low countries

It's time for the long awaited (hopefully) rewrite of my original TL, Kingdom-Building: A Valois-Bourgogne TL. The first chapter will be posted soon.

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...

My university library was giving away some old books and I managed to get some for myself. One book is titled "Before the Armada" written by R. B. Wernham and published in 1966. It was a detailed account of English foreign policy in the Tudor period. finished reading that some time ago and...

Just need a few ideas for a plausible way to unite the low countries under a nation that has Frisian as the most spoken language. POD can be any year, it just has to be something that lasts into the modern age as well. Bonus points if it owns land down to Alsace, if plausible.

Chapter I. Para Bellum Jan Frans Vonck and his faction within the Austrian Netherlands, the Vonckists are arrested by austrian authorities, in the years leading up the 1789 Brabantine Revolution. Meanwhile, Henri Van Der Noot, is in exile in the Dutch City of Breda, and is amassing an army of...

Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy (1433 –1477), wanted the Burgundian state to become a kingdom. How do you think he could have achieved this? He needed full autonomy from both the Holy Roman Emperor and the king of France. Do you think with this full autonomy, Burgundy could have become even...

So as I was contemplating life and philosophy, I suddenly came upon a random althistory idea that I felt the need to explore: What if the fates of the Southern (Belgium) and Northern ("Holland") Netherlands were to be reversed? As in, the Spanish successfully reconquer the Northern Netherlands...

What is the earliest point at which the Low Countries can be a unified, independent state? And how would this be accomplished? Ideally, I'm searching a way that leads to an independent state (so no unification under a foreign power) where Old or Middle Dutch is the main language or at least...

So, I’ve been reading the Fall of France and it really seems like the Allies lost due to a huge strategic blunder. That being rushing into the Low Countries and being completely cut off through the Ardennes. The best and most well equipped Allied divisions being annihilated or abandoning their...

September 1495 The news spreads quickly. Philip of Austria, Duke of Burgundy is dead at 17 years old. The only son of the Holy Roman Emperor and the Duchess of Burgundy, he was a young man of great promise. Philip had inherited Burgundy from his mother at only four years of age, with his...

Is there anyway France could control all of the Low Countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, and Luxembourg) permanently before the Revolution? I imagine a different partition of the Carolingian empire or if Louis XIV was devoted to that single goal could go a long way. What would some of the...

During the 14th century, the territory of the duchy, like today, was small by current standards. The dynasty that ruled it however, the House of Luxembourg, was far from insignificant. It provided three Holy Roman Emperors during the 14th century, Kings of Bohemia and Hungary, and Archbishops of...

So I'm having fun with a TL where Spain's endeavours in the New World go a little less well than OTL, meaning that Spain has less silver going into its coffins, and so that it cannot hold on to the United Provinces/Nethelands/Low Countries as long. So what if the Dutch Republic managed to get...

So what if to smooth things over even more between the Habsburgs & William the rich (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_Duke_of_Jülich-Cleves-Berg), someone insists that Amalia of Cleves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalia_of_Cleves) weds Charles V. I know Charles had a deep love for his...

Say Maximilian II compels Rudolph II to marry early to Maria Eleonore of Cleves and suggest that Isabella Clara Eugenia wed Ernest of Austria instead with a set up similar to her OTL marriage to Albrecht. Now I know Philip II of Spain only made those arrangements because Rudolph didn't honour...

While I doubt their naval dominance can last indefinitely, I wonder what needs to be changed so that the Dutch don't go from major power to completely minor at the start of the 19th century. From what I understand a lot of funding went to maintaining the land force to protect against French...

In the 14th century the states of the Low Countries went through several dynastic changes that eventually resulted in the Valois-Burgundy inheriting everything. These are the ones I know about: The county of Hainaut: Willem IV, Count of Hainaut was married to Jeanne, eldest daughter of the...

After spending his whole reing struggling to control his enormous empire, Charles V decided to split his inheritance between his son and his brother, leaving the Spanish Crown(s) with the lions share of both his German (or rather dutch) and Italian lands. This would go on to cause a lot of...