AHC: United Kingdom of Aragon, France, and Navarre

As it states: unite the Kingdoms of Aragon, France, and Navarre.
The Kingdoms don't have to exactly correspond territory wise, and you can include other territories so long as these are the core 3.
 
France and Navarre or Aragon and Navarre are easy enough - they ended up joined at various points OTL, but then split again when their successions (Salic in France/Aragon and non-Salic in Navarre) diverged. Not quite sure how you would get both - since Juana la Loca simply passed the right to succeed in Aragon to her son, she didn't become queen of Aragon herself IIRC
 
Have the crusade of 1284-86 against Aragon to end successfully. Then, Charles of Valois becomes king of Aragon. If that doesn't butterfly anything, when his son Phillip becomes king of France you have the two kingdoms united,

Then wait for the Wars of Religion and have Henri of Navarre becoming king of France.
 
Have the crusade of 1284-86 against Aragon to end successfully. Then, Charles of Valois becomes king of Aragon. If that doesn't butterfly anything, when his son Phillip becomes king of France you have the two kingdoms united,

Then wait for the Wars of Religion and have Henri of Navarre becoming king of France.

Navarre was already in personal union with France at the time of the Aragonese Crusade. You just have to keep it that way.
 
Navarre was already in personal union with France at the time of the Aragonese Crusade. You just have to keep it that way.

Almost, as the Queen of Navarre was married to the heir of France (Philip the Fair get the throne because of the crusade's failure and the illness of his father). But, if the Valois line get Aragon in 1286, then France in 1328, they are bound to lost Navarre at the same time because they are not descendants of Philip the Fair and Jeanne of Navarre.
 
Probably things can be made simpler by removing agnatic primogeniture (male to male only inheritance) in France.
IIRC Aragon only followed pure agnatic in imitation of France. France only followed agnatic to remove any chance of Edward III inheriting.
 
Probably things can be made simpler by removing agnatic primogeniture (male to male only inheritance) in France.
IIRC Aragon only followed pure agnatic in imitation of France. France only followed agnatic to remove any chance of Edward III inheriting.

In fact the French adopted a male line system in several steps, with few links to Edward's claims. First they excluded women because of the suspected illegitimacy of Jeanne, the daughter of Louis X (her mother being notoriously unfaithful). Secondly, they excluded sons of women because the heir, Philip of Burgundy, was too young at Charles IV's death while Philip of Valois was in his mid-thirties. Afterwards, all of this was wrapped into the salic law paccage.

In Aragon, they said they had a salic system (since James Ist, I am not sure about a french influence there) but the only occurence was the succession of John Ist by his brother Martin instead of his daughter Violant. This brother before daughter was more common than the french cousin before grandson which ultimately failed in Aragon.

My point being, the laws of inheritance sure mattered, but the safest way to secure a personnal union includes a brotherless old king and a female-line adult grandson. In this situation, the legal system would be adapt. Succession crises only arose when the old king had no direct descendance.
 
This thread seems relevant to the discussion. If we can get a Valois Anjou Aragon, and everything that entails, then it may just be possible through butterflies to see the Aragonese crown pass to a king of France and Navarre.
 
This reminds me of a post I read a year back when Soverihn contemplated the Valois ascending to power in Spain in the 1500s, essentially forming an extremely powerful polity that controls most of Europe.

I don't know how possible it is for them to achieve that kind of power but it sure has been fun to think about.
 
In Land of Wine and Beer, young king Philippe de France is bound to inherit Aragon via his mother at Fernando de Aragon's death. The throne of Navarre is easy enough to usurp due to the country being small and there being a precedent.
 
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