AHC: Habsburg Wank

History in itself was pretty wankish for the Habsburgs. They ruled most of Europe at one point and even had an emperor in Mexico! Alas, however, their fortunes faded and their long rule of Austria was finally overthrown. Probably the most influential and important house in the history of Europe, now destitute!

Besides preventing the extinction of the Spanish Habsburgs, winning the Thirty Years War and centralizing the HRE/Germany, what are some other ways to wank them hard? And I mean hard! So hard you get sore!

Alles Erdreich ist Habsburg untertan!
 
Philip II of Spain and Mary I of England have a child who inherits the English throne, thus establishing a Habsburg branch as monarchs here.
 

Brightflame

Banned
They stop the inbreeding. Dear God, just stop the inbreeding.

I think that Philip II marrying Mary Queen of Scots in better than Bloody Mary. Then the Habsburgs get all the British Isles.
 
They stop the inbreeding. Dear God, just stop the inbreeding.

I think that Philip II marrying Mary Queen of Scots in better than Bloody Mary. Then the Habsburgs get all the British Isles.

Except for the fact that Mary of Scots was Pro-French and never single at the same time as Philip II (or when she was, she was imprisoned in England). So very little chance of a marriage there. Better for Mary I and Philip II to have a son, while Mary of Scots has a daughter. They marry and we have a unified British isles.
 
Except for the fact that Mary of Scots was Pro-French and never single at the same time as Philip II (or when she was, she was imprisoned in England). So very little chance of a marriage there. Better for Mary I and Philip II to have a son, while Mary of Scots has a daughter. They marry and we have a unified British isles.

Didn't Felipe offer D. Carlos or D. Juan for Mary of Scots?
 
No the other way around. Mary wanted to marry D. Carlos but King Felipe dithered over it for so long that Mary ended up wed to Darnley. As for Don Juan, I'm not sure if that was ever serious or not.

John of Austria's idea was... well, typical John of Austria wackiness. The man came out of Lepanto with a greatly-inflated sense of his own ability--not that one can completely blame him--and thus developed a tendency to suggest crackpot schemes to his elder brother. Philip usually ignored them. Then John died, and Philip started developing his own crackpot schemes.

Cue Grand Armada.
 
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