AHC: Charles V, King Of France

With a POD no earlier than 1400, make Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire King of France as well as his other lands.Other than that, go ahead!!
 
We're all here, it's just a bit..bordering on ASB.

By marriage there was no way - the French not recognizing royal inheritance through the female line.

By war he, his predecessors and successors all struggled enough as it is fighting over far smaller fiefs like Artois and Franche-Comte and Milan.

Stranger things have happened I guess.
 
I think a way exist but also if Charles can have exactly the same genes but he's not an Habsburg: the French royal house do not accept female inheritance in the Royal house then you need a Charles who his descendent of the male line of the French Royal House and because Charles great grandfather (Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy) was a French prince of a junior branch of the royal house, then you need a gender swap between Charles grandparents. So you have the son of Charles the Bold who marry the first daughter of Emperor Fredrick III and became himself Holy Roman Emperor at his father-in-law's death, then marry his son Philip to Joanna of Castile and their son Charles inherit all their territories (Burgundy, Austria, Castile and Aragon) and in the same period the main line of the Valois and also both the lines of Valois-Orleans and Valois Aungouleme of the French royal house became extinct (if others branches are senior than the Burgundy line also them became exctincts) and Charles being the next in line became King of France
 
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Plausible ? Frankly, none.

Possible ? Besides having Charles the bold have a son, you need him not become the arch-enemy of Louis XI, you need to have all the elder lines of the Valois die.
And you need the french not to play the same trick they played in 1316 and 1328.
The law could be twisted for what was considered some kind of "national" interest. Not only the nobles but also the people represented in the General Estates did not want a foreign king. Especially a powerful one. This is logical because they wanted to remain the center of power.
So I guess in this case the lawyers of the University of Paris and the General Estates would have engineered some new legal trick to have ... a Bourbon become king.
 
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