angevins

John I of England would decide not to meddle to the business of the Lusignans as it may inflame the conflicts with France and not to bother ally with the Count of Angouleme as he knew what they did with his mother, Eleanor. On 1200, John I of England would decide to marry a Portuguese Princess...

On William X of Aquitaine’s return from his pilgrimage of Santiago de Compostella, he would reveal that he had already remarry to Almodis of Barcelona, such marriage would produce another son named William of Santiago de Compostella on 1138 who was conceived after their wedding, and another...

Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Sagan and her second husband, Rudolf of Austria The unlikely survival of a duke and the unhappiness of a queen are two different things, but what happens when those two different things are brought together by fate? How would the world change? To answer those questions, we...

In OTL from 987 to 1316, the Kings of France had a stable Father to Son succession until the death of John I. However it almost happened earlier when Louis VII had trouble getting an heir. In OTL, Louis VII of France (1120-1180) married a) Eleanor, Duchess of Aquitaine (1122-1204) in 1137, b)...

In our timeline, King Philippe II Augustus f France was able to take Henry II's Angevin Empire on the Continent with helps from Henry's own sons Richard and John. However, in an alternate timeline, what would happen if Richard I also predeceased Henry II and Philippe II predeceased his father...

What if Henry II of England died much earlier than OTL, between 1470 and 1474, either before or at the start of the first rebellion of his sons? Henry would become Henry III of England, while both Richard (who would marry Alys here) and Geoffrey would be able to rule their lands independently...

Long story short: what if Edmund (OTL earl of Lancaster and Leicester), second son of King Henry III of England, becomes King of Sicily in 1263? Long story long: OTL, Emperor Frederick II, who was also the King of Sicily, managed to make himself an enemy of a long list of Popes. When Frederick...

OTL, the 1280s were an unmitigated disaster for the Sicilian Angevins: first, war with Aragon in the form of the Sicilian Vespers breaks out in the spring of 1282, losing Charles of Anjou the island of Sicily (at the time, no one knows this loss will be permanent); then his son and heir, Charles...

In OTL Empress Matilde was very close to die, while giving birth to her second son Geoffrey. What if she effectively died in that childbirth? Geoffrey would be free to remarry to Eleanor of Aquitaine (her father has no need to give his daughter and heiress as ward to the French King if he can...

What if William, the eldest son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine, lived and inherited the lands of both his parents? The younger brothers would all need to marry heiress and that can end with Richard being sent in Jerusalem for marrying princess Sibylla, who was her brother’s heiress...

On 1186, after Geoffrey died, Constance, duchess of Brittany would have a miscarriage, leaving his daughters, Eleanor and Matilda as his surviving children. On Spring of 1187, Constance of Brittany is married to her former brother in law, John with papal dispensation by Henry II of England...

Basically, the situation is that the Crowns of England and France are united but both are disputed to the extent that the AngloFrench dynasty have neither Northern England nor Southern France (which are under rival claimants). How do we get here? What's the status of Wales, Lordship of Ireland...

Louis d'Anjou, King of Poland and Hungary, had 3 daughters with his wife Elizabeth of Bosnia, two of them-Mary and Hedwig, outlived him and succeeded in Hungary and Poland. But what if Louis and Elizabeth had one more daughter (say Elizabeth, named after mother, born around 1376)? Obviously...

Joanna I of Naples married James IV, claimant to the throne of Majorca, in September 1363, when she was in her late 30s. Lets assume, that this marriage (her third) happens to be more fruitful than IOTL and next year their son (Charles? Robert? James?) is born. What are consequences? Joanna...

In 1390 archbishop of Arles attempted to kill Ladislaus of Naples, but Ladislaus recovered from his poison, say he didn't. So with his death male line of first Capetian House of Anjou is over. At the time throne of Naples was contested between Ladislaus and Louis d'Anjou, uncle of Charles VI of...

As title says-Charles Robert has a son (Charles) born from his Luxembourg wife (who dies roughly like IOTL, just from different reason-in childbirth). Thus Charles Robert still marries Elizabeth of Poland (say that their offspring is roughly like IOTL). What does it mean? Charles Jr is heir to...

https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/wi-angevin-kingdom-of-albania-persists-remains-joined-to-naples.415943/ A year ago, there was this thread on a successful Angevin Albania after a reverse outcome at the Siege of Berat, and i just wanted to revive the discussion. So, suppose that...

So, what would be the best/simplest way to achieve a Navarre under a Plantagenet (not necessarily the King or heir of England) while still generating an analogue of the Hundred Years War?

A brief history lesson In OTL, Mary of Hungary, the daughter of Louis I, became the first ruling Queen of Hungary, due to a lack of suitable male heirs. Her mother, Bosnian-born noblewoman, former queen consort of Louis and now widow, Elisabeth Kotromanić, had something of a regent-like position...

This is a Slovak/Hungarian medieval POD that's been kicking around in my head for several years now. For info on the Battle of Rozhanovce, click here, here and here. In OTL, at one point in the battle, king Charles I.'s troops were overwhelmed. It got so bad that even the king's standard...