Challenge: A Manchu-ruler for France !

Your challenge, should you accept it, is with a post-100 years war PoD to make either a Swabian(including Switzerlanders), Rhinelander, Catalonian, Piedmontese, Lowlander, Burgundian or maybe even a Basque dynasty to seize the French crown in the way that at least fairly liberally resembles the Manchu take over of China. The resulted French Empire must include the homeland of the said dynsaty's ancestral homeland. Thus the relation between the people of reigning dynasty's ancestral homeland and the rest of the empire, especially the native French, must at least nominally resembles Manchu-Han relationship during Qing China period, especially culturally!
 
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Wouldn't the Bourbons (Navarre) liberally fit the bill?
They weren't ethnically Basque, though. They just ruled over the Basques; they were entirely French, being of the Capetians.

OP: IDK; my Habsburgs-inherit-France mini-TL in the map thread could do it. :D
 
They weren't ethnically Basque, though. They just ruled over the Basques; they were entirely French, being of the Capetians.

Hm...

Maybe the Bourbons, pre-France, marry into native Basque stock over time, and eventually take control of France as a fully Basque dynasty, or is that a bit of a stretch?
 
What about the way that the royal family of Navarre took over the French throne in the form of Henry IV of France?
 
What about the way that the royal family of Navarre took over the French throne in the form of Henry IV of France?

Did you read the other comments? :rolleyes:

The Bourbons were French, as H'der helpfully informed me. It's sort of the opposite: a French dynasty ruling a non-French nation, but coming to power in France itself.

Does anybody know of any majority Basque royal families that the Bourbons could have intermarried into?
 
They weren't ethnically Basque, though. They just ruled over the Basques; they were entirely French, being of the Capetians.

OP: IDK; my Habsburgs-inherit-France mini-TL in the map thread could do it. :D

Really ? Habsburg ? Because what I'm aiming is that the ancestral homeland of the said dynasty to be also the integral part of their French Empire, not just it being a Habsburg France. And also, just like Manchuria to Qing China, it must be land connected to the France proper, not just enclave(s). Is it the Habsburg Burgundians will be involved in a kind of a War of French succession, and they got both France and a landbridge to their ancestral homeland in northern Switzerland as the result ?

Sweet! I wanna see it :cool:
 
Did you read the other comments? :rolleyes:

The Bourbons were French, as H'der helpfully informed me. It's sort of the opposite: a French dynasty ruling a non-French nation, but coming to power in France itself.

Does anybody know of any majority Basque royal families that the Bourbons could have intermarried into?

But I'm not talking about the Bourbons. It happens that Henry IV was a Bourbon, but forget that part. His mother was Navarrese, of the Albret line - a southern Gascon family living close to the Basque region, and I believe around the area considered to be part of the Greater Basque region. Certainly if you trace their family back a few centuries, to when the regional identities were stronger (look at their names, for instance) the family wasn't very French at all.
 
But I'm not talking about the Bourbons. It happens that Henry IV was a Bourbon, but forget that part. His mother was Navarrese, of the Albret line - a southern Gascon family living close to the Basque region, and I believe around the area considered to be part of the Greater Basque region. Certainly if you trace their family back a few centuries, to when the regional identities were stronger (look at their names, for instance) the family wasn't very French at all.

Aisin Gyoro family wasn't a Han Chinese family. Maybe he was a half foreigner but a Bourbon still he was.
 
Bump.

Antyhing else other than Habsburg and Basque ?

Guise make shimself King of France during the religious wars. Later expend France to include Lorraine.

So a Lorraine familly rules France and later turns Lorraine into french territory. ( around that time, Lorraine was more or less independent )

EDIT : It's out of OP scope, but the 100-yeqr war is the obvious PoD for such.
 
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EDIT : It's out of OP scope, but the 100-yeqr war is the obvious PoD for such.

Exactly why I excluded it :rolleyes:;) I want to see something else. Besides, by the english winning 100 years war the result would be the english becomes galicized, which will be fairly the reverse of what I'm looking for.
 
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