Charles VI of France badly injured in 1393, dies earlier

Charles VI of France was insane. He nearly killed his brother Louis months before this bizarre occurence during the first of his fits of madness, then in early 1393 nearly burned to death at a party where he was covered in wax.

Let's say he does kill his brother, then during a sane moment retains the crown but is injured more severely as a result of butterlies - people are a little more hesitant to step in to save him because of worries he is simply acting insane till they realize, "Hey, wait, the King of France is actually onfire here." So, they stop, drop, and roll him, and his injuries are more severe, but not enough to kill him; he is, however, rendered unable to have children.

So, he lingers for months, and he finally dies, it's 1395 and Louis is negotiating for marriage to Yolande of Aragon; not only will Louis II of Naples now hold France in personal union (and if it's like later with the Hapsburgs in Spain my guess is he'll keep it) but also if he marries Yolande, there's a chance he will be able to claim Aragon through his wife.

So, does he marry her? Does Richard II of England marry her, with Louis (now Louis XI) marry Charles VI's daughter Isabeau, with the idea of further uniting the crowns? (Though she was pretty young then, he would also think of it as a way to help keep Richard from having further claim on France.
 
I'm really not sure *Louis XI would be really able to hold Naples ITTL. Naples is relatively peripherical and Louis will be certainly less able to focus as much as he did IOTL on his wars against Ladislaus, with the latter possibly taking back southern Puglie and Naples more easily.
Without real support in Naples, and having to refocus on French politics (Valois-Bourgogne remaining not only a particularily problematic house, a much possible rival)... A personal union between two kingoms in the 1390's and early 1400's seems a bit hard to get. Which doesn't mean that *Louis XI will abandon the idea, see below.

For what matter Aragon, we have a similar issue : there's not this much support for Louis in the kingdom (the succession was not automatic, as you didn't have much precedent, and was made trough an elective-deliberative council)

Eventually, the only real way I could see for a marriage with Plantagenêts at this point would be less to "further unite" the crowns (which would have met a general hostility of...well, more or less everyone at this point) to effectively make a formal peace. There were projects on this direction IOTL, but there were three main issues :
- Richard II asked for the totality of Guyenne, when Anglo-Gascon territory was essentially limited to Bordelès
- English-held territories in France were to be held as proper, not under French suzerainty.
- Charles VI had to forget about his idea to support Louis d'Anjou in Italy

Of course,complying to either of these (not to say the whole of it) would have been as unnacceptable for *Louis XI than it was for Charles VI. So, would it be only to secure a possible campaign in Italy, I'd expect *Louis XI to focus in France, while not actively campaigning against England immediatly.
 
Charles VI of France was insane. He nearly killed his brother Louis months before this bizarre occurence during the first of his fits of madness, then in early 1393 nearly burned to death at a party where he was covered in wax.

Let's say he does kill his brother, then during a sane moment retains the crown but is injured more severely as a result of butterlies - people are a little more hesitant to step in to save him because of worries he is simply acting insane till they realize, "Hey, wait, the King of France is actually onfire here." So, they stop, drop, and roll him, and his injuries are more severe, but not enough to kill him; he is, however, rendered unable to have children.

So, he lingers for months, and he finally dies, it's 1395 and Louis is negotiating for marriage to Yolande of Aragon; not only will Louis II of Naples now hold France in personal union (and if it's like later with the Hapsburgs in Spain my guess is he'll keep it) but also if he marries Yolande, there's a chance he will be able to claim Aragon through his wife.

So, does he marry her? Does Richard II of England marry her, with Louis (now Louis XI) marry Charles VI's daughter Isabeau, with the idea of further uniting the crowns? (Though she was pretty young then, he would also think of it as a way to help keep Richard from having further claim on France.
Isabeau de Bavière was pregnant BEFORE the Party where Charles was nearly burned to death: it was a boy who died in 1401 OTL. So in 1393 with CHarles VI and Louis d'Orléans dead, a council of Regents with Anjou, Burgundy, Berry, Bourbon and Isabeau is the most likely solution (it was already planned).
 
Ah, okay, thanks. Another king called "the Posthumous" in European history for a while if the king does die right away. Either way, things would get interesting if he dies as in OTL, then.

An even more interesting idea, too - Louis of Naples dies and Burgundy and France wind up in personal union. (I think the ruler of Burgundy would be next after Louis and family.)
 
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Ah, okay, thanks. Another king called "the Posthumous" in European history for a while if the king does die right away. Either way, things would get interesting if he dies as in OTL, then.

An even more interesting idea, too - Louis of Naples dies and Burgundy and France wind up in personal union. (I think the ruler of Burgundy would be next after Louis and family.)
If Louis II d'Anjou dies as well before having children, there is still his younger brother CHarles (born in 1380) who would be king. But if the Anjevin line is wiped out, it's the old Duke of Berry (Jean II's third son) who becomes King of France. The man OTL had a son born in 1363 but who died in 1401 (Berry himself died in 1416 at 76 years old). Basically, for having the House of Burgundy ruling France, you need to wipe out Charles VI and Louis d'Orléans in 1392-1393, then Louis d'Anjou and his brother CHarles, then the Duke of Berry (and his son), and finally Philip the Bold of Burgundy becomes King of France. That's kind of difficult to achieve and Philip would be suspected by anyone of having killed almost his entire family.
And Burgundy wasn't a separate entity in 1393: the Duchy of Burgundy, Artois and Flanders were all IN the Kingdom of France (only the County of Burgundy, nowadays "Franche-Comté") was a territory of the Holy Roman Empire.
 
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