AHC: Keep the Crown of Aragon separate from the Crown of Castille.

The personal union of two of the most powerful crowns of Europe during the end of the Middle Ages/the spring of Renaissance was crucial in defining the political map of the continent and would have lasting consequences, since both would eventually merge into what is modern day Spain.

The challenge is: keep Aragon (alongside with South Navarre and its Mediterranean domains) entirely separate from Castille, with a POD happening between 1300 and 1700. Scenarios in which Aragon and Castille are united but are after divided again would be interesting as well. The survival of Ferdinand II of Aragon's tardy child with Germaine of Foix, John of Girona, is surely the most obvious POD, so I'd suggest it to be averted in favor of new and creative ideas.

Bonus points if more than one POD.
 
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The personal union of two of the most powerful crowns of Europe during the end of the Middle Ages/the spring of Renaissance was crucial in defining the political map of the continent and would have lasting consequences, since both would eventually merge into what is modern day Spain.

The challenge is: keep Aragon (alongside with South Navarre and its Mediterranean domains) entirely separate from Castille, with a POD happening between 1500 and 1600. Scenarios in which Aragon and Castille are united but are after divided again would be interesting as well. The survival of Ferdinand II of Aragon's tardy child with Germaine of Foix, John of Girona, is surely the most obvious POD, so I'd suggest it to be averted in favor of new and creative ideas.

If you had an earlier POD then you have the Aragonese efforts in Aquitaine doing better and the efforts in Naples too

But otherwise since you got rid of the Germaine of Foix POD you don't have much.

Maybe you should make the POD earlier?
 
If you had an earlier POD then you have the Aragonese efforts in Aquitaine doing better and the efforts in Naples too

But otherwise since you got rid of the Germaine of Foix POD you don't have much.

Maybe you should make the POD earlier?

You are right, I'll edit the first post and stretch the range of time during which a POD could've happened. Germaine of Foix could exist and give birth to a long living child, I won't refuse this option, however it is too much predictable, don't you think?
 
You are right, I'll edit the first post and stretch the range of time during which a POD could've happened.

Well, there are several options I can think of in the 15th century alone. After 1500 it gets sticky.

1. Violante of Aragon is acknowledged as the heir(ess) to King Martin II of Aragon, instead of Ferdinand of Castile. The house of Anjou then inherits Aragon and its Italian territories, while Castile remains under the Trastamara.

2. James II, Count of Urgell inherits the Crown of Aragon instead of Ferdinand of Castile or Violante of Aragon.

3. Martin I/II's has a male heir that survives infancy.

4. Carlos of Aragon, Prince of Viana either has a surviving child with Agnes of Cleves, or remarries before he dies, producing a surviving son to unify Aragon and Navarre.

5. Juana la Beltraneja is accepted as legitimate Queen of Castile, and Isabel and Ferdinand never unite the peninsula, instead it's Aragon-Navarre vs. Castile-Leon-Portugal.

6. Jean II of Anjou, duc de Lorraine is accepted as king of Aragon in the stead of his Trastemara rival.
 
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