Is it possible for a person to become the sole heir to the throne of France, England and HRE? If so then who are the possible candidates?
In a way Napoleon almost managed to fulfill the OP (admittedly by conquest rather than inheritance): he just missed Great Britain.
If you remove the magic element, wouldn't it still work? Richard surviving Chalons, choosing Arthur as his successor and so on?It's, of course, asb, but Randall Garret's Lord Darcy stories have that....
As far as I know, there are ways to have France-England and France-HRE as personnal unions but they're tricky. I don't know about England-HRE though there might be a possibility if Mathilda had a son with Henry V (and yet that doesn't guarantee anything).LSCatilina said:While there's nothing technically preventing that, I'm not sure that you had a single occurence of such possibility, even by far, happening OTL.
How about a Carolingian Empire surviving and conquering/inheriting England? Hard to do (especially considering Frankish customs in regards to succession) but that could do the trick.LSCatilina said:The best thing that comes in mind would be a carolingian or post-carolingian king of Western Francia, whom lineage managed to grap the imperial title, that would have managed to inherit England at some point.
But at this point, it wouldn't be a monarch strictly speaking, as you'll still end with quite distinct kingships.
Yeah, you need also to have the right circumstances at the right time to create a union of crowns, especially one such as the one we're discussing. A candidate able to inherie every throne is one thing, getting him on said thrones is another.LSCatilina said:I would just pointing this before this thread devolve on a CKII : Search the bride game, it's not because you have a legitim claim that you can enforce it.
X can have sons with Y (for whatever reason, generally it makes no sense), but there's no automatically granted succession.
I doubt that arrangement could have survived, even in Napoleon's lifetime.In a way Napoleon almost managed to fulfill the OP (admittedly by conquest rather than inheritance): he just missed Great Britain.