Colonization behavior of surviving Aragon

Shackel

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Hm... One major change I am thinking of(to cause the crown to grow and strengthen an anti-French Papal ally) is Urban VI naming Peter IV as the new King of Naples(Against the French and/or "Papal Gifts" influencing them).

Would this cement Aragon as the Mediterranean power, and maybe as France's rival?
 
The PoD is somewhere in Ferdinand II's reign(1452-1516). Essentially, he gets another wife. No Aragon-Castille union.

So a Trastamara Aragon not Hapsburg...though still Hapsburg Castille.
If there is a clear male succession to the Aragonese inheritance...then the Franco Spanish wars over the Italian possessions are not likely to occur, or at least not for the same reason.

Aragon is going to be decidedly Catholic and for that reason will align with the Hapsburg powers if France still decides to lend its support to the Protestant cause, which is not so certain of course if the Emporer's domains do not encircle France to such an extent as OTL. I could even see the
Valois attempting to woo the Trastamara away from such an alignment, in which case if there were and active alliance established, then French support to the Protestants need not be necessary to curb the Emporer's power and influence. This probably means France and Aragon coming to some kind of agreement over sphere's of influence in the italian principalities. However, there is little for Aragon to actually gain from such a alliance. They can gain just as much from a Hapsburg liason. A surviving Trastamara line in Aragon and the Western Med will butterfly all the successions in adjacent kingdom's of course as strategic marriage / alliances are struck by this branch with either France or Castille or any of the Italian principalities or even Hapsburg Austria further down the road.
 
Is Navarre the answer?
No,Castille would probably object and prevent any annexation attempt as per\OTL under Ferdinand II, if there were a personal union between the two though then yes but it would occur later and there is the Treaty of Tordesillas to consider, Does Aragon get a zone as well and where would it be. Otherwise they would be in the same boat as the French, English and Dutch in intruding on Spanish (Castillian in this case) and Portuguese claims. Since \india and East Asia is where the money is at Trading posts in Africa along with Portugal is the way to go. The Portuguese of course have a head start and how they would reach agreement is unknown, but the Papacy will no doubt have some role.

say Castille in the West as per OTL but in a line further west since there is an extra player. and Portugal and Aragon in the East, based on who gets there first, though the pickins will be slim unless they act fast and its hard to a concentrated motivation given their need to concentrate on the diverse maritime possessions in the Med.

Okay,scratch that...they willhave to have part of the Castillian zone say a line drawn in the south (tropic of Capricorn say). but of course how do they get there... alternatively a line further west of the Tordesillas line ( Say 65-68 degrees West). the latter would give them a bit of the Caribbean and the n coast of S. America and the Rio de la Plata. Is there really any reason to go establishing a presence, no, but they wouldn't know that until they actually attempted.
 
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Alexander VI was in fact from Valencia, so if he still becomes pope then he might favor his homeland in the treaty.
 
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