philip ii

What if Charles V split up his vast domains differently? If instead of passing on Sicily, Naples, Milan and Spain to his son, he gave them to his brother Ferdinand. And instead of passing on the Holy Roman Empire to his brother, he gave them to his son Philip.

While Philip demanded various concessions from the Athenians as part of the peace treaty that was concluded after the defeat of the anti-Macedonian coalition in Chaeroneia, joining the Corinthian alliance and the war against the Persians wasn't part of any deal. Instead, it was Demades, one of...

In OTL, Don Carlos, Philip II's mad eldest son, had the project to flee to Netherlands and take control of it, against his father's wishes. However, his father put him under arrest and he died soon after in obscure circumstances. What if he had managed to flee to Netherlands? Would Dutch...

inspired by: https://www.alternatehistory.com/forum/threads/the-children-of-camelot.506739/ "In the last week of April 1555, Elizabeth was released from house arrest and called to court as a witness of the birth, which was expected imminently. Many physicians tended to the queen, and the king...

Basically what it says on the tin. If Philip of Spain needed to offer a proxy bride who'd be of childbearing age in the late 1550's or early 1560's who would he offer? It seems like he has two options, use one of his nieces, or a Spanish proxy. On one hand, his nieces aren’t really his to...

In our timeline despite Mary's best efforts she failed to become pregnant with a child of hers and Philip II of Spain's. She would die without an heir and Queen Elizabeth would become Queen. But what if instead of having no issue Mary had a single daughter (whom we shall called Catherine) who is...

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...

Now that I've got your attention out to say, but this happened IOTL! I am not talking about the actual Byzantine Empire and the Macedonian dynasty, but it occurred to me today just how many parallels that a hypothetical Macedonian Empire under a Philip II that survived assassination would have...

POD: The incident at Cleopatra Eurydice's wedding doesn't happen, and Alexander and his mother do not flee Macedonia for Epirus, while relations between Philip II and Alexander are restored enough that Alexander attends the wedding of Philip's daughter Cleopatra of Epirus to Alexander I of...

In 336 BC, Philip II of Macedon was assassinated by a bodyguard known as Pausanias. Afterwards, Alexander took the throne, and he quickly executed the remaining possible contenders to the Macedonian throne, spent 2 years stabilizing Hellas, and the rest is history. However, this was very unusual...

Basically, what if, for some reason, Philip II of Spain decided to do a Henry VIII and break with the Pope and declare himself the head of the Church in Spain and the Low Countries around the early years of his reign?

In 358 BC, Philip II of Macedon embarked on a campaign against Bardylis, the king of the Dardanians, to recover areas of Upper Macedonia. In OTL, the battle of Erigon Valley neutralized the immediate Dardanian threat and gave Philip II much needed breathing room to concentrate on other threats...

OOC: This is a DBAHC, where we present an AHC from somebody in an alternative world’s perspective. This would be really difficult to do, but could you find a way for the kingdom of Macedon to not only survive, but be wanked. Macedon had to suffer centuries of civil wars, foreign invasions, and...

Philip II of Macedon is widely credited for transforming Macedon from an irrelevant backwater into the premier military power of all of Hellas. He is known for his military reforms, which essentially created the Hellenistic model of warfare used by Alexander and his successors, and for his...

The Anglo-Spanish War (1585 - 1591) was held as the beginning of the end of The Protestant Heresy. After the execution of Mary Stuart, the rightful Queen of England and Scotland, King Philip II of Spain vowed to invade England and place a Catholic monarch on the throne, so he commissioned a...

I half-heartedly apologize if this topic has already been discussed multiple times before, but i'll say it anyway. As we all know, Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa's last venture was his campaign in the Third Crusade. After defeating the Seljuks, he drowned in a river, his army...

Far less well know then the Spanish Armada of 1588 the English Armada of 1589 sought to take advantage of its defeat to cripple Philip II sea power, by sinking the ships having made it back to Spain while they where at port being repaired, and causing a revolt in Portugal in favour of Antony...

If the title's a bit vague, I'm sorry. But basically what I'm wondering, several people took a stab at the Netherlands governorate/leadership over the course of the latter half of the 16th century - Habsburg (legitimate and illegitimate, Austrian and Spanish), Valois, Farnese, Alba, the earl of...

So as I was glancing through Wikipedia, it seems at a certain point Charles V thought to wed Maria to Philip II before deciding to pursue Mary of England. Assuming Philip marries Maria, how does this affect things? Who does Mary I wed? How will this affect Anglo-Spanish relations? What becomes...

OTL, Felipe II’s only marriage that gave him more than one son was his last marriage, which also just happened to be his niece. Unfortunately, only one of these boys survived, and later became king of Spain as Felipe III. The boys were: Fernando (b.1571, d.1578) Carlos Lorenzo (b.1573...