Alfonso d'Aragon Survives, or the Borgia Attempts at Murder Are Unsuccessful

Title says it all. Alfonso had outlived his usefulness to the Borgias, and Borgia assassins (or some accounts say, Cesare himself) disposed of him. But what if he survived? I doubt Alexander VI could pull a repeat of Lucrezia's annulment to Giovanni Sforza. Lucrezia possibly had as many as three pregnancies (including a posthumous miscarriage IIRC) during her marriage to Alfonso, so I'm guessing more kids will follow. Alfonso's survival means that Borgia Neapolitan/Spanish relations aren't quite as tarnished.

P.S.: please no Assassin's Creed jokes or references to Ezio Auditore if you can.
 
How would Alfonso's survival affect the future Borgia policies? He was murdered in August 1500, most of Cesare's conquests only date from after 1500 IIRC. Could it keep Naples/Spain friendly to the papacy.

Or, better yet, how's this for an idea, Alfonso's sister, Sancha, dies INSTEAD. She was sleeping around (Juan Borja, then Cesare and then elsewhere IIRC), and Gioffré was pretty pissed about it. So how would her dying be seen. Obviously Borgia enemies might whisper about poison, but even the foreign courts knew about her infidelity - the marquise of Mantua (Isabella d'Este) commented on it in her correspondance IIRC, as did the Imperial ambassador - so it might be seen as LESS shocking (i.e. judicial murder as avenging her husband's dishonour) than her brother's (murder for the sake political expediency).

Also, where would Gioffré then be remarried to? Cesare is wed in France, Lucrezia to Spain-Naples, any chance of Gioffré getting an Italian bride?
 
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