A Habsburg Brittany?

Just a curious scenario I was thinking of...
Duke Francis II of Brittany does not die in a hunting accident in 1488, but instead goes on to live another decade. Wishing to preserve the independence of his duchy, he has his only surviving child and heiress presumptive, Anne, wed to Emperor Maximilian I's son, Philip the Fair, seeing the Habsburgs as the best option available (we'll say around 1493).
What would be the effects of this? Obviously the butterflies would be massive.
I'm curious to start a discussion...
 
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Erm Anne was actually wed by proxy to Maximilian I (she was betrothed in 1483 and married in 1491), however he did not fight to defend that marriage and in the end the marriage was annulled.

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Please see my TL, All Hail Germania (linked in my sig), where the PoD is that Maximilian fights to defend his marriage to Anne of Brittany. Interesting landmarks include, Columbus sailing for the Habsburgs, a centralized HRE, Lutheran and Catholic Habsburg Lines, a Balkanized Frances, and a weird Byzantine version of the HRE, among other fun things.
 
Please see my TL, All Hail Germania (linked in my sig), where the PoD is that Maximilian fights to defend his marriage to Anne of Brittany. Interesting landmarks include, Columbus sailing for the Habsburgs, a centralized HRE, Lutheran and Catholic Habsburg Lines, a Balkanized Frances, and a weird Byzantine version of the HRE, among other fun things.

Off Topic, but how's ANFTP Mk. 2 going?
 

Susano

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Of course that means Philip the Fair cant marry Joan of Castille, meaning the Spanish inheritance would go somewhere else. Of course, that inheritance was a giant stroke of luck anyways.
 
Of course that means Philip the Fair cant marry Joan of Castille, meaning the Spanish inheritance would go somewhere else. Of course, that inheritance was a giant stroke of luck anyways.

If Philip the Fair doesn't marry Joan than probably his sister Margaret also doesn't marry Juan, Prince of Asturias. The odds are that either Juan marries someone else and have an heir, keeping Castile and Aragon united under the Trastamara, or the inheritance of both kingdoms goes to Portugal through one of the daughters of Ferdinand and Isabella who would marry into the Aviz family.
 

Susano

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Wasnt the double marriage part of an alliance against France? An alliance both sides would still be interested in, so why would Margret not marry John?

Of course the question is who would marry Isabella and Joanna, and which of the three lines would produce surviving children. John was sickly, but he could have well fathered a child before dying... indeed, looking at Wiki he did, it was stillborn, though. Isabella died at childbirth, and the child two years later... so, it seems all three can have descendants. So, with whom else would Trastamara try to have an alliance? Savoy, to completly encircle France, maybe?
 
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