lorraine

EDIT: after some delibiration I have decided to make this thread Plausibility Check instead of What If as it originally was. Probably the updated describtion fits much better to what I want this thread to be compared to the original one. Disclaimer 1: the idea of the PoD does not belong to me...

What if Charles the Bold had more than one daughter by Isabella of Bourbon? In particular what if Mary of Burgundy had an older sister and so was not her father‘s heiress presumptive?

An east-first strategy and a German defense in the west has been discussed before. Still, I like to discuss in more detail such an alternate battle of Lorraine. POD: At the outbreak of the First World War, instead of deployment plan "Aufmarsch II west", Germany implements the plan "Aufmarsch II...

After Charles II, Duke of Lorraine from House of Vaudemont, died without surviving sons he was succeeded by his older daughter Isabella, married to René of Anjou. HRE Sigismund was not very happy about French dynasty inheriting Lorraine, so were Charles II's cousins from cadet branch of...

Title lacks hyphen, but that is not mistake, as POD is not about Das Haus Habsburg-Lothringen. IOTL Emperor Frederick III seeks for wife with connections to Kingdom of Naples (IDK why, perhaps to strenghten his claim to Hungary?) and before he married Eleanor of Portugal (niece of Alfonso V of...

Would it be dependent or allied with France in this case?

As you well know, the Pragmatic Sanction and War of the Austrian Succession happen because Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor had at first no children and then only daughters. Suppose though his son, Leopold Johann, born just over a year before Maria Theresa had lived to adulthood? Say he lives to...

Maria Theresia, Queen of Hungary & Bohemia, Archduchess of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, only had her first son (Josef II) in 1741, after her father Karl VI had died the previous year. However, she'd had more than a few daughters (Maria Elisabeth (b.1737), Maria Anna (b.1738) and Maria...

Exactly as the title suggests, I'm curious about the future implications of Habsburg Artois and Franche-Comté after 1713. Tell me what you think!

There were some attempts to unite Burgundy and Lorraine in the persons of the respective title characters' grandkids (Nicolas and Marie), but it came to nothing. My question is why did a marriage between Philippe III (b.1396) and Isabelle, Duchess of Lorraine, never take place? OTL, Isabelle...

How would the ethnic situation look like by 1800 in Franche-Comté and Lorraine (and Elsas ofcourse), if France wouldn't have conquered them? Would the Franco-German language border be more to the West? What do you think? I'm asking this to figure out how determined was for the French the view...

In OTL, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, younger brother of HRE Francis, was married to Maria Anna of Austria (who died a year later after the marriage) and became the Governor-General of the Austrian Netherlands. (en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Charles_Alexander_of_Lorraine) My question...