AHC: 16th Century France and Spain Friendlier To Each Other

Would a treaty dividing Italy help help conflict between France and Spain if not Italy?
There were lots of treaties dividing Italy; the problem is that treaties are easily broken whenever one side thinks they have an advantage. That's why the Italian Wars lasted so long, after all.
 
If Spain and France are friendlier can Spain try to broker a truce between France and the Habsburgs?

The Capetian and Habsburg Dynasties are fighting for supremacy in Europe, neither one is going to accept peace so long as it's not on their terms. France even allied with the Ottomans, proving that they wouldn't even put their interests aside for the sake of Christendom.

There has to be something that is a greater threat to both of them for there to be any kind of common ground.
 
If Spain and France are friendlier can Spain try to broker a truce between France and the Habsburgs?

Then again, without Habsburgs you may not end with *one* Spain (and a friendly Habsburg Spain for the XVIth is a big no-no).

I'd tend to think that Castille and non-Trastamare Aragon would have different international diplomacy, with Aragon having convergent interests with Habsburgs (essentially, fighting Valois) which would probably leads to a similar alliance (except it wouldn't involve Castile) than IOTL.

If something, you simply may have made Iberian peninsula being divided in three blocks ready to go to war against each other and joining different alliances; or at best, an uneasy divide with no side having a direct interest brokering a truce that wouldn't be based on a military defeat.
 
Then again, without Habsburgs you may not end with *one* Spain (and a friendly Habsburg Spain for the XVIth is a big no-no).

I'd tend to think that Castille and non-Trastamare Aragon would have different international diplomacy, with Aragon having convergent interests with Habsburgs (essentially, fighting Valois) which would probably leads to a similar alliance (except it wouldn't involve Castile) than IOTL.

If something, you simply may have made Iberian peninsula being divided in three blocks ready to go to war against each other and joining different alliances; or at best, an uneasy divide with no side having a direct interest brokering a truce that wouldn't be based on a military defeat.

Then how to keep Spain united then?
 
Then how to keep Spain united then?

Having Spain getting unified is theeasier thing : Trastamare dynastical union. From the moment Trastamare get an hold on Aragon, you had an important tendency to unify both crowns.

Of course, that would mean a Spain that wouldn't be friendly to France, having inherited the really important Aragonese interests on Pyrenées (Navarre, Rousillon) and in Italy.
 
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