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Margret of Flanders' marriage to Phillip the Bold in 1369 was one of the, if not the most important dynastic union of the 14th century. It laid the groundwork for the rise of the Burgundian state and the unification of the Low Countries as a political entity. But, who are some other possible...

What would have been the fate of the Low Countries if they had not been unified by the house of Burgundy? Would they have stayed divided as they had been for most of the Middle Ages or would another power come along and pull the various principalities together into a major state? I've been...

What if Charles the Bald had not been born to Louis the Pious by his second wife Judith? Charle's birth really through a monkey wrench into the division of Francia. Without his birth, could we see a more stable division? Could we see Austrasia and Neustria stay united? I have always wanted to...

This is my new timeline about a France in the late Hundred Years War. Things will diverge rapidly after the POD. Without further ado: Chapter 1: Sad Tidings Part 1: A Bridge too Far Paris, October 1419 The Duke of Burgundy walked the streets of the capital with haste. Armed men surrounded...

What if Enguerrand VII had a son, either with his first wife Isabella of England or his second wife, Isabelle of Lorraine? I think it would be more interesting to have a Coucy who was a grandson of Edward III. He did in fact have a bastard son. What would the effects of a surviving Coucy...

What if Edward the Black Prince had not had the disease that caused his death? He was sick for many years before he died in 1376. Could the French reconquest of Aquitaine have been prevented with such an excellent battle commander in charge? What would his reign in England have looked like? Scipio

Phillip the Good and Charles the Bold both sought crown to confirm their dominance of the Low Countries. For various reasons, neither succeeded. However, what would this title have been? I was thinking either King or Archduke of the Low Countries, however it really depends who would give the...

What are everyone's favorite medieval timelines on this site? Mine is the now defunct "Raptor of Spain." I also really like "Eagles and Hawks," "Isaac's Empire," and "The Song of Roland." Also, what qualities make a medieval timeline good in everyone's opinion. Scipio

The Franks as an early modern people really interest me. They are in my opinion the most influential of all the Early Middle Ages (500-800ish in my opinion) peoples. Their impact in creating modern Europe is huge. France, obviously, claims to be the successor to Francia, yet it speaks a romance...

I have decided to start another thread to discuss the evolution of the French language in my new timeline "The Great Flame of France" (see sig). In this timeline, the House of Burgundy will come to rule France around 1400, joining the territories of Flanders and the Duchy and County of Burgundy...

I have wanted to start a timeline ever since I first came to alternatehistory.com. I have always been captivated by different writers' ability to create new worlds, as well as the skill with which they tell their stories. This is my first attempt at a timeline. I have been doing research for...

What geopolitical conditions would facilitate the continued germanic settlement west. The linguistic frontier between germanic and romance languages moved very far west during the post-Roman period, but then stabilized during the middle ages and was eventually even pushed back slightly in modern...

Is it possible, with a POD after 1964 defeat of Goldwater in the presidential election, to have a conservative resurgence in America? The 1964 election is widely considered to be the death of conservatism in America, although the downward trend began with the Great Depression and New Deal, but I...

I am very interested in alternate history and ever since I joined this site I have wanted to start me own timeline. However, up until now my knowledge of history was not very specific, so I have been doing a lot of reading on history. French history is by far my favorite, and I have recently...

It has always seemed odd to me that America never had a strong socialist or social democratic party. From a high water mark in the early part of the century, socialism was completely dead and villanized by the 1950s. So what POD would be needed for America to have a strong socialist part like...

What would have happened if Eleanor of Aquitaine had given Louis VII a son before their annulment, or they had not gotten their marriage annulled and she had had a son later on (which she was obviously capable of doing). How would France have evolved compared to England? I'm guessing more...

This is a question that's been bobbing around my head for a while: How would the Frankish territories have evolved if Charlemagne had not conquered so much and been crown Emperor? I have an idea that if he had been a less successful conqueror, maybe only taking Saxony, Bavaria and the Spanish...

The ending to the investiture controversy seems to have really weakened medieval european monarchs. How could it have gone differently, not happened at all or in some way lead to european monarchs not losing their power to the church? What would the short and long-term effects of this be? I feel...

Hello everyone, I was wondering: how would the First French Republic survive as a stable and democratic great power. If it could keep its borders after the war of the first coalition that would be best. Scipio