AHC/WI: Other royal houses that could've ruled France?

Aside from the Capets, Valois or Bourbons, are there any royal houses that could inherit and rule France? Bonus if it's not one of the most prominent houses. So no Habsburg. :p
 
House of Evreux,which is another Capetian cadet house,but I'm mentioning them since you seem to classify cadet houses separate than the parent one.
 
Aside from the Capets, Valois or Bourbons, are there any royal houses that could inherit and rule France? Bonus if it's not one of the most prominent houses. So no Habsburg. :p

Valois, Bourbons or Orleans were all Capetians of younger male lines.

Carolingians could have kept the throne.

You could also have had the Blois-Champagne or the Baldwinids of Flanders.
 
Outside Capetians (meaning we not only get rid of Valois, Bourbons; but as well Courtenay, Bourbon-Condé, Bourgogne, etc.)?

Bosonids may have formed a dynasty, would have Robertian line failed; with Hugh the Black being a possible successor (while unlikely otherwise).
Likewise, having Vermandois obtaining the dukedom of Franks may have helped them.

That said, they needed Carolingians to give them such, so it would mean at least for a while a longer Carolingian presence.

With an even earlier Robertian failure, maybe that Girardides could replace them? It seems implausible even as I'm writting it.

After the Xth, it really became hard to have likely candidates outside Capetians and Carolingians (and I'm really pushing the "likely" part with the latter).

Eventually Capetian dynasty expanded so importantly that you'd probably have to bet on Capetian branches rather than a different house (as said, Bourbon-Condé, for exemple).

Plantagenets are a no-go, for already aformentioned reasons. But that can be said of every important French noble house, that had few if any chance to topple Capetians after the Xth.
 
Aside from the Capets, Valois or Bourbons, are there any royal houses that could inherit and rule France? Bonus if it's not one of the most prominent houses. So no Habsburg. :p

The Merovingians:D!

Also, the House of Burgundy comes to mind.

House of Evreux,which is another Capetian cadet house,but I'm mentioning them since you seem to classify cadet houses separate than the parent one.

Technically they are separate houses. After all we consider the Plantagenets, Lancasters and Yorks separate houses, even though the later two were branches of the former. Not to mention that Henry IV was Richard II's first cousin.
 
The Merovingians:D!
If we go to Early Middle Ages, then...

While Peppinid's rise is still likely to happen with the VIIth century, and that extinction of a branch would only make a cognate branch taking over (as it happened IOTL, with Arnulfids)...

Erchinoaldids and Etichonids could be second-hand candidates, arguably, assuming they topple Merovingians (which is not that obvious).

Technically they are separate houses.
Actually they're not. The principle of continuity is quite clear there.

After all we consider the Plantagenets, Lancasters and Yorks separate houses,
It's essentially an historiographical device, mainly existing because these branches fought each other for the crown.

(Of course, there's as well the confusion between house, in the sense of branch, and House in the sense of dynasty.)
 
Outside Capetians (meaning we not only get rid of Valois, Bourbons; but as well Courtenay, Bourbon-Condé, Bourgogne, etc.)?

Bosonids may have formed a dynasty, would have Robertian line failed; with Hugh the Black being a possible successor (while unlikely otherwise).
Likewise, having Vermandois obtaining the dukedom of Franks may have helped them.

That said, they needed Carolingians to give them such, so it would mean at least for a while a longer Carolingian presence.

With an even earlier Robertian failure, maybe that Girardides could replace them? It seems implausible even as I'm writting it.

After the Xth, it really became hard to have likely candidates outside Capetians and Carolingians (and I'm really pushing the "likely" part with the latter).

Eventually Capetian dynasty expanded so importantly that you'd probably have to bet on Capetian branches rather than a different house (as said, Bourbon-Condé, for exemple).

Plantagenets are a no-go, for already aformentioned reasons. But that can be said of every important French noble house, that had few if any chance to topple Capetians after the Xth.

Vermandois were Carolingians on the male line.
 
Vermandois were Carolingians on the male line.

Yes and no. As they're part of an illegitimate descendency, you don't have a principe of continuity there : it doesn't seem Herbertians were considered as Carolingians, and it's not clear how they used their ascendency politically : maybe not that much.

Their titles (especially as Counts of Franks) is more tied to their power in Eastern France (and a counter-power to Robertians) than a closeness to late Carolingians.
 
LSCatalina has mentioned most of the cool ones, but Guy III of Spoleto was actually crowned as King of France by the Bishop of Langres in (IIRC) 888/9 before high-tailing it back to Italy when he realised that nobody in France had even heard of him.

Blois-Champagne, Courtenay and the Bosonids are heartily seconded.

Any chance of the House of Ivrea getting the throne at any point? Say, if Berengar II had sorted out Italy and his descendants had gone on from there. Or if one of their Burgundian branch had given it a go (perhaps pressing a claim to Normandy as well) or maybe a Castilian tries to do a Hundred Years War across the Pyrenees. I'm grasping at straws now.
 
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