count of Vaudemont and Juana of Toledo was a love-match, against both families direct wishes but just solid enough that neither threw fits over it. It was, however, incredibly successful in one regard, as the fruit of that union married into a crown. Martin de Lorraine, Count of Vaudemont managed to woo the Queen of Scots in 1561, as part of her entourage back to Scotland. Tall, willowy and a poet by nature, the two would have a decade of good love before he ultimately turned on her. The souring was political, with Vaudemont converting to Protestantism in 1568, demanding her conversion and, in 1571, after she attempted to lead a rebellion against him, placing her under house arrest. The official reason given was that the rebellion was actually an attempt at forcing the Scottish people to convert to Catholicism, and with the Scottish nobles against her and an escape plan in 1572 failing, Mary was forced to abdicate for her second son Charles in early 1573, having lost her eldest to smallpox before the new year. Vaudemont made it his mission to maintain the order he had created, marrying his son to a Protestant girl in 1591 (ultimately a failure as she died having produced no heirs on his death and the King married a Catholic cousin in 1597) and gaining permission for his daughter to retain her Protestant religion when she married into the Catholic dynasty of Bavaria (again, a failure, as she converted by herself following his death).
- The Elector of Bavaria Joanna of Scotland married was the result of a match between the Duke of Bavaria and Joanna of Austria in 1565. He was one of three surviving sons of the match.
- The murder of Anne de Montmorency in 1584 left the line of Elizabeth Tudor's youngest daughter done only two generations in. Elisabeth of Lorraine, a sickly girl, died of childbed fever for a daughter that herself died in childhood. Her elder son never married, although he had become engaged to the widowed Duchess of Lorraine earlier that year (that match most likely wouldn't have produced children, but she was very wealthy and the man in question was extremely in debt).