margaret of austria

The POD here is that in the New Year of 1491, Anne of Brittany dies of a bad case of the flu, and is succeeded by her cousin Jean as the ruler of Brittany (IIRC the Rohan were the next in line). This results in Charles VIII honouring his betrothal to Margaret of Austria, and marrying her in...

What if Miguel of Portugal survived to his OTL death, and became adult inheriting Castile from his grandmother, Aragon from his grandfather and Portugal from his father? And if he married a surviving Madeleine of Navarre, who would eventually become heiress of her mother’s kingdom as Ferdinand...

Chapter 1 - The Search for a Second Wife Archduchess Margaret of Austria, the daughter of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian and the sister of Duke Philip Burgundy, would arrive in the Habsburg Netherlands in 1499 a widow. Margaret had been married to the heir to the Spanish...

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...

The death of Juan of Castile in 1497 ruined the plans laid out by his parents and led to the unwanted rise to the Spanish crowns by the Habsburgs down the line. Let's suppose that Philip somehow dies in 1497 and Juan survives his illness, long enough at least to sire at least a son and a...

Chapter One: A New Hope December 8th, 1497 Alcalá de Henares Madrid, Kingdom of Castile The chapel in the Archbishop of Toledo's palace was silent as a crypt, save for the quiet prayers of its sole occupant. Shafts of winter moonlight slanted through the stained-glass windows, reducing the...