A different husband for anne of Austria

So, this is something I've been pondering for a while, in her marriage contract to Louis xiii, it was stipulated that should anne of Austria die a childless widow she would return to Spain and retain her inheritance rights and her dowry.

My question is this, say that Louis xiii dies in the 1610s without consummating his marriage, thus leaving anne a childless widow, who then does Anne marry? Louis brother? Or could Charles I be a possible contender?
 
So, this is something I've been pondering for a while, in her marriage contract to Louis xiii, it was stipulated that should anne of Austria die a childless widow she would return to Spain and retain her inheritance rights and her dowry.

My question is this, say that Louis xiii dies in the 1610s without consummating his marriage, thus leaving anne a childless widow, who then does Anne marry? Louis brother? Or could Charles I be a possible contender?

Whichever one that her brother, the King of Spain, thinks would make the best alliance to have. I can't remember if Gaston was unwed at this point, I do know that Charles I had one of his courtiers sniffing around Spain for a wife, in yet another self-inflicted wound upon his reign in 'Britain'.

If Charles I does marry Anne of Austria then his children would have good claim on Spain... Even while the Stuarts in the personal union of England and Scotland are barreling towards a civil war, mostly of King Charlie's making.

If either RLs Charles II or James II takes the Spanish throne and become Catholic then they can kiss their chances of getting the British Isles goodbye.
 
Whichever one that her brother, the King of Spain, thinks would make the best alliance to have. I can't remember if Gaston was unwed at this point, I do know that Charles I had one of his courtiers sniffing around Spain for a wife, in yet another self-inflicted wound upon his reign in 'Britain'.

If Charles I does marry Anne of Austria then his children would have good claim on Spain... Even while the Stuarts in the personal union of England and Scotland are barreling towards a civil war, mostly of King Charlie's making.

If either RLs Charles II or James II takes the Spanish throne and become Catholic then they can kiss their chances of getting the British Isles goodbye.

Alright very interesting, would the age difference between Gaston and Anne not be a bit of a problem?

Secondly, on the point of Charles I, whilst he did play a big hand in it, if Parliament had actually decided to give the money for the war they so desperately wanted, maybe he wouldn't have had to do the things he did.
 
Alright very interesting, would the age difference between Gaston and Anne not be a bit of a problem?

Secondly, on the point of Charles I, whilst he did play a big hand in it, if Parliament had actually decided to give the money for the war they so desperately wanted, maybe he wouldn't have had to do the things he did.

It depends on how important the Franco-Spanish marriage alliance is, if it's really important then Anne is going to have a lengthy betrothal while she waits for Gaston to grow up enough to 'consummate' the marriage.

If it's secondary, or an alliance that could be switched up, then Philip IV might decide that having his sister marry the King of a land of Protestant heretics is worth it.

And a point of digression, I know there were a lot of factors that led up to the English Civil War, but I have little to no sympathy for Charles I. He was a feckless, spoiled, autocratic fool who brought his nation, his people, and his own family to the brink of an abyss. He doesn't deserve to be called 'Charles the Martyr' he should be called 'Charles the Fool'.
 
It depends on how important the Franco-Spanish marriage alliance is, if it's really important then Anne is going to have a lengthy betrothal while she waits for Gaston to grow up enough to 'consummate' the marriage.

If it's secondary, or an alliance that could be switched up, then Philip IV might decide that having his sister marry the King of a land of Protestant heretics is worth it.

And a point of digression, I know there were a lot of factors that led up to the English Civil War, but I have little to no sympathy for Charles I. He was a feckless, spoiled, autocratic fool who brought his nation, his people, and his own family to the brink of an abyss. He doesn't deserve to be called 'Charles the Martyr' he should be called 'Charles the Fool'.

Alright this is true, hmm interesting, what would Gaston and Anne's relationship be like?

This is true on some accounts, if he'd had a bit more sense, Parliament would've been fucked, and the world would've been better for it.
 
There was a marriage offer before her marriage to Louis in 1615, extended by Wladyslaw IV of Poland. At that time he was still also Tsar of Russia as well as crown prince of Poland. The reason that he proposed to Anne was because the emperor had no available daughters and his father wanted him to have a Habsburg wife. However, given Anne's OTL obstetrical record and Wladyslaw's OTL low rate of fathering kiddies, it might cause more problems than it solves.
 
There was a marriage offer before her marriage to Louis in 1615, extended by Wladyslaw IV of Poland. At that time he was still also Tsar of Russia as well as crown prince of Poland. The reason that he proposed to Anne was because the emperor had no available daughters and his father wanted him to have a Habsburg wife. However, given Anne's OTL obstetrical record and Wladyslaw's OTL low rate of fathering kiddies, it might cause more problems than it solves.

Oh that's interesting, though I've also read there were some other incidents that led to Anne's various miscarriages etc
 
Oh that's interesting, though I've also read there were some other incidents that led to Anne's various miscarriages etc

Not saying there wasn't. I'm just saying that in the unlikely event that her OTL obstetrical history follows her to Warsaw, and she produces a living son only in 1638, he's still going to be too young to succeed Wladyslaw at his dad's death, which means that Jan II likely succeeds (although the 1648 election was between Jan and his only surviving brother, Karol Ferdynand, OTL), and Jan did quite a bit of damage to the image of the king IIRC, leading to the chances that this boy follows Jan in 1668 being slim. Although a way past this might be that Jan is forced to stay a cleric - or that he loses the election to his brother. Karol Ferdyand was leader of the 'War Party' at the court, and by his OTL death in 1655 Wladyslaw and Anne's son would be seventeen. Old enough that he knows his own mind, that the Sejm doesn't have to worry about anyone sliding their feet under the table. However, this is in theory.
 
Not saying there wasn't. I'm just saying that in the unlikely event that her OTL obstetrical history follows her to Warsaw, and she produces a living son only in 1638, he's still going to be too young to succeed Wladyslaw at his dad's death, which means that Jan II likely succeeds (although the 1648 election was between Jan and his only surviving brother, Karol Ferdynand, OTL), and Jan did quite a bit of damage to the image of the king IIRC, leading to the chances that this boy follows Jan in 1668 being slim. Although a way past this might be that Jan is forced to stay a cleric - or that he loses the election to his brother. Karol Ferdyand was leader of the 'War Party' at the court, and by his OTL death in 1655 Wladyslaw and Anne's son would be seventeen. Old enough that he knows his own mind, that the Sejm doesn't have to worry about anyone sliding their feet under the table. However, this is in theory.[/QUOTE

Alright interesting, that would certainly change a lot of things for Poland.
 
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