AHC:Plantagenet Gascony

With a PoD after 1453, have the Plantagenets rule Gascony but not England. Bonus points if the Plantagenet Dukes of Gascony are also Dukes of Normandy and/or Anjou. Extra bonus points if the Duke of Gascony rules all of Aquitaine. England can be under a branch off the Plantagenets, say the House of Tudor.
 
Well if you avert Williams The Conquerors conquest of England then the Angevins could still plausibly rise to be the most powerful dukes in France, it wouldn't be the same rise to power but it's somewhat plausible.
 
Richard II has issue.

Henry of Bolingbroke loses his place as royal heir and focuses on Aquitaine, his best shot at independent rule.
 
With a PoD after 1453, have the Plantagenets rule Gascony but not England. Bonus points if the Plantagenet Dukes of Gascony are also Dukes of Normandy and/or Anjou. Extra bonus points if the Duke of Gascony rules all of Aquitaine. England can be under a branch off the Plantagenets, say the House of Tudor.
Have Gascony split from England via a Treaty.
 
perhaps Richard of York survives and defeats Henry VI. York takes back Gascony for England but later there is a succession war and the loser becomes the independent Duke of Gascony and the winner gains England. The Duke of Gascony coud marry Anne of Brittany and their son inherits Brittany and Gascony. Later, Gascony could gain Navarre and perhaps it loses Brittany but becomes an independent state in the French Wars of Religion.
 
The Wars of the Roses end in a Yorkist or Lancastrian victory. Plantagenets, instead of Hapsburgs, inherit Spain (or perhaps even just Castile). France does very poorly in its sixteenth-century wars, and Spain is able to peel off the Gascon frontier.

Meanwhile, the Anglo-Spanish inheritance gets divided, with England quickly falling to an allied dynasty before the French can get their act together and retake the cis-Pyrenees.
 
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