philip the handsome

Assuming the Hapsburgs don't get Spain, and so his death is butterflied away. I know Maximilian was trying to reorganize the Empire's government, but died before it was completed, and Charles never had the time to invest in Imperial reforms. By the time the Hapsburgs were able to pay attention...

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...

As I remember after the remarriage of her father, Eleanor of Austria was betrothed to John III of Portugal and married John III, Eleanor was sworn in as Princess of Asturias after the death of her mother, what would be the situation if Joanna's son, Charles survives infancy and Joanna surviving...