An independent Aragon

Ok, so I'm interested in creating a TL with an independent kingdom of Aragón and a disunited Iberian peninsula. As my POD, I'm thinking of using the second marriage of Fernando II of Aragón to Germaine de Foix; it is known that their union managed to produce at least one child, the infante Juan of Aragón (b. 1509) who died in infancy. Suppose the boy would have survived to adulthood and reigned in his fathers realms? Fernando II himself remarried with the expressed intention of ensuring the separation of the realms of Aragón and Castile (he was determined to prevent the inheritance from falling to his son-in-law, Philip the Handsome). How would this have effected European history, assuming that the kingdoms remained separated?
I'm curious to spark some discussion ;-)

Thanks.
 
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That POD is difficult. Aragon needed of Castile to keep their possesions in Italy, it was too weak to resist France. In the long run they would be invaded either by France or Castille or by both. You have also the tensions for a reunification of the Iberian kingdoms.

If you want something more permanent, go back to the XIV century and spare Aragon of the Black Death. That way they would be demografically viable and you could have an independent Aragon with a powerful mediterranean empire.
 
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