A Spider Squashed: A Divergent Fifteenth Century

It's kind of weird how the French royal families keep on having this process of 'split into lots of branches-they all die off-throne goes to distant branch' going on.
 
It's kind of weird how the French royal families keep on having this process of 'split into lots of branches-they all die off-throne goes to distant branch' going on.
The Valois must have had a genetic predisposition to female children, because the ratio of daughters to sons in all of the branches is quite skewed. Also, the war and internecine strife really did a number on them. Note the relative youth and lack of issue of our claimants, barring the two who were imprisoned for decades and the one who was an English ally. A good number of their predecessors died from complications due to Hundred Years' War.
 
Just imagine trying to keep them all straight when they were alive.

I swear, it's a miracle anything got done back then.
It's all part of the cunning plan you see. That and the bordergore, it keeps the sane and the educated plebs from thinking clearly. Of course then the damned Revolutionaries had to "fix" the problem with the guillotine and Napoleon....
 
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