habsburg wank

PREFACE Grand Collar of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece, established in 1430 by Philippe III, Duke of Burgundy, in order to celebrate his third marriage to Princess Isabel of Portugal. Having fallen out of disuse during the rule of Philippe's son Charles, the order was later...

What if Mary Tudor’s first pregnancy was real?

What would happen if Mary of Burgundy do not die in 1482?

What if Charles V married Mary Tudor (the elder) in 1515 and as consequence the Habsburg would be divided in three branches instead of the OTL two?

Foreward On the venerable source of wisdom that is TVTropes, there is a page entitled the “Sliding Scale of Alternate History.” This scale aims to explain the different approaches that authors take to works of alternate history fiction. On the one end is the hard alternate history; extensively...

This is part of a larger timeline I called "Habsburg Concord" which explores a world where the Habsburgs won the 30 Years' War, in this thread I want to explore how the Habsburg victory in the war would influence royal marriages in the 17th century and XVIII PoD takes place in November 1630...

Like it says on the tin. Could the House of Habsburg, assuming lots and I mean lots of things go right for them, plausibly impose their power over the principalities and electorates scattered throughout the HRE in the period starting with the onset of the Protestant Reformation and the ending...

What if Mary Tudor lived longer than OTL, causing the match between her stepson don Carlos and Elisabeth of France going ahead as originally planned? If Henry II still died in the tournament for Elisabeth‘s wedding and Francis II of France also died after a short reign, Marie Stuart would be...

What will happen if Edward, Prince of Wales died in 1540, followed shortly after by his devastated father? With Henry VIII dead in 1541, Catherine Howard would be the Dowager Queen, a young and rich widow free to remarry, while Mary Tudor will follow his father as Queen. In OTL Mary, after...

As usual work-in-progress tree, I will add later some info about events Ernest I of Austria, Holy Roman Emperor (b.1553) married Isabella Clara Eugenia of Austria-Spain (b. 1566) in 1584 Maximilian III, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1585) married Magdalene of Bavaria (b. 1587) in 1603 Archduchess...

With a PoD between 1559 (recognition of savoyard independence by Valois France) and 1848, how can we unite the Austrian kingdom with Savoy-Piedmont? How does this affect Italy as a whole, what with the Habsburgs controlling most of northern Italy (and possibly also southern Italy, if we can...

What if the Habsburg faction in the continent-wide struggle for Spain's throne after Carlos II's death had somehow won in the end? What are the overall effects on Europe? In my view, Britain was as wary of a surgent France (as per OTL) as of a resurgent Habsburg hegemony. Thus, i could...

Very simple: as per the title, make Habsburg austrian branch the dominant power in continental Europe by the 20th century. Rules: -POD must not be sooner than 30 years war. -Austria may, at any moment unify Germany, the HRE, or whatever you deem appropriate. -Bonus points if you don't mess up...

So for the first half of the Thirty years' war (1618-35) the Habsburgs had more or less won against every opponent they faced. They beat the German Protestants, the Danish and the Swedish and seemed well on their way to victory when the French intervened. After that the war stalemated and became...