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As says the title: WI Francis, the youngest son of Maximilian and Mary, who lived only little less then four months, had survived to adulthood? How could it affect Maximilian's plans for the marriages and alliances of the Habsburgs? Also, considering how odd was Mary's death, probably it would...

Something similar to Positivism was ought to be developed during the 19th century. You had several anticlerical, antimonarchical, rationalist, scientificist movements springing up in Europe during that age. In any society like Brazil or Mexico, where these ideas could be used as a rallying cry...

Is it? The causes of the conflict (religious conflict, taxation, centralization of power) would still be there. By the time it started IOTL (1566) the son of Philip and Mary would be only around 11, and Philip would have no reason to really change his policies until then. A rebellion is still...

So, with a living Mary married to Philip and a Prince of Wales born in 1555, who would inherit the Netherlands, how would go the Dutch Rebellion, if it still happens? Would the Protestants be even more persecuted? Also, I think that France would feel even more threatned, and try to help even...

Well, we would have the first Philip in England then. Henry would probably be out of question given the association to her father - and Edward too, she certainly wouldn't want to remember her brother. Is Richard already a taboo by then? Otherwise, the only option left from past monarchs is William.

I'm not so sure she would name her son as Henry, given how her father treated her and her mother. John probably would be an option (Charles too, honoring Charles V).

Calling the Roman experts here: if Nero had died before Claudius - maybe due to a disease or by accident, and around 40 AD, in order to not change too much the timeline - would the succession of Britannicus be uncontested? Or there would be more candidates pushing to be Emperor? Who could they...

What about Anne of Savoy? IOTL she married only in 1478 to Frederick I of Naples (who wasn't even the heir to the throne by then, only the third in line). A marriage to a king, even if from distant Scotland, would be a boost to the House of Savoy. She was a niece of Louis XI of France (her...

While I think that putting one one of Joseph's daughters (probably Maria Josepha) as queen of Spain would be sensible, I'm not sure it would be a solution accepted by France after the war was already going on. I wonder if she could be used in some kind of arrangement, like giving Spain and its...

I was reading about the War of the Spanish Succession and I've found this interesting piece of information about the Siege of Landau, the only military operation that then Archduke Joseph (later Emperor Joseph I) participated: So, WI Joseph had been shot instead of the gunner? How would it...

I think it fits the history of noble houses' names of half of Europe :closedeyesmile: You can always create something different, of course. I like the history that the Vasas created their surname from the vase in their coat of arms instead of the contrary. Maybe something similar could happen here?

Why not Bjalbo or Skanninge after their ancestral lands?

But he refuted her when he could be replaced by his brother. With Ferdinand dead in 1518 (three years before his OTL marriage to Anna) wouldn't the conditions be changed? Wouldn't it be a risk tô despise the Bohemian vote for the Imperial Election? Also, Charles IOTL also refuted Isabella of...

I think it depends on when Charles marries Anna. IOTL Beatrice was married before Isabella because the Aviz wanted to secure her to Charles. Even after he announced his engangement to Mary Tudor they kept trying it until they succeeded. They clearly wanted a great marriage to her, so probably...

Assuming that Charles marries Anna, is it more likely that Louis II would have more support from the HRE against Suleiman? Also, in this case, who could be the husband of Isabella of Portugal? She said that if she didn't marry her cousin Charles she would enter a convent, but it could be...

I was reading about the Emperor Ferdinand I and I found an interesting information about his short visit to the Irish harbour of Kinsale in June 1518, after the ships that were transporting him and his entourage were blown off course by a storm during his voyage from Spain to the Netherlands...

Assuming that her marriage would be arranged by William III, what about one his Nassau's relatives? Or maybe one of the brothers of Frederick I of Prussia (who was William's ally in the League of Augsburg against Louis XIV)?

Not exactly a WI, but I thought this one was the best forum to post it. I was reading about the suggested marriage of Joan of England to Al-Adil (the brother of Saladin) made by Richard I, and later I've read that Ismail Ibn Sharif, Sultan of Morocco, asked to marry Marie Anne de Bourbon, a...

I think it's a safe bet they would. By 1888 many leaders who in 1871 had opposed the "Free Womb Law" (that stated that all children of slaves born after that date would be freed) had already changed their political discourse to a pro-emancipation view (though many of them believed that there...

Certainly not. Emancipation kinda eliminated the last bastion of political Imperial support (the old plantation owner elite from Rio de Janeiro and Eastern São Paulo). The "new elite" of Western São Paulo was already Republican by then, as most of the other pillars that kept the monarchy (the...