Charles VIII of France doesn't die.

So, as it says on the tin, what changes if Charles avoids banging his head on a door, and avoids the following calamities as a result, he's not dead, but France is in dire straits financially, and he's without an heir of his body.

Would he able to have more children? Could he outlive Louis, Duke of Orleans?
 
So, as it says on the tin, what changes if Charles avoids banging his head on a door, and avoids the following calamities as a result, he's not dead, but France is in dire straits financially, and he's without an heir of his body.

Would he able to have more children? Could he outlive Louis, Duke of Orleans?

Charles and Anne could have more kids and would most certainly continue to try for an heir.
 
Charles and Anne could have more kids and would most certainly continue to try for an heir.

This is very true, hmm perhaps a son and a daughter who survive? I think the son would be named Charles as well.

And, would Louis Duke of Orleans die as otl, or perhaps live slightly longer without the burdens of kingship? I imagine once he does die, that his title would go to Francis?
 
This is very true, hmm perhaps a son and a daughter who survive? I think the son would be named Charles as well.

And, would Louis Duke of Orleans die as otl, or perhaps live slightly longer without the burdens of kingship? I imagine once he does die, that his title would go to Francis?

Charles with another fancy Italian name, Charles Rinald, maybe ?

Also on a side note, the marriage contract of Anne and Charles left few if any autonomy to Brittany, unlike the Anne-Louis contract. The Breton particularism is not likely to endure in the early modern era.

Louis could live longer, but he would keep his wife, so no heir. The Duchy of Orléans, being an apanage, would go to Francis, as would the County of Valois. The County of Blois would go to Louis' sister Marie, the Countess of Etampes.
 
Charles with another fancy Italian name, Charles Rinald, maybe ?

Also on a side note, the marriage contract of Anne and Charles left few if any autonomy to Brittany, unlike the Anne-Louis contract. The Breton particularism is not likely to endure in the early modern era.

Louis could live longer, but he would keep his wife, so no heir. The Duchy of Orléans, being an apanage, would go to Francis, as would the County of Valois. The County of Blois would go to Louis' sister Marie, the Countess of Etampes.
Okay interesting, somperhaps less chance of any shit stirring here.

Re Charles, how long might he actually live for? Till his son is of age?
 
Okay interesting, somperhaps less chance of any shit stirring here.

Re Charles, how long might he actually live for? Till his son is of age?

If he build a new castle with wider doors, he might live as long as his father did and die in 1530, with a thirty something son and maybe some grandsons.
 
Which naturally changes events throughout Europe

Butterflies... France could be the strongplace of Brissonism, that moderate kind of Protestantism, while England would proudly claim to be the First Daughter of the Church into the 20th c.
 
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